Trouble

Chapter 3. The 1980s Trouble On The Oil Front, Then A Short Span Of Economic Improvement … In the 1980s, economic improvement in the US followed President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts and Paul Volcker’s defeat of runaway inflation. These achievements led to a fairly solid economy that lasted for a few years. By 1980, it was generally understood that price controls and minimum wage increases were not the answer. Thus, adjustments were made soon after President Reagan took office in 1981. Reagan…

An Annotated Bibliography: Misuse of a Comma Drucker, Sally Ann, and Douglas B. Walters. “Big Trouble Comes in Small Packages: Commas, Apostrophes, Quotation Marks, and Hyphens.” Chemical Health and Safety 7.3 (2000): 26-8. Web. 2 Mar. 2016. This article refers to the technical grammar errors such as punctuation rules, but I am focusing in the misuse of a comma. The authors of this article mention how there are many comma rules and people wanting to know; ho, when and where to use it. The…

Read my Troubles Away In this stressful world, one must find a peaceful escape, somewhere to take a break. Surrounded by ways to distract oneself from troubling thoughts, it is up to individuals to learn what methods are perfect for them. Most people view reading as a task, a boring homework assignment. Reading is my escape. If I have a good book and time to read it, I will be content no matter what stressful situations or distractions exist. Unfortunately, with tasks still foremost…

In Trouble Follows, by Monica McKayhan, Indigo has everything she wants: a spot on the dance team, a hot boyfriend by the name of Marcus, and her best friend Jade is moving back to Atlanta. Jade is suddenly getting too cozy with her History teacher. Instead of playing basketball, Marcus is sitting in a courthouse, forced to prove his innocence for something he didn’t do. Indigo is feeling the pressure - from the dance team, her friends, and family. It’s time to show everyone and herself that she…

It is no secret that the idea of wilderness grips every American citizen. Some authors including, William Cronon, have gone to great lengths to explain American infatuation with the wild. Cronon in his article The Trouble with Wilderness, Or Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, presents the sublime nature of wilderness as one of the reasons Americans imagine nature. I believe both I, Krakauer and Chris McCandless disagree with William’s Cronon’s assessment of the American psyche. Rather than seeing…

on the issues that affect the society. In chapter three and four of his book, Gladwell argues that success is not determined by one's IQ but depends on the opportunities that surround someone. The purpose of Gladwell writing the two chapters on “Trouble with Geniuses” was to form principal themes from the first chapters. Gladwell uses the comparison of the two masterminds to explain and raise the point that one’s environment is a determinant of their success. I agree with Gladwell that for one…

Chapter 2 Within the context of Whitmire’s Chapter 2, The Reason for the Boy Troubles: Faltering Literacy Skills, he explains the newly developed standards in current society have ultimately diminished the value of unexperienced or uneducated male individuals. This scenario has based upon the lower academic maturity rate for males for which they have been evidently suppressed by the ideologies of female superior academic intelligence. Because of this, fewer male individuals are unable to occupy…

8 Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in I Love Trouble Do you remember the 1994 romantic comedy I Love Trouble starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte? No? Well, that’s not surprising seeing as how the film was a huge flop. And this might have something to do with the fact that the two co-stars hated each other so much that they had to be filmed separately and use stand-ins for their scenes together. Julia later described Nolte as “completely disgusting” and he said that he was “not a nice person”. He…

Jack Madden: ARH 2000 Fall 2015 Reading Response Paper In the article, “The Trouble with (The Term) Art” by Carolyn Dean, a claim is made that the term art is inaccurately used to denote objects, specifically from cultures that predate western art. Dean uses specific examples such as Ancient American stone carving to get her point across. She goes into detail in how the term “art” often turns an object unintended for artistic purposes, into an object of “art by appropriation.”(p. 26) The…

In “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire,” Gender Trouble, Judith Butler explores the idea of are we assigned our gender at birth? or do we simply perform one based on the values we have learned? Butler argues sex and gender are not the same thing. In the distinction, sex refers to the biological male or female category defined by our internal and external reproductive organs and chromosomes while gender refers to socially created roles, feelings, and behaviors deemed appropriate for men and women by…