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Inauguration is a formal custom in which Americans gather to mark the start of their chief executive. For first term presidents, it is custom since 1789 to provide the people with an inaugural address, in which gratitude, motives, and visions are commenced. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as the 35th president, served from January 1962 till his assassination in 1963. Other than the fact that Kennedy marked as another president in our history books, it is taken into consideration, his…

There has always been a shroud of fog around the personal matters of the Clinton’s, but underneath that shroud there is a hidden evil that is incomparable to any other American politician. The Clinton’s have been involved in many conspicuous affairs including White Water and the Ives/Henry case. They also have been involved in around 100 deaths of people close to them or people who worked for them. They have used witness intimidation and other scare tactics to harass witnesses into not…

derived its name from the Conestoga River Valley of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The first known use of a wagon in North America was recorded by James Logan, a Philadelphia fur merchant and trader, in 1716. By 1720, the necessity of horse-drawn wagons rose as people settled farther from Philadelphia and needed to transport goods and furs to Lancaster County. Between 1720 to 1750, immigrants from Germany came to Lancaster County and established farms throughout the countryside. It was during…

Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was first published in 1904 and is a short story about a woman, named Georgiana, who finds herself transition from the ecstatic city of Boston, to the primitive Nebraska frontier. Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee” was inspired by Richard Wagner who was a German composer and conductor that lived from 1813 to 1883. He’s well known for his operas and his most famous work is that of “The Flying Dutchman”. Willa Cather, instead, wasn’t a musician but was an author of the…

For this paper, I have chosen to present my exploration on one of the greatest rock bands in American history, Guns N’ Roses, as well as the so called “Reigning Queen of Country Music”, Carrie Underwood (Schiff, 2014). The particular song I have chosen is “Paradise City,” and with this song being recorded originally in 1987 by Guns N’ Roses, Underwood decided to perform her own version in 2014 at the Country Music Association Festival. The purpose of this paper is to explore particular artists…

In November of 1941, Rosemary Kennedy, was ordered by her father to receive a surgery that was said to be life changing. It was called the lobotomy. The Kennedy Family was immediately skeptical of such a surgery, and came to a conclusion that it was not what they wanted for Rosemary. But their opinion and rejection to the procedure was all in vain. Joe Kennedy ordered the lobotomy to be done immediately, without his family knowing. Rosemary’s lobotomy was performed by psychiatrist Dr. Walter…

One of America's religious practices that not many people talk about, but is shown a lot on the big screen, are exorcisms. On NBC in 1971, the first ever exorcism was televised (Newkirk, Week In Weird). The clip features NBC journalist Carole Simpson interviewing Ed and Marsha Becker, a couple who began to experience strange things after moving into their new Chicago home. They claimed to have been experiencing dramatic hauntings in their home. The couple called upon the help of medium Joseph…

signs leading to their suicide. In the 1962 film drama The Days of Wines and Roses, a married couple’s relationship falls apart due to alcoholism. “The Doomed in Their Sinking” by William Gass, Gass tries to understand the concept of suicide by writing about his parents and famous suicides. The movie and essay revolves around unintentional influences that inevitably cause their self-destruction. The Days of Wines and Roses a couple who loses their everything because of their addiction…

The freedom of slaves King’s speech has been known as a masterpiece of rhetoric. One rhetorical device that King used is repetition. There are many examples that show repetition but the most common example in the speech is “I have a dream” that shows different aspects of King’s vision of rhetorical harmony. As learnt in class, Kairos shows opportunity, time and place. The speech was so powerful because of its kairos. In one of the sections, King repeated the phrase “one hundred years later”…

Have you ever heard of the outlaw Laura Bullion, well now you will. Laura Bullion had different names, she used the names Della Rose, Freda Lincoln, Freda Bullion Lincoln, and Mrs. Maurice Lincoln and more. She was born in Knickerbocker Texas near Mertzon in Irion County, in October 1876. The actual date of her birth is not known. Laura Bullion died December 2, 1961. When she died, she was about 84 or 85. Laura Bullion was an outlaw that was known for robbery and forgery of banknotes signatures.…