We Will Rock You

see how big it is and to ride Maid of the Mist. Ten hours later we made it! Finally!! Standing at the top of the falls, all I hear is the rushing water over the falls. I can’t believe how beautiful, clear, loud, and big it really is. Below us the tour boats look so small and I see the them getting closer and closer to the falls. Now I’m starting to regret saying I would go on the boats because of the thundering water hitting the rocks and the big waves. “They get so close to the falls”, I…

itself was all too surreal, like a dream come true. Buildings raced each other in a quest to touch the soft blue sky and people littered the streets and sidewalks. Life there was upbeat and fast-paced and everyone and everything was moving, but then you crossed into Central Park. Crossing the sidewalk into the large park was like crossing the border into another world. The milieu changed from the rapid fire movement of the concrete jungle to slow-moving peace in the blink of an eye.…

Baseball, the Fetish of Coca-Cola, and the Potlatch of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, David Chidester discusses the similarities between religion and popular culture. Chidester demonstrates that through a particular set of lenses, popular culture can actually exist as religion by using three points of comparison such as the “church”, the “fetish” and “potlatch”. In Chidester’s article, for each of the three points of comparisons, he uses baseball, Coca-Cola and Rock ‘n’ Roll as symbols of pop culture. This…

Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guima In the Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guimar they teach a lot about the customs, culture and history of the Canary Islands. In a single visit, without knowing many technical terms, you can get a general idea about the different aspects of the islands.The first panel we found explained a bit about the origin of the familyof Fred Olsen (the owners of the Ethnographic Park Piramides de Guimar) in theCanary Islands and the export of products by sea (bananas,…

Have you heard the story of Pearl Harbor? The Harbor that was bombed by the Japanese over 70 years ago?The 8 ships at the harbor were either sunk or damaged. Now people are exploring new ways to find information and explore the wrecks of the ships, like the SS Arizona. People are using ROVs, also known as Remotely Operated Vehicles, to explore the SS Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor. I definitely think that ROVs are critical for underwater research. In a different theory, people think…

heartstrings with their words, unlike the Hard Rock. It is easier for a person to relax and wind down listening to this Rock. The influence these artists have on society are more positive than negative. From the words of Daughtry, “Well I 'm going home, Back to the place where I belong, And where your love has always been enough for me” (Daughtry). He sings about his long for someone which, in turn, a listener may be able to relate to. In this area in the Rock and Roll and Metal genres, the…

The myth of Sisyphus is one that explores topics of death, consequence, purpose, and consciousness. According to the Greek myth, Sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain, only to have the rock roll back down to the bottom after each attempt to reach the top. The gods explicitly chose this punishment for sisyphus because they precvivied that an eternity of futile labor is one of the worst punishments one can acquire. Sisyphus's fate can only be perceived as a tragic once…

The Ultimate Goal From childhood some of us are taught a particularly disturbing philosophy, to be physically attractive equals success or happiness. To be the “skinny one”, to be appealing, and if we achieve this, everything else in life will just follow. I would be lying if I said that scared little girl inside my heart didn’t still believe this to be true to some extent, but with age came wisdom but we’ll get to this a little later. Seeing all the “pretty” people on tv, movies, ads, even in…

American people. Angelou speaks about the challenge we have as Americans to set aside our differences and accept each other,and the different cultures we have. Richard Blanco talks about how everyone is the same no matter how different we look on the outside. These are challenges we need to overcome as a nation. In “On the Pulse of Morning” Angelou says in stanza two she states, “But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant…

Barren and scattered population will be discussed here. The Continuous Ecumene is on sediment rock, the Discontinuous Ecumene is on igneous rock, the Barren and scattered population is in the far north and in the high lands. The Continuous Ecumene is an area where most of the population lives. The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence lowlands is a part of the continuous Ecumene because of the fertile soil, where you could build and grow farms. This is a flat land area, which makes things it easier…