Luke Cage

whether or not it was farm or cage raised. Benefits for producers include a higher pay cut. Cutting out a “middleman” helps farmers bring home about three times more profit than the profit earned when sold to supermarkets. Decrease in travel costs also cuts down on global environmental pollution as well as the “assembly and distribution” costs. Another benefit to the community surrounding the market is creating jobs, raising incomes, and supporting our farmers. Luke Richner, a senior from Duke…

During the Golden Age, it was not uncommon for a single comic book issue to sell over one million copies. A popularity spike of comic books started mostly during World War II. Marvel and DC comics were the most favored. Marvel was created in 1939, and was known as Timely Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Spider-Man and Wolverine are the most well-known heroes from Marvel. DC Comics also known as Detective Comics, were founded in 1935, by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Comic books impacted…

How do you spend your money? If you are like a lot of consumers now days, you are probably trying to watch your budget a little more carefully since the recession. Sure, every once in a while it feels great to buy something new, but soon that feeling fades, and the item becomes just another trinket collecting dust. Consumers need to start spending their money on purchases that are more personally valuable in order to feel more fulfilled. So how can we begin to spend our money in a way that will…

I was watching the T.V show Marvels Luke Cage on Netflix, this show was about him surviving from being killed by the cops and gangsters. He had super human strength and bullet proof skin, until a new weapon controlled by the gangsters that could penetrate his skin. His survival was his presence…

He had paved the way for black superheroes, ushering in a cast (albeit small) of new heroes like Luke Cage and Storm that survived even after his cancellation. Though appropriated and commodified at times, the Black Panther had a real impact on the scene of comics – he had created a foundation in national culture for blacks. He was a black superhero,…

To understand the nature of Lee, you have to take a step back and understand who Lee was before the Marvel phenomenon: a dispirited, middle-aged company stooge working in a dying industry, with no reason to believe anything could change. He was born Stanley Martin Lieber in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on December 28, 1922, the first child of middle-class Jewish parents. Stanley’s father, Jack, had been a dressmaker but suffered from chronic unemployment during the Depression. “Seeing the…

Not a Lucid Dreamer Ever since I was little I knew I was different. There was something about the way I viewed the world that always made me wonder why I saw it that way. I'd see a tree but to me it wouldn't be a tree it'd become a prop in my own live-action play. Everything that existed, existed to me for a completely different reason compared to the initial. A basic household item simply just existing gave me a new story to make up. It was as if I was living in a whole other universe. I felt…

for Netflix. The show features one primary protagonist: the titular character Jessica Jones, an ex-superhero who now runs a PI out of her apartment. In addition to Jessica Jones, the show stars seven other main cast members throughout season one: Luke Cage, Patricia “Trish” Walker, Will Simpson, Hope Shlottman, Malcolm Ducasse, Jeri Hogarth, and Kilgrave. In terms of exposition, Jessica Jones is a strong individual, left damaged after a tumultuous “relationship” (if it can even be called that)…

Television has proved to be an important factor in representing the identities of a vast and diverse America. As a powerful medium, television functioned as a way to observe people of different color, race, and ethnicity. The impact of the medium in representing a certain race has had a powerful influence on one’s attitude towards another person based on these depictions as seen on TV. More often than not, TV’s portrayals of the subordinate group in the United States had not been ideal compared…

2, 1, 3, 5, 4 C. 4, 1, 3, 5, 2 D. 5, 2, 1, 4, 3 In recent years, bottled water has become a multi-billion dollar Customer Question In recent years, bottled water has become a multi-billion dollar industry. Many Americans now drink bottled water exclusively. However, there are good reasons to stick with tap water. Bottled water varies greatly in purify and chemical composition. Some brands are quite healthy, whereas, others have been shown to contain dangerous levels of mercury, bacteria,…