Orange County Choppers When I first saw the show, Orange County Choppers, on the Discovery Channel, I was a little bit confused about the premise of it. At first, the show is expressed as one about a family run business that builds custom motorcycles. But then, as I continued to watch the show, it occurred to me that it was intended to be a little bit more. Unlike traditional texts, “The structure of television makes us watch passively.” (The World is a Text, by Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader
” The Mercedes speeds up. A second black self-driven Mercedes with Asian Gangsters inside appear out of nowhere. A beat later a helicopter appears above the Mercedes. The chopper belongs to the bad guys. Lucky sees the chopper. “They have a bird in the air, Libra.” “Yes, they do.” “How are we supposed to lose the chopper?” “Don’t worry about the bird – we have that covered.”
they begin punching the windows frantically. At the command center, agents watching the monitors of the chase are guiding the speeding Mercedes as if he’s playing a real-life video game. A moment later, the mobsters have broken the windows, now attempting to climb out of the speeding car -- they realize the jump will be a fatal one. The speeding Mercedes is now blazing at 97 MPH through downtown Berlin, dodging pedestrians, trucks, cars, and motorcycles, a chase of self-driving vehicles capable
derogatory terms for African Americans. The author also uses a racial slur to describe the cotton chopper in the second image. Even the task the African American is doing, cutting cotton, is reminiscent of the work a slave would do. Warren is indicating that the black line on the road symbolizes African Americans and their history, specifically the history of racial prejudice and slavery. This racist symbolism is furthered through the dialogue of the African Americans and the repeated use of racial
reading the story, the readers as well as listeners can actually see and understand Firoozeh’s feelings in particular and immigrants in general. Actually, I am an international student, and I come from Vietnam. I also have that bad experience when Americans cannot say my name, and that makes me sympathize with Firoozeh. At the beginning of the story, Firoozeh shows American’s attitude toward saying her name as well as her cousin’s name and her brothers’ names. They purposefully mispronounced and changed
desires and fears. Thomas Schatz believes that one “cannot consider either the filmmaking process or films themselves in isolation from their economic, technological, and industrial context.” This statement is especially applicable to the independent American films of the late sixties, a time of great political and social debate. Easy Rider (1969) was considered a new voice in film that was pitched against the mainstream. In the 1960s, there was a shift to highlight the outsiders or the anti-heros in
The Malignant American in Surfacing Before traveling through Europe last summer, friends advised me to avoid being identified as an American. Throughout Europe, the term American connotes arrogance and insensitivity to local culture. In line with the foregoing stereotype, the unnamed narrator's use of the term American in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing is used to describe individuals of any nationality who are unempathetic and thus destructive. The narrator, however, uses the word in the context
A and Ph.D in Sociology from Harvard University. Now, he is working for Made In America which is a Social History of American Culture and Character. First of all, Claude pointed out “Locality is following the family, the premier locus for “community”, in the fullest sense of solidarity, commitment, and intimacy”. Afterwards, he stated 4 different ways can prove Americans have become more committed in localism. He also stated that the changes between families and nations. In my point of
fallen into a crevasse. A rescuer’s job is already very hazardous without having to rescue people who are reckless and put themselves at risk. Also, according to Article 1, Who pays for rescues at sea?, “ It can cost about $11,000 an hour to fly their choppers.” It is extremely expensive to conduct searches and rescues, so it doesn’t help when people have to be rescued when they put
to Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid who are considered American legends, as well as outlaws. Wyatt rides a chopper with the stars and stripes on the gas tank and on his helmet while sporting the now cliché leather jacket. Billy is dressed up like a cowboy; he is wearing all tan leather with a wide brim hat. Also throughout the movie Billy refers to Wyatt as Captain America. All of these things serve to ingrain the belief that they embody the American dream which is to earn enough money to pursue your
Rashid's smooth approach made the emir explain that there were "oceans of oil, oceans of gold" underground (p. 87), which His Majesty's government wanted the Americans to help extract. Meanwhile, the people should not fear, for the government would protect their faith and traditional values; but it did not want anyone to obstruct the Americans' work, on pain of severe punishment. The book detailed description of the devastation of Wadi al-'Uyun and the affliction of its people is meant to show the
Ingrained within the American identity is a restless spirit that is never content to be defined by the same terms for too long. Yet the things Americans value remain the same, evidenced by the titles they strive so hard to attain—husband, wife, mother, father. These titles represent who Americans are as much as what they are. They are the roles that give Americans purpose and meaning. The defining aspect of Raymond Carver's short story, “A Small, Good Thing,” is the fact that its characters are undeniably
The American Dream is one of the most sought-after things in the United States, even though it is rarely, if ever, achieved. According to historian Matthew Warshauer, the vision of the American Dream has changed dramatically over time. In his 2003 essay “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Changing Conceptions of the American Dream”, Warshauer claims that the American Dream had gone from becoming wealthy by working hard and earning money, to getting rich quickly and easily. He attributes this change to
In the tragic American play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Willy Loman, the protagonist, is a salesman who is becoming more elderly and tired. He has been in the same position at his company for 30 years and has now been reassigned to a traveling job with only the pay of commission, not salary. He is struggling financially and the traveling from Brooklyn to New England is taking a toll on him at his old age. His wife, Linda, asks him to ask for an increase in pay or a desk job so he does
The first significant battle between American troops and North Vietnamese Army was the Ia Drang Valley Battle of the Vietnam War. The Battle of Ia Drang took place in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam, setting in two main locations, the LZ X-Ray located at the eastern base of the Chu Pong Massif and LZ Albany located to the 2.5 km of X-Ray and lasted four days and three nights in the fall of 1965 from14 November to 18 November. The Battle of Ia Drang was part of the Pleiku Campaign and comprised
AEI/ Building Partnerships According to the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) website, the organization “is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise” (AEI, 2013). It is nonprofit organization founded in 1938 and headquartered in Washington, DC (AEI, 2013). AEI prides itself for being nonpartisan, committed to open, independent thinking and research “on issues of government, politics, economics and
was the son of a slave and her master, who also happened to be the brother of the two famous abolitionist Grimké sisters: Angelina and Sarah. Grimké’s mother, Sarah, was from a prominent, white middle-class family. She left Grimké and her African American husband due to racial pressure from her white family. As a result, Grimké was raised entirely by her father. Angelina Weld Grimké was a teacher in the capital and a well-known playwright, essayist, and poet. Her work has caused her name to be forever
On August 27, 1906, Edward Theodore Gein was born in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. His father, George Philip, was an alcoholic, and his mother, Augusta Gein, was a very religious woman. Ed had an older brother named Henry Gein. Due to his father's addiction and inability to keep a job, the family moved to Plainfield, Wisconsin, where they lived in isolation. Augusta loved Ed very much and never allowed him to socialize with anyone, punishing him for making friends. He would attend school, return home
Everyone has their own perception on what defines a hero; some may argue that they exhibit characteristics such as honesty or courage, while others may think that heroes have special power. Our society may have changed the values in which we associate heroes with, but one thing seems to have never changed: the main character of the book turns out as the hero. In my analyst, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye, is put on trial as we see through our own eyes how Caulfield can
El danze de los viejetos / dance of the old men People do not take into account the impact that colonialism had on Mexico and Mexico’s culture of dance and music. The merging of Indigenous tradition and European culture left a strange mark in Mexico, where both those diverse cultures were combined into its own Mexican identity. There is no bigger example of this than the traditional Mexican dance, of the state of Michoacán el danze de los viejetos or in English the dance of the old men. What the