Parades

One of my favorite things about New York was watching the Macy's Day Parade. We were located behind a fence with loads of other people in front of us, so it was difficult to see the different floats and acts. My cousins cheer team had the honor of participating in the parade. It was really outstanding to see someone from our family in such an enormous event. People from all around the world come to see this parade. There were so many blow up balloons and floats with singers, dancers, and other…

colors of the rainbow. This is the month of gay pride marches. These events attract thousands of people every year to support and take pride in being gay. These parades are a good way of raising awareness of LGBT rights and ways they can be improved. Marches like that have a purpose behind them and prove to be effective every year; pride parades have a history that dates almost fifty years and to this day are still significant events that people look forward to every June. In New York City 1969,…

it when you miss your father the most. This message is shared in various forms of popular culture, from television commercials and movies to music and artwork. One song in particular does an excellent job of portraying this. “Welcome to the Black Parade,” by My Chemical Romance, is a song sung from the point of view of a son whose father is about to pass away. The son is remembering the different pieces of advice and wisdom his father has given him throughout life, and how those sayings…

Daniela Rodriguez English Zabic 9/08/2014 Parade Day Rain Causes a Parade of Emotions The exhibit, Parade Day Rain, showcases Hebru Brantley’s new works in a solo show at the Chicago Cultural Center; The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602. Hebru Brantley is an up and coming Chicago artist who has sold paintings to the rich and famous, such as Jay Z and Matthew Pritzer. Brantley’s art pieces will be on display from June 14 through September 23. The fact…

woke up earlier to attend to the San Francisco Giants parade. Janice Lewis got at Market Street at Steuart street where the parade begins, just in time to get the best space where she could see the parade. As the time passed by, with just feel minutes for the pared to start, more people kept coming. Janice who was comfortable at her spot no longer could move, because there were so may people trying to see the parade as well. At Noon, when the parade started, the crowd got excited and began to…

was the last two lines of the first stanza. I switched the statement that it was a Memorial Day Parade with the weather description since I felt that the heat was a bigger theme in the poem, but it was still important to state it was a parade so the reader could understand the context. The second stanza’s first few lines were changed because I thought the new wording incorporated the sound of the parade with the feel of being there. I thought including this detail would give a concise image of…

The dark and gloomy day dragged on as thousands of north korean veterans gathered before the start of the Kim Jong Un parade. The picture is simple but yet effective, all that is seen is the gray cylindrical service caps of the corrupt North Korean military. The photo is taken from behind while the veterans are facing the opposite direction. The most powerful piece about this image is one North Korean veteran looking back with the look of bitter sadness on his face. The view of the image…

Article for 60-70's 1962 Szczecin Military Parade Gone Wrong! Soviet Union Tried to Cover it up for YEARS... October 9th, 1962, the long awaited parade of the Szczecin military was traveling down the street. Little did anyone expect such a tragedy to occur. The year of 1962 in Poland was already a tense and hectic year. With the growing tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat of war between the Western and Eater Bloc, ideas for lightening the mood were needed. With this is…

Easter Parade (1948) is a musical and a romance about a man, Don Hewes (Fred Astire) who vows to find a dance partner who he can make better than his old dance partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller). He eventually finds Hannah Brown (Judy Garland) and they start off really bad. They become a sensational duo after Don figures out what Hannah’s singing and dancing abilities are best at and the two eventually fall in love with each other in the film. Judy Garland is a sensational actor. She has made a…

At school during an educational assembly about the Land Ship. The kids are treated to the same yearly information about how the townsfolk fooled the British during the war of 1812, and Tina learns that her peers think she is boring. When Tina goes to renew a library book three days early, she learns that Jordan, one of her classmates who is also perceived as boring, is a secretly the tagger known as “Ghost Boy.” Tina confronts him but instead of telling on Jordan, she starts hanging out with…