The Butter Battle Book

And slot machines are more profitable with a hold over 6%, but the hold is 15% with nickel or penny slots. Naturally, casinos strongly lobbied to legalize the more profitable form of gambling and the public relations battle has already been won. Case in point, there are nearly 850,000 slot machines in America, nearly twice the number of ATMs. Slot machines require employing very few people in comparison to operating a sportsbook. Therefore, slots, as opposed to sports…

Weatherford and his interpretation of the American Indian impact. Jack Weatherford is a cultural anthropologist who studies the impact that American Indians have made on world history. His book Indian givers: How the Indians of Americas transformed the world is an excellent example of the work that he completed. The book…

Ah the movies, the smell of butter and popcorn. Finding the perfect seat with a giant tub of popcorn, a soda, and maybe even some candy. Maybe it’s a scifi movie, romantic love story, a true story, or just a movie about everyday life. Going to the movies is always a fun experience, even though it may be expensive at times. It is usually very easy to relate to a character in a movie or just the story in general. The struggles the characters go through are often very relatable to most people and…

newspapers and magazines for advertising as well as political cartoons, Dr. Seuss eventually moved on to writing children’s stories. This is when he found out that his first wife, Helen Palmer, was not able to have children. Dr. Seuss wanted to create books for the sake of reading development in young children and to spark inspiration within them, and his success is overwhelming. His pieces have influenced children because he created words used in everyday life, his work has deeper meanings…

Personal Journey Writing has never been a favorite activity of mine, ever since I was young I found it difficult to put my thoughts down on paper. Possibly because I was always afraid of what people thought about the things I was saying. But the thing that impeded my ability to write the most was my lack of concentration, as soon as I start to write down one of my thoughts I find that my mind quickly starts wandering off to other places. I think it happens because I’m not overly fond of writing,…

to note that American Indians themselves objected to film portrayals from the very beginning. Even President Taft encouraged them to fight against the misrepresentations as shown in the moving picture theaters that were popular at the time. In his book, Custer Died for Your Sins, Vine Deloria states that “many white people claim Indian ancestry, usually by a grandmother who was an Indian Princess; most tribes were entirely female for the first three hundred years of white occupation” (Deloria,…

(Seuss, 1990). Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, is a well known children's author. Dr. Seuss wrote children's books during the years 1937 - 1990, but during that time he also was a political cartoonist. For two years, 1941-1943, Theodor Geisel was the chief editorial cartoonist for a New York newspaper (Minear, 2012). Theodor Geisel was writing his fourth book, Horton Hatches the Egg, when it came to his attention that Paris had fallen to the Nazis. He drew over 400 political…

The book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X /was not only a depiction of the liveliness for Malcolm X but it also provided and looked at the troubles present during his life. Many of the problems that faced Malcolm X also faced many African Americans of his clip. A large part of the book showed and described the rigorousness faced by Malcolm X and other members of minorities like him. This book also showed the struggle of civil right hand and the tremendous changes of the time. I can think of no…

resurgence of the Women 's Rights Movement. The organizations involved in the first wave of feminism focused on women 's suffrage and succeeded in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The 19th Amendment signified both the end of a 72 year battle for women 's suffrage, as well as the end of the first wave of women 's rights. During the next two decades, equality for women found itself at a standstill. Other than…

loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the fascinating world of life on the Yangtze River. The Story about Ping is one of the best-loved and enduring children's books, both for its spirited and irrepressible hero and for its beautiful evocation of a distant land and way of life. Every child can sympathize with a dawdling duck who wants to avoid a spanking, and share his excitement and wonder as he sails down…