John Thompson

As time went by, it seemed to fly faster and faster. Soon, it was the summer between my sophomore and junior years and I had an abundance of plans for how to spend my summer. One event stood out compared to all of the others. It would greatly influence my life and shape my my thoughts to the way they are today. Reminiscing on the events of my past, my journey to the glamorous mountains of Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico to hike for a week is indisputably the greatest memory of my life so far.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: Journalism with Acidic Twists Hunter S. Thompson is the literary equivalent to the peyote shaman who document the world around them. Pioneering a genre called gonzo journalism, Thompson spliced nonfiction with fiction while simultaneously documenting an event in first-person. In the middle of the battlefield, up close and personal, gonzo journalism brings the main subject of the novel directly into the heart of all events, reporting in a way that is not entirely nonfiction

The iconic image for discussion is from the women named Florence Owens Thompson. The image is this woman who is with her children in the Great Depression era called the Migrant Mother taken by the photographer Dorothea Lange. The Great Depression was a difficult time for people in the United States. The stock market crash caused debt for many citizens, which caused them to struggle with their bills. Thus, people lost their homes which caused them to be homeless. The Great Depression occurred during

It took at least 70 dollars to make one Thompson and it took only 24 dollars to make an MP40. With this problem, the U.S made a new model, the M3, nicknamed the “grease gun.” It was a smaller version of the Thompson and it was completely made of metal. It used the same 30 round clip as the M1 and had a very special barrel, so it would never overheat. The U.S was able to cut the

On October 27, 2015 I went to see Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Gilliam, 1998). Adapted from the novel of the same name, Raoul Duke adventures through the west with his lawyer in search of the American dream. Experimental in nature, this film strays from the traditional formula of story-telling. Its plot is hard to discern due to the constant intoxication of the main characters. Through the various psychedelic drugs Raoul and Dr. Gonzo consumed in the duration of this film, the audience was able

Hunter S. Thompson. The American culture of the 1960s began to alter with the hippie generation, and the same old drab writing was not fulfilling the desires of the American reader. During the 1970s, American literature and journalism transformed in a way that no one would have ever been able to predict. Thompson found a way to turn the tables, and effected generations to come in a new dynamic writing style that many authors and journalist nowadays adopt. The life and writing of Hunter S. Thompson had

A 16 year old boy is at the peak of their adolescent life, learning and discovering about puberty, maturity, right and wrong and future life goals. On the other hand, a man of 25 has matured, lived long enough to have made both good and bad judgments and has already been in the process of achieving those life goals they once thought of as a teenager. In a given situation, is it ethical to hold these two age groups, with mentalities that are worlds apart, to the same standards and punishments in the

Coles’ Ideas in The Tradition: Fact and Fiction “The documentary tradition as a continually developing “record” that is made in so many ways, with different voices and vision, intents and concerns, and with each contributor, finally, needing to meet a personal text” (Coles 218). Coles writes “The Tradition: Fact and Fiction” and describes the process of documenting, and what it is to be a documentarian. He clearly explains through many examples and across disciplines that there is no “fact or

Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas portrays the American political landscape as one that is plagued by savagery and excess. The novel paints capitalism as something that emphasizes and brings to light a potentially inherent ugliness in mankind, depicted through the simultaneous contrived and organic nature of such a dominating system. The book’s reaction to this system is a push and pull, two way reflection, mankind and the system influencing one another and sharing similar likenesses

“Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.” – Berenice Abbott. An American photographer best known for black and white photography of New York, Berenice Abbott believed a photograph are special and unique. It cannot be copied or mimic others. A photograph will represent the historical picture of the past. The historical past or memories of the photograph usually have a very meaningful and emotional story behind it. A photograph has