Time magazine Persons of the Year

friend Fantauzzo, inspired the artist to represent these personality traits physically in a portrait. Fantauzzo told Us Weekly magazine that Ledger “… was the most charismatic person I’ve ever met” (as cited in Agresti, & Bartolomeo, 2008). Fantauzzo told the magazine that he had been begging the actor to let him paint his portrait for years. "I asked him to do it a few years ago, but he's so private he felt a bit vulnerable being painted." Gabriella Coslovich, 2008 reports in the Sydney Morning…

In 1906, on a farm in Utah, a boy named Philo Taylor Farnsworth was born. In a very short time Philo began to ask questions, accordingly his parents answered as best as they could, he was very interested in mechanics and electricity. As he grew up, he was mesmerized with the hand-cranked telephone Thomas Edison had made and hand-cranked phonograph that Alexander Graham Bell had made. They were his new heroes. Trying for a better life, the Farnsworth family moved from Utah to Idaho. Philo had…

Women magazines during the 1950’s dealt with feminine and homemaking issue which the main focus was on domestic theme relating family and home life and how to improve them. “Magazines were one of the ways to promote the ideology of the perfect woman” (Lamb, pg. 15) in which it encouraged certain forms of behavior in the home and in public and offer marital advices. Magazines in the 1950’s were different from prior decades such as the 1920’s…

and cons. The first pro is that more gun control laws will reduce the deaths caused by guns. Over 30 thousand people are killed by guns each year in the U.S., primarily caused by African Americans. Many wants high-capacity magazines to be banned because they often are the cause to mass murder. Half of the 62% shootings (1982-2012), were caused by magazines, which “turns a killer into a killing machine.” Pro Con says that, “ More gun control laws are needed to protect women from domestic abusers…

The importance for African American women wining an beauty pageant in a dominantaly white college had a huge impact all over the country. Her story became a national story in the predominantly black and white magazines. Dora Lee Martin, a 17 year old freshman from Houston, Texas sung The Yellow Rose of Texas for her talent competition. After finishing the entire auditorium gave her standing ovation. On that day, December 9th, 1955, the male students casted 1924 ballots.…

of writing embedded into Time magazine. MacDonald goes on to describe the writing to be largely “massed” with many topics, however, these topics simply serve as an outlet to fulfill your curiosity with no other true function. He also goes on to state that the majority of the writing is useless because it does not cause action to be stirred up in a reader to cause them to “make more money, take some political or other action to advance his interests, or become a better person.” MacDonald in…

are essential and powerful as the messages they conveyed can influence the viewpoint of the audiences towards particular issue. Thus, in his 2004 book Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton argues that humorists are vital to the society. However, from time to time the humorous messages might be exaggerated and have added fictional information to attract the attention of the audiences; consequently, these messages would offend a particular group of audience. For example, the Charlie Hebdo Shooting,…

two different meanings, one being, “a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.,” and the other being, “an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit (dictionary.com).” Both of those definitions are not like me. I am a very energetic and talkative person and I do many things that involve being social. Someone posted a question asking what people thought of when they heard the word nerd and one person said, “They would be socially…

United States also leads the world in the highest number of mass shootings each year. Mike Sharpe, the author of Violent Nation also agrees that United is one of the greatest countries in the world. However Sharpe finds two issues with the United States, “I want to discuss only two small blemishes: the gun culture and the military culture.”(Mike Sharpe).The U.S. has struggled with this gun culture and has had a hard time solving the number gun related deaths in the country. It also seems that…

for Our Times. Today we see that selfishness is one of the biggest impediments for some people to become members of the Church. We see that there some people that are very self-absorbed and self-important. They care for no one, but themselves and their own personal gratification. This gratification comes in many forms, but the most prevalent, in this hookup culture, is sex. This is exactly why Saint Augustine is a saint for our day. Saint Augustine had the same struggles 1600 years ago…