American Top 40 Essays

Katy Perry has won five American Music Awards and 14 People’s Choice Awards. In September 2012, she was the Woman of the Year. Between May of 2010 to September of 2011 she held a record total of 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of Billboard Hot 100. Teenage Dream became the first album by female artist to produce five number one Billboard Hot 100 singles, and the second

Siddhartha, the protagonist of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, was a young man born from a Brahmin family perceived as a gifted thinker even from a young age. His goal, like many others’, was to reach enlightenment, the release of worldly desires, and he went to many extents to achieve that goal. He left his comfortable lifestyle for the life of a Samana; one of extreme fasting and meditation in the effort to let go of all connections to the self. Later on he became a merchant and finally, a ferryman

One frozen morning snow covered the small houses to the narrow streets in Chatman town. Chatman town is a very poor community, so therefore there is a population of 50 people. One of the 50 people lives in the small purple house that is on the only hill in the town. That hill towered over the other houses, like a great dane surrounded by yorkies. The purple house was a very erstwhile house, but on the inside has the looks of a little girl’s room. The walls were painted pink and all the furniture

Betty recently came out to share with the world privy information about her and the other actresses from the ‘Golden Girls.' The three other stars who are now deceased are Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, and Bea Arthur. Betty who is an Emmy award winner is still full of spirits and is enjoying life. She has come out clearly to state that the four were more of friends than colleagues. She has revealed that they not only shared gossip but also helped each other through thick and thin during the shooting

Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes - A recent addition to my pressure cooker baking list. To be more specific, I have made these eggless chocolate cupcakes in my pressure cooker without oven. You can follow the same recipe and bake in your oven. Eggless cupcakes I made my first frosting when I tried these egg free chocolate cupcakes. I was very happy with the results. There may be many of you who wants to make cupcakes in cooker for so many reasons. It is an awesome feeling to see the cupcakes beautifully

From Casting to Casting Away Gender: Cross-Gendering in Modern Shakespeare Performance The year 1660 marked an important juncture in the English theatre. Not only was monarchy restored in England but Charles II also allowed women to enter the stage. Thus, women replaced the young adolescent males who cross-dressed in order to portray the women characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Although, the cross-dressing motif might seem strange to some, this practice can be traced back to Ancient Greeks who did

I am Nujood Age 10 and Divorced is a memoir that was published in the English translation in 2010. The events described in the occurred in 2008. Nine year old Nujood was forced into marriage by her father to a man three times her age. Her Yemen cultural agrees with these marriage traditions. Consequently, Nujood suffers from rape and physical abuse by her husband. Months go by and she begs her family to take her back and undo her marriage. Her family rejects her pleas. She decides to go to the court

had an elevation of 1,445 feet. The stadium could seat a maximum of fifteen thousand people. The entire place sat on 500 acres of land. The dragstrip was sixty foot wide and one mile long for racing. The first ever race held at Bristol Dragway was Top Fuel Dragster Spring Nationals. This was held June 3rd-7th, 1965. The first ever winner of Bristol Dragway was Maynard Rupp from Michigan at this race. The first ever 300 mph pass down the dragway was done by Doug Herbert in 1997. Shirley Muldowney

John Paul Di Giovanna CLSS 105-11 11/14/14 The play Antigone by Sophocles is a very famous and that is read in schools all over the world. The play simply shows someone standing up to an unjust and unfair state and it can be used to bring people together depending on the situation. One person that adapted Sophocles’ Antigone was Jean Anouilh, who was a French playwright. Anouilh’s adaptation of Antigone came out in the year 1944 but was written in 1942. The fact that this adaptation came out

Noel Gallagher is best known for being the songwriter and lead guitarist for the Britpop band Oasis. These days, he is keeping himself busy touring and performing with his new band Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds. While most people are aware of Noel’s colorful antics, there are still many things that we do not know about this high-flying bird. Here are six things you did not know about Noel Gallagher. 1. Rock and Roll Roadie Before the whirlwind days of Oasis, Noel was working as a roadie for

ABSTRACT Foodpanda, a food delivery services ranging from many different restaurants is something new and fresh in Brunei. It has received a warm welcomed in Brunei, with many customers excited to try the services through the website or mobile application. Foodpanda culture has the potential to be adapted in Brunei if the services are time saving, convenient to use and satisfying. At first, the services offered seem to be a good deal, but not anymore. Foodpanda in Brunei has dissatisfied its customers

“Good, I need some time” I continue to speak to myself. I somehow manage to drag myself out of my ruby red sheets. I think to myself, I’m going to Cedar Point today. I shiver and shriek in excitement. I 'm positive today was going to be the day I ride Top Thrill Dragster. After all, it was only Tuesday, who even goes to Cedar Point on a Tuesday? Me, that’s who. I groggily walk down the steps, being careful not to fall down. After all, we don’t want a cripple in the family, do we? I open up a new

bloodiest battle on American soil, killing around 600,000 men on both sides. With so many deaths, individuals have been recognized as heroes or villains. One of the heroes of the Civil War was Joshua Chamberlain, a brigadier general who helped the Union win the Battle of Gettysburg. He lead the 20th Maine Regiment on a bayonet charge down Little Round Top, forcing John Bell Hood and his Confederate army to retreat. Their charge had the Union successfully defend the crucial Little Round Top. Joshua Lawrence

of “cool kids”,though, who no longer really seemed that cool, and for that, I felt that I owed her something, so I stayed by her desk until the bell rang. The short time we spent together before class started flew by. As it turns out, Sally rode the Top Thrill Dragster this weekend as well, and she said that she was really scared too. Sally is actually really awesome, much cooler than Kristy or the rest of her group, and she

Reality television shows all feature a stereotypical racial character; although African Americans are generally stereotyped more than other races. The term, “The Evil Black Woman” has been used to describe this sort of individual: brazen, aggressive, pointing fingers, and always lecturing others on how to behave (Kilborn 150). Black men have

Based on a poll, 40% of nine and ten year-olds had tried losing weight and at age thirteen (Body Image and Gender Identity, 2002), 53% of girls were unhappy with their image (National Institute on Media and the Family). Now, this cannot all be responsible on the media

The environmental influence could produce a long list of factors or influences that were classified under “environmental influences”. It referred to external factors of the surrounding or environment that one has no control over. The relationship within the supervisor, peer, students, and parents, innovation training (Joe, Broome, Simpson & Rowan-Szal, 2007), supervisor sanction and peer support (Mullen, Kroustalis, Meade & Surface, 2006) was commonly referred to as environmental factors. It could

Television has always played on stereotypes. It’s not until recently with the up and up of social justice in social media that has brought out these stereotypes to light. Things should not always be taken at face value. When I sit down and watch TV or a film, I used to just do it for the escapism aspect of it. The ritual of mindlessly watching Bad Girls Club or Keeping Up with the Kardashians is long gone. What you see on television is being fed to you in a formulaic manner. Sitcoms, dramas, and

She likens bachelors to “hunky lunkheads” by the third paragraph. She quotes bravo for one of the best quotes in the article that shows us that much of “Reality TV” is not often times reality.“ “Misleading production tricks top off the editorial sleight of hand. According to the Bravo exposé “The Reality Of Reality”, when Joe Millionaire ditched the cameras to sneak off into the woods with one woman, producers threw the words “ummm,” “slurp” and “gulp” on-screen, along with

enquiry. And this dilemma defines how the literature of terror has struggled over the years to come to terms with the representation of 9\11. Thus, for Baudrillard, 9\11is an event that is the result of globalist or rather perhaps, the globalization of American economic, cultural military power. Given the ubiquity of this power and its complete dominance over the world, Baudrillard does not deny that terrorists were but he also accuses the globalized economy of being similarly immoral, he write including