Essays on Boulder, Colorado

US History

In 2012, critical acclaim, academy awards, and millions of box-office of dollars went towards the film Argo.1 A movie about the Middle East and terrorism, Argo touches upon this familiar topic in the United States. The film portrays a segment of the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1979-1981; a tense period of 444 days in which fifty-three American hostages were seized from the American Embassy in Tehran.2 Argo chooses to ignore those fifty-three victims, and focuses on the successful escape of six Americans from the embassy in November 1979. Tony Mendez, the CIA operative who came up with the ridiculous, yet successful ...

Introduction

Orthodox Jews in Denver are similar in their nature and characteristics. They have their own sets of values and traditions unique to their historical origins. Being familiar with other cultures and subcultures helps us in becoming culturally sensitive and globalized individuals. Extensive research and exposure are required in order to gain such familiarities. One of the most popular Judaism institutions in Colorado is the Denver Academy of Torah. Jews may differ in the way they worship from other religious denominations since their beliefs differ from one community to the other. The institution aims to teach Orthodox Jew in ...

In December of 1996 the United States fell in love that was never to be requited. Six year old JonBenét Ramsay, the beautiful and talented child beauty pageant contestant was found murdered in the wine cellar of her parent’s Boulder, Colorado home. Lying on the floor of the wine cellar, covered in her blanket, JonBenét’s wrists were bound above her head, duct tape covered her mouth and a nylon cord was looped about her throat. For more than a decade after her murder, the case of JonBenét Ramsey’s homicide remains an unanswered question in the ...

Analysis of People Like Us

Analysis of People Like Us

It has been claimed that the world is the smallest it has ever been in the history of mankind, thanks largely to liberalization of society and culture, the rise of globalization and the internet, and due to the ever increasing mingling of sub-cultures. However, it is easy to dispute this when we review the work of marketing experts who are happy to subjugate society into a variety of clusters and cultures (Brooks, 2003, p308). It is through this work that people seem to lose their humanity and can be equated with others in terms of ...