...Being that the eleventh anniversary of the monumental date in American History, September 11, 2011, is upon us, I felt it would be fitting to discuss a song dedicated to the United States military. The song I chose is by Carrie Underwood, the title is Just a Dream. This song is not only moving for the United States military and their families; I feel that anyone can relate to these lyrics. I think this way because that dreadful day affected all of us as a nation. I love this song because the way she organized the lyrics is incredible; she begins the song with a mood and as the song progresses, the mood takes a dramatic turn. The song begins by starting with a cheerful and happy mood, and when the stage is set the mood changes to dark and depressing. The second line of the song is “all dressed in white, going to the church that night”. By these few words alone, one can clearly tell that she seems to be awaiting the walk down the aisle for her wedding. She explains that she is getting ready for her wedding, and she is marrying her fiancé that is in the United States military. Just a few lines later, it is revealed that she is not going to her wedding; she is going to her fiancé’s funeral. Her fiancé had been killed in combat, and she just can’t believe he is gone. This is where the title “Just a Dream” comes from, she wanted to be his forever and now that is now possible. Even more so than the song itself, the music video for Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream” is even more moving...
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...there. Venice is my favorite vacation spot because its romance, entertainment, and its charming historical places. Venice is the best city to have romantic moments. The most romantic thing in my life was taking a gondola ride with my boyfriend through the canals of Venice. We were taking a walk in the evening, and suddenly I found myself in a gondola. It was his plan. The sun was setting as we passed through the old buildings. I felt that I was living in the 13th century. During the ride, we enjoyed the views of the historical Venice houses. The old houses which are both sides of the canals were the best. Also, our gondolier made that ride unforgettable for us with a bottle of wine. The gondolier did everything to ensure that our ride would never be forgotten. After that, it was very romantic to watch the stars above at the historical stone bridges on the canal, all the while being surrounded by live music. All these things make Venice the best choice for our romantic vacation. Venice is known as one of the best places for huge carnivals in Europe. “The Carnival of Venice” is the most popular carnival. We had not planned to attend this carnival. It started three days after we arrived. We were lucky to catch it. The carnival was fantastic! We danced and had fun until sun rise. We become lost in the crowd and discovered that new culture. Most of the people who attended the...
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...| Day at the Carnival | | | | ITT Tech Rancho Cordova | | Once arriving to the carnival with mu buddy, we applied a blindfold to him so he could experience the carnival from a different sense. We walked up to the ticket both to purchase our admission where I explained to him how many people were standing in line. He could hear there were quite a few people around him and understood we would be waiting there for a few minutes. Once we made it in, I told him about all the bright lights and loud rides that were all around. I explained to him about some of these new, bigger rides that we haven’t ever been on before. I also explained to him some of the new games that they had there and the awesome prizes we could win. I also secretly wanted to see him play some of the games blindfolded for my own personal amusement, so that’s where I was going to take him. But he didn’t care to hear about the rides and games because he was too busy smelling all the delicious food they had cooking around him. The smells of the deep fried Twinkies and the world famous corndogs and the amazing barbecue tri-tip, is what he really wanted to go discover. At that point, it was hard for me to fight that logic because I to, was being mesmerized by all the wonderful smells. So I decided to put aside my desire to see my buddy blow some games and instead, we went and had a stuffed our faces with all the great, but horrible, carnival food we all love. My factors in writing this paragraph...
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...fascinated by carnival rides. It shocks themselves that normal, ordinary people eagerly trade in the quietness of the ground for the chance to be tossed through the air like a bowling ball knocking out pins. It stuns the fans that at some time in history someone thought that people would enjoy this. That person who invented the Ferris wheel must have been a genius with this being the first of these terrifying machines. For the sake of the terrified people, the Ferris wheel ride would hope to have a very smoothly transition. The Ferris wheel ride outside of the Staten Island mall was going to be thrilling. The first experience on the carnival ride for the people that haven’t seen or rid the Ferris wheel before at a local fair was at the Staten Island mall. Staying still at the entrance, some of the kids has small hands which were held firmly by a larger hand belonging to a much more confidant mom or dad, but it will still be a first time experience for them and others. The flashing lights, the melody of circuited music and screaming had all the people gawking at anything and everything that they saw happened upon them. But what caught and kept the people attention was the Ferris wheel that seemed to torture their occupants every time ridden. People that were looking ahead at the horizon; the evil Ferris wheel ride was getting bigger and bigger every time you took a step. People waiting at the line felt swallowed from the fear deep inside of them. But unluckily the ride started...
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...Rio de Janeiro Tourism: Oi, and welcome to Rio! Rio de Janeiro is an amazing city, it is the capital city of the state of Rio de Janeiro and is second largest city in Brazil. Brazil is one of the largest tourist destinations in South America, and Rio is Brazil’s biggest tourist destination. Rio is famous for the extremely large statue that towers over the city called Christ the Redeemer, along with beaches, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Carnival, Corcovado, Santa Teresa & Selarón Steps, Tijuca Forest, and much more. I went to Rio for carnival in March 2014. I was surrounded by the beautiful colors, people singing, and dancing. Lots of exotic animals, even the butterflies were bursting with colors. I met twelve amazing friends who I shared a house with and we had big Brazilian Barbecues by the pool. I met lots of little monkey’s before I ate my breakfast in the mornings, and they loved running down and grabbing my food, sometimes before I even had a bite. I’m going to talk about some of my favorite attractions in Rio de Janeiro and hopefully you can visualize my experience. If you haven’t been to Rio hopefully this can give you an idea on what to do if you chose to visit. Christ the Redeemer: I love this statue, in order for my friends to get a good photo of me with the statue they would have to lay down because the statue is so large. It was completed 1931, and stands 98 feet tall, the arms are 92 feet stretched out horizontally. The statue, made out of concrete and thousands...
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...A Famosa – Animal World http://www.afamosa.com/main.php?m=Content&op=page&id=3 Located on 150 acres of pristine surroundings, the A'Famosa Animal World Safari is an amazing wildlife Safari that houses over 150 of the finest species from the animal kingdom. 8th Years, that’s 18th Years of Joy at A’Famosa Resort. We’ve came a very long way from a humble beginning. Here are some interesting fact about A’Famosa Resort. In the year 1992, A’Famosa Resort development project begins with its massive land fills and construction of Golf course. It was carefully crafted with great skill and vision by an Australian golf architect, Ross C. Watson. In the same time, the massive project of constructing Villas, Condos and Hotel begun. The Villas was aspired by the architecture from foreign land where each unit of the Villa are equips with a private swimming pool. In the year of 1996, A’Famosa Resort introduced its very first Theme Park; Water World. The wet park was the visionary of the founder to have a place for family to have fun. The park makes it debut with its 7 storey high slide. A’Famosa Resort had open its gates for million of visitors to the resort ever since then. Year 2001 marks the date for the opening of Animal World Safari. The animal sanctuary was build on a 150-acres land where animals can roam freely. The concept was to build an animal kingdom where visitors will need to hoop on a truck to venture in to the Safari. One year soon after that, year 2002...
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...I couldn’t believe we were finally there, Eaton’s Ranch. We got there on a Saturday somewhere around noon, just in time for a ride. We had to check in and that felt like an eternity because they were telling us all of this stuff about how we would get three meals a day, and how we had assigned tables at those meals, and that for dinner that night would be a outdoor buffet thing, did they not realize that there was a girl there that would go crazy if she wouldn’t get on a horse soon? Finally they finished blabbing and I had to change because it’s a little difficult to ride in shorts and a tank top, (tried it before, didn’t end well). After that we got saddles fitted for all three of us and finally I found out my horse’s name. Trix. My horse...
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...I am unsure if this horse was really used on a carousel, but I believe that it would definitely work for one. For this piece the art and the craft of it go hand and hand. It is amazing as a standalone sculpt, but if it were made strictly for ride purposes it would serve that purpose well. The bright colors help bring that carnival feeling, as well as the grand expression and pose of the horse. Additionally, the color of the horse’s mane and it’s eyes make it lifelike to where this piece becomes surreal over the mix or real and fake. The surrealism is what made it stand out in the gallery in comparison to the real culture costumes and...
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...Purpose 1. What is your chosen topic? (For example: a profile of Barb Collins, a volunteer at the local homeless shelter; a profile of “Shipwreck Days,” a citywide flea market and festival; or a profile of Burdick’s Grocery, the oldest family-owned business in town.) The annual “Martin County Fair” that recently took place in February is my topic for this week’s assignment. 2. What personal angle can you present on this topic? (Consider what is new about the topic or what unique perspective can be shared about this topic.) The Martin County Fair and most fairs in general have evolved to be more of an event for the rides. County Fairs and State Fairs were a celebration of Spring and for youths and farmers to show their “Prized” livestock. Each year the quantity of animals being shown in the fair has decreased and the fair has become more of a “Carnival”. 3. What is your purpose for writing? (What do you hope to accomplish? Why are you writing?) My purpose for writing is to inform and persuade people to take time to learn a little bit of the history behind the annual Martin County Fair. Possibly encourage young people to take an interest in raising and showing a farm animal. Analyzing your Readers You will be writing your Profile essay to your local community. Imagine you might submit the Profile to your local newspaper or have it shared in a community newsletter; the readers of those...
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...Some of my friends and I went to the Folsom Prison Museum, and explored, learned, and saw what life was like back then, and now, for prison goers. I went with Sam Clare, Kyleigh Lessa, and Madeline Cox (who tagged along for support, because she’s on the other team). Overall, the museum was very interesting, and everyone learned lots. Folsom Prison has been around for a long time, since the 1800’s to be exact. When we first got there, we went into the museum, and watched a video, about 20 minutes about its origin, interesting stories, and many little facts. After that, we left the video room, and explored the museum. It was a small museum, but for being so small, every little area was filled with something new, with great facts and information. Some of my favorites were the toothpick ferris wheel, all the silverware and trays they used to eat, all the weapons/harmful things the inmates made, and the contraptions they would use on the inmates to make sure they stayed in-line. These all had their own little area to learn about and see them, and it was very interesting and a great learning experience. Outside, there is also many places where you can take pictures with an old gate, tractor, tower, and replicas....
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...Aladdin – Things to Do/See: • Dessert Passage Shops • Strolling performers in the mall. • The clouded ceiling and has real full sized Moorish buildings creating the appearance of a Moorish Bazaar. Security guards dressed in kakis and red berets • One of the miracles not to be missed during your Desert Passage visit is the live rainstorm at Merchant's Harbor, featuring thunder, lightning and pouring rain. Catch the cloudburst every hour on the hour Monday through Thursday, and every half-hour Friday through Sunday. Free • Desert Tattoos provides henna tattoos, bindis, belly rings, Indian head dresses and other crystal body art. They use only all natural red and brown henna that lasts from 1 to 3 weeks. Tattoos are priced by design but start at $10. Desert Tattoos can be found in Sultan's Palace, across from Sharper Image. 702-303-4117 Bally’s- Things to Do/See: • free slot pull out front that you can do once a day so long as you have a Park Place slot card . • There is a large video amusement arcade in the basement. • Paris and Bally's are connected via Le Boulevard, the crossover corridor between the two resorts filled with upscale specialty retail shops and Très Jazz, a gourmet restaurant offering live jazz music and "New World Caribbean" cuisine. • A continuous promotion at Bally's, gives MVP Slot Club Card members a chance for a FREE Slot Pull with a chance to win a million dollars. One pull per person, per day between 9 am and 1 am. Many other smaller prizes...
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...The Cheesecake Factory Code of Conduct Veronica Linton Strayer University Professor Izzeldin Bakhit Intro to business 09/06/2014 Abstract The Overall Code of Ethics for any Cheese Cake Factory employee whether you are an executive officer, senior financial officer, director or a staff member will always have a productive influence on the company’s ability to have continued success. It is very vital that the business upholds the correct standards and ethics for each department with regard to keeping the respect for our employees and our faithful patrons. This material will explain the areas of our code of conduct that are important to our business with emphasis on why it should be significant to our business. We will also go in detail of how our business can make sure that our employees follow the rules that are put into action. Finally The Cheese Cake Factory will also be more visible in our communities with inspiring more activities for our patrons which will be done in a socially receptive way. The Cheesecake Factory Code of Conduct The Code of ethics in which our company enforces has a high priority for keeping our company successful with maintaining the respect of our employees and keeping our exceptional customers happy. We place a high regard in our managers to making an outstanding effort to keep honesty along fair business practices in mind for the company. We make every effort to deter the wrong doing of employees with striving for continuous promotions...
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...T-Shirt on. Why are all Juggalos being targeted, instead of just those with affiliations to an actual gang? Has this kind of blatant labeling of an entire fan base ever happened in music before? What is Psychopathic Records and the Insane Clown Posse doing about the FBI’s new label on Juggalos and what impact is it having on the band, and the business they represent? What is a Juggalo? It’s not just the name of a song by the Insane Clown Posse, it is the name given to their ultra-loyal almost cult-like fan base. To the fans of the band, it is the name that was used to describe the audience at a live concert in 1994 by Joe Bruce, better known to the Juggalos as “Violent J” during the song “The Juggla” from their first full length CD Carnival of Carnage. (Joe Bruce, 2003) Since then the fan base has bloomed and the word has grown to mean fans of any artist on the groups own label Psychopathic Records. There is an annual music festival called the “Gathering of the Juggalos” where fans around the world come together to listen to all of the bands on Psychopathic Records, and other bands that the fans have grown to admire...
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...fashion, was a community fall festival. This festival occurs once a year and brings people from several communities. I arrived at the festival in early afternoon, around 12:30 pm. The festival was just starting to get crowded. At this time there were mostly families with children present. I observed numerous families with babies in strollers. There were at least twenty “vendor” booths operating this day. Vendor booths are individuals or companies who have come to the festival and set up a booth or concession truck to sell and promote their products. There were booths selling homemade baked goods, hair bows for little girls, Halloween and Christmas decorations, and make-up, to name a few. This festival also included a small carnival with rides and games. 2. Take notes describing your observations, giving special attention to recording: A. The ages and other demographic characteristics that are observed; elaborate in your description about how you determined demographic characteristics such as socio- economic class and education levels. Throughout the course of my observation, I noticed that most of vendors that were selling baked goods and hair products were older women. The concession booths were all young males, with one or two middle-aged females, who appeared to be the supervisor. I came to this conclusion because the women were not doing much of the serving, but were walking from booth to booth, giving directions. The patrons that were frequenting these booths...
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...English 1010 Memoire The accident that almost cost me my life. Like every Saturday after a long week of school and work, my friend and always meet at the café in my neighborhood and set up the plan of the weekend. But that Saturday something , an special event was going on in my city cotonou. It was the 11th of may, the celebration of the death of Robert nesta marley (bob marley) . on that day something happened in my life. It help me change the way I perceive things and grow my faith. I wish It didn’t happen but at the same time it was a good experience. Every Saturday night in cotonou, is amazing. In the whole west Africa, cotonou is known as the city that party the most in the weekend. I am from that city and I used to love partying a lot till an tragic event happened in my life, a traffic accident. Let me explain a little bit how it happened. I was only 19 years old. Early in the morning around 8 am, I called my best friends kader and biggie. I asked them to meet me at the café which was the routine almost every saturday. I was already there, and while I was waiting on them I ordred the breakfast. When they got there we start setting up our plan for the night, and together enjoyed the food. Couple hour later around 10 am , I went to “missebo,” a outside clothes market 30minutes far from my house and bought my outfit of the night. As soon as I left “missebo,” I went back home. My mother was with her husband at a weeding party , so I took her car and drove it to kola’s...
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