Rocky II

and explorers came to in search of riches. Most of these individuals came from out east when they saw the news about all the gold out west. Estes Park is a small mountain town in western Colorado, located in Larimer County. The town is part of the Rocky Mountain National Park, one of the country’s 58 national parks. It is located 22.3 miles west of the town of Lyons via U.S Highway 36. One can also take U.S highway 7 from downtown Lyons for a slightly longer route. Using Highway 36, it is…

Homosociality in Glee experiences a dramatic change due to the forming relationship between Kurt and Finn. The season one finale saw Kurt, a theatrical, uniquely dressed gay teen from glee club, moving in with Finn, the straight quarterback of the football team who also sings in the club, after their parents begin dating. While decorating the room, Finn calls Kurt’s decorations “faggy,” to which Kurt’s manly father Burt responds with kicking Finn out of the house (“Theatricality”). The…

What do laser beams and Transylvania have in common? What happens when mad scientists meet groupies? The classic cult production, The Rocky Horror Show, brings together elements of glam rock and Horror B-Movies. This winter, the University of Colorado Theatre Department brought the classic science fiction and campy humor to the University Theatre stage. Directed by Hadley Kamminga-Peck with musical direction by David Nehlsthe, the musical captured the essence of Richard O’Brien’s 1973 musical.…

Ceremony Ceremony was published in 1977 by highly regarded Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko. It tells the story of a young Tayo, a World War II veteran who has had some major psychological damage from fighting in combat. Serving in the war had truly broken him. Aside from his recovery from the war, Tayo has it pretty rough. His white father and Indian mother is cause for the people of the reservation and even his own family, to hold a certain prejudice against him and his mixed…

Rocky and Body and Soul are both movies that fit comfortably into the boxing genre, a genre that has been defined by its typical pattern of the unknown boxer rising to fame, falling, and rising again. Leger Grindon encapsulates the commonalities of these movies and the boxing film genre in what he calls the “master plot” (Grindon 57). When Rocky and Body and Soul are held up next to the master plot it becomes evident that each fits in quite well, but each also has features that separate it from…

Sargent Johns, one of the JROTC instructors at TJ, took a small yet adventurous trip to Centennial Airport where he was invited to take a thrilling Airplane ride. Students attending Thomas Jefferson also have a great opportunity to The Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum. Sergeant Johns was selected from a group of teachers who were entered into a raffle to win the chance and ride in a vintage 1948 Stearman Biplane. When asked about his flight in the Stearman Biplane Johns said, “Believe…

History on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. This facility was established after the attack on Pearl Harbor to manufacture chemical weapons in support of World War II. After the war ended there was not a need to continue to use this plant to develop chemical weapons and the property was leased out to civilian companies for different uses. Later the area was turned over to the U.S. Army, Shell Oil Company, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to start cleanup of the base. Rocky Mountain Arsenal was later…

acceptable; the United States needed to regain international sports supremacy and maintain a suitable level of talented athletes. This concern about America’s global image caused changes to the amateur status and participation rules, created the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports, and established permanent training sites for Winter and Summer Olympic Games. The 1978 passage of the Amateur Sports Act committed the government to full-time investment in worldwide sport and the progression of…

The Cold War hung over America like a dark cloud from the end of World War II in 1945 until its official end in 1990. Unsure of where the tensions between the democratic America and Stalin's communist Soviet Union would lead, life surely changed for those on the home front. The American population stood as "captives of a nuclear nightmare of fear, suspicion, and posturing" (America, pg. 1215). The Cold War was more so a war of propaganda than of military intervention, yet had political, economic…

their defensive positions, and had placed their 84,000 Turkish and German troops strategically along the rocky shoreline. The French came in contact with the Turkish troops and eventually had to pull back, finding a new place to land, because they had nowhere to advance to. The British troops chose several landing points, but there were only a few landing strips along this coastline, and the rocky cliffs were filled with machine guns and snipers. The British were fortunate enough to land in…