Montana

When I began to read Montana 1948, I began to feel like twelve year old David Hayden did during his hardships in the cataclysmic summer of 1948. These events which were ingrained into David's memory give Watson inspiration to express just how different life was in 1948. One night in the second part of the story David stays up late, unable to fall asleep, thinking about the Indians he sees and interacts with everyday: “That night I imagined all the Indians of our region, from town, or ranches,…

Grace Kelly: An Iconic Actress Acting her way through her success, Grace Kelly, an American actress, caught her audience’s attention with her direct symbol of excitement in the film The Country Girl (Gevinson 659). She was known for all the shows she was in. Kelly changed the acting communities by her various performances and created the iconic characters that she was known for. After retiring her profession, she continued to help America through her fame. Grace Kelly, a talented American…

When Shakira shimmied her way onto MTV in 2001 with a steamy video for a slick, cookie-cutter dance-pop song, some people associated the Colombian singer with her American pop-music contemporaries Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. But the stylistic breadth of Shakira's music — elements of folk, Middle Eastern and traditional Latin styles over a foundation of rock and pop — gave her a degree of credibility the American teen queens lacked. What's more, when Shakira broke through in the United…

It may be hard to believe, but it’s been a decade since Megan Fox was introduced to the world as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf in the first of a series of big-budget, increasingly tedious films about transforming cars that come from outer space. This role, though fairly straightforward, launched Fox into superstardom. In fact, there was a period of time when she was absolutely everywhere. She was in movies, on television, in magazines, on billboards. It seemed that you couldn’t go anywhere…

Have you ever felt the pressures of trying to fit in with the ever-changing trends and fads within your peer group? These pressures can be difficult enough to handle just within a small group of friends or a community, let alone the magnifying glass of the entire country and world. Many celebrities and professional athletes are subject to these scenarios every day of their lives by having their every move watched and every word listened to by millions. The pressures felt by these men and…

Caroline Milam Diminished Capacity James Doorly Psych 3 Montana vs. Egelhoff, Ibn-Tamas vs. US One summer night in 1992, James Allen Egelhoff was camping in the northwestern region of Montana picking mushrooms. While on his camping trip he made friends with two other men, Roberta Pavlova and John Christenson, whom were scavenging for mushrooms and camping as well. Quickly the three became acquainted and after collecting and selling their mushroom findings they spent the rest of their day…

Several people use social media every day to keep in touch with out of state family, to look at what is happening in the world, to read, and look at what people post on Facebook. Social media is an electronic communication that people can post anything they want on there, so that their friends and family can see it. Numerous young teenagers and celebrities do careless acts, so that they can get attention from their audiences. There are three sources that will help support my argument and they…

In April of 2008 I went to Montana to a town called Whitefish with my grandparents and my mom. We stayed at my Grandpa Jack’s house with his wife Dolores. We stayed there over the weekend, I was kind of sad it wasn’t a long trip but it was still a good one. I got to meet my Grandpa’s sister Gayle’s son, his name was Jereme. I got to get to know him and we got along great. He took me around the town to see all the different little gift shops. Later that day we went to the mountains and we took a…

Who would have thought that Star Wars can bring two people together, even celebrities themselves like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Love at first sight can be fictional for some but in this case, it holds true for Kim and Kanye when wearing fictional garbs. Who can blame a guy seeing a girl dressed up as Princess Leia, in the same costume she wore when she was captured by Jabba the Hut? Kim Kardashian West confesses that she is thankful for the Star Wars franchise because if it wasn't for the…

Niatia “Lil Mama” Kirkland has had many roles throughout her career as she is a dancer, actress, and entertainer; but many now only know her as a meme, or a played out joke. Lil Mama’s first single, “Lip Gloss” came out in 2007 and was the game changer for her becoming career and had everything needed for a one hit wonder – a catchy beat, a catchy dance and something women of all ages could relate to, lip gloss. Although, her flow wasn’t awful and her dance moves were on point, people didn’t…