Mark Crispin Miller’s How to Be Stupid: The Lessons of Channel One discusses television advertisements and how they are a dangerous stimulant that sends subliminal messages to its audience to urge them to buy their product. In this article, Miller focuses primarily on adolescents since Channel One is a television program commonly shown in schools. To explain why adolescents are so affected by advertisements, Miller uses psychoanalysis. In his article, Miller separates each of the subliminal…
have been reared in other family structure and the outcome has been phenomenal. Shaquille O’Neal, actor, basketball player, and rapper, was predominately raised my his mother, is a product of a single parent home. Mr. O’Neal’s biological father struggled with drug addiction and was imprisoned for drug, but never resumed a place in O’Neal’s life. His father later relinquished his parental rights to O’Neal’s stepfather. O’Neal found balance through sports at the Boys and Girls Club of America…
Mitch Kupchak born May 24 , 1954. Mr.Kupchak is 62 years old. He was born in Hicksville, New York. Mitch is married to Claire Mitch, they had two children . His daughter Alina Claire Kupchak died on January 5, 2015. Also he makes his money because he is the General Manger for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was also a NBA player he went 13th in the first round of the 1976 draft. He played for the Washington Bullets, which is now the Wizards of today's NBA.Also he finished his basketball career with…
This year the 2017-2018 season has been a great, but intense year for the University of Arizona’s men’s basketball team. At the beginning of the year, one of the assistant coaches was found guilty for taking bribes from a recruit, so that the recruit could play at the University of Arizona’s basketball team. Later on towards the end of the season, the team was suspected bribing a five star recruit to play for the team. The five star recruit was the seven foot one center from Hillcrest Prep…
the pass and take two steps and go for the right handed layup. Off the glass the ball falls in the hoop, the crowd erupts into cheer. I get a true feeling of amazement. I then run up the floor and point at Alex and he points back like the way Shaquille O’Neal did when got a smooth pass from Kobe Bryant. After a few more intense positions the end of the first half is here. I look up to the scoreboard and it reads Cotopaxi 24, Creede 28. We make our way to the locker room. There Brown tells us…
There are so many NBA players that were born in the state of Illinois, but somebody who really stood out was the star center of the Los Angeles Lakers, Anthony Davis. Anthony Marshon Davis Jr was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 11, 1993. Davis had two sisters, one being his twin and the other being the elder of both of them. Even though Davis was born in Chicago, he lived in a town a little outside the city in a neighborhood called Englewood with his two sisters. Being a young kid in Chicago,…
The Oreo is a sandwich cookie consisting of two chocolate wafers with a sweet crème filling in between (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreo). The product was first introduced on March 6th, 1912, which is exactly one hundred and three years ago and now owned by Nabisco, from Mondelēz International, Cadbury. The snack is wildly popular and a top-seller in the United States of America. The Oreos taglines are “Wonderfilled”, because they are claimed to be filled with wonder and “Milk’s favorite…
In Mark Crispin Miller’s essay How To Be Stupid: The Lessons of Channel One he discusses how television ads and commercials are detrimental and useless to it’s viewers. These viewers he speaks of are school aged youth, forced to watch Channel One everyday while attending school. The ad’s promoted on the channel demonstrate unhealthy habits, unintelligence, and unrealistic ideas. In the essay Miller discusses the way people think while after and while watching these advertisements, what the ads…
the game of basketball. Since this happen it has allowed a lot of African-Americans to become famous and recognize worldwide. Some African-Americans that has become famous and recognize worldwide are Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal, Derrick Rose, LeBron James, and Vince…
If you toss and turn all night or feel tried during the day, it could be a sign of a sleep disorder. A sleep disorder is defined as a change in sleeping patterns or habits that can negatively affect one’s health. The average teen requires eight to ten hours of sleep each night, but only gets around seven hours. This means that they lack the amount of rest they need to function during the day. Sleep disorders affect nearly seventy million Americans and many do not realize they have one. There are…