Pageant

Hundreds of intimidating teens filled the hallway reminiscent of the traffic you could only imagine in a busy city. The place reeked of hormones. Across the cafeteria, sitting at a table, a cluster of pageant looking girls sit laughing as if they’ve been given laughing gas. On the gleaming floor a few feet away from me, sit a group of boys and girls playing with what look like Magic the Gathering cards. Coming from the distance I hear the beautiful sound…

There has always been two driving forces in our culture, doubt and faith. The novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, tackles the ceaseless debate if doubt can exist alongside faith, to convey this message Irving implores two diverse characters. Owen Meany, an extremely faithful follower of Christ, and Johnny Wheelwright who is doubtful of the supernatural forces that Owen believes. However, both characters have transgressions against established systems in society. While faith and…

Located in the northern region of South America on the Caribbean Sea, Venezuela dates back to the fifteenth century when Columbus visited it in 1498. During this period in time the country was inhabited by the Arawakan people and others. Venezuala was colonized by Spain in the late 1520s and eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada. Over a period of time, Venezuela won their independence in 1821 in federation with Columbia and Ecuador. This enabled them to break off and be…

Since television personality and real estate developer, Donald Trump, announced his candidacy for the 2016 Presidential Election on June 16, 2015 at Trump Towers in New York City, using the slogan “Make America Great Again”, he has made racist comments about Asians and African Americans and has expressed an Islamophobic attitude. He even went so far as to mock New York Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from arthrogryposis, which limits the movement of his arms. Trump claimed to have…

Mrs. Universe and Activism Women’s Enews recently released the story of a woman that has now sparked controversy. Canadian pageant contestant Ashley Callingbull is the only First Nation woman to ever win the title of Mrs. Universe. First Nation refers to the groups of native peoples in Canada that have no ties to the Inuit/Eskimo or the Metis: a group comprised of those with Native American and European ancestry. (Metis Nation 2007) Callingbull belongs to the Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada.…

How are the events from 1820-1861 a consequence of the Missouri Compromise? Missouri requested to join the Union in 1819 as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise was a federal statute developed by Henry Clay. Leading up to the Compromise in 1820 a lot of friction was forming between pro-slavery and anti- slavery states. Congress trying to defuse the issue allowed Missouri become part of the Union as a slave state. However, it also placed a line between the north states and the south states…

“He didn’t do the things our schoolmates fathers did...when Jem wanted to tackle him Atticus would say no” (Lee 84). In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird which takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama, Atticus Finch is appointed to defend a black man by the name of Tom Robinson who is being charged for apparently raping nineteen-year-old Mayella Ewell, which was uncommon back in that time period due to race tension, in the story Jem and Scout Finch discover and witness some stuff that changes their…

Middlesex shows the assimilation process and what comes out at the end of it all, complete loss of culture shapes identity and something unidentifiable takes its place. For Lefty to keep his job at the factory he had to participate in a pageant, the "Ford English School Melting Pot", in which they must take off their 'immigrant costumes" and dress in "blue and gray suits... waving American flags" (104-105). At that point in time and even to this day there is a glorification of one's destruction…

black and his accuser is white. A few weeks later Tom is shot 17 times and killed after trying to escape prison. Bob Ewell had been threatening Scout and jems dad since the incident. One night the kids were walking home from there schools Halloween pageant when they heard someone following them. Bob Ewell was following them and tried to murder them with a knife. Boo Radley saves the kids and kills Bob with the knife. Boo goes to the finch house with jem in his arms and Scout follows him. When…

statehood would mean that Puerto Ricans will have to pay federal taxes. Culturally, the idea of statehood worries many Puerto Ricans on the island. For example, the island will no longer participate or have a representative in the Miss Universe Pageant, which they have won five times. In addition, Puerto Rico would not be acknowledged as an individual nation in the Olympic Games. These two representations are very significant for all Puerto Ricans since they are a display of national pride. As…