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What is culture? Culture is the beliefs, customs, and arts of a particular society, group, place, or time. Many Americans underestimate the importance of culture in history; however, culture and history have a direct relationship. When a historical event happens, usually there is a change in social culture; for example, the great depression was a historical event that cause a change in people’s lifestyle (cultural change). People went from attending expensive parties, eating a lot of food, and…

Hemingway App makes your writing bold and clear. This Narrative report will discuss the sequence at the end of 80’s teen comedy, Ferris Buellers Day Off (1:50:10 – 1:34:41). In this ending segment, the protagonist is racing to beat his parent’s home. This segment features a fast paced soundtrack. The camera cuts between shots of Ferris running through backyards and his parents on their way home. It features many extreme close ups, slow motion and fast paced shots. These help to convey the…

The Mysterious Tattoos What would happen if one day you woke up with a random tattoo on your body? And every day after that a new one would appear. No it doesn't hurt, but it does glow. Riley Jones now must not only deal with her normal drama filled sixteen year old life, but she must also continue to follow the path these tattoos are trying so desperately for her to follow. Chapter One - The Tattoo You would think that when you woke up early on your sixteenth birthday something…

Rachael Imogen Foster stared at the plastic stick in her hands and she knew she was in big trouble. This was not happening to her. One night… just one night with him and now this?! What was she thinking? Oh, right… she hadn’t been thinking! She had been dead-ass drunk. Thoughts were rushing through her head like the wind. She glanced at the clock above the toilet. 12:30PM. Danny was fast asleep, she could hear him snoring in the other room. She wondered if… just if he was still awake. If she…

Deep brown eyes, black leather jacket and dark skinned. His name was Derrick. He’s a biker. We met in an art gallery. I was looking at this painting. According to what my brain could process, it was of a woman carrying white butterflies in a bowl. Her surroundings were dark. I liked…

In the early 1970s a movement swept across the United States, United Kingdom(“The Art of”). This movement influenced and gave music, fashion, and attitude a new name. So what is this movement I’ve been talking so highly of? The Punk Movement. This movement was had a major effect on the younger generation, and was not just a music genre. It was much larger than that; a statement, an attitude, a fashion, and a lifestyle. It started in the early to mid 1970s around 1974. “Punk was created by youths…

Bottom of the ninth. Two outs, nobody on. Lucas Giles, senior superstar at Richmond High School, peered into his catcher and took the sign to throw his dominating two strike curveball, buried in the dirt. The opposing batter took a big hack but came up three feet short. The Lions piled out of the dugout and rushed to the mound to celebrate a feat they hadn’t accomplished in nearly two decades, winning the New York state championship. Growing up in the Queens, Lucas was born into a life of…

The Bad Boy, the Troublemaker, the Rebel, the young delinquent with a heart of gold; all undoubtedly some of America’s favorite tropes. Americans have a soft spot for the Bad Boy who is really a Good Guy. Such characters are prevalent throughout America’s entertainment culture and history. From Johnny Depp’s Cry-baby Walker, to Judd Nelson as Bender in The Breakfast Club, and Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, Americans swoon at the first sight of a brooding glare, and go weak in the knees at the…

Would you want to continue to live if all your family was dead? Is that a decision you would want to make yourself, or would you like someone else to make it for you? In the book if i stay, by Gayle Forman, Mia Hall is a 17-year-old cellist with loving parents, and a younger brother. She lives in Oregon, and spends her time playing her cello, and hanging out with her rocker boyfriend, Adam, and best friend, Kim. Mia is very talented and has the prospect of going to Juilliard in the fall. That is…

Steve Coll, former The Washington Post journalist and financial correspondent, received his first Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism on a series of reports criticizing the Securities and Exchange Commission. Since then he has become one of the most respected and highly awarded journalists in the United States, serving as a voting member for the Pulitzer Prize board. He received his second Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2005 for what many consider his magnum opus, Ghost Wars. In…