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“The Ballad of Bonneville Salt Flats: From Demo to Pro Pro to __________” Songs lie dormant but they never die. I’d like to think of them as always dying but never dead, ever-changing but never changed. This is a story about a song’s journey through space and time. This is a story about… Okay. Okay. Enough with the clichéd music lit hyperbole. This is a story about a morbidly humorous 2-minute song my friends and I haphazardly threw together whilst semi-drunk on Budweiser. This is a story…

northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake in the Utah desert with a meters-long straight tail that winds into the counterclockwise curvatures of the spiral. The spiral was planned for months in advance and required a team of many to bring to it to conception and thousands of tons of basalt rock, boulders, salt crystals and mud. Smithson chose the location for its stark, desolate quality and also for the features of the lake, which turns bright red seasonally due to the salt and bacteria that…

At the beginning of my senior year, I applied to almost ten different colleges and universities – from the east coast to the west coast and basically everything in between. I remember my reaction for each and every return letter I got. The one that stood out the most was the letter from Utah State University. Out all of the acceptance letters Utah State University was the only letter that made me jump up and down, and squeal like the excited little girl I was in that moment. My reaction was not…

wd been working at a service station for one year. When he was turned sixteen and obtained a driver's, license his grandfather decided to buy him a Plymouth 2. This gave him a way to go to his grocery store he worked at. When he was working at his job he was still able to take advanced classes that had overall helped him get into a good university. These classes include many different math courses such as algebra, algebra 2, advanced geometry, as well a physics. One of the biggest things that…

On July 30, 1926 Plutarco Elias Calles, the President of Mexico, had a conversation with two Bishops of Mexico, Pascual Diaz and Leopoldo Ruiz. In the correspondence made by Calles he tells the Bishops: “El único camino que existe para que todas estas dificultades terminen es que el clero se someta a esa ley...” Calles is warning the clergy to submit to the Mexican Constitution or there would be dire consequences. This conversation would take place a day before the suspension of religion…

Simón Bolívar: A Life by John Lynch chronicles the life of the famous revolutionary Simón Bolívar, often known as “El Libertador”. The book begins by documenting Bolívar’s beginnings growing up in Venezuela. The book gives readers a relatable, intimate view of Bolívar’s early life, talking about his family, friends, and the neighborhood he grew up in. The importance of racial makeup and class status would be crucial in Bolívar’s upbringing, him being part of the wealthy mantuanos. His wealthy,…

This essay will argue the three main impacts to Mexico’s sovereignty through drug trafficking. The three main points in this essay will be, the impact of drug related violence, corruption due to drug trafficking and the exportation of drugs out of Mexico. Each point will reflect the problem and the effects of the problem within Mexico. It will also reflect on how the Mexican government tried to combat the problem in close reference to the reign of Felipe Calderon who took presidency in 2006…

The independence movement in Venezuela, like in other countries in Latin America, was a tumultuous one. Even after the achieval of independence, Venezuela still struggled to maintain a successful government. Before the independence movements, loyalty to the Spanish rule was the common sentiment; a loyalty that would continue even during the Peninsular War. This caused many revolutionaries like Simon Bolivar to resort to wear the mask of Fernando VII in the juntas due to the lack of support…

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…

Essay My English/Language Arts class has been reading and watching both of these shows and stories. “The Andy Griffith Show”, was produced in the Early 1960s, it is a TV sitcom based on an older sitcom called “ The Danny Thomas Show”. As i have done researched on this sitcom, i have come to realize that the sitcom has only produced a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning over 8 seasons. “ The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”, is episode 22 in the first season of “The Twilight…