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In the year 1499, Alonso de Ojeda and his mapmaker Amerigo Vespucci (whom America was named after) was reminded of the canals of Venice, Italy by seeing Indian huts built on stilts in Lake Maracaibo (Venezuela News, Views, and Analysis, 2016). This lead Ojeda and Vespucci to name the land after the Italian word “Veneziola”, meaning “little Venice” or now known as Venezuela (Venezuela News, 2016). Lake Maracaibo is Venezuela's oldest lake, it is estimated to be 20 to 40 million years old…

marketing tool for the hotel (Nussbaum). The term that everyone uses for beauty queen is ‘Miss America’, this was brought upon the world by a news reporter that thought it was a clever name (Nussbaum). Pageants were discontinued from 1929-1932 due to the Great Depression” (Nussbaum). In 1983 Vanessa Williams becomes the first African-American titled Miss America. In 1994 the first handicapped woman wins the title of Miss America. The pageantry world helps introduce a face to the faceless…

The Impact of a Woman Imagine for a moment how we live our lives. For most of us, everyday we attend school and an after school activity, go home and do homework, eat dinner, and then get ready for the next day and go to sleep. What if that all changed? One day we wake up and we are in Kenya or Egypt and we have to wake up and hunt for our food every morning. There is no more school other than learning how to survive. No matter what life you are living, there is always at least one person who…

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Contests to determine "who is the fairest of them all" have been in the world since ancient Greece and the Judgment of Paris. A glitz pageant is where girls have to have big and sometimes fake hair, perfect makeup, spray tans, fake teeth, and fake nails in a pageant. Toddlers & Tiaras is a reality television series that followed the personal lives of families of contestants in a child beauty pageant. This show ended up generating…

Beauty Pageants are a way girls can learn important life skills while also having fun. It’s a way to learn the difference between winning and losing and also gaining friendships, not even just in beauty pageants, all other different types of pageants such as rodeo queen pageants and “natural pageants” girls are able to learn more about themselves. Beauty pageants give girls additional skills that they can use in their life growing up. From competing it gives them more confidence, develops social…

The 1920s, also known as the “Roaring Twenties,” was a time like no other. New technology, abandonment of tradition, and daring feats all occurred during this time of dramatic change. The twenties was not a time of refinement or civility, but instead the signs of corruption were over-looked and life was lived to the fullest. New fads and ways of entertainment were discovered creating an easy going lifestyle. The radio, first developed in the 19th century, helped pave the way for new fads…

The Miss America pageant takes intelligent, talented, incredibly accomplished women, while excluding many other women, and turning them into sexualized objects in order to see which woman is the most beautiful for a scholarship. This ideology is sexist and…

Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet…

Satis house, Pip is delusional, he is not able to take stock of his emotional and physical processes, the very definition of introspection. He is obsessed with this perverted image of an upper class life, and also he wrongly convinces himself that Miss Havisham is his benefactor. This is also direct evidence that fire does not represent a sense of home and warmth…

Merriweather is criticizing Atticus but it doing this while sitting in his house, at his table and eating and drinking things that he bought and has. It does not bother Mrs. Merriweather at all. So Miss Maudie is pointing out that she was being rude and a hypocrite. (Lee, 312) One reference to a mockingbird is in the beginning of the chapter when scout wanted to kill a roly-poly but Jem told her not to. This is a reference because you are not supposed…