The Goldbergs

Rube Goldberg Early Life - Most well known for his cartoons that show overly extensive inventions to complete simple tasks, Rube Goldberg was born in San Francisco on July 4, 1883. Even a young age, he loved drawing and using his creativity. This “nonsense” was discouraged by his parents, who wanted him to be an engineer. Though he was only four, he was already developing his art skills by tracing pictures from the book History of the United States. His first professional drawing lesson was taken when he was 11. He then went to highschool and graduated. Later on, when he was old enough, he did as his parents wished. He promptly enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley. Within a short time, he earned a degree in engineering. At the age of twenty-one, and entered the real world for the first time.…

Rube Goldberg and Beyond The objective of this essay is to ask a question that you would like to answer as part of the scholarship application. My question is “What is an example of a creative approach you took to accomplish a project you were assigned?” As a high school physics student in my junior year, I was placed on a team and tasked with building a Rube Goldberg machine that could move an object 20 feet. I started the process by watching several YouTube videos that demonstrated the…

Jewish mothers that emerged during this time period, Molly Goldberg and Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg. Molly Goldberg, a fictional character played by Gertrude Berg, represented the Jewish families that adopted American values and as a result saw an increase in economic prosperity and opportunities in different fields. Ethel Rosenberg, a woman convicted of committing espionage through revealing atomic secrets to the Soviets, portrayed the “dark underside of the American dream.” Even though they…

The Reel Life The Goldbergs, a television sitcom show shown on the ABC network, focuses on a family living in a town in Pennsylvania in the 1980s. The producer, Adam Goldberg, uses events that happened to his family in the 1980s to create each episode. Adam, what most people would call a nerd and a little quirky, follows all the new pop culture arising during the 1908s. Because of his love of pop culture, he documents his life by using his VHS camcorder and recording several aspects of his…

example of a reality show is Discoveries Street Outlaws. The Goldbergs was created and partly produced by Adam Goldberg. In the Goldburgs the show is told through the eyes of a much younger Adam Goldburg who tells of times growing up has a young…

Inside our class textbook is a photograph of a Rube Goldberg machine. These types of machines are ones that are created to perform a relatively simple task in the most convoluted way, usually through chain reactions (or cause and effect). In this photograph, the task to be performed is to tug a light chain to turn a light bulb to light up. In order for this to happen, many things must occur, in specific order, first. This is much like life. A person wishes to go to college to study science…

Steven Goldberg chose to argue that patriarchy is inevitable. One of the points he makes is the “Primary hierarchies are always filled primarily by men.” He does not provide much evidence to support this point. However, he gives two examples of hierarchies that are ruled by women: Queen Victoria and Golda Meir. The second point he makes is that “The highest status roles are male.” In order to back up his point, he says that women do most of the important economic work and raise the children…

In asserting that he has not written his book to extract revenge on his coworkers, Goldberg declares: "Anyone who writes a book to be vindictive is almost certainly insane.... my guess is it would be easier to give birth to triplets than write a book, especially if you've never written one before." (By this logic, perhaps Goldberg should have given birth to triplets and really made the network brass squirm.) This statement is unconvincing, though, since literary action was probably the best--if…

Rube Goldberg and Beyond As a High School Physics student in my Junior year, I was placed on a team and asked to build a Rube Goldberg machine. I had seen several YouTube videos on these ball rolling, random ramps, fast moving machines…but were we able to build our own construction marvel for extra credit? Rube Goldberg began his career as an engineer and later to become a American Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. His vision of taking everyday household items and making them into crazy…

From Bill Gates’ book cover to Whoopie Goldberg lying in a tub of milk, Annie Leibovitz has photographed a nearly astonishing amount of celebrities in the course of her career, and she’s still active in her profession. She began with Rolling Stone magazine in 1970 as a staff photographer, though her talent became apparent rather early on, and she found herself serving as the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones in 1975, just five years later. Mick Jagger understood that he wanted his band…