Steampunk

Kory and I met our freshman year of high school. I sat behind him in Ms. Baldwin’s geography class. One day, he had gotten his Discman back from a friend he had loaned it too with the wrong CD in it (how dated is that sentence?!). It turns out, his friend had accidentally kept Kory’s CD and left their Tool CD in the Discman when they returned it. At this point in time, Kory was definitely not a fan. So, after I had sat down behind him and class had begun, Kory decided he was going to doodle in…

Social media are forms of electronic communications networks that users create to establish communication, relationships, and information among one another. Social media consists of various websites and applications that are committed to social curation and networking which are among the different types of social media. Social media consists of two-thirds of the world’s population having internet access. However, in today’s society, Facebook is the number one leading social media that a lot of…

inventive in the genre. The Magic Zero series is a fascinating one particularly with two of the lead characters lacking magical powers, the robots, dragons, armies, and talking animals. Star Wars fans will particularly love the epic battles while steampunk aficionados can revel in the alternative sources of energy that the lead uses in his…

The development in the Northern lights. This book children fantasy/steampunk novel “Northern Lights” was published in the 1995 by Philip Pullman, who is a famous fantasy book writer in this century. The book is set in a parallel universe, it features the journey of Lyra Belacqua who is our main protagonist. She is on a quest to the artic to find her missing friend, Roger Parslow and her imprisoned uncle Lord Asriel. Lord Asriel has been doing conducting experiments with a mysterious thing…

Music Causes Violence Have you ever heard of a rapper named Chief Keef? Chief Keef had been banned from performing in Chicago because his music is said to be too violent and causes others to act out in violence because of his lyrics. His music was much too violent for him to perform in his own home state of Illinois. His music has been said to be affiliated with gang crimes. Chicago's police department's will not allow him to perform as an attempt to “curb violence” (KollegeKidd Staff).…

Written almost 100 years apart, Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Airman by Eoin Colfer share a great deal in common. With their strange settings of an African jungle and an alternate universe you wouldn’t have thought these two could be anything close to comparable. Surprisingly, our characters Tarzan and Conor Broekhart are one in the same. Both have to go through a troubling culture shock of either leaving civilization behind or being introduced to it for the first time. All good…

formed in order for young adolescents to be able to express autonomy and differences from parents (Hodkinson, 2007). Goth is a youth subculture which originally emerged from the punk movement, consisting of a large variation of variants such as steampunk, metal, death & emo. Within this youth subculture, forms of self expression are presented through the way people choose to dress, and their overall appearance, reiterating empowerment amongst individuals. This links with Parsons sociological…

Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s current co-Representative Director and the creator of many of the most memorable video games of all time and Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of famed film animation studio Studio Ghibli, are two the world’s leading creative talents, internationally famous in their fields and superstars in their native Japan. What led these two men, born 11 years and 400 miles apart, to their legendary creative genius? Did their awareness of their own creativity lead to its growth? Was it…

The live concert I chose to examine was Wicked. My family and I went and saw it on October 15th at Century II at the 2:00 p.m. showing. Inside the venue, there’s around over 30 rows of red seats on the main floor, along with a balcony with perhaps a handful of rows (I didn’t get a chance to see how many). The walls are a beige color and narrow from the back to the front in a “V” formation to draw focus onto the stage. The stage had an industrial look on each side with a large map of the land of…

New Orleans, LA. and Memphis, TN. are two cities that have more in common than just sharing a border along the Mississippi River. Both are responsible for birthing a music legacy that has defined American Music, not to mention bragging rights for a culture rich in food and southern folklore, owing to a tourism industry which keeps the local economy afloat. Unfortunately, they often unintentionally compete with each other in having one of the highest poverty rates in the country. As a result,…