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Over 100 Years of Oldsmobile Classic Cars Oldsmobile Cut from the General Motors Team When General Motors cut Oldsmobile from the team in 2004, it was the first sign the opening decade to the new millennium would change America's largest car company forever. Unfortunately, for fans of GM cars the closure of Oldsmobile would be followed by the [death of the Pontiac Motor Division] just six years later. It's not easy to shut down a brand that helped start your company and built quality cars for…

straight line speed and acceleration. Two-door aggressive and muscular designs with sporty look and rear-wheel-drive system are common in these vehicles. It was during the 1960s and 1970s that muscle cars had a boom in popularity in America, with such classic models like Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camero, and Dodge Charger. They are designed for people who love style and speed enthusiasts, thus becoming a timeless, unique segment of the automotive industry.…

non-native. As the character grows up, she is conflicted between being a native american and caucasian. In the poem, the narrator states the following, “she left the large white breasts that weight my body down” (Hogan 289). She feels that her mom’s heritage is a heavy burden. Also, she describes her breasts as not her own, but as her mother’s breasts. This shows her insecurities within herself. The main character’s struggle to fit in affects how she grows and develops into an adult. Logan…

opting for fluidity, self-invention, blue jeans, and T-shirts, and renouncing 3,000 years (at least) of caste-observant, “pure culture” marriage in the Mukherjee family” (Mukherjee 89). Even though Bharati is Indian, she doesn’t always follow the classic Indian way of life. She has adapted to American culture quite well. In “Everyday…

In a time, with discourse or spoken comments or debate between countries and cultures, it appears so that no culture has an influence remembered today, or to even begin with, didn’t have an influence. Nevertheless, Despacito, a song composed and sung by two Puerto Rican artists, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, has been an international hit for several months, with over four billion views on YouTube, being the most watched song. The setting, being in Puerto Rico and having “the Latino feeling and…

An example of cinema influencing this common misunderstanding is through the classic Disney movie, Pocahontas. “Pocahontas is the embodiment of American society and desire, rather than true native society.” This documentary and quotation opened my eyes from the innocence Pocahontas once portrayed, to the shocking motive that drove…

Introduction I’ve always been fascinated with the Maya Civilization since the very first time I visited Copan, one of the largest Classic Maya centers located at the western region of Honduras. I remember the moment I was greeted by the stelae in the Great Plaza, gazing at the intricate hieroglyphic carvings in their backs and the sculptural relief details found in sculptures and buildings nearby. I was amazed at the fact that these monuments were still standing after thousands of years ago, and…

Introduction The Distillery District is a heritage building community located to the east of the downtown core in Toronto. Gooderham and Worts founded the site as a distillery in 1832, and by the 1860s, it was the largest distillery in the world. The deindustrialization of neighbouring areas subsequently resulted in the closure of all remaining distillery operations by 1990. By 2003, the Distillery District was transformed into a pedestrian oriented area, allowing for a dynamic public space…

Ceramika Bringing nature into your home is as simple as adding accessories that are inspired by nature, whether objects from land, air and sea. With a Ceramika product in the mix, any interior can look like the outdoor without looking too outdoorsy. Want a piece of the ocean in your home? The Anthozoa by Ceramika resembles an underwater plants, which you don’t need to fish out of the water. The Ceramika History Founded as a manufacture of art and design in 1987, Ceramika is the brainchild of…

to the Wheatley family. Wheatley’s owner, Susannah Wheatley, and Mary wheatley began to educate Phillis in theology, literature, and history. Furthermore, within sixteen months of her arrival in America, she could read the Bible, Greek and Latin classics. By the age of fourteen, Wheatley began to write poetry, publishing her first poem in 1767. The publication of “An Elegiac Poem, on the Death of the Celebrated Divine George Whitefield”…