I'm Crazy

overstock from other retailers. Crazy Eddie stores had one goal in mind; sell a product to every customer that walked into their stores. Greed and personal gain was the main reason why the Antar family was able to commit fraud for 17 years without questioning until shortly after the company made its IPO. It is estimated that a fraud scheme of more than $120 million took place throughout…

“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.” -Walt Disney, this is something that Walt Disney said it shows how no matter your age you can still have an imagination. Walter Elias Disney born on December 5th 1901 in Chicago,Illinois would grow up to be someone that changed pop culture forever. Walt had many ups and downs within his career getting criticized by everyone. From a young age Walt knew what hard work was, he had lived through the great depression. Walt…

As my heavy eyelids open, I immediately look out to identify the scenery around me. After two years of traveling, the landscapes begin to slowly blend together. The red ground tells me I’m in Arizona. No, it’s too flat. Arizona has miles of towering mountains that make you feel tiny in comparison. It must be Utah. No, there’s way too much green. Utah is so red you feel like you could drown in it. It’s New Mexico. New Mexico has seemingly endless roads of nothing that rarely lead to any place of…

perspective is self-assurance. People with self-assurance feel confident in their decision making skills, and they know that at the end of the day they have done all that they can do. This would help me because I wouldn’t have to second guess myself on if I’m going to mess up my future, or if I made the right decision regarding my past. Having self-assurance would help me tremendously at living in the moment. Another skill that I would like to improve on is being able to have a focal point when…

rehash myself, louder this time. Quiet down Cristy. Now I'm gazing directly into her close bruised eyes. She resembles she's going to have a stroke. I figure nobody else has ever talked like that to her some time recently, in light of the fact that now she's basically hyperventilating. She takes in moderate, sensational breaths, tallying down from five on her fingers, mouthing the numbers. She's so irate with me, I Lastname_____1 can educate, and I'm regarding to believe she will reach over the…

“The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a 1980s South African comedy classic . The protagonist, a traveling bushman, encounters a modern civilian for the first time. The movie became an international hit. The bushman character was based off of the !Kung peoples of South Africa, a hunter-gatherer society (IMDb, 2016). With this however, the movie displayed many stereotypes, which is defined by Richard D. Bucher as, “…an unverified and oversimplified generalization about an entire group of people (Bucher,…

Meaning is conveyed in a myriad of diverse ways through the use of various theatrical techniques. The form and manner in which meaning is presented can have a profound impact on its interpretation by the audience. In the film Purple Rain, meaning is introduced through the usage of the elements of editing, cinematography, and mise-en-scene. The meaning for particular scenes are revealed by the many different aspects that make up the mise-en-scene of the film. For example, throughout the film…

Elizabeth 's POV "So Elizabeth, what are your interests?" Davids father Henry questioned "Well I like doing art" I say without looking over at my mother staring at me with wide eyes, she hates when I tell people that. "But you also like doing dancing don 't you Elizabeth" she says cutting in I nod my head agreeing with my mother even though it was totally false. I hated doing dancing. The only time that I was good at it, was when I had to practice for 6 weeks before my birthday ball and I…

She started writing and published a book called Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips. She also wrote two other books: Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey (Stein). She inspired people with her books and her film. Carr gave hope to people struggling with the same issue she was. It made people believe that…

Maryland, in the year 1984. I was a 15-year-old teenager growing up in Reisterstown, Maryland - a town about an hour away from Baltimore. I was just like any other red-blooded American male teenager growing up in 1980's America. I liked video games and Pac- Man, loved "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", tried my hand at the Rubik's cube, and was concerned about the USSR and nuclear war. Oh yes, I,like millions of other teenagers loved good rock music and was just beginning to…