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In the small town of Vinita, Oklahoma is located a family owned restaurant called Clanton’s Café. It’s located on the historical Route 66 that runs straight through Vinita. The restaurant has been featured on television and many magazines. Clanton’s Café has been featured on the hit television show “Diners Drive-ins and Dives”. It has also been featured in Gourmet Magazine and Southern Living Magazine. It’s a popular restaurant among the locals and tourists passing through Vinita. People might wonder

After a day of running the cold roads, I knew there was only one place to go that served warm home style country food anywhere near where I was at; and that is Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel is an inviting restaurant that started in 1969, in Tennessee, that has grown tremendously; however, it still serves its customers with true southern hospitality. This chain of restaurants tries to gather all things stereotypically southern in one place hoping to give it customers a taste of it all. This exaggerated

Northern Pines Restaurant; Mediocre at best Looking for a new place to eat that is affordable and food that tastes amazing? If so, Northern Pines is not for you!! Do not be deceived by what is perpetrated on the web. Upon internet investigation, The Northern Pines Restaurant is a "relaxed go-to for all-day American fare" with a 4.3/5 rating I was expecting a lot more than what was presented to me. The main reasons I was ill-fated by this restaurant was the eerie atmosphere, price of the food, and

Good Ol’ Southern Food: The Ins and Outs of Preparing a Southern Feast There is just something about Southern Cooking, something about the women who’ve mastered it, and something about what it represents. A Southern Feast represents time spent in careful preparation and an almost entire region of people that didn’t get the memo about cholesterol. Southern cooking brilliantly displays a community that still remains untouched by at least some of the craziness in the world around us. Things move

Broad international consensus regarding the political and legal controversies of the Israeli and Palestinian Gaza conflict has been minimal at best. At its worst it has fueled the controversies created by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission, through which, both sides maintain their positions and justification for their actions. In ordered to obtain an opinion on this issue one must examine the factual historical background of the Gaza Conflict. By identifying the major legal and political discrepancies

'For too long, the citizens of the Middle East have lived in the midst of death and fear. The hatred of a few holds the hopes of many hostage. The forces of extremism and terror are attempting to kill progress and peace by killing the innocent. And this casts a dark shadow over an entire region,' President George W. Bush in his June 24, 2002 address to the nation. The conflict between Israel and Palestine is just one of the many facets that have shaped modern day politics in the Middle East.

HAMAS, an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is the name of the socio-political organization currently in power over the Gaza Strip. For decades Jews & Muslims and Israelis & Palestinians, often one in the same, have fought for control over the region. Each have killed thousands of the other, destroyed infrastructures and used underhanded tactics to gain an advantage. Nations such as Japan, the European Union, the United States and (of course) Israel classify the group as terrorists

Bill Watterson is an American cartoonist, author of the famous comic strips “Calvin and Hobbes” syndicated from 1985 to 1995. In these short-stories, Calvin is a creative kid full of childish pranks, and together with Hobbes, a deep-thinking stuffed tiger, they both stand as examples of existentialism in comic strips. Through Calvin’s desperate choices and decisions over many circumstances in the stories, he struggles against a continually changing world. The characters’ actions portray the humanity

Comics: A Better Means To An Artistic End If a line of symmetry were to be drawn down the center of the paper, it would seem that each character rests within his environment about to collide with the other. Even without words, a vivid story begins to formulate in my mind, and hopefully I share the artist's vision. Comic book art is the Pez dispenser of modernism. The aesthetics of this accessible medium walk side by side with pop culture. No other art form can reach so many people due to

With Israel receiving three billion dollars in aid annually from the United States of America, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue that is relevant to life in the U.S. However, to many it is no more than a distant battle fought in a land few will ever see. The documentary film Death in Gaza attempts to humanize the conflict through the everyday lives and voices of young children living in the war-stricken area. While the documentary is relatively one-sided, showing only the Palestinian viewpoint