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
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
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
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
Times of Slavery Thesis: The poems “Negro”, “I Too”, and “Song for a Dark Girl” by Langston Hughes was written around an era of civil inequality. A time when segregation was a customary thing and every African American persevered through civil prejudice. Using his experience, he focuses his poems on racial and economic inequality. Based on his biographical information, he uses conflict to illustrate the setting by talking about hardships only a Negro would comprehend and pride only a Negro can experience
An individual who was developed from the black power movements, was Richard Aoki, a third generation Japanese American. He had spent time living in the internment camps as a child during the second world war. When he grew up, he became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party, and the only Asian American to have held a formal leadership position as "Field Marshall". He worked in the Black Panther party by arming them with weapons and training them in firearm usage. He continued his
If you have the brains when you start, you are aware that banging your head into people is not the best thing for your body,” stated Chris Cooley, tight end and a 2 time Pro Bowler with the Washington Redskins (Do No Harm, 2). Research over the years has gathered extensive data on the mental and physical illnesses of retired NFL football players. It has proved that players who accumulate numerous concussions are at a higher risk of health problems after their football career than players who’ve sustained
people told her to do. She suffered being arrested for fighting for what she wanted. Rosa Park’s obstinacy and the Bus Boycott were some acts that affected the Civil Rights Movement. Other effects of the Civil Rights Movement were the way African American were treated and how it changed America as a whole. During this time period, Rosa Parks was known as “The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement”. Rosa Parks died on October 25, 2005 at age 92. Rosa parks felt that everyone should be free and everyone