Group of Seven

I have been active in many groups throughout high school and each has had a great impact on my life. However, there are some that stand out above the rest and I know that those experiences will stay with me for the rest of my life. Being a member of the executive board for my schools music honors society is one of those activities. This high standing in the society has given me many experiences that have added to my skills in working in a stressful work environment. There are some on the board…

“Being a teen vs Being a Toddler” Being a teenager and being a toddler is both very similar and very different. There are many ways they alike, like the reaction of certain situations. Also many ways they are different like their lifestyle complexity. Being a teen and being a toddler are more similar than you would think and have lots in common. Like how when you're a teenager you start to make new friends who influence you in different ways than your old friends and as a toddler, you start to…

In the 90’s Dodge came out with several new models with technological advances, including new sports cars, trucks and sedans. Dodge came out with a new line of sports cars in the 1990’s that competed with many foreign sports cars including the 350z, RX-7, and the Supra. Dodge was producing sports cars that could be driven everyday, but still have the performance and endurance of a track car. The 1991 Dodge Stealth was one of the sports cars that Dodge came out with to compete with the…

Each year, millions of students apply to college. They spend hours slaving over applications, essays, and admissions tests so they can be accepted into their dream school. It has been said that hard work reaps great rewards, but often in the college admissions process, more than ambition and an impressive application is required to get into a university. In today’s world, race can play an important role in determining whether a student is accepted or rejected. Although colleges are no longer…

mental health issues (Norrish & Vella-Brodrick, 2009). Similarly, Melnyk, Kelly, and Lusk (2014) proposed a group therapy technique using cognitive behavioral interventions called COPE, which focuses on the importance of altering negative thought patterns, maladaptive beliefs, and other cognitive processes in attempt to promote behavioral and emotional change. Instead of focusing on adolescent groups as a whole, a trial was conducted on a sample of sixteen adolescents identified as having…

American muscle meets Italian beauty: an all-time-great combination. Ford wanted a mid-engined sports car to sell in its Mercury showrooms and the De Tomaso Pantera was the result of a partnership between Henry Ford and Alejandro de Tomaso, an Argentinian small-time producer of exotic sports and racing cars. Ford engineers took a look at the Mangusta, De Tomaso’s previous offering, and thought its backbone chassis was too weak. So Detroit-born car designer Tom Tjaarda, who had just started…

The Playground Negotiation is a true to life case that takes place in Ithaca, New York. There are two officials, one from the volunteer involvement and the other in support of the Parks and Recreation Department both groups make up the Ithaca Special Projects Task Force. They have both been elected to decide on whether to fund a playground for the neighborhood. Whether they decide to build a playground or not, this task force is responsible of whether to fund the playground or choose a later…

Glassner states, “ A host of studies indicate that by downplaying the suffering of victims and their family’s the media does a disservice to minority neighborhoods where those victims live” (112). This generates negative attention towards minority groups who seem to get blamed for all negative problems happening in society. The shift into blaming minorities as the cause for…

Movies are beautiful pieces of moving art that bring people together, regardless of gender, age, or skin color. The vast majority of these masterpieces just happen to be made by straight, white, rich, males over the age of forty. Hollywood’s diversity problem is allowing for an unbalanced ratio of women in the industry, as well as inaccurate minority representation, and the use of white actors for a racially ambiguous role. The gender discrepancy in the film industry, to no one person's…

does not tell the whole story. Aside from ACT UP’s insider vs. outsider dynamic, we can also analyze another form of segmentation that is otherwise regarded as one of the groups’ major strengths, the formation of “affinity groups” (00:22). United in Anger does acknowledge the somewhat discordant agendas and priorities that each group supported, but minimizes the disparity between the support each received. For example, there were many activists solely concerned with the short-term “drugs into…