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As human beings, it is our nature to group and label different items in our world. But how does one describe themselves? Our self-identity, in my opinion, makes us feel like someone. Self-identity includes our race, language, sexual orientation, culture, and many other attributes of ourselves including visual components such as body type. But according to Michael Hogg and Scott Reid, categorizing people holds them accountable to other similar groups and depersonalizes an individual person.…

Imagine reading a book detailing the senseless slaying of four innocent lives and actually feeling sorry for the brutal killers. The book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote illustrates the murdering of the Clutter Family. The book appears to be a tell all about the killers’ and how their backgrounds and family history played a key role in how they got the title of cold blooded killers’. The Clutters were what some would call the perfect american family. They seemed to have everything that anyone…

Southwest Airlines Student’s Name University Affiliation Date Southwest Airlines After its inception in 1967, Southwest Airlines has grown tremendously to become one of America’s biggest airlines. As a young company, Southwest Airlines focused mostly on the families and leisure travelers are the main pool of customers. Over the last fifteen years, it has shifted its focus to incorporate the business travelers and other tourists. After creating a good relationship with its clients, it…

The Clutter Family Murderers November 15, 1959 appeared to be a typical crisp fall day in Holcomb, Kansas. The sun began to rise and the small farm town awoke, unaware that mere hours earlier, one of the most infamous quadruple murders in our nation’s history had taken place within the city’s limits. This paper will discuss the killing of the Clutter family from Holcomb, Kansas, the identity and lives of the killers, and various communication principles and theories that tie into the two…

Company’s Mission Statement: Over a half of a century exploring North Face still stand by their mission statement “Provide the best gear for the athletes and the modern day explorer, support the preservation of the outdoors, and inspire a global movement of exploration” (The North Face , 2016 ). The North Face is a pioneer brand, which epitomizes an individualist, blazing it 's own particular trail in quest for flexibility, adventure and new encounters that bolster his spirit. Exploration,…

The Manson murders as well as the Sleepy Lagoon murder were both war time murders that involved outsiders who were seen as a threat to the American way of life as both hippies and Mexican American’s rejected societal norms through their unique attire, rebellious attitudes, and vehement resistance or support to war. As they walked to their own beat, hippies in the 60’s did everything other than the norm, by creating their own perspectives and lifestyles and rejecting the American values that had…

The Vietnam War was one of the longest and most debilitating wars in the history of the United States which lasted up to fifteen years and resulted in massive casualties for our nation. The war primarily took place between the communist government of North Vietnam and the anti-communist government of South Vietnam which was backed by the United States. The war officially began in 1960 when the Viet Cong began military operations in South Vietnam and lasted until the fall of Saigon in 1975. No…

McDonalds Corporation is the largest fast-food restaurant chain in the world headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. The first restaurant, located in San Bernardino, California was opened by Dick and Mac McDonald as McDonalds Bar-B-Q in 1940. In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first franchised restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois which showcased the soon to be famous Golden Arches. McDonalds’ first public stock offering was introduced in 1965 at $22.50 per share. The Ronald McDonald character first…

Charles Manson Charles Manson. The man who organized a group to kill Sharon Tate. The man who had the same group kill so many other innocent individuals. The man who got the swastika on his head during his trial in court. He was the man whom everyone knows as Charles Manson. The group he organized, “The Family”, was a killing cult who took all the blame for the death of Sharon Tate. That killing was the one that turned the nation upside-down in 1969. Charles Manson was born on November 12th,…

For decades, America has been known as a land of immigrants; people from England, France, Spain, and other countries descended on the New World to leave a lasting impression, one that can still be seen today in American culture. But of them all, England probably had the greatest effect on America. Since the time of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Spain had been colonizing almost all the areas in the South, in what is today South America and along the South and West coast of what is now…