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    Ryan Long

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    industry. In 2008, Long flew his best friend, Mark Pilkenroth out to Los Angeles to assist him in partnership of a new music showcase company with ambitions to make the company a worldwide production. Long began to take the entertainment industry and event productions very seriously. In approximately 2009, Long was approached by an event producer that was in need of assistance in selling admissions to an event that took place at the Playboy Mansion. After his first time going to the Playboy Mansion, and working for years as a sub-promoter for other companies at the Mansion, Long was convinced that he needed to raise his level of business and become an executive producer of an event. Ultimately, in 2012 Long executive produced his first event at the Playboy Mansion. After seeing all of the other events that took place at the Playboy Mansion, and being displeased with how charities and event producers treated his clients, Long was convinced that he would do an event that had more meaning and value behind it. The name of the event was “Fame At the Mansion” and Sean “Diddy” Combs hosted the event on the evening of the Grammy Awards that year to benefit Angelwish Foundation. Two days after the event, Combs went onto the Jimmy Kimmel late night show and described the event as his “best party of all time”. Long became influenced by several other philanthropists and humanitarians along to this next event. In the winter of 2012, Long had an idea to bring President Bill Clinton out…

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    Gender roles play a significant role in society. These roles affect how the world views women. Films shunned absurd ladies with their maturing appearance and slumping, bulging frames since they had shifted from the “norms” of womanhood (Douglas 183). The movie, House Bunny, plays on these female gender ideals. An ex-playboy bunny, Shelley, stumbles upon the Zeta house filled with a group of misfit sorority girls. If the Zetas do not receive enough pledges, they will lose the charter for…

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    In a peculiar and intriguing short story called “A Rose for Emily,” William Faulkner tells about a mysterious and reclusive woman named Emily Grierson. Although the story is not told in chronological order, the five acts flow in such a way that the narrator is able to easily describe Miss Emily’s character through her actions over several years in the southern town of Jefferson. Despite Miss Emily’s family once being the town’s somewhat social-royalty, the speaker informs readers how Miss Emily…

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    William Faulkner is considered to be one of the greatest American authors in twentieth century. Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” is one of his best witting. The story is placed in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi in 1930 (Akers, 2002). William Faulkner 's central theme of the story is to let go of the past. The main character of the story “A Rose for Emily” is Emily Grierson, who has a tendency to cling to the past. Faulkner uses symbols throughout the story to show the stubbornness of…

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    What could possibly drive a woman all the way to the point of murder? In “A Rose for Emily,” a short story by William Faulkner, and Trifles, a play by Susan Glaspell, the reader sees two stories in which this happens. In both of these stories, the protagonist is a woman, and both kill the men in their life. In Trifles, Mrs. Wright kills her husband while Emily kills her boyfriend in “A Rose for Emily.” Both of these stories take place from the third person point of view and are re-told in the…

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    Playwright August Wilson uses his plays to display the struggles of Black Americans living throughout the twentieth century. In fact, August Wilson uses The piano Lesson to uncover the hardships Boy Willie and his family face focusing on a time when his family was held captive as slaves to a chance to own his own piece of land. The Piano Lesson demonstrates the importance of family heirlooms and how no amount of money could ever replace the sentimental value they hold. Berniece and Boy Willie…

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    After years of steering clear of sexually explicit material in favor of the frisky but softer content favored by Hugh Hefner, Playboy has embraced hardcore pay-per-view programming and has launched the hard porn channels, Spice and Vivid. In the beginning the shift proved beneficial to Playboy as in 2001 the TV production had higher margins (26%) than the magazine ones (2%) and the television business made up 45% of the revenues (Business Week, 2002). Thus, Playboy decided to expand even further…

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    Written or Verbal Written in 1930, William Faulkner’s twisted short story “A Rose for Emily” is still being discussed eighty-five years later. Having been made into a major motion picture in 1982, the cryptic story’s legend lives on into a new age of discussion. Miss Emily Grierson made a name for herself in the small southern town, and both forms of media convey the deep twists of her life in one way or another. The movie and book contain similarities like the odor problem and the…

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    Van Der Leun uses imagery to show how internet porn is negative. Imagery is a way of making sure a writer’s point is clearly painted into the readers head. In the article “This is a Naked Lady,” Van Der Leun uses imagery to show what men were looking for in online erotic messaging. He goes into detail on some of the fantasies these men were looking for such as, “Which featured a lot of naked people with Lone Ranger masks demonstrating the varied ways humans can entwine their limbs and…

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    being "the unfair discrimination on the basis of sex". This kind of discrimination tends to operate in favour of men and against women”(UK Essays). During the 70’s sexist ads became progressive everywhere from tv commercials to posters for regular items such as Kellogg’s. “The thought of an advertisement telling women to 'keep up with the house while you keep down your weight ' would undoubtedly cause widespread revulsion. But rewind several decades and such sexist slogans were widespread, as…

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