The Contest

1999, I was graduating High School; I felt lost. I knew I wanted to be a nurse (I had been saying this since first grade), but I was not sure how to achieve this goal. I went to my High School advisor only to have the door closed in my face telling me to come back later. I did not have the SAT scores to get into a 4 year University, nor did I have the funds. I wanted desperately to get away from my hometown (Bremerton, WA) and “go away” to college. My solution was YVCC. It was 200 miles from…

talking. I laughed. I didn't really think that we would be friends, but I guess things change. When I was in sixth grade and she was in eighth we talked a lot. I remember at a school dance we had a slapping contest. We saw which person could slap the other person the most. At the end of the contest we had red marks on our skin. Since she was older than me by a couple years I didn't think of her like a role model. I thought of her like a sister to look up to. I am adopted so being the oldest is…

However, there are more activities that are also fighting the same battle to gain recognition as a sport. One of those activities is marching band. Many people believe that marching band is not a sport and should just be classified as a musical activity. Those beliefs give marching band the general stereotype that it is not an athletic activity and should just be thought of as a part of the music program. Marching band is a sport and therefore should receive recognition and funding as one. There…

capableness of my techniques for such a young aged child. Because drawing was the only thing I fancied, every one figured it was “a phase I was going through and would grow out of it”. It never happened. My passion just intensified. I entered my first art contest as a third grader. By the time I reached middle school, I had been more advanced than what most people knew. Being as shy as I, no one knew how much talent I held. In the sixth grade all the…

Everyone has some of the favorite activities to do on Thanksgiving Day: watch a football game, view The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and take a nap after you unbutton and unzip after your turkey dinner. I’m like to inspire you to turn off the television, computer, smartphone and iPad for at least part of the day and spend some real quality time with friends and family. You’ll have great fun doing it and the fond memories will last a lifetime. This list incorporates both inside and outside…

god these goddesses were to have a beauty contest. Prince Paris of Troy the most handsome mortal living on earth was asked to judge the beauty contest to see who deserved the golden apple. Each of the goddess offered a bribe: Hera promise all the kingdom of Asia, Athene promise victory in all battles and Aphrodite promise the love of the most beautiful woman in the world (web). Like most men Paris accepted the bribe from Aphrodite and she won the contest. As promise Aphrodite made the most…

and Dworkin 's essay, and then position myself in dialogue with them in order to expand upon these limitations and possibilities in the hopes to showcase the room for voices that might otherwise be erased by dominant narratives. Lerum & Dworkin contest the agency line on three different aspects. They state in their abstract, “while we find the model interesting and…

Gothic novels of the popular culture are usually interpreted to illustrate the subjugation of men and women, and frequently confront the anxieties encompassing gender and sexuality prospects in Victorian Britain. The Victorian era failed to make room for sexual candidness and gender distortion, and these ideologies are challenged in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Both novels were based around the Victorian era and both explore gender…

In fact, males usually perform roaring contests, preceding the parallel walk, only when there is no considerable size discrepancy between competitors, and fight only happens when no stag stablishes an obvious advantage by vocalization7. Although the three stags observed in our study, and the six stags recorded in the previous work were not involved specifically in roaring contests, roaring might repel weaker males. This might causes only stags with similar features…

Cuban Divas: La Reina de la Salsa, Celia Cruz Only few people succeed in the music industry, and fewer people succeed at an international scale. Many factors impact when it comes to succeeding in the music industry, in other words an artist has to overcome a different number of challenges. During the beginning of 20th century, Cuba had few artists, which mainly remained known at a local level. It was until the mid 20th century when Cuban music would spark a revolution. Celia Cruz, a prime…