132FPL4340 The Motorcycle Jacket Introduction The black motorcycle jacket holds both historical and cultural significance. Throughout time, the motorcycle jacket has ‘transitioned from functional wear, to symbol of courage and cool, to iconic expression within popular culture, to flamboyant artistic design in applied arts and fashion’ (Glenbow Museum, 2014). Originally, created to appeal the emerging generation of “bikers” in the 1930s, the leather motorcycle jacket continues to hold significance
Should Indoor Tanning Beds be banned for Minors? Everyone has their own opinion about the use of indoor tanning beds. Some people love to tan because they like the way their skin looks after, others don’t care for the idea of “fake baking” during the winter months. For many years now people have been trying to pass bills/laws to ban all minors from using indoor tanning beds. Many states have already passed laws saying anyone younger than 16 cannot tan indoor and so 16 years and older have to have
Suppose you have a nice leather jacket. Armani, high-end. One night, somebody beats you up and steals the jacket. You go to the police and report the theft, but instead of following through with the investigation, they question you: Why were you out at night? Were there any witnesses? Are you sure this happened? Have you let other people borrow your jacket before? Do you have a history of lending your jackets to people? Did you say “no”? Did you say “no” explicitly? Why didn’t you fight harder? You
My blood ran cold as the sound grew louder. The fearsome thump grew more frequent, echoing through the hallway. It can’t be mum. It’s too early she only just left. The harrowing knocks kept coming as I sat on my couch glaring at the sight of my possible demise. It was the usual Friday night routine. My mum working at her job leaving the whole house to me. I was just relaxing in the living room, watching the news. “Reports have come in of several murders that have taken place across London. All victims
approached the jacket slowly, as if it was a stranger hand I want to shake. I touched the leather sleeves those long leather jacket and the dark black color jacket. From the kitchen my loving, kind, sweet mother said my jacket was in my closet. What! No I loved this jacket I didn't want my perfect leather zip, stud perfect jacket to be my pesky brother’s! Walking as slow as a person walking to their cruel fate. I searched that closet from head to toe but I had no luck finding the other jacket the one
I am going to write about a character from the book The Outsiders his name is Dallas Winston also known as “Dally”. I am going to be writing this essay is a first person perspective through journal entries then it was that day…. I was sitting there waiting for Ponyboy and Johnny. So finally they showed up and we went to the drugstore in the shopping center. After a while the movie was starting so we left The Dingo. We snuck through the back fence cuz I hated paying for stupid stuff like this. We
Technology, The Good and The Bad Technology is it good or is it bad? How has it impacted our daily lives? These are the questions we must ask ourselves in society today. Advancements in medicine to how we get from point A to point B on a given day, imagine life without computers for a second. Could it be done? I have noticed people cannot sit at the dinner table anymore without their smartphone in hand. How could this affect society if technology was banned or ceased to exist? Technology offers
easily ripped or torn, the soles often are not glued properly to the shoes, and each pair of shoes is a slightly different size. When cheaper shoes are manufactured the companies use very cheap material such as: low grade plastic, foam, imitation leather, and coarsely woven fabric. Cheap shoes are generally not very comfortable at all. Next, cheap shoes come in styles to appease to the economical customer. These customers are generally the very young and the very old, or those who cannot afford shoes
A hobby is an activity one develops to pursue an interest, outside of one’s regular occupation and engages in them primarily for pleasure. Hobbies range from fly fishing to leather working to star gazing, it can be anything you want it to be and anything you want to do. Having a hobby helps to make you a more interesting person and it can give you the opportunity to meet new people with similar interests. A chain of events may lead you to a new hobby which you had never considered or thought of
having its own shoe maker because Leather shoe was became scare so wooden shoe became popular as relatively cheaper alternative. But it doesn't stayed any longer, now wooden shoes are merely seen anywhere.4(Reference) Leather is a most often natural material used for making shoes. The types of leather used are: pig skin, cow skin, calf leather, reptile leather, goat leather, horse leather. Since it is soft, breathable and adopts feet shape very well.8(Reference) Leather is (usually) made from cows and
The Truth about Tanning Tanning is a world-wide phenomenon that individuals take part in every day. People tan for numerous reasons such as confidence reasons, health reasons, and just for relaxation and enjoyment. Though, many of us are told the negative aspects about tanning, truth be told, there are numerous positives to tanning. Indoor tanning for instance, can control the amount of UV exposure to the individual, and can give the user a “base tan”. A base tan can help eliminate the risk of
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my bed and approached the jacket slowly as if were my favorite football player that was offering a free autograph to only one person, and that person was me. I immediately took off my own jacket and put on the new jacket right away. I looked in my mirror and new that I had never looked better in my life. The silver studs over the crisp leather lining looked like a starry night sky. It was a little bit big, but that was good because I’d be able wear it longer. “Your jackets in the closet.” my mom yelled
your parents for chores in order to make money to pay off your bills. • You had to pawn your CD player to pay for all those cool CDs you bought last month. • Your parents give you funny looks when you leave for school wearing a $500 leather jacket, but ask them for lunch money. Warning Signals You SHOULD have this guide, if you have ever experienced one of these: • You’ve really really wanted to go out one night, but simply couldn’t find the money. • The above, but you couldn’t
her hair back and is wearing her red "North Face" jacket. Jade has an adorable smile on her face. Next to Jade is Mary Attaway leaning over the table wearing a flowered backless shirt with a black sweater. To the right of Mary is Laura Jones. Laura is slightly leaning her head toward her right shoulder and is wearing a blue shirt with a drawstring tie in front. Laura has her arm around Erica Farnsworth, who has a yellow shirt and white jacket on. She looks especially happy; she is smiling from
approached the jacket slowly as if it were a Christmas present that I had already knew what was inside it. The jacket was perfect! It had all the studs that I wanted, the perfect color and the greatest of all quality. Even though it was 3 times my size I still loved it. Then my heart dropped to my stomach. “Your jacket is in the closet!” says my mom. Her voice rung in my ear like a fire alarm that happened out of the blue. I look in the closet to see if there was any other jacket. I open the closet
old, maybe a bit more, but certainly not old enough to drive yet, or maybe she was. She was with her family, I think...no, I assume. Her father (I assume) was the big guy with a red sash on his waist and a jacket with a yin-yang patch on the front right side of it and it was black. The jacket, I mean. Her mother (I assume) was there too, and...I don't remember anything at all about her. There was another kid there, younger than her, and I assumed it was her brother. She was beautiful. Not in the
blue corduroy jacket of the FFA, proudly displaying the FFA emblem on the back, embroidered with blue and gold thread. These members are standing in the center of Freedom Hall; the main auditorium used to hold the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Kentucky. They are anxiously awaiting the first session of the first National Convention to be held in Kentucky. Amidst the sea of blue and gold, one member stands silently in awe of the multitude of people. The sleeves of his blue jacket hang stiffly
yellow cotton jacket has come off its hook. On the “cloakroom floor” it is trampled on - “scuffed and blackened underfoot.” The sequel to this is that “back home”, a mother (presumably the mother of the child whose jacket this is) “puts two and two together” and gets the wrong answer (“makes a...fist of it” in the dialect phrase). We do not know what the right answer would be. One possible reading is that the mother blames the child for being careless and not checking that the jacket was hung on
boyfriend wrapped his face in saran-wrap to get him to stop crying. His stepbrother, who is now dead, was a legendary athlete at Cutter High. Chris looked up to his brother a lot and his death really effected Chris. He wears his brothers old letter jacket all the time because it reminds Chris of him. This is where Mike Barbour and his band of meathead f... ... middle of paper ... ...at such a vulnerable age. I went over some of the different types of abuse in the story, but didn’t cover all of