The Troubles

After reading the excerpt from Donna Gaines book Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, I found her view in music to be more complicated than just simply sexist. Underneath the sexist disposition there was a window into the life of the idols and empowerment in whatever way the females could get it. For example, the Shangri-Las expressed a more rebellious side of females that was oppressed. They may not have written their music, but they knew what really resonated with most young…

The quote above was taken from chapter ten of The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, “Lula Stirs Up Trouble (But Doesn’t Mean To,)” where the quote is supposed to represent how Travis, Lamar and, Sam Houston are trying to win the affections of Lula Gates. Travis, Lamar and, Sam Houston the whole chapter are, “Displaying their gorgeous plumage and performing strange antics before the females,” A.K.A. Lula trying to get her to pay more attention to them and eliminate the other brothers as possible…

Social issues that the article “Troubles in the Land” mentioned are racial inequality, poverty, inequality for women, concern for the environment, and concern to make automobiles safer for those who buy them. The article talked about even though President Truman desegregated the military in 1947 and the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that said the segregation imposed by law in the public schools was unconstitutional, there were still racial issues and resistance by white people mostly in the…

In the movie Trouble with the curve we learned about scouting baseball players using Sabermetrics. Gus didn't think that was a logical way of scouting baseball. In the movie the scouts that worked with Gus were planing on signing Bo Gentry based on what they know from online stats. So Gus went out to North Carolina just to see how good Bo really is. After watching several games evaluating his every move Gus decided Bo was not the right fit for the team. By watching Bo, Gus figured out his…

Is the American Family in Trouble? W. Bradford Wilcox states that most marriages are happy and are much more equal and fair than decades ago. Although it’s true that some marriages are unequal and unfair, and the fact that most husbands and wives experience moments or even periods of frustration with their work-family arrangements, most married couples with children are satisfied with their relationship. Both husbands and wives contribute equally to the paid and unpaid work needed to sustain a…

Anthropology by definition is the study of human societies, the cultures that they create and the development that is caused by the evolution of those societies. Thus it should be important for anthropologists to study the many development projects that are proposed by organizations around the world. The concept of development projects first began after World War II as the West began trying to piece Europe back together. After the Marshal Plan was signed in 1948 the United States then turned to…

“Maybe it’s both,” that annoying inner bitch nagged back. Though stirring up her past seemed like a bad idea, Ann ignored gut instinct, her motives pure. With her objectives in sight, she knew the price would be steep and require great sacrifice. Pragmatic and galvanized, she’d go against the odds, undeterred by the personal cost. Heart jaded, she would face fate’s superior power, inspired and uncompromised. Ann had five decades to prepare for this day. Nonetheless, she felt apprehensive. She…

Bobby was heading to his job for the day and heard a girl scream behind the building. His partners, Molly and Dave, heard the scream to and headed to the back of the building. Molly saw Bobby and said “did you hear that to.” Bobby replied and said “yeah, I heard it in my car while I was coming.” All three of them searched around and didn’t find anything. Bobby’s job was to go to haunted houses. They only go if the house owner reported it to them. Dave said “let's just go back to work and see…

A. I wish I wouldn't have gotten in so much trouble in middle school. I lost as lot of friends and opputunities because I wanted to be the class clown. I was very poular at school and everyone wanted to be in my class but no one could hang out after school. I finally figured out that everyone wanted to laugh at my jokes but they could't hangout with me because I was always in trouble and they valued their reputation. B. Last year didn't turn out how I planned. I had a lot of unfortunate…

In the book ‘Trouble in Mind,’ author Leon F. Litwack illustrates the hard times of slaves during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. During this time there were major hardships that African Americans had to encounter; lynching, racism, and the fight for freedom. Litwack doing his research on slave hard times since 1961 studied how hard the Jim Crow laws were mentally, and physically hard for African Americans. The book, ‘Trouble in Mind’ starts at the end of Reconstruction when the…