Poppy

Snoop Dogg adds an additional layer to the track, providing his insightful lyricism to the already solid tune. Okay, I truly don’t care for the song very much, but it’s a staple of the California playlist. Nobody vacations alone, and so you’ll need a poppy song to please whomever you’re traveling with. Throw “California Gurls” into the playlist for their sake. Tupac’s “California Love” hits hard. Featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman, this classic hip-hop track has endless good vibes. It’s a…

Terrorism is the threat or use of violence against a population or group of people to spread fear for the purpose of a political motive or agenda. The Taliban is possibly one of the most renowned terrorist groups in Afghanistan, and despite the containment methods used against them, they continue to grow and prevail in rural southern areas of Afghanistan and parts of Kabul. The Taliban is unique because they not only adhere by means of strict Islamic fundamentalism, but Pashtun laws and culture.…

Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in an Iowa plane crash. Elvis was in the Army, Little Richard had given up rock for Jesus Christ, and Jerry Lee had married his teenage cousin. During these years, “real” rock 'n' rollers were replaced by poppy artists which watered down Rock 'n' roll. Many first-generation rockers produced some of their best work in the early '60s -- the Everly Brothers, the Drifters, Ray Charles. Additionally, this period produced music that eventually landed…

Reaction Paper Wednesday we had a guest speaker to inform the class on opiate addiction; I found the presentation to be very factual. In fact, I also found the presentation to be minorly persuasive, with intentions to persuade the audience to deter from opiate abuse. I agreed with nearly all information stated in the presentation, because most of the information displayed was facts. During the presentation, I noted physicians are taking advantage of the legality of medical marijuana. Doctors…

Everyone who lives in America know that sweatshops are bad, but the question is, is a sweatshop really that bad? Author Pietra Rivoli explains her views on the issue in her novel The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy and breaks it down into why sweatshops are bad and why they are good. Along with Rivoli’s arguments, sweatshops can help stop the war on poverty, drugs, and terror. I believe that sweatshops overall are a good thing to have and that we shouldn’t get rid of them. Pietra…

Much like that first poem, this one depicts a relatively peaceful scene, “In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing fly / Scarce heard amid the guns blows.” (Flanders field). This poet sets the poem in the middle of a field of poppy where the wind blows and the birds are still singing which makes the reader initially feel peaceful. He then makes the mood darker by…

'To Autumn ' consists of three eleven-line stanzas, each containing the sights, smells and sounds of an Autumn scene. Each stanza has a different subject matter, following a chronological sequence. The poem is written in rather strict iambic pentameter, with only four lines in the poem breaking this structure. There are generally five iambs to each line. This methodical meter is effective as it gives the poem a lyrical, relaxed tone. Although the poem 's scene is bursting with life, it is…

movement, O’Keeffe began experimenting with perspective, painting large-scale close-up paintings of flowers. The first of these artworks was ‘Petunia No.2’ , which exhibited in 1925, soon followed by works including the ‘Black Iris’(1926) and ‘Oriental Poppies’(1928). O’Keeffe declared: “ If I could paint the flower exactly as i saw it no one would see what I see because I would paint it quite small like the flower is small. So I said to myself, I’ll paint what I see, what the flower means to…

Heroin/Opiates irrigated to become an addiction. According to U.S Dept of Health and Humans Services, opioids are biological (harvested from opium poppies) and synthetic chemicals that bind to receptors in the human body and generate morphine effects. Opiates are commonly refer to naturally occurring chemicals derived from the opium poppy. The opium poppy has been cultivated and harvested for medicinal and recreation purposes since…

The Rise of Islam The rise of Islam has played a major role in world history. Islam has contributed to many aspects of life: it has made a great impact on medicine, architecture and mathematics. It all starts in the early seventh century with Prophet Mohammed who lived in Mecca. He started out with meditation in a cave and in the year 610, then he started having visions/ messages from God. From there on he started preaching and getting people to follow him, and soon they formed the Islamic…