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popular among people was the instruments. This isn’t a song that starts off slow and has a climatic end like a roller coaster ride. From the very beginning and especially towards the end, all of the instruments are being played loudly. Members of the E Street Band are crashing into their drums and belting out keyboard matching the powerful tone of Springsteen’s voice. The singing and instruments really help make this rock song a powerful piece, one where listeners could have fun and party to.…

House on Mango Street” written by Sandra Cisneros tells the story of young girl named Esperanza who is middle age and grows up around her sister Nenny, and her friends Rachel and Lucy. She develops her identity growing up on Mango street through many little interesting vignettes. Esperanza is exposed to many different situations due to her environment, family and friends which challenge her beliefs on certain issues allowing her to learn a lot about life itself. Living on Mango Street,…

The article I chose, written by Shan Wang for Nieman Lab, focused around paywalls, specifically centered around the Wall Street Journals and their paywalls. A paywall is when an online media outlet charges a fee for access to their news content. The article discusses how paywalls are negative because casual readers are at a disadvantage. They are unable to test out a news source before committing to a payment. The article then describes two types of paywalls: hard and soft. Hard paywalls allow…

There was a man named Frederick Matthews. Freddy had blond hair, and green eyes that seemed like they burned into the souls of anyone who looked into them. Freddy was a retired athlete who played football. He was married to Raven Boris. Their relationship was not the best. They always got in fights and if you could listen closely you could hear them from a half a mile away, but they always loved each other either way but that would change. One day they were arguing and six gunshots fired.…

Naturalism in Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Crane’s Maggie:A Girl of the Streets is fundamentally a work of naturalism with a few elements of realism. Donna M Campbell explains in Naturalism in American Literature, that much of the naturalistic literary movement focuses on taboo topics such as violence, poverty, prostitution. Naturalism has other characteristics such as static characters and Social Darwinism, characters who are controlled by their environment and have very little “free…

Japanese Kawaii: A Bibliographic Essay The focus of this bibliographic essay is the Japanese idea of kawaii. The term kawaii is generally translated as “cute” in English, but it’s actual meaning in Japan is far wider and more complex. In addition to exploring the extent of the kawaii phenomenon, my research revealed multiple questions or ideas for me to potentially address in my paper. These include the topic of kawaii on Japanese youth, specifically the effect on the identity and self-image of…

With the upcoming presidential election, politicians are starting to make their presidential announcements. Donald Trump is one of the few politicians’ who have made their presidential announcement. Trump is determined to become the next President of the United States. Trump’s perseverance to become President of the United States can be seen and heard throughout his entire announcement video. Trump’s speech has been carefully planned and outlined to persuade the audience to vote for him. To help…

With USA Today debuting in 1982, it has continued to focus on innovative avenues for continued success and growth as the preferred news source. Personally, I am a very visual news consumer; therefore, what I enjoy most about the USA Today newspaper is the visual and eye catching content it has embedded within the paper -- digital and print versions. The vision the stakeholders had prior to the launch of USA Today was to have a unique approach to an audience and provide more news in less time…

Washington DC: 11th Street [The Need] Bridges are no different than any other form of infrastructure, eventually they break down and need to be either repaired or replaced. Inspection occurs at least every two years, yet bridges are often pushed to their absolute limits of usability. In Washington DC, the 11th Street Bridge Project aims to replace two bridges built in the 1960s with three new bridges. With these bridges having been in place for nearly 50 years, there were numerous issues. For…

causes her to cut Jim less slack when it comes to making ridiculous missteps that cost a breaking news story since she is aware that he knows and understands how the new works. MacKenzie does not take Neal seriously in his pursuit of the Occupy Wall Street story because he never has all of the necessary information coherently together before he runs the story by her. When she goes to poke holes in his reporting there are important questions that Neal does not have adequate answers to if any…