took out the case that the old man gave you. Open it, then take a capsule out, then press it and toss it on the driveway. Luckily, it’s flat. It then pops up with white smoke, revealing the storage. After you bring them to the garage, you open the big one, but it 's sided. After you finish placing a Guillotine, a Shrink/Growth Ray, and a Duel X-ray machine. You wonder who you…
Federal Express (1995). A courier was harassed by a customer on her route. The customer made such comments as saying she looked better without any clothes on and repeatedly asked her out on dates. She brought this issue up with her supervisor who wrote to the customer asking him to refrain from ?any future conduct that could be perceived as offensive or intimidating?. The harassment continued and the whole building, not just the tenant was taken away from her route. The courts ruled in…
“Someday your prince will come!” What does this say to women today? Yeah, go ahead and waste your time waiting on some guy to come and take care of you…Why would you try and do something for yourself when there will be a man to do it for you? Pop culture of today has brought with it the idea that women are, and should be, dependent upon men. Women are not meant to overpower men, they are not meant to anything but sit and wait on a man to come and take control of their very lives. The movies and…
Something from Nothing: The Big Bang Even though the equal balance of matter and antimatter created in the beginning of the universe as proposed by the Big Bang theory might have annihilated each other before any stars could form, the inflation model of the Big Bang accounts for the unequal level of matter-antimatter existing today and how stars could form before matter-antimatter reactions destroyed the universe. The existence of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). is in line…
addition, the Black culture focused more on their form, “From Africa and the jazz from New Orleans,” (00:04:02-00:04:05). However, a few years after WWI Paul Whiteman who was the king of White dance bands, created an organized band known as Smooth Big Band— which consisted of jazz elements and classical music. According to the documentary, Paul Whiteman was the reason for how Swing started in 1924 when he instructed George Gershwin to write “Rhapsody in Blue”, “The first pieces of symphonic…
made by African-Americans turned into piano songs, and soon enough evolved into the Jazz we know and love today. In modern Jazz, there are pieces that are considered “Jazz Standards”, one major contributor to these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling legacy on the Jazz community. On March 1st of 1904 in the small town of Clarinda, Iowa, Alton Glenn Miller…
The Big Sleep is an interesting novel by Raymond Chandler with many twists and turns throughout the entire plot, with an abrupt plot twist at the very end. The story is set in the in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, from the point of view of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist. The basic plot of the entire story starts when a private detective, Philip Marlowe, gets hired by a wealthy man, General Sternwood, for a job, which involves the blackmailing of one of his two daughters, Vivian Regan.…
tradition of CBS’ summer lineup, Big Brother is the only reality TV show that exists on the basis of 24-hour surveillance. The Big Brother house is no home to privacy. Cameras and microphones monitor every square inch. Viewers tune into a summer of manipulation, confrontation, showmances, tears, and “epic” battles three nights a week. As if that wasn’t enough, CBS offers “CBS All Access”-an online monthly subscription that gives members access to the Big Brother Live Feeds. Big Brother is a…
In the passage, Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell's vision of the future from the novel 1984 with that of Aldous Huxley's in the novel Brave New World. In 1984, Orwell warns that we will be “overcome by an externally imposed oppression”, whereas Huxley’s vision is that no external force is required to deprive people of their autonomy because we will come to love oppression, “to adore the technologies that undo their (human) capacities to think”. Huxley’s assertion of modern society is more…
a moustache that they print on posters and put up. On the poster the words “Big Brother is watching you”. That is in fact true with the telescreens that watch everything you do in your house. What Big Brother really represents the authoritarian government that watched and controlled most aspects of your lives. Some people who’ve written blogs about 1984, also believe that the warming picture of the man who represents Big Brother, represents warm and comfort because it can protect you. At the…