The Dukes of Hazzard: A Critique of Jay Chandrasekhar’s Remake The Dukes of Hazzard is a 1979 action-packed television show that featured two daredevil Duke cousins (Bo and Luke), kind-hearted Uncle Jessie, and one sexy Daisy Duke. This seven season long smash hit is based upon a simple idea, Boss Hog and Roscoe P. Coltrane come up with different ideas to get rid of the Dukes and take the Duke farm. The Duke family along with friends must find different ways to keep their farm. This television
Most americans have probably heard the phrase, “Mamas don’t let your babies to grow up to be cowboys.” That phrase is one from one of Waylon Jennings most prominent songs. Jennings was one of the many country music stars that started the outlaw country music movement. Outlaw country was not recognized by most country music enthusiasts but it soon took over and swept them off their feet. Jennings also incorporated rock into his music, which opened the door to a wide variety of genres and listeners
being ‘colored’ and all / is generally lost / somewhere between / the dukes of hazzard / and the Beverly hillbillies / but / if you think / makin’ ‘shine from corn / is as hard as Kentucky coal / imagine being / an Affrilachian / poet (Walker, 93).” Here we see his obvious concern for the way African Americans are overlooked as not being “Appalachian” due to the medias portrayal through the Beverly hillbillies and the dukes of hazzard. Here we also see him working to change the way that people have simply
Albert Le ENGL 015 Professor Perez 24 April 2014 Jeans: Forever An American Icon Take a moment to look around the room and notice what everyone is wearing. Really scan your surroundings because it’s something you see everyday and might not even notice. Do you see it yet? That’s right, everybody is wearing jeans. Including you. You probably never even realized it but the classic denim jeans have been around forever. Think back to when you were in grade school and you had your favorite Pokémon shirt
the highwaymen released 3 albums. Waylon released 2 albums, lonesome on'ry and mean followed by honky tonk heroes, and after that came the albums dreaming my dreams along with are you ready for the country. he later became the narrator of the dukes of hazzard, and was also the singer and composer of the theme song, Good Ol
Joy Ride When I was around five years old, my family lived in Westerlo, New York (a town near Albany). One day my parents told my older sister and brother and me to load up in our big blue blazer to go for a ride. We loved going for rides on the weekends, but this time was more exciting. My parents had made plans to look at a house they were wanting to buy, but what I thought was going to be a nice ride through the hills turned into one of my most frightening memories as a child. The day seemed perfect
The first person I’m going to tell you about is Stacie the jokester. The reason my sister is the jokester of the family is she always tells you jokes or awful puns that make you want to laugh no matter how hard you try not to. I remember one time I was so upset when I lost my best friend that I was walking through the school and to her car crying. On the way home she kept trying to get me to smile with puns like what did the waiter say to the customer when they gave them their order, careful it’s
that you aren't from around this area with an accent like that." "I am from a little town called Hazard," I replied reluctantly, realizing exactly where this conversation was headed. "Oh, is that where the Dukes of Hazzard are from?" he asks chuckling. "No, that place is Hazzard, Georgia. I live in a little town in southeastern Kentucky." "I bet you all have a lot of barefoot, pregnant people there don't you?" he asks with a discriminating smile. "Well actually we don...." "Huh
also become a huge cultural and pop cultural symbol. For example, when you think of a Volkswagen T2 van most people would think of the 1960s and the hippie movement or a 1969 Doge Charger and it a person who remember the television series The Dukes of Hazzard. Lastly, in other cultures driving is very different. Their cars look different, they drive on the opposite side of the road and have different rules and social norms, and also in some cultures women are not allowed to drive. Driving in this
Jeans and denim have become the most popular and versatile clothing options in America, but it hasn’t always been that way. Between the time of invention to present day, traditional blue work jeans and denim changed from being a sign of lower-middle working class and frowned upon by the upper class, to being conventional and worn by most Americans as a result of The Dude Ranch Craze, the influence of media on rebellious teens and young girls, as well as wearing denim to show patriotism during World
Roy Orbison with his busy schedule of recording music. Cash was also in a few movies he was in the “Stagecoach” which starred him, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, June Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson,and John Schneider one of the stars in “The Dukes of Hazzard”. Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, June Carter Cash, and Willie Nelson were in a movie about two of the greatest bank robbers of the old west it was called “The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James”. Cash has always been known as “ The Man in Black”
Being Other Oriented To me being other oriented means to take into account the other person’s feeling and needs at that point in time. In other situations it may be how we form out messages, decide how to express those messages and when and where to deliver those messages to make them more effective. (Interpersonal Communication p.25) To be other oriented it takes a conscious effort to consider the point of view of the people you are interacting with daily. (Interpersonal Communication
the camera. Adamant in his opinions that the shows success is based on the appearance of the case, He declares “If all of this sounds like an X-rated takeoff on the defunct WB 's supernatural "Charmed," the cult classic "Dark Shadows" and "The Dukes of Hazzard," that 's because it plays that way -- a campy attempt at Southern Gothic that too often passes over the truly macabre or grotesque for gratuitous sex and violence. (Judge 9). Few critics agree this is the only appeal True Blood. I t is doubtful
many other Americans. November 2016, a policeman in Michigan actually had to quit because he was flying a Confederate flag on the back of his trucks. Dylan Roof posed with a Confederate flag before shooting up a church, and that caused the show Dukes of Hazzard because of the flag on the roof. (Allen) Groups like Neo-Nazi’s often use the Confederate flag displayed alongside swastikas and many other race hate motifs. No one actually knows why they use the Confederate flag to symbolize their hate crimes
"John, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Hazzard, and count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls barons, justiciars, sheriffs, ministers, bailiffs and all his faithful men, greeting."1 So begins the most famous legal document of the Middle Ages. The Magna Carta was a product of the power struggle between King John and his barons in the year 1215. Although it was intended to address concerns that were specific to its time and place
Recently a school in Virginia suspended more than twenty students for wearing clothing that had a Confederate flag on it. The school also banned students from having the Confederate flag on their vehicles. The reason theses students were displaying the flag that much was because a fellow classmate had passed away a week or two before. The family made t-shirts and decals in memory of their son. The design was a Confederate flag that had the date that the young man died and under the flag the shirt
Nascar…. When you think of moonshine you think of the hillbillies in overalls fireing up grand daddys still in the b ack forty. It may come to a shock to you when you learn that nascars the billion dollor enterprise with 100,000 cars that are engineered to be as fast as they can be. Its hard to belive it all started from shine runners. During the great depression millions of gallons of shine were in need of distribution. This is where the ridge runners came into play. The shiners needed a way to
Catlyn Cox Confederates in the Attic Essay Throughout Tony Horwitz’s novel Confederates in the Attic an overarching theme of Southern Pride occurs. Tony gets first-hand experiences of what southern heritage means through a cross-country road trip visiting historic sights and meeting locals. Tony meets people from every walk of life and is open to their stories and historical information. He meets people who have been oppressed and the oppressors themselves. Many people show their pride through commemorating
Looking up, you see that it is almost your turn. After getting off the hood of the car, you open the door, and sit inside the vehicle. As you firmly grasp the wooden steering wheel, the scent of unleaded gasoline fills the air, the rigid feel of the leather racing seat brushes skin, and the warm touch of chrome on the shifter radiates through the car. Sliding the key into the ignition, you turn it and hear the low grumble of the HiPo 302 cubic inch engine. You shift the car into first gear and begin
Moonshining is the stuff of legends – from NASCAR greats to the Dukes of Hazzard, from Elliot Ness and Al Capone to bathtub gin and homebrew, stories of Grandpa’s backyard still are still told today. While the truth is often unknown, the stories of moonshine have some kernels of truth at their heart. Though we think of it often in connection with Depression Era Cheep Liqour” the truth is that modern moonshine is experiencing a renaissance – more and more people are interested and experimenting