Jersey Shore

In Douglas Quenqua’s article for The New York Times, “Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession”, Quenqua focuses on young boys and the risks they are willing to face in order to achieve a chiseled body. This isn’t the first time that Quenqua has written about body image. Douglas Quenqua also wrote the article “Tell Me, Even if it Hurts Me” for The New York Times. Quenqua writes about culture, science, media, lifestyle, and dogs. To begin with, Douglas Quenqua’s audience in…

Reality television is one of the biggest sensations across the world, but it is important to look at the reasons behind its great success in terms of production. First, it is significantly cheaper to create in contrast to scripted network comedies and dramas due to unknown cast members, fewer writers, and an extremely large amount of product placement. Next, shows can earn additional revenue through iTunes downloads, album sales, and tour tickets that draw people closer to the series. Finally,…

The new era has made an empowering shift in equality. Few may oppose it has completely improved. Unfortunately for others likes myself believe there are a factors that bring the concept of girl power down. Our younger generation are being brainwashed and putting to shame what many women longed to achieve. Teenagers being the easiest target are being influenced by the third wave feminism. This third wave embraces stereotypes and sadly pulls from the concept of girl power. Enlightened sexism, toys…

of the soldiers, “He had difficulty keeping his attention on the war. On occasion he would yell at his men to spread out the column, to keep their eyes open, but then he would slip away into daydreams, just pretending, walking barefoot along the Jersey shore, with Martha, carrying nothing” (O’Brien). Throughout the story the reader can see Jimmy escape from the reality of war though his fantasies about Martha to the extent that it distracts him from the war. The narrator states, “They imagined…

In 1962, Rachel Carson, an acclaimed author, asked the country what it would be like if there were no birds singing in the trees when they went outdoors. What would it be like to have a “silent spring”? Carson brought to light the impact of the commonly used pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) on the ecosystem, most specifically how it affected birds and other wildlife, at a time when such considerations were not a part of the public discourse (PAN). Over the next several years,…

In the time immediately before Lavender’s death, he was fantasizing about her. “Lieutenant Cross gazed at the tunnel. But he was not there. He was buried with Martha under white sand at the Jersey Shore…. Vaguely, he was aware of how quiet the day was, the sullen paddies, yet he could not bring himself to worry about matter of security” (Obrien 366-367). Knowing that he should be wary of the quietness that is usually accompanied by a surprise…

The Earth’s Last Breath Imagine the Earth’s air filled with smog and having to inhale that air every day. Many people will have trouble breathing, come down with diseases, and would eventually not have many years to live. Waking up in the morning would not be the same. Earth is not the same it was thousands of years ago. Global warming is defined as the increase of the average temperature on Earth (226). Global warming is a key factor why planet Earth is not the same it was hundreds of years…

The year was 1887, and the place was New York City. Immigrants flooded into America’s streets in search of a better life, a life that fulfilled the American dream. The city was overcrowded, and the people were poor. The tenement district overflowed with new immigrants and one police reporter discovered light. The turn of the millennium was coming, and with it brought a new form of art. Photography was on the rise. Danish immigrant and New York City police reporter Jacob Riis took advantage of…

With more tanning salons in the state of Florida than McDonald's, CVS stores, or Bank of America branches, indoor tanning has become a serious problem everywhere (Tavernise A16). A tan is the skin’s response to UV light damage but still, many long for golden skin (“That Not So Healthy Glow”). Tanning is not an issue secluded to adults. Every year, 1.6 million American minors tan in tanning beds and of those who tan, more than half of them have tanned over ten times in that year (Tavernise A16).…

located at a very shallow and protected bay and the shallow off shore terrain caused the water to be pushed up and the narrow confines of the bay squeezed the water as well. Additionally, the speed was immense and similar to a tsunami because the winds were rapidly shifting off shore. Bower and McCabe illustrate that Hurricane Sandy, for example, brought a gradual surge that took 24 hours to bring 14 feet of water into New York and New Jersey but Haiyan’s 20 feet storm surge arrived in minutes…