VISIT LAS VEGAS — Sadie has been to Las Vegas a total of three times in her life, though all of those visits were during her childhood. This summer she would like to go vacation in Vegas and do all the fun stuff that only adults can do. Basically she just plans to be drunk the whole time. SPEND MORE TIME WITH GRANDMA RONSTADT — With her grandmother getting older and sicker, Sadie would like to spend as much time as possible with the woman who raised her. While she has many things planned for the summer of '17, spending time with her grandmother is the most important thing to her. READ MORE BOOKS — Sadie has a list of books she would like to read, starting with Stephen King's Rose Madder and ending with Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville.
Las Vegas is one of the nation's favorite vacation destinations. Las Vegas, in Nevada’s Mojave Desert, is a resort town famed for its buzzing energy. It's a 24-hour city where gambling is a loved past-time and dreams of striking it rich can come true. Its focal point is the Strip, just over 4 miles long and lined with elaborate theme hotels such as the pyramid-shaped Luxor and the Venetian, complete with Grand Canal; luxury resorts including the Bellagio, set behind iconic dancing fountains; and innumerable casinos.
As I stepped out to the Las Vegas Strip for the first time, the first thing I came across was the massive water show at the Bellagio. With the calm music playing in the background finely tuned with every drop of water I fell in love. Along with the gigantic crowd of people that surrounded me I could feel the warmth of every light bulb that lit up the city that never sleeps. Comparing Las Vegas to my hometown Madrid, I find many differences that only I may be able to depict. Some of the differences include the food, the culture and the demographic of the people in the community. Out of the many differences I chose to compare three things that I found were the most interesting. Madrid and Las Vegas are very different in term of climate, economy,
The novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” written by Jamie Ford is a compelling novel about a young Chinese American boy name Henry. Henry is growing up after the Pearl Harbor incident and the start of the internment camps for Japanese Americans. Henry’s ethnicity as a Chinese American affects his childhood in being bulled in school, having a distant relationship with his parents, and causes issues with his first love Keiko, a Japanese American girl.
I would like to read other books by Sue Monk Kidd. I think she did a wonderful job writing this book and would expect her other books to be just as
books for all ages. she is known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity,
Taxes are expensive to pay for those of us who do pay them, but what about those who don’t pay them? They are getting free housing from the taxes YOU pay. This is the “Golden Motel” or mercy housing. The mercy housing was first proposed in February, 2017. The mercy housing is opposed by the majority of Temple City’s population. “One side was defending LGBTQ and the other side was defending veterans,” says Nicholas Huang, an 8th grader at Oak Avenue Intermediate school. This makes the reason to repurpose the motel controversial. After further research, I also discovered that the request was authorized to help get the homeless and unsupported off the streets and into shelter/homes. “The Mercy
You usually would not expect a seventeen year old to say that they love vacationing to Las Vegas, but in my case I absolutely love it. There are so many fun activities to do I just can not get enough.
Is Las Vegas’ history “conventional,” like most other American cities? One might be tempted to dismiss that idea out of hand, however, a closer look at Las Vegas’ history may surprise the sceptic. Las Vegas’ beginnings was fairly conventional from it’s earliest infancy. Its start as a missionary outpost, to frontier ranch, to a railroad town was rather typical of the discovery and development of a new frontier town. The unsavory social faux pas of drinking, gambling, and prostitution was commonplace in railroad towns (and cities) throughout the country. As expected, Las Vegas too felt the effects of the Great Depression and benefited from Public Works Projects from the federal government--as did many of the cities and towns throughout the country--through the building of the Hoover Dam and
October 1, 2017 at Route 91 music festival what first seemed to be fireworks, was actual gunfire being shot at the crowd. News around the world stated that Stephan Paddock was the culprit of committing such massacre. Uncovered evidence has claimed that one man was capable of injuring 546 and killing 59 people solemnly within ten minutes. One can conceive with the lack of evidence and coincidence, that this was not the act of one man, but someone with a vendetta towards the American government. But why would someone decide to choose Paddock and what message are they trying to send? Someone with power would only be capable to make a move with little evidence, like this incident, and accomplish it goal.
Let’s just get this out of the way, right off the bat. Monday? Yeah. It SUCKED. There’s no way around it. Even if the rest of my day had gone swimmingly (spoiler alert: it didn’t) the news I woke up to about the shooting in Las Vegas would have been enough to spoil it. Add in Tom Petty’s death and, yeah, there’s no way that day could have been salvaged for me. I could go over my feelings and thoughts about the horrific events in Vegas. Or wax poetic about how much Tom Petty and his music mean to me. But we’ve all read those articles. All had our own thoughts on the matter. I’m not going to rehash something that’s been said a million different ways by people far more eloquent than me.
She is the author of the Scarlett Bernard and the Allison Luther series. Her novels are coming under the mystery, paranormal and urban fantasy genre with plenty characteristics of adventure.
In the first place, the trips to Cancun and Las Vegas scream of unethical behavior. Going forward with this behavior would make it appear that Acme has an ethical culture of a don’t ask, don’t tell, do what you must do to make the client happy, and sell the product no matter what the ethical implications. This culture can be easily interpreted as allowing direct bribes in many forms which started with season tickets and escalated to the trips to Cancun and Las Vegas. As the slogan goes “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.”
The Las Vegas Strip is full of surprising views. The Smith family certainly found that out on their family vacation last year. One strip photographer caught this picture of the parents looking appalled and holding back their young child John who looked shockingly cavalier. Why were the parents so scared and the child so calm? After interviewing the family we soon found out that the object of interest was a nude show girl on the Strip. The Vegas Strip was actually “stripping.” This explains the boy’s almost happy grimace. With somber moods the Smith’s have decided to never come back to Vegas as their eyes and their child’s are too “scorned” to ever return. They have recently started touring in their program called We Are Traumatized where they
Robert Venturi is an architect that had has a significantly influence in architecture for many years. In addition to this, he is a writer, professor and artist, and his works are important for the academy. One of his most well-known project is the Vanna Venturi House, constructed in 1962-1964. He designed it for his mother and it represents one of the first projects of postmodern architecture.
As my eyes lit up like the fourth of July, I stood with my feet stuck to the ground, and my nerves tingle with happiness because of how marvelous it was. I didn't know a Mexico resort could be so nice.