Stepping stone

negative affect on a young girls idea of what her body should look like. Rolling Stone is a magazine that comes to mind when you think about getting news on your favorite artist. This magazine covers many different topics including music, television, culture, and politics, but the thing that keeps the viewers coming back is always the cover. Research done by Erin Hatton and Mary Trautner have analyzed every rolling stone cover since its beginning in 1967, and graded the covers if they contained…

Cherokee Tribes had to be resourceful when making tools they used, what the earth provided such as wood, stone, rock and flint. The weapons that the Cherokee tribe used were arrowheads, spears, stone and club weapons which include tomahawks and battle hammers etc. These weapons were used for hunting deer and other types of animals. Some spears were made entirely of hardwood; the points sharpened by hand and then hardened in a fire (Cherokee Nation). Spear points were made in the same way; they…

The Rolling Stones, most notably, are all household names to those with any interest in popular music since the 1960s. Past the initial Invasion, artists such as Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, and Pink Floyd also had immense success after traveling across the pond to perform in the United States. Even with the tremendous popularity these groups enjoy, their collective source of inspiration is less known than the bands themselves: the blues. Keith Richards—guitarist for The Rolling Stones, on the…

This seemed like the most realistic outcome for the long-lived language until french soldiers and engineers uncovered a large stone that is now commonly known as the Rosetta Stone. This stone is significant because it bore the same text in three different ways: in hieroglyphs, in the demotic script, and in ancient Greek. Because Greek had been translated by this time, they were able to translate the Greek…

Rolling Stones. This became a hot debate among all generations across the board. They were both rock bands, but their styles differed greatly. It was all about whether you preferred the boyband- like rock of The Beatles, or the tight pants, long hair, and rebellious attitude of The Stones. Before the 1960s no one ever avidly compared musicians. No one was fighting about who was better. That is, until The Beatles and The Rolling Stones came into the picture. You were either a Beatles or a…

The Uplifting Blues The feeling is well known, the pain of losing a loved one, the guilt and constant self-questioning of ourselves after their soul leaves this world, the mourning that no amount of advice or helping hands can rid, the acceptance that they are really gone, and that they are in a better place now. That feeling is exemplified in “The Hospital Blues You Gave to Me” by The Gospel Youth. The singer and songwriter Sam Little tells a story through his lyrics and makes the piece easily…

Easy A is a romantic comedy film written by Bert V. Royal and was directed by Will Gluck in 2010. The journey follows the story of Olive Penderghast, as she becomes a victim of the rumour spread around high school after lying to her best friend, Rhiannon, regarding a weekend affair. The screenplay is partially inspired by The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, as well as containing various intertextual references from a series of 80’s films. Examples of these intertextual references…

According to Greek legend, Prometheus bestowed upon mankind the igniter of a cultural spark: fire. Without the gift of fire, men would have been left in the dark in innumerous ways. Fire illuminated the path towards the creation of the thriving cultures that we know today. Plus, Prometheus didn’t just give mankind fire. He also gifted them with the knowledge of different trades: brick making, woodworking, astrology, science and math, language, domestication of animals, navigation of the sea,…

The Wolf of Wall Street Analysis The Wolf of Wall Street is a film filled with sex, drugs, and lots of money. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, and released on December 25th, 2013. The movie revolves around the life of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker who founded his brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont. After watching the trailer multiple times, it can be concluded that the audience targeted were mainly adults and teenagers. Even more specific, they use rhetoric to appeal to large groups like…

advent of allopurinol and colchicine (Rheum chap 188). It is critical to reinforce to patients the importance of long-term management of gout, as complications of long-standing untreated gout may include secondary infection, urate nephropathy, renal stones, nerve impingement, or fractures in joints with tophi…