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“The VCR, though, refused to die quickly. As of 2005, some 94.5 million Americans still owned VHS-format VCRs.” (“VHS Comes to America”). Even though some newer technologies and advancements came after the VHS tape, it was still very popular and still widely used across the United States. Many newer versions of the VHS tape and the VCR have came along, but people still to this day on several VHS tapes and may even still own a VCR. A quote from (“Think the Floppy Disk is Dead?”) states, “The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990’s, instead it’s a product that’s alive and well in the 21st century.” The invention of the floppy disk led to a very popular item, still used today, that was made to store data. After the success of the floppy disk, Tom Persky’s operation expanded into a company that would copy data onto the disks and would sell them. Even though items such as flash drives and CD’s came along, some business places still preferred to use the floppy disk…

Literacy and I have a love-hate relationship. I want to love it, but at the same time, I hate how hard it is for me to read and write. I didn’t learn how to read until I was out of elementary school. It wasn’t until freshman year of high school that I learned how to write a structured paragraph. My teachers didn’t teach me how to read and write. They all taught the same way and it was not working. However, with the help of Disney Sing Along Songs: Zip a Dee Doo Dah VHS tape, I learned a…

Dubois was the director of publicity and research for the NAACP. The NAACP led the main campaign to end Jim Crow segregation altogether. But before they could tackle that they had to take care of the inequality in education. Dubois once said, “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men” (VHS). The NAACP fought for the rights of blacks to go the college and have a good public education. Their legal and social fight…

different than others, as it’s Halloween, and unbeknownst to Cody, an unknown force has sinister plans for the free-spirited young girl. Coming in at a brisk 40 minutes and made with little to no budget, There’s Something Following Me is a Halloween-set short film that not only harkens back to the more family friendly horror films of the 70s and 80s, it’s a throwback to the VHS era, which is shown both in its visual aesthetic and the fashion in which it was released. Extremely low grade in…

Mufwene, S. (2003). The shared ancestry of African-American and American -White Southern Englishes: some speculations dictated by history. In S. J. Nagle & S. L. Sanders, English in the Southern United States (pp. 64-81). Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. Mufwene explores the koine based on the racial make-up of the early United States. The two main racial identifies were white Europeans and desendence of Africa. The article discusses the lack of distinguishable accent and language…

If your still waiting on finding out what that cryptic statement in my Ewoks post was, wait no longer. Now is when I discuss my involvement in Star Wars. It begins before my earliest memories. As far as I know I've always had this VHS, I assume my parents recorded it at some point when I was very you. This VHS had several movies and specials recorded of television on it, and I loved it. I watched it several times a week in my early years, and later it was always included in the VHS binge…

breakdowns for high school V.A.1.1, V.A.1.2 I don’t recall if it had been explicitly said, but the implication was that we were to look for and award any standards in our content area that might apply that would further the students graduation. Standards were awarded at a level 1, level 2 or a level 3 with one being lowest and three highest. The definition of each standard, or breakdown, was given to me when I started. A half year later I’d have some impute on how these were defined, after…

Valley High School (VHS) in West Des Moines, Iowa is one of the biggest and most successful schools in Iowa. Valley offers a large range of academic courses, a dominating athletics program, a strong arts department, and a long list of activities for its students. However, recently, deep racial disparities have been uncovered as a result of race related fights at the school which led into school shooting threats. Valley asked an Iowa State team to conduct a study to help empiricize the racism,…

I was visiting my family in minnesota, staying at my Aunt’s house a few weeks before my birthday. I was watching cartoons with her and significantly older-than-me cousin in their shared bedroom. I can faintly remember the room, Table in one corner, and two separate beds in the other. An ancient boxed tv sat at the foot of their beds, with the VHS tape built in. We all joked around, hitting each other with pillows during previews and drinking soda past 10 pm. Though the age difference between my…

A successful marketing strategy provides structure, the appropriate resources, employees, and leadership for implementation. Applying these tools to an organization’s brand or service will ensure the organization will stay ahead and current of its competition. Marketing strategies operate on how an organization performs when marketing a product to consumer needs and wants. Although this will allow organizations to reach the top of its competitors, sometimes market strategies can fail an…