Leggings

The Wolverines needed a field goal to win the game. “Axe I can’t watch!” I wanted to cover my eyes but I couldn’t. The entire stadium was on their feet. The ball was snapped, the placeholder caught it, and from there everything went into slow motion. He placed the ball on the ground, spun the laces outward, the kicker ran up to the ball and kicked it. The offensive line blocked the defense; the ball soared through the air, end of end. Goosebumps covered my skin, it looked like it was too wide.…

The Iroquois, now known as the Haudenosaunee, (before, they were known as Kanonsionni, or the people of the longhouse), were an important Native American group that lived in North America long before the Europeans arrived. Composed of five, and later six tribes, (or nations), the Iroquois lived in the eastern woodlands as far back as 1000 A.D. The Iroquois lived in the Eastern Woodlands, in what is now New York. Their land was comprised of large forests located just south of Lake Ontario.…

We asked 13 voices in fashion, including stylists, designers, performers, and academics, to share their opinions on fashion’s appropriation of urban street style. What’s at stake when Miley kicks it in Jordans? When James Franco wears rows that riff on RiFF RAFF? When Brooke Candy is photographed by Terry Richardson with a gold tooth? When Hood By Air becomes a Style.com darling? Or when Rick Owens hires an American step team to model his Paris défilé? Should anybody be allowed to wear anything…

A natural observation was made involving a family discussing where to eat lunch. Each individual played an intricate role in the exchange, either with his or her direct, or lack of, interactions with the other members of the family. I will apply the systems theory of family to the observation and discuss the concept of power, and how certain sources of power were drawn upon during the exchange. The observation took place at a busy mall on a Saturday at 11:39 am until 12:03 pm after all parties…

In Juliana Delgado Lopera’s short novel, Quiéreme, she her autobiography is best described as an untraditional in every sense of the word. Lopera’s quick novel clocks in at about 44 pages but is a colorful twisted versions of noting one’s life. In her series of essays, Lopera uses a wide range of writing tools such as her personal voice, Spanglish language, and narrative, she tells her journey of self-discovery through her life and reveals her unique identity to the reader. One of the way…

Does acting out of the ordinary give you a better chance of making history? History professor at Harvard University, Laurel Thratcher Ulrich, who was appointed the 300th Anniversary University Professor, describes at the beginning of her article, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, how she slightly made history by writing her frequently used quote "well-behaved women seldom make history". In this article she points out that news mainly focuses on law makers and law breakers. She explains…

The media is a powerful communication source from which people of all kinds retrieve their information. The media tell us who we should be and who we shouldn’t be, and it 's not just entertainment media that does this, but also advertisements within the media. The advertisements and media divide us into groups, one of the division lines drawn is gender. It is hard to measure to what extent media defines our identity, because the media begins influencing our thoughts since before childhood.…

representing different personalities. The first girl, on the far left of the image has a frilly, light pink skirt with a white sweater and a headband representing a girly-girl personality. The second girl in the image is wearing a skirt but she has zebra leggings underneath it. The third girl has pink streaks in her hair and hot pink pants with a jean jacket representing a spunkier personality. The fourth girl is wearing a pink jacket with blue capris and glasses representing a preppier…

A crunch sounded under my foot and I assumed that I stepped on glass. It was probably just a leftover drink. A slimy feeling brushed down my leg and wetted my leggings. I shuffled out the way and Ves steadied me. Another song came on and I let out my screams again, pausing momentarily when a hair raising scream emerged from nearby. I looked back for Vesper’s confirmation on whether or not he had heard it. He nodded. The hair on my body stood rigid, but I kept on singing. Another high pitch…

Health problem/diagnosis Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, recurrent, suppurative, cutaneous disease, manifested by abscesses, fistulating sinus tracts and scarring. Synonyms are apocrinitis, acne inversa and pyoderma fistulans significa. The disease is expressed by a variety of clinical features, and many sites may be involved. It affects apocrine gland-bearing skin; the axillae are most often involved, followed by the anogenital region. Uncommon sites include the areola of the breast…