Malibu

In today’s incredibly litigious society, administration avoids potential law-suits and appeals to donors/sponsors. It is strategic, a selling point. “It’ll convince your parents to let you come to school in Malibu,” argues Kennedie McDermott, a first-year student, “They’re probably more willing to invest in a safer, more wholly community.” According to Robert Scholz, Pepperdine students on average drink lower quantities of alcohol and less often than those…

It is easy to fall in love with the idea of a place. Going on vacation to a remote island and moving there because life seems so much easier is a situation many find themselves daydreaming about. In movies, directors take the audience on a journey of a city. But the most realistic depiction of the city isn’t always the one that’s shown. In Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Paris, France, is romanticized by the main character, Gil Pender, who fails to look at Paris from a realistic point of view,…

Girl in a Band Book Review “When we came out onstage for our last show, the night was all about the boys” (Kim Gordon). This is the bold first sentence that Sonic Youth vocalist/bassist Kim Althea Gordon writes in her autobiographical memoir, Girl in a Band. The inspiration behind this liberating title is from “Sacred Trickster,” an ode to the quartet’s early 1990s high-gloss hardcore phase that appears on Sonic Youth’s final album, The Eternal. The entirety of this memoir is told from the…

Unfortunately in today’s society, we suffer from an epidemic known as the generational gap. Essentially, this signifies the recurring misunderstanding, hostility, and general distrust that older generations in America have, such as the baby boomers, for the young, up-and-coming generation Y. This tense conflict has resulted in many stereotypes formed about our generation, including laziness and entitlement. In her Business Insider article, writer Vivian Giang contends that our overreliance on…

Tom Buchanan is one of the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. He is portrayed as a selfish, arrogant man who is often prone to violence. Throughout the novel, Tom demonstrates his selfishness by boasting to Nick about his wealth and evenly showing off his mistress just to make Nick jealous of him. However, while he was so focused on himself, he was unable to see the fact that the life he built around himself was crumbling apart bit by bit. Through the actions and speech…

Surfboard design has always been a very personal thing. Shapers tend to be surfers themselves, and board design is as much an engineering feat as it is a love for surfing. Professional surfers work closely with shapers, as each surfer rides waves differently, and they know better than anyone how their surfboard needs to perform. Surfboards have evolved as surfers tackled new ‘liquid terrain’. Ancient Hawaiian surfboards In the early days of surfing in ancient Hawaii. Surfing was a deeply…

The Joseph Family History 1. Narrative On June 25th is my parent’s 20th wedding anniversary. They met in 1991 from knowing a mutual friend. They met at an ice cream store called Licks in downtown Denver. My parents got engaged on December, 19th ,1995. They were married at the John Paul II center in south Denver. They had three kids James, born in 1998, Marisa, born in 2000, and Me, Philip, born in 2002. My dad has four sisters Christine, Doreen, Cindy, and Margie. Their parents are Marylyn…

“Love is not just a verb”-Kendrick Lamar. This verse in the song “Poetic Justice” was his way to say what love is and what is not. Love could be confused for lust. Lust for the appearance attraction. The classic idea of the ‘Triangular love theory’ developed by Robert Sternberg. Where he suggest that there are three elements of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Along these lines there are different combinations of the elements. A great example of Stemberg’s theory would be the famous…

After five days of nervous energy, at last, Malcolm is here in my apartment. I’ve uncorked a bottle of wine and prepared pasta with pecorino cheese and sausage for dinner. I pour two glasses of wine while he talks of how great it felt to drive the coast route. Something he hasn’t done in a while. And that he would have arrived earlier. Except Emese insisted to fix breakfast, and while eating, initiate him into the art of writing a screenplay. After dinner, we walk to the beach. “You seem…

spot if you're looking for fishing the flats for striped bass or deeper and structured-waters on the same plus bluefish. Access is good: kayak fishermen can use the little-more-than-a-mile-from-the-island hand-carry at City Point, ditto the ramp at Malibu Beach, Neponset for powerboaters with trailers with four-wheel drive. In addition to flats fishing on the island's back side, Thompson holds within its contours two tidal marshes and a large sandbar and bunker that connect the island to…