The dozens

Debutante ball. Rosalind is a beautiful girl but she is really snobbish. Amory accidentally went into Rosalind’s dressing room and they kiss after just a few minutes of meeting each other. Rosalind warns him that “she has kissed dozens of men and will probably kiss dozens more”, but this didn’t keep Amory from wanting to kiss her again. Furthermore, meeting Rosalind at the Debutante was an important chapter for this novel even though it ended bad for Amory. Rosalind’s mom convinces her…

During my sophomore year, I organized a fundraiser that showcased the talents of dozens of impoverished artists from Nicaragua and Guatemala. The Pulsera Project, or the “Bracelet” Project, sells colorful necklaces, purses, and wrist jewelry internationally through interested schools, and the profits go to the artisan makers. Offering diversity in design, the organization reveres its ability to introduce new, exciting hues to each student it impacts. My friend Paige and I wished to contribute to…

Most of the business and homes were burned down in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. The team’’Nero Wall Street’’was coined by none other than famed African-American author and educator, Booker T Washington. At the time, the greenwood district was home to dozens of prominent African-American businessmen. Greenwood boasted of thriving businesses that were very successful up until the events known as the 1921 Tulsa Riot. In fact the district was so successful that a dollar dollar would stay within the…

combination of millions of pixels, ranging from trillions of hexadecimal values, and the music orchestrating in the background. While everyone’s attention was glued into a miniscule screen, I navigated the interface and clicked the option, “Play”. Dozens of Tetris blocks started piling onto the screen. Suddenly the whirring of the floppy disk became increasingly obvious. This wasn’t your original Tetris, instead each of the blocks had their own animations that imitated everyday emotions. The…

life in a carefree life in which she is her own person who believes the world is an amazing passionate place.“Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she again keeping half a dozen dates a day, and drowsing a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men, and drowsing asleep at dawn with the bead and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor beside her bed.”(Fitzgerald page ) She always lived her life to the fullest and…

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley who received a grant to study the red-crowned parrot in Brownsville. Biologists estimate the population at close to 1,000 birds in Texas and more than 2,500 in California, where they are the most common of more than a dozen parrot species. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 2011 listed it as an indigenous species because it is thought the parrots flew north across the border as lowland areas in Mexico were cleared in the 1980s for ranching and…

Afrika Bambaataa became the one to first practice it out of the streets and into clubs by his djeeing. Signifying or playing the dozens was a “particular form of verbal battle” (Durand 3) against two rappers where insulting and shaming the opponent was the focus. There was also the innovation into hip hop that year by Kool Herc who introduced the “Mobile Sound System and the Mixer”…

the right to life, liberty and security of person, would have been violated when the Nazi’s took them to crematoriums to burn and die. Later after the Jews were assigned to Barrack’s. Arriving at the Barrack’s there were dozens of inmates to receive them with sticks in hand. “Dozens of inmates were there to receive us, sticks in hand, striking anywhere, anyone, without reason.” In Article 12, which states that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or…

That landside removed Mount St. Helens northern flank and part of the cryptodome that had grown inside the volcano. When Mount St. Helen erupted it could be heard for hundreds of miles away, removing 1,300ft off the top and scattered ash across a dozen states. The turbulently flowing hot rocks and gas quickly eroded, some ripping trees from their roots and destroying roads and bridges.…

Bob Hallmark expertly captures the flair of Cajun cuisine thanks to his eight years in New Orleans. Order The Dirty Dozen for an indulgent dish that incorporates tasso, a classic New Orleans ingredient. Tasso is a type of spiced and cured pork, and The Dirty Dozen features it in a rich cream sauce atop baked oysters. With a sprinkle of Parmesan on top, there’s no denying that this is a decadent dish. For a unique dish you won’t find anywhere…