Essays on Parade

The voting process in every democratic nation helps its citizens to choose their preferred leaders in a free and fair manner. It acts as a part of their Bill of Rights and helps them shape how they want their country, state, or society to grow. The voting process helps a nation to grow as one through exercising fairness and legibility in all its interactions. Americans enjoy the freedom of voting as long they are citizens of America and have an identity card. However, it was not a similar case in the early 19th century as the constitution, at the ...

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These paintings come from a ten-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with a fairly severe cause of autism. He has to have someone sitting next to him if he is going to make art. He was supplied with a variety of sponges and paint to make patterns. Their repetitive nature comes from the fact that if you do not prompt him in a different direction, he keeps doing the same thing over and over. When I look at the paintings at lower left, lower right and upper right, I am somewhat surprised that this is only a ten-year-old making ...

Pow-wow is a Native American cultural gathering held annually to celebrate and honor the tribal customs and cultural connectedness. The term pow-wow has originated from the word powwaw, a native Indian word which means a “healing ceremony” led by spiritual or religious leaders from different tribes (Schweigman, et al, n.p.). While there is no clear evidence when the pow-wow started, it is believed to have originated from the Pawnee tribe where their religious ceremonial meeting includes dancing and other rituals. Since then, other Indian tribes have adopted the ceremony and integrated their own traditions. The Indians have practiced this ...

I was amazed with the simplicity and at the same time brilliance of the main purpose of the movie. David Redmon decided to show to people who buy, wear and exchange beads during Mardi Gras Madness parade in New Orleans how and by whom the beads were made, while also to show workers who spend all their days making the product what happens to beads after they leave the factory. As it could have been predicted, both parties were highly surprised with what they’ve found out. American participants of the parade could not believe that simple necklaces that ...

The holiday plays a role in the process of socialization of the person, the perception of his role and relationship to social groups. With its emotional background, entertainment, unconventionality, often accompanied by joy and abundance, ability to use various benefits that are unavailable in ordinary time, gifts and entertainment and deviations from the usual rules restricting the behavior of people, holiday for many centuries attracts children and young people, deeply etching into their memory. It is a very important reason to identify oneself with other people – in the days of the feast, young people, often more clearly than in ...

Labor has had a bloody and storied past. The history of labor in America began when African slaves were brought into the new land to work in cotton farms In the 1600’s. However, the first real strike that was recorded in history occurred in 1677, in New York. Two centuries after, the Lowell Female Labor Association organized for women and by women pushed for the 10 hour workday. Textile mills in New England at that time employed young women who worked in conditions they described as hellish-hot, cramped and filled by the noise of bobbins and pins. Prompted ...

Essay in History: Three Events that Forever Changed History of Modern America Forever

Essay in History: Three Events that Forever Changed History of Modern America Forever

Introduction

Indeed, the history of pitfalls and triumphs of public concerns for Americans over the last few decades, and centuries, have highlighted all kinds of social problems, and economic achievements to arise. Many believe that the United States experienced a ‘golden era,’ during which nothing but hope seemed to lie ahead. We all know that the world has changed. Assuming the task of being interviewed by a large national corporate representative, this essay takes the form of answering the following question: What three days, important events or ...

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History

There are many historic stories of Houston city and the old, established neighborhoods and new subdivision tell a lot of the historic stories of the city found in Texas State. According to the city residents I got a chance to interview, he told me that the founders of the city Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen named the city after a General Sam Houston in 1837. The city of Houston is termed as a Freedmen's Town because it hosts many African Americans and it has significant value due to the general name after him. He was one of the liberal military ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

This epic book captures the mood and the general feeling at the times of World War 1, when one of the most lethal viruses called influenza erupted in an army camp in Kansas. Given that it was a time of war, military camps were crowded, therefore: the virus found carriers among the military men. When the army moved eastwards, influenza moved with them and in the process, it killed millions of people. It is sad to note that, the epic influenza killed more people in a period of twenty-four months, more than AIDS ever did in twenty-four years. For the purpose ...

Cultural practices differentiate one society from another. Since culture is “the set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population” (Ember et al. 217), a cultural tradition would speak volumes about that society. A festival, in particular, is a rich representation of particular culture. The Annual Tournament of Roses Parade at Pasadena, California is an appropriate example of such festival. This event has just turned 125 years old and it reflects the beliefs, attitudes and values of the residents, not only in Pasadena, but also in the State of California.

Early Beginnings

The City of ...

Colombia is a country that is located in South America along the coastlines of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Much of the culture practiced in this country can be traced back to Spain following the Spanish invasion during the colonial times. It is for this reason that the national language of this country is Spanish, and their religious affiliation is Roman Catholic. Its capital city is Bogota. Even so, there are a few indigenous languages spoken by indigenous people found around the Amazonian basin, but English is also used in the major cities. Culture here is rich and diverse because much ...

Introduction: History, Celebration, Thesis Statement

Saint Patrick was the archetypal missionary. Identified as the individual who brought Christianity to Ireland, this patron saint is now celebrated the world over, a reflection of both the recognition of his deeds, and the strength of the Irish Diaspora. The historical circumstances in medieval times through to the industrial revolution in Europe and later the New World reveals that the folklore surrounding St. Patrick is located in the struggle for Irish identity. Framed in this context, this paper poses the following thesis statement: Why is St Patrick’s Day recognized and celebrated around the world, in comparison to other ...

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- Homecomings offer people an opportunity to reconnect with the traditions and the developments of a place they once called home. - Educational institutions offer great homecoming events that are filled with nostalgic moments. Besides the reconnection with colleagues, the alumni also get to catch up with the latest developments and traditions of their former college. - Indiana University (IU) celebrates its Homecoming week every fall. The weeklong event features an exciting homecoming parade where alumni clad in the university’s iconic crimson color. - The event brings together close to 580,000 IU graduates in forums ...

‘Prosthetic memories are memories that circulate publically, are not organically based, but are nevertheless experienced with one’s own body – by means of a wide range of cultural technologies – and as such, become part of one’s personal archive of experience. ’ (Landsberg, 1997: 66) How the two forms of live performances; the William Yang's 'Friends of Dorothy’ and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, contributed to the circulation of prosthetic memories? Today, the availability of mass culture have made it convenient for people regardless of their gender, race and ethnicity to share collective memories. Prosthetic memories deal ...

“Black history is American History”

Morgan Freeman There are numerous discussions about the value, appropriateness and reasons behind the so called “Black History month” or “African American History month”. This event in the American history received much more social media and academic attention than many other special events or occurrences. One could try to dig down to the reasons of such exaggerated interest that the society takes in this particular occasion, other could simply enjoy the attention and take part in celebrative events without actually thinking of philosophical elements. The reality is that Black History month is one more proof of the conflict ...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and film directors ...

Between the years 1873 to 1893

Introduction A well-established policing system plays a great role on the process of redefining a particular society and identifying how it specifically works in line with the law and what constitutes legality. The idea of putting up a force that would be dedicated towards creating possible measures to make sure that the society and its members are guarded protected and guided at the same time is dependent on the desire of keeping the people and the institutions making up a particular community staying within the limits of good governance. A society that has a dependable and reliable police force is expected to have a ...

Modern culture is so saturated in satire that it is difficult to find works that pursue the authentic and the sincere. Once works like 1984 and Brave New World opened the floodgates of cynicism and skepticism that the events of the two World Wars made to seem the proper perspective. Today, works like The Onion make satire a part of the culture. Popular programs such as Saturday Night Live and Conan live off satire, which means that members of modern culture look at life with a half-satiric eye. In the time of the first modern satirists, such as Voltaire and Jonathan ...

Change of indigenous values and identity

Conventionally, tourism can result in a loss or a change of values among the local residents can generate a number of closely related influences including;

Local culture is transformed into a commercial activity

Tourism in New York has turned the indigenous culture into a commodity. This happened when local customs, festivals and traditions are reinvented to meet the expectations of the tourists and leading to a reconstructed ethnicity. (Buckley, 2010, p86).

Standardization

New York remains at a risk of standardization in the course of fulfilling the desires of the tourists: whereas, accommodation, food and drinks, and landscape must conform to the desires of the tourists, especially for the unfamiliar and the new visitors. However, ...

1086F Origin and Geology of the Solar System

- Introduction An exoplanet is a term used to describe a planet that is located outside the solar system that includes the Earth (exoplanet, 2013). Astronomer Peter van Kamp made the first announcement of the discovery of an exoplanet in 1963, however, that discovery failed to hold up over time and now has been conclusively disproved (Matson, 2013). The first exoplanet discovery that has stood the test of time was the discovery of two bodies orbiting a neutron star in a system named PSR 1257+12 (Wolszczan and Frail, 1992). Wolszczan and Frail calculated that the masses of these exoplanets would be ...

In the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the titular troublemaker (Matthew Broderick) brings his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and his friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) with him on a day of hooky in downtown Chicago, skipping their suburban school to get a taste of the big city. As much as the film is an expression of youthful exuberance, carpe diem philosophies and the need to live life by your own rules, writer/director Hughes also uses this opportunity to craft a wonderful love letter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up. Says Hughes of the location of ...

Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States of America which happens to be one of the oldest of its kind. It is one among many islands found in the Caribbean. It is located in the east side of the Dominican Republic and the west side of the British Virgin Islands as well as United States Virgin Islands. Thanks to its location, it enjoys good tropical climate and is also subjected to hurricanes from the Atlantic Ocean. - POLITICAL CONNECTION WITH THE USA: WHAT IT IS AND WHEN IT STARTED The Relationship between Puerto Rico and the ...

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Military music has always been an important part of any army but today’s changes in the science of battle have relegated the role of the musical band very much into the background. Can one imagine the changes which have been wrought by shock and awe campaigns and how this lightning quick battle scenario has changed everything with regards to military music? In today’s day and age, the military band is nothing more than a showpiece as everything has changed in battle. Gone are the days when such situations such as The Charge of the Light Brigade ...

Freddy and the French Fries: Fries Alive is a narrative about a young boy who has decided to use the parade competition to save a family business from its competitor. The boy belongs to a family of a father and a sister who seem not to be making good returns out of their ventures. This disheartens the boy especially when he considered the fact that it would be a miracle for them to win the parade prize as their competitor has always taken the price. This therefore prompts him to be more creative if the family has to scope the award. To accomplish this task, Freddy ...

The Christmas parade is a big event in our town, a time of celebration of the season. December of 2005 felt extra special because as sixth graders, my twin sister Elizabeth and I were participating in the parade: I rode on a float with my baseball team, while Elizabeth rode on a float with her cheerleading team. With the festive crepe-paper colors in red, white, green on the floats, I felt like something special was about to happen as confetti drifted through the air all around us like magical snow. This feeling of the extraordinary did not leave me, and soon I found ...

Abstract

Anxiety in modern day has become an issue that seems apparently common among individuals. It has also been noted that there is an increasing tendency of some individuals and groups being / or feeling more prone to anxiety than others. While the topic has raised heated debate among psychiatrists and psychologists alike, there seems to be an inclination from various professionals towards specific areas of anxiety. Dealing with anxiety as a topic is an issue that causes one to be conscious of an individual’s feeling of anxiety. For this reason, it is paramount to take a closer look at prevailing ...

Jonathan Swift’s powerful satire offers a misanthropist’s perspective of the world, one who has lost faith in and has succumbed to the disillusionment in humankind. Gulliver’s Travels is a glimpse into the real state of the human race, with most salient attacks on the social aspect of it: politics, religion, governmental structure and finally, the essence of what it means to be human. However, at the very end of the novel, it becomes clear that only a person who profoundly cares about the state of humanity could have written a work that touches upon all these issues in such a satirical ...

Sydney Mardi Gras is one of the largest festivals of the world related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex. The two week festival is celebrated in Sydney every year and attracts a large crowd from across the Australia and other parts of the world. The festival has emerged over a long period of time which was initially started as a remembrance of New York’s Stonewall’s Riots of 1969. This paper discusses the Sydney Mardi Gras and other related aspects of the event. This event was organised for the first time in the year 1979 when a protest march ...

Sydney 2012 Mardi Gras

Originally a commemoration and demonstration to mark New York’s Stonewall’s Riots of 1969, the Sydney Mardi Gras has grown to become one of the world’s largest festivals. The Sydney Mardi Gras was first inaugurated in 1979 when a protest march was held to commemorate the events of the previous year in which 53 protesters were arrested (Coorey, 2011). The 2-week long is now an annual festival and pride parade for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) people (CNW Group, 2012). The event brings together thousands of people from Australia and beyond and is an important ...

What do you think are the most positive aspects of Hinduism? Why is it so tolerant of other religions? If you had to worship one of the 1158 deities, who would you choose and why? Hinduism is a tolerant religion in the sense that it provides a lot of leeway to other religions as they are practiced. This means that religion is a tolerant form and is always important to everyone who practices it but one has to observe the rules of religion accordingly without making out to be error prone. Although Hindiusm has a large amount of deities in its description, ...

Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?

Collapse of the Soviet Union resulted from the processes of system disintegration, which took place in the public and political sphere of the Soviet Union, which eventually led to the end of the USSR on December 26, 1991. As a result, 15 independent republics appeared on the world arena. In this paper a short overview of the USSR history will be presented along with the possible reasons for the Soviet Union collapse and description of the collapse process. USSR inherited a large part of the territory that the Russian Empire possessed, as well as its multinational structure. Between 1917 and 1921 ...