Runway

and two parallel bars, and a vault table. All I need is my leotard, grips, and ambition to score big. I’ll dance across the floor, leaping, turning, flipping through my routine, knowing all eyes are on me as I own the floor. Sprinting down the runway, jumping off the springboard, flying through the air, and flashing a smile at the judge, I stick my landing on vault. I swing around the bar, jumping from high bar to low bar, covering myself with chalk and pride. The beam welcomes me, but my…

On May 1st, a 15yrs old boy named Derrin Espinola was flying alone from Denver to Thunder Bay with Air Canada. But due to a flight delay in Denver, it caused him to miss his connecting flight from Toronto to Thunder Bay. Once the teen arrived in Toronto at 8pm, Air Canada rebooked him for another flight that would be leaving the next day at 6pm. The airline did not offer him any compensation for the mishap. Throughout the next 22 hour wait, Derrin was ‘trapped’ in the airport. He was a minor…

Engineering Disasters Within the confines of a single second your whole world can come crashing down. Throughout history, mankind has been met with sudden disasters at seemingly random turns from faulty bridges, to malfunctioning airplanes and unstable nuclear reactors. Yet, upon examination of the disasters, investigators have uncovered that the seemingly random turn of events had, in reality, occurred as a result of slight mistakes made by the engineers and mechanics that designed the…

I am African American girl hoping to pursue a career in the fashion industry as a model, but I struggle to understanding what beauty is. My family says that beauty is confidence, but on television and in magazines, I see hair types, skin complexions, body sizes, and etc. that are so called “beautiful”. As a kid, I saw several commercials with beautiful women and when I finally realized I wanted to be like them, I had to come up with a plan to reach this goal. I am African American and I know it…

Each runway walk came with a story from different arts, music, or films from people who influenced him. There is a famous story about when he was watching the show called “Friends” and Joey was wearing a green sweater which inspired one of the collections that…

known as fast fashion” to negatively position this type of fashion. However, the footage to this narration is a flicker of models on the runway. This allusion is a technique used in the film to get the audience to hear one thing yet focus on the images displayed to combine them as the same reference being made. Morgan is insinuating that all fashion on a runway is fast fashion and is bad for people and somewhat the environment. He does this with the title too. Morgan constantly refers back to…

Art teaches you to think outside the box. In my discussion in module six, Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) was abstract and avant-garde, a completely new art style unheard of in America. When change first happens, there is typically always backlash. People do not like change and immediately consider foreign ideas to be written off as “weird” or unlikeable. But as time wears on and someone says something good about it, people follow like a herd and open their minds little by…

In 1985, Gary met his third wife Judith Lynch at a bar in Seattle. They married in 1988 and bought a home in Des Moines and lived there until 1997. Gary was hoping to make his third marriage work out by making a point to greet his new neighbors, speak to them, and even decided to keep his lawn kept up. He still had his garage sales twice a month.9 Gary was handsome, polite, had a respectable job, and always treated Judith like a lady. For 13 years he was the perfect husband, and the perfect…

by plane has become extremely popular and as this popularity continues to grow, so does the poor conditions of the facilities. Airports in America have issues that range from capacity regulations, flight control issues, to problems pertaining to runways. This is the reason for our current grade, given by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is a ‘D’ (ASCE 2013). Often times our airports are referred to as “third world” airports, as stated by Donald Trump (Marsh 2016). While DOT does…

In every era, fashion is a reflection of what's going on in the world politically, culturally, and socially. In the 1920s specifically there was a significant amount of change with fashion. Many woman drastically changed the way they dressed, straying away from the traditional appearance. This revolutionary period had a heavy influence on womens fashion today. Not only did women change how they dressed, but their entire appearance all together. They began wearing shorter dresses, exposing…