Time magazine Persons of the Year

Body Image The concept of beauty has altered of the last decade. Tan, tall, and skinny seems to the main attraction. Magazines being sold in the United States, are usually portraying an image of a skinny, tall, beautiful woman on the front page. Rarely will there be an image of an average, everyday person on the front page of a magazine. Media is influencing the perception of body image, and people are becoming more and more aware of it. The media has gone as far as of influencing young children…

America during its time has been influenced by several different literary time periods. The pulps era, which lasted from the early 1930s to the late 1940s was an extremely unique and influential time period in America’s literature and America itself. Due to the state of our country during this era, the pulps literary period saw a new type of writing, a type that we to this very day still have, the comic book. During this time period, America as a society was at an all time low. World War…

the U.S. because gun laws do not determine crime; gun ownership determines crime numbers. There were 460,000 gun deaths in the U.S. between 1999-2013 and this was the 12th leading cause of death. Our government has passed more laws in the past years and the gun deaths have barely decreased. The best way to decrease gun deaths in the U.S. is to do background checks on every gun buyer before the individual purchases the…

design work, which has been, and is a source of international inspiration. Suzy started the studio after five years of experience in the design field. During this time she worked at Studio Round, based in Melbourne, then moved to UK and worked with Multistorey a London-based design agency. The work produced by A Friend of Mine is a reflection of what she learnt and experienced at that time. While her love for custom typography began at Round, her work at Multistorey went beyond her knowledge…

also of his great mind capacity. Poe has made many great contributions to literature over time, and even though he died more than a century ago, his works still influence the mind of many great writers today. On the night of January 19 of 1809, a child was born in Boston, Massachusetts by the name of Edgar Allan Poe(Bio.com). Edgar was one of three children, and their mother died when he was only 3 years old(Bio.com). After their mother's death, the three children were sent to different…

also did an illegal abortion when she knew she was pregnant. When she returns from India, she worked as an editor for a magazine called Help! At the mean time, she started relationships with different men, but she didn’t think about getting married. When people ask her about marriage, she said, “marriage makes someone legally half a person… What man wants to love with half a person?” (Morin 2). At 1969, Steinem starts engaging in the women’s movement by showing her idea on a published article,…

In order to ensure the safety of all students and faculty on campus, as advisors to the governor we are proposing legislation to allow individuals with legal concealed carry permits to carry weapons on their respective campuses. By passing this legislation the people that will be most affected by these changes is the students and faculty of the schools. The following policy is to ensure the safety of everyone involved in academia so that they can have a safe educational experience. To make sure…

Since history can date it, photography has been around for over 100 years. People take pictures everyday. Whether it is with a group of people, or just a selfie. People use cameras for most pictures or even their smartphones. Almost everyone in the world takes pictures. There’s honestly no question that street photography can be an amazing project to work on. Some people see street photography as a form of art, and a major way to record our city’s life and the society of people. While there are…

Edgar Allan Poe, was a person of great uniqueness, for his life was a great obstacle with many up and downs. With one of those Great achievements was his narrative poem, “The Raven”; Published in January 1845. That clearly shows his well known writing style of a dark metaphysical vision, musical rhythm of his poems, and style in a metrical language. As well, Poe writing clearly reflects on his extraordinary life that show his true meaning of his work and why his, work is looked upon to, by so…

Throughout years of American civilization there has been numerous sociologist that broke into society and started practicing their own individual theories on the world. The one sociologist that has always stood out from the rest was William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, one of the most popular renowned sociologist, race scholar and activist there is. William was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. Mr. Dubois died when he was 95 years old but before his death he has made…