“I got a code 2 i repeat code 2 Public enemy no. 1 pretty boy floyd is in sight, engage in cousion.”..... Charles Arthur “pretty boy” Floyd was a criminal who was always on the run. Charles Floyd and Antigone are alike because they both disobeyed laws for a cause they believed in. Antigone buried her brother because she thought it was the right thing to do, and Pretty boy stole from banks and gave back to the poor because the banks were stealing from the poor from the start. (Pretty Boy Floyd) He lived in the early 1900’s, during the great depression and the dust bowl. It was hard to make a steady paycheck because it would vary each day. Right when he was born his family moved to Oklahoma from Georgia. A little after being married his wife…
desperate enough to do anything in order to provide for themselves and their families. Young farmer, "Pretty Boy" Floyd was put in poverty by the Dust Bowl, a great drought that prevented farmers from farming. As a result, he was pressured by the times and was forced into a life of crime. His infamous name as a gangster lives on through generations due to his disturbing deeds during the depression. His crimes are stories that will be never forgotten. After World War I, the US was in billions of…
publication. 1907 Oklahoma becomes a state. Although by 1897 Oklahoma law required black children to be educated separately from white children, with statehood the legislature passed Jim Crow laws similar to those in much of the South. Oklahoma was no longer a refuge for colored people from Jim Crow. 1911 Facts about Boley, Okla. the largest and wealthiest exclusive Negro city in the world. (Boley, OK: Commercial Club, 1911 1922 "Produced in the All-Colored City of Boley, Okla." The Crimson…
Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever loved? Have you ever betrayed anyone else? Everyone go through their lives meeting new people everyday. Sometimes we end up getting to know eachothers very well and others not so much. But for the ones people end up loving, they might lose. When they lose someone, it might feel as betray. This part of a theme shown through the Uglies series. The Uglies series is about a girl, Tally, trying to find herself and become pretty while other’s influence her…
Are You Infected? “No way! Not Possible! All lies!” Those are the words I want to say to save the faces of humanity, but unfortunately, what the authors wrote about in swollen expectation is true for many. De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor compare our “lot more stuff and much higher material expectations than previous generations did” to an diseases that will continue to spread and swell our expectations more (De Graaf, Wann, Naylor). What these authors said was an overstatement; one that did not…
Swami Vivekananda said “Every change is being forced upon us.” In Tally’s world no words could be more true. Pretties and Specials are the second and third books in the Uglies series. Within the trilogy the story follows Tally, a young girl who finds out what is truly happening in her society. In Tally’s futuristic city people undergo an operation on their sixteenth birthday to become a “Pretty” the operation alters their looks and their brains. During the operation a lesion is put in everyone’s…
We assigned this site to Floyd Joy Mayweather Jr. beacuse we look up to him , hes the best fighter in the world. We want to give you some more information about this legendary boxer heres a little bit of his background story: Floyd was born in Grand Raoids, Michigan on 24 February 1977 in to a family of boxers (He started boxing because of his dad.) His full name is Floyd Joy Maywheather Jr. Nick name: Pretty boy It was common for the young mayweather to come home from…
“Pretty Woman” is a trumped-up, adult oriented version of “Cinderella”. This movie is by far one of my favorite romantic comedies from the 1990’s. If you haven’t seen “Pretty Woman” I highly recommend that you do, if you're a hopeless romantic such as myself. I want to tell you about the plot of the movie, to the actors in it and how dynamite their performance was in making this film a #1 Hit. A very wealthy, and successful lawyer, Edward Lewis, stumbles across a beautiful and…
ballpark hot dogs either, but those will cost you an arm and leg. Of course, you need a souvenir so people know you were really there. It will all start before they turn 10 years old. A little boy picks up a bat and his life will be changed forever. He will be the first one on his t-ball team to catch a pop-fly and the first one on his little league team to hit a ball out of the park. This kid will be determined to become a professional athlete. A little girl at the age of six, wanders…
“I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species.”-John Hughes. The films of the late John Hughes culminated the influence of a generation in comedy, while marking an advent of cinematic ingenuity during the 1980’s. Selling jokes and working in the offices of National Lampoon Magazine, Hughes arrived on-screen in his early 30’s. Ushering in a series of teen hits such as, Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and Pretty in Pink (1986),…