One of America’s favorite pastimes is watching TV. Watching TV is not one of my favorite pastimes, but when I watch TV I’m usually watching reality TV shows. Duck Dynasty was my go to show when it was airing. It was aired on A&E network for 11 seasons. Duck Dynasty is an all time favorite show because of the family business, its family oriented, and the encouraging word you receive at the end of each show.
First and foremost, the show Duck Dynasty came about from the family business Duck Commander. Duck Commander was founded in 1973 after Phil Robertson came up with a patent for duck calls. Phil Robertson is the founder of Duck Commander and the patriarch of the Robertson Family. Willie is the CEO of Duck Commander and Jase is Willie’s brother the COO of Duck Commander. Willie and his
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brother Jase has taken the business to new height. At Duck Commander their pride and joy is the handmade duck. Another reason Duck Dynasty is an all time favorite because it’s very family oriented.
My first time watching Duck Dynasty, the episode started with Willie, Jase, and their Uncle Si out duck hunting and they notice this huge beehive in the distance. So Willie, Jase, and Si decided to go collect the honey from the beehive and got stung by thousands of bee. They decided go talk to the patriarch of the family Phil Robertson about the beehive. Phil takes care of the beehive with the help of his grandson Cole. While out at the beehive Phil gives Cole advice about being patient when the time comes whatever he has been waiting for will eventually come to him. Every episode the family is doing something together hunting, fishing, building, and friendly family competitions. Supporting family is a big part of the show. One episode in particular, Jase’s daughter was going to surgery for a cleft palate. The family stopped everything they were doing and supported Jase and his daughter through the entire ordeal. Being together as a family is very important to the Robertson Family. That’s one of the reason Duck Dynasty is my favorite show because I’m all about family and having fun
together. Finally, the end of each show you receive some encouraging word that ties in with the show. This one episode Willie had a huge dilemma with choosing to stay at Duck Commander or take a job offer with a different company. One of the reasons he was even considering taking the job because working with family and friends can be difficult at times. So Willie decided to take the family on a retreat that helps organization with team building and why he was there he told them about the job offer he had received. The family expressed their feeling about not wanting him to leave the business. Willie gave some inspiring words at the end of the show about make irrational decision because you don’t know how it’s going to affect the people around. From that episode I talked a fellow airman out of making an expensive vehicle purchase that would’ve cause financial trouble for his family. All in all, Duck Dynasty is an all time favorite TV show. Duck Dynasty came about because Phil Robertson’s patent for a duck call. The show allows people to see inside of the family business and their lives. By watching the show viewers can see The Robertson clan going a vacation and even seeing them get stung by thousands of bees just to get the wild honey from a beehive. The support they give each other throughout the series is second to none. When watching the show people can always get an inspirational message from the each episode
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
Duck Dynasty follows the true hegemonic narrative of the perfect nuclear family and demonstrates the staging of the modern hillbilly meets success. No Hollywood veneer of perfection for everybody to aspire to be. The status quo is not keeping up with the Jones ;but in being more humble and down to earth then the neighbors next door. The episode “Family Funny Business ep1. of Duck Dynasty introduces us to Robertson family their patriarch Phil, his wife Ms. Kay and their two sons Willie and Jase and their uncle Si.
Expanded and strengthened state private insurance companies are to be expected since more younger Texans enter the market thanks to the premium support. Texas can expect savings through more proper use of medical care, lower numbers in Medicaid, and savings from increased recipient cost sharing. Texas must refuse to comply with the new high-risk pools. There are many reasons Texas should not comply but the main reason is poor design. Currently, eighteen states have decided not to participate in these pools, Texas is undecided. Any person with a pre-existing medical disorder whom has been without insurance for six month will qualify. The law gave the Department of Health discretion in determining with conditions qualifies. Theoretically, the Department of Health could say the flu is a pre existing medical condition. If Texas does not refuse to comply with these pools it is only a matter of time before the demand will exceed the supply. A huge concern is when the funding is gone what do the state politicians do. I see two options. One, state officials will end the coverage all together and pull the plug. Two, continue to allow the program to run with the use of state tax dollars.
Family seemed to be important with this family. They often spent time with her family during the holiday season. They have family over when the kids are having birthdays. They spend time together as a family going camping.
Duck Dynasty becomes a prominent television show in American households. The appeal of the show derives from Willie and the Robertson family’s ability to present an alternative lifestyle in an outlandish setting. Hunters and rural Southerners enjoy the show, because of its homage to their respected lifestyle. The audience continues to enjoy the show due to Willie’s ability to bounce between success as a
Homelessness poses a serious threat in all countries as people are exposed in an unsafe environment and try to live on change. “Do you have any spare change?” No I don’t have spare change, get a job you animal. We see people all over the streets holding signs and bringing their children to ask for change but during that whole time they could be doing something productive, like getting a job. Homelessness is a problem everywhere and its worse in other countries but here in America we have it rough. We have the means to fix homelessness with giving jobs to them in the fields of science and energy.
At the latest press conference held by Apple, the new groundbreaking innovation for the iPhone 6 was finally revealed to the public. After years of mingling about in the barbarian state of face-to-face conversation, society is finally being introduced with the ability to eliminate the middle-man, and communicate solely through the use of their smart phone. The feature is called Siri-Speech, which helps envelop the user in the dissociation that is accompanied by using machines to fill the void once occupied by primitive speech. The user only needs to type a text they would like the individuals near them to hear, and the application will read the text aloud. This awe-inspiring feature will help eliminate the need for crude functions like conversation and eye contact.
The Great Gatsby is considered one of the best pieces of American Literature by many critics and authors. This is not because it was an interesting novel, it’s because it represented the time period well. It showed how there were many scandalous and immoral acts revolving around the major characters like Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom. These characters were shown having affairs, breaking the law multiple times, and being immoral. Colors in The Great Gatsby were extremely important because they show symbolism behind objects and characters. The color white represents impurity. Green symbolizes desirable but unattainable objects or people. Yellow is the color of death and corruption. These colors help show that impurity,wealth, and corruption can lead to the immorality of a person.
Phil Robertson is one of the most successful business entrepreneur. Phil went to college at Louisiana Tech, where he had a future as a starting back in the NFL standing right beside his good friend Terry Bradshaw. He gave up that dream because it interfered with his favorite time of year… Duck hunting season. In 1973, the duck commander duck call was created. Since then it has been the most trusted brand in duck calls.
In America, it is becoming more difficult to achieve the American Dream. The American Dream is based on the idea that people can move higher up on the social scale, as long as they work hard work to accomplish their goal. The American Dream is also based on the belief that the social class you’re born into, is not the social class you have to stay in. In other words, everyone can move up in their lifetime if they work hard. However this is not true today, and people are not moving positively up the social class ladder. It has become a chain reaction of people with a college education vs. people without a college education. People with a college degree, or who have parents that have received a college degree, are significantly more likely to be in the upper class in America today, giving them an unfair advantage.
Parenting may be said as an experiment, because every parent has different views and ways of raising their own children. Parents raise their child in such ways in which they believe is beneficial and healthy for the child. A story that came across media news about a baby, Storm, being raised as “genderless” fueled a controversy in defiance of gender stereotyping. The Witterick family in Canada believed that by acknowledging this practice it would, “tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a standup to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime” (Davis and James). However, in terms of raising a genderless child, this can cause the child to be unprepared to face the conventional norms or society. This practice may be causing the child a disservice.
Stone Cold tells the saddening yet enlivening story of a 16 year male. He has experienced some gruesome experiences. This sixteen year old, born into a reasonably rough environment, goes by the name of Link. Link portrays many characteristics throughout Robert Swindells well written novel. These all I could relate to.
To obtain and understanding of the current state of American Architecture and its development, we must first briefly establish the origin of architecture in America. Much of the 17th-century English colonial architecture resembled late medieval forms that had survived throughout much of rural England. The first American architecture houses were built in a wide range of sizes, gables, and overhangs. They also had a lack of symmetry that was reflected in the late medieval style throughout Europe. However, unlike rural England’s architecture, in Virginia and Maryland; brick construction and a symmetrical facade were preferred for one story homes. Upon the idea of domestic homes, cities began to be founded in the 17th century. Cities such as Boston, were chaotic in plan and with the turn of the 18th century, colonies began to take on a more permanent role, often establishing individual character. Newly founded cities, such as: Williamsburg, Virginia; Annapolis, Maryland, and especially Philadelphia began to be laid out in a logical organization of regular grids. This eluded planners in London during the same period and thus the diverse seed of American architecture was planned. Continuing the development of unique American architecture, American in the early 1890s began to value their own heritage and architectural language featuring larger neighborhood tracts. In the 19th century, the Colonial Revival style took a more eclectic style, and columns were often seen.
In Searching for “Voices”: Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debates over Female Genital Operations, Walley discusses the social issues concerning female genital operations as perceived by “westerners”, as well as discusses her ethnographic account of female circumcision. Her main purpose of doing this was to lay the groundwork for “a more productive feminist and anthropological debate” capable of going beyond the binary terms in which female circumcisions are usually discussed. Since female circumcisions are known by a variety of names, such as female genital mutilation and female genital torture, and with her understanding of the negative connotation often associated with those varieties of names, Walley makes the decision to adopt the term female genital operations instead. In 1988, Walley went in the village of KiKhome, in western Kenya as an English teacher and immersed herself in the lives of the people living around the village to better understand the practice of female genital operations as an outsider. One day, some of her students invited her to assist at a female genital operation ceremony. She found out that the participants see circumcision as a rite of passage into adulthood. However, she truly wanted to know the participants’ personal views on the topic rather than the imposed views of their parents and their culture. The four women she interviewed told her that “their custom was good,” and it was something that a person needs to accept with her whole being not to feel the pain. Nevertheless, some of the women told her that they would not want their daughters to undergo circumcision, and that they themselves regretted having done the procedure. Walley finally gave up “searching for real voices,” because what t...
The Civil Procedure Rules recognised in Wales and England imposes a positive duty on the court to encourage parties to use an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures if the court considers it appropriate, from the forgoing it could be inferred that achieving unbiased and objective dispute resolution is no longer the exclusive claim of the adversarial legal process as hitherto claimed by liberal societies. In addition, exact practices of adversarial legal system scarcely exist, since the daily life of court now involves routine departures from its original fundamental ideals. Nonetheless, growing evidence depict that mediated outcomes are more likely to be complied with than court decrees contrary to the position of pro adversarial advocates.