Tango

Today, there are many arguments about whether or not our sex education system should be revamped, not to mention which topics should and shouldn 't be covered in our schools. The idea that abstinence-only sex education is, of course, commonly refuted—after all, it was only recently that a Texas school district, whose curriculum was solely abstinence-only with no coverage on contraceptives, had a chlamydia outbreak. The Guttmacher institute also states that 99% of women ages 15 to 44 have used at…

Prohibition in the nineteen twenties was the beginning of a huge domino effect that no one could have ever predicted its outcome, let alone the back lash that would come from it. Anything and everything the pro-prohibitionists thought was going to happen, the exact opposite was the result. As republican congressman Fiorello La Guardia of New York stated his opinion of prohibition as being "a disaster. It had created contempt and disregard for the law all over the country."(A Nation of…

The 1920s was a period of major growth and social change in the United States. Expression through music and dance became popular, sports and nightclubs were where most young adults spent their time. People started moving from rural farm areas to big cities, and the nation’s total wealth doubled between 1920 and 1920. Jazz music became very popular during this time period and the twenties was known as the “Jazz Age”. Originating in New Orleans, Jazz music was a form of expression through music.…

Society today declares that all humans, no matter the race or gender, are equal. Anyone can do as he or wants to a certain extent. The world we live in today is congested with agony and adversity so laws and regulations are implemented to maintain order and stability to conserve the world as solemnly as possible. An important matter that has accumulated through laws is the concern of equality. Equality is pertaining to assure that every human being has an opportunity that is equalized in order…

Regula Burckhardt Qureshi compiles ten essays by contributing authors ranging from musicologists, ethnomusicologists, political scientists, and historians, all providing prospective for studying music through a Marxist lens. In Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, the chapters highlight the place of music in society by engaging Marxist theories on society. The book provides “music-directed approaches to Marx,” which express the issues of musical thinking and theorizing as it relates to…

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different…

1). Mark Twain’s book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was banned because it had the topics of sexuality, youth matters, and racism (Monges, 1). The Scarlet Letter was banned for some of the same reasons as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And Tango Makes Three is a child’s book and was banned because of an incident where 2 male penguins were mating (Crum, 1). One of the…

Every time my family goes to my grandparents house, I’ll always see this little make-shift shack made out of ply-wood and crates and barrels. The crazy thing is that there’s always someone stopped and buying some homegrown authentic farm food. Makes me wonder what’s the difference between that and what we sell in the grocery store. Even these strangers know the difference between authentic and processed. Although book characters aren't the same as vegetables and pumpkins, they do have an obvious…

During the decade of the 1920s, American life experienced a tremendous change for women. The difference between men and women was becoming much narrower as the decade wore on due to the increase of popularity in the lifestyle of flappers. A flapper was a fashionable young female who focused on enjoying herself and her life and demonstrated a very strong and rebellious behavior. Men were always the ones to go to bars, clubs, sporting events, and smoking in general. They had all the freedom and…

change in fashion due to the fact that there was more than one style. Straight front corsets came in styles designed specifically for sports and dancing, due to the influences of of organized women's sports in colleges and the popularization of the Tango (Fields). The straight front corset was the last styles of corset worn by a majority of society, due to the new fashion that emphasized freedom from the restrictions of…