Neon

The United Sates of America is known across the world as the land of the free. Since technology was still fairly new in the 1980’s, compared to nowadays, the engineers didn’t realize how much technology was going to affect American society in the long run. Social media began through television and newspapers and in the 1980’s it played a big role on the American society, especially the fashion that most people were into. There were commercials that advertised and were persuadable enough to…

In John Gardner’s novel “Nickel Mountain” we are introduced to the main character Henry Soames. In the first chapter of the novel Henry is characterized by the author as a depressed dying man, and because of this he is faced with the conflict that he is afraid to die. Gardner characterizes Soames this way by using literary techniques such as setting, writing the chapter in limited 3rd person point of view, and description. In “Nickel Mountain” Gardner uses setting as one way to characterize…

reveal an open fence with a sign that reads “for experienced hikers”. Without hesitation, we start on the new trail. We are about a quarter of the way when I hear a humming and buzzing noise. I quickly wipe my head around to see a yellow and black neon wasp behind me. I run till we reach halfway where we are stopped to proceed by a rapid stream. We look around to see other hikers pacing it like nothing, so my dad and brother do the same in their shoes! I was not ready to lose my only shoes to…

automobiles in California. Many people owned car because they were cheaper than public transportation. Cars even helped give birth to a new innovative idea, drive-thrus restaurants. These drive-thrus were absolutely covered with attention grabbers such as neon lights, flashy colors, distinct building structure and memorizable logos. These were all advertisement tricks to allure new customers and nine times out of ten they successfully worked. Carhops were also very vital to drive-thrus (there…

Green Eyed The time was 10.19pm. The large traffic light rested at red for what seemed like a century. I quickly turned my head in both directions, looking left and right. I couldn’t see a single motor vehicle at all. I sighed. I was always late. Looking into the shiny rear view mirror a saw a mess of myself. My brown hair was unruly and my lipstick was smudged. After what seemed like ages, the light finally turned green. My driverless car shot forward into the night. I suddenly saw a silver bug…

It took us awhile to get it and by then everybody was watching him and well..........he finally won I got a neon orange and black gorilla and it was heavy so we went around the rest of the park and had fun than we won another gorilla this time it was blue the only blue left so of corse i would want it..... its blue so like the first try he got it so then after…

American history misrepresents the origins of modern electricity and radio. Thomas Edison is often credited with sparking the Electrical Revolution that led to the electrical systems in place today, and Guglielmo Marconi for advancements in radio technology, but both of these claims are misleading. Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-born immigrant, holds over 40 U.S. patents for advancements in alternating current technology, the type of electricity most used today. The U.S. patent office and U.S. Supreme…

Each day the average individual living in today’s society gets bombarded with a tsunami of commercials, brand labels, print advertisements, social media advertisements, emails containing marketing campaigns, ads on phones, or any other possible way a company can produce something that grabs one’s attention with the intent to sell. In fact, digital marketing experts estimate that most Americans are exposed to 5,000 advertisements a day. One of these advertisements may be the Jose Cuerovo…

There is nothing more refreshing than drinking an ice-cold can of Pepsi on a hot and sizzling summer day. For over a hundred years, people have been drinking Pepsi. Pepsi-Cola, as it is officially called, was created back in 1898 in New Bern, North Carolina by pharmacist Caleb Bradham. It became so popular in his drug store that he started the official Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902. Today, it is sold and drunken in over 200 countries (Reynolds). Infamous for its rival with Coca-Cola, Pepsi has…

would sometimes reach all throughout the house. I remember actually being tripped up on the cord from time to time. My absolute favorite older technology was the older computers. These things had extremely tiny screens, and only one color for the text, neon green. They were bulky and the slowest little pieces of equipment. The only thing I did on mine was play the game Pong. As much as some of these past technological items have been surpassed, there is nothing like the first. They seem dorky to…