Pong

period of American history. Mysteriously, Forrest finds himself at the center of dozens of major events of the 60’s and 70’s. He was present during the forced integration of the University of Alabama, he was one of the players in so called “Ping Pong Diplomacy,” and his call to the front desk of his hotel created the Watergate scandal. He is a Vietnam War hero, plays all American football with Bear Bryant and makes a fortune investing in Apple. Forrest lived his life as a slow, trusting,…

Elizabeth Taylor: The Woman Who Had A Passion For Life Most people know her for her “violet eyes”, or her eight marriages, yet don’t take the time to appreciate her contribution and inspiration to more than just young women. In Elizabeth Taylor’s 60 year career, she was able to attract many people’s attention and become an inspiration to a countless number of people through having starred in over 50 films, having been a nominee of five Academy Awards for Best Actress and awarded two, and…

I always read as a kid. I was the small boy who plowed through books day and night, my mom scrambling to and from the library just to keep up with me. The only thing fixated on my mind was reading a new book and being totally captivated by the plot. Since then, I read less and less, sometimes going months without finishing a book. I feel sad that I spend less and less days staying up to midnight just to read one ... more … page. At this point in my busy life, the only reading I can complete is…

Video games have been entertaining our youth for decades. The games have only gotten better, and the demand for them higher as the years have gone by. Starting from arcade games like PONG, to modern games like Skyrim, video games have evolved greatly over time. One of the most influential game developers of our time is Shigeru Miyamoto, a native of Japan who has been making iconic video game franchises through Nintendo since the 1970’s. Not only has he influenced Japanese video game culture, but…

couldn’t remember having a relationship with another girl for more than a day. Everyday, someone else was by his arm. Tonight, his fellow friend Tony hosted a party at the nightclub. His friend had gone all out in throwing this party. From beer pong to photo booths, Tony had covered the desires for everyone. As soon as Oliver walked in everyone cheered…

In Dick Gregory’s “Shame,” Gregory states “Everybody’s got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want.” On September of 2012, I was first introduced to the Fallout franchise when my adopted brother bought the game and forced me to play it. The game has become a real inspiration to me and now is a symbol of my life, my career, and what I want. Fallout has become a symbol of my life because I have been studying and researching the game my entire life. I first had to learn all possible…

Towns” or teen gathering places run with minimal adult supervision. These youth centers were meant to combat the notion that all teenagers were rowdy rebels, by providing a safe space for teens to enjoy themselves. They had jukeboxes, pool tables, ping pong, and other table games, but a severe lack of board games. This just reinforces that even the tame teenagers who sought to rebel against the previous generations were separating themselves away from the entertainment of the past. They had been…

A Party to Forget The majority of my weekends in the fall of my sophomore year of high school had been spent the exact same. Three of what I considered my closest friends and I would attend the Friday night football game and then pile up in my best friend’s sports car and head off to whatever party we had heard about prior to the game. We would all manage to construe a way into staying out at as late as we desired; my mother was under the impression that I was staying at a friend’s house, and my…

Paul Reinhold Jobs grew up on a dairy farm, however his father was an alcoholic and abusive at times. He had a calm and gentle personality. He had dropped out of high school and was mustered out of Coast Guard after World War II. Once he finished with that he made a bet with his friends that he would be able to find a wife in the next two weeks. He won that bet and got engaged to Clara Hagopian. Clara had a husband before but he was killed in war, so when she met Paul she wanted to start a new…

Neha Kaushik EPI 610 Final Paper Prevalence of Chikungunya in the Emerging World Background Chikungunya, is an infectious disease that is starting to emerge in the United States. I am more specifically focusing on the Aedes aegypti vector that transmits this virus in humans. It is quite similar to malaria in its transmission process. This disease manifests as severe joint and muscle pain, joint swelling, fever, among other symptoms. The epidemiologic triad applies to this disease as the…