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Raising a Child (3 Messages from The Rocking Horse Winner) Labeled: jock, geek, prep, outcast, etc. Everyone ends up receiving a label somehow. The question is how? How did these labels occur? Mom said that that guy was weird and dad said to stay away from him because he is a hoodlum. Mom and dad had been to teach us labels without knowing it. Mom and dad are the people who don’t realize that they messed up their kids until it was too late. Paul ended up dying because of his mother. In D.W.…

Up to 35 million individuals in the United States of America suffer from some form of eating disorder, according to the National Eating Disorders Association (CQ 121). Anorexia is one such eating disorder. “Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness” (CQ 121). Bulimia is another major eating disorder that can have dangerous consequences if left untreated. Due to our society’s obsession with being thin, the illnesses of anorexia and bulimia have skyrocketed. According to…

eye and really resonated with me. The Coney Island exhibit captured the ambience of America’s playground, bringing observers back to its heyday in the first half of the 20th century. Among the artwork, I took particular note of Wonderland Circus Sideshow, by Edward J. Kelty, owned by Ken Harck. This 1929 film photograph illustrates the bustling scene on the boardwalk. Marquees stretch as far as the eye can see, advertising performances of some sort, in tasteful ‘20s style. Colorful characters…

the wealthy elite and middle class women during the early 1920’s. Tattoos became a status symbol, and these women in sideshows were somewhat respected for their body art. However, as the Great Depression rolled around a major shift occurred in the public view of tattoos. In the text, Mifflin notes how “hordes of people had gone under the needle in hopes of finding work as sideshow exhibits, driving the medium deep into the shadows of…

In a land where the natural and the supernatural collide, acceptance expands to new realms. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” magic realism brings forth a being that may, or not be an angel, and the alienation portrayed by everyone in the story. It is hard enough to fit in with the normal, but when there is no classification of a being where do they go? Everyone in this tale chooses to alienate the being, which is “to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent…

get any worse, something comes along to prove you wrong. This saying can summarize how this election cycle has gone thus far. We have one person to mainly thank for this: Donald Trump. Rapidly, Trump’s candidacy for president went from an amusing sideshow to frontrunner status, with Trump leading the Republican Party nomination by maintaining his bombastic attitude and autocratic agenda. This is not to mention his comments about Mexican immigrants, Muslims and Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, with the…

1. “Only this: if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer.” is a quote from the book “Zen in the Art of Writing”, located on page 4. I chose this particular quote because I could empathize with that claim as it happens to me quite often. It is not unusual for me to simply write because I am told to and feel no real connection to what I am writing, though when there is something I am actually excited to write about I feel much more…

mankind to come to the rescue. These lines give us a basic summary of the actions the student took once applying for the job. “ “Ishmael is a gorilla who can telepathically teach about the culture of leavers and taker, dies while part of a circus sideshow. The Narrator spent most of life searching for a teacher to help him save the…

The author, Matthew Feldmann identifies that there have been recent arguments about the safety of GMOs, or Genetically Modified Organisms. He particularly notes that most debate has come in the areas of crops, specifically rice and soybeans, some of the staple crops of diets worldwide. He uses the rhetorical device of logos, a way of persuading the targeted audience by employing reason or logic, by claiming that although “foods derived from GM crops have been consumed by hundreds of millions of…

Generally speaking, the majority of first-world citizens are at least casually familiar with the sport of professional wrestling. Pro wrestling, better known today by its WWE-rebranded moniker “sports entertainment,” is an extremely polarizing piece of popular culture. It is simple to dismiss modern-day wrestling as trivial; however, there was a time when professional wrestling was massively popular and pro wrestlers were the highest grossing athletes in the world. Between 1948 and 1993, the…