Category: Party

You’re sitting at home planning a party. You’ve got your list of invitees down. A cupboard full of chips and dips, and a cooler full of beer. You go to your computer and start putting together some mixed CDs of your favorite music. As you gather the songs you notice yourself singing along with one, and your eyes widen, lit up as you a struck with an idea.

‘I should have Karaoke at my party!’

Brilliant! What could be more fun than a Karaoke party? The answer: a lot of things, if you’re not careful! While Karaoke is a pass time enjoyed by people of every age, race, and gender, it’s also something you have to be in the mood for. So what happens if people show up to your party and aren’t in the mood for Karaoke? Get them in the mood.

There are three basic steps to throwing an amazing Karaoke party, and it all starts with invitations.

Step 1: Inviting your guests

With any luck, everyone at your party will have a blast, but do you know who won’t? The people who don’t show up! Karaoke is always fun with a good-sized crowd, but if you aren’t careful, you may lose half of your guests. It’s all about how you present your invitation. There are two different types of people you will be invited to the party; people who love karaoke, and people who like karaoke. The difference is this…

People who LOVE karaoke – Make sure they know this is a karaoke party! This will be the smaller of the two types, but they are also the most important. They will go out of their way to attend, and you will need them during the party.

People who LIKE karaoke – The easiest way to help ensure they will come is to avoid mentioning karaoke, and just tell them you are having a party. Why? While it is true that they enjoy karaoke if they realize your party will focus on this activity, come party day they may think, ‘I’m not really in the mood.’ With people who just like karaoke, this can often be the case, and the number of people attending can make or break a party.

Step 2: The supplies

First and foremost is the karaoke machine. RENT ONE! Unless you own a professional karaoke machine, you should get one. This might seem a little expensive, but if you buy yourself a cheap one and then try to supply yourself with a good selection of music, you’ll end up spending a lot more, and getting a lot less. A good way to cut costs all around is to set up the party with a small group of friends so you can all split the bill.

Just as important as the karaoke machine is the food and beverages. It is a party after all. As far as food goes, avoid really heavy foods. Things like ‘pigs in a blanket’, meatballs, or any sort of dinner food. These foods will make your guests feel sluggish and tired, and when people are tired, they don’t want to sing! Stick to chips, meat and cheese trays, hot wings, and sugary foods. These will keep your guests happy and high energy.

Now, if you want to loosen up your guest’s vocal cords and inhibitions, there’s nothing that does the trick quite like alcohol! Mixed drinks are your best choice. They are fun, flavorful, and, best of all, won’t slow everyone down. Serve fun drinks like Jell-o shots or margaritas. Beer will weigh people down just light heavy foods, so if you are going to serve beer, go with bottled. People tend to drink them a little slower, and there is less beer to them. Wine is generally best avoided, but if you must, go with a White Zinfandel or a Lambrusco. They tend to be more of the ‘party’ wines. Also, make sure you have an ample supply of soda for any non-drinkers. Energy drinks are great too, but a little more expensive.

Step 3: Getting people in the mood

You’re guests have arrived and the party is underway. This is the easy part. Have fun and sing! As the host, you may have to be the first one to sing. Most people don’t want to be first up, so take charge and get things started! Then focus on encouraging the people who ‘LOVE’ karaoke to get up there and sing, and try to get them to drag others up there with them. Many people need someone to sing with them first before they feel comfortable on their own.

Make sure you have people sign up on a list so you have a singing order, and make sure someone enforces that! Nothing can kill a karaoke party like having one drunk guy hog the microphone.

And there you have it! The recipe for a perfect karaoke party. Now, just make sure you don’t wake the neighbors with your 3 am performance of Bohemian Rhapsody.

One part of the Black Panther Party’s mission was having extraordinary achievement they opened their first office handouts with their motivation printed and their locale projects like nourishment drives and giveaways, restorative centers at no charge, and free breakfast programs for the kids were giving them more devotee and supporters all around the states. Police ruthlessness against African-Americans was regular and for the most part, let pass by authorities in Oakland. The BPP concocted an approach to help ensure and demoralize these unjustifiable assaults by watching around any place cops where, when they saw individual blacks being captured would hop out with law books, and read of the privileges of the native, in the event that they happened upon a police ruthlessness in real life they would bring out their weapons, practicing their entitlement to convey stacked hid weapons. Despite the fact that it was lawful these aggressive trademarks were beginning to get to the nearby government and this began the ball rolling. To attempt and put a conclusion to these outfitted residents Governor Reagan passed the Gun Control law. Seale and 30 other men went into the gathering to dissent this new law that was hindering their rights, after the police showed them out he gave this discourse to the media outside the chamber ;

The Black Panther Party calls upon American individuals all in all and dark individuals specifically to take full note of the supremacist California lawmaking body which is currently considering enactment gone for keeping the dark individuals incapacitated and weak, while bigot police organizations all through the nation are heightening the fear, ruthlessness, murder, and suppression of dark individuals.

Dark Party Panthers upheld the utilization of weapons, both for self-protection and to strike back against individuals who accepted to mistreat poor people. The threatening vibe between the Panthers and the police prompted a few shoot-outs. After a weapon fight in the city of West Oakland in October of 1967 that brought about the passing of cop John Frey Huey Newton was captured and accused of the homicide of a white Oakland cop. Following his capture a ‘Free Huey’ crusade began operating at a profit Panther Party and drew the help of many including youthful white Americans who were against the Vietnam period war. In 1968 another real player was captured, Bobby Seale amid Anti-war showings on connivance to murder the President of the United States, Richard Nixon. He was later vindicated of the charges.

While this Revolution is getting like a fierce blaze over the United States, the FBI at that point was headed by J. Edgar Hoover. The legislature named them radical and battle-ready associations. The administration dreaded what was going on and what could occur if the Black Panther Party became bigger and took a more prominent dependable balance, J. Edgar Hoover once called the BPP ‘the best danger to the inside security of this country.’Around this time Hoover made the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), the target of this program was to spy, penetrate, damage, and disband extreme gatherings. One of the greatest hits to the BPP the FBI took was the homicide of Fred Hampton, a BPP executive in Chicago. He was supposed to have been in charge of the homicide of two Chicago cops. FBI had witnesses all through the BPP so they had one get the floor plans to Fred Hampton’s condo and completed a night assault on his home. Hampton was slaughtered alongside another BPP part, named Mark Clark.

Fred Hampton was dead, a noteworthy player in the Illinois BPP development, Bobby Seal was ousted from backstabbing, and Huey Newton was combating chronic drug use, self-outcast, and loss of help. Dark Panther Party started to disintegrate after two close yet ineffective endeavors at getting a Black Panther Party delegate into office it was clear, the FBI had been fruitful in its damage turning the Panthers against one another and other supporting gatherings estranging them from their very own kin by in a manner winding them to must be turned out to be increasingly aggressive. The BPP split away one side remaining to the network projects and helping the general population and the other proceeding with their extreme ways driving the upheaval forward. While the BPP committed grave errors in its transformation, the BPP made gigantic jumps of progress and made a few critical new commitments to the personal satisfaction of blacks in America. This gathering’s activities were important to achieve genuine opportunity for the future ages to come; furnished battle, independence, dealing with the general population, and knowing and battling for their rights. The Black Panther Party was one of the last social equality bunches for dark equity that had such a noteworthy effect on the dark networks that united them.

How Paying for The Party connects to our college live

Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality is a book written by Elizabeth A. Armstrong& Laura T. Hamilton that discussed some typical phenomena happening in college in the method of research. The keyword pointed out by Armstrong and Hamilton is the existence of several “pathways” that college students can take through the university experience. These pathways include three main pathways which influence the students the most: the party pathway, the mobility pathway, and the professional pathway. As a formal student at the University of Delaware, the applications of these pathways can be found in my college life as well, which I will discuss further in the following essay.

The party pathway, as the author described, is built around an implicit agreement between the college and students to demand little of each other. (2014, Armstrong& Hamilton) The core group of this pathway is those students who are extremely rich but with average academic credentials. These groups, because of their abundant economic conditions, can support them not to occupy the financial resources of the school during the school period, while reducing their personal standard of their own academic condition. Indirectly allow universities to give more resources to students who are in financial difficulties. The result of the party pathway is not only the unqualified education for those students but also their important family resources and contacts, in which these resources and contacts have arranged jobs for them after graduation, regardless of their educational background. Result rich-kind student can lower their demand for those majors that can bring high income (and requires working hard) in the future and spend as much time as they study without reducing time spent on entertainment. This has also prevented student to walk on the mobility pathway because students who have financial problem seeks for entering the parties but does not have enough resources to support them, which denied their further interaction with the parties. This phenomenon will cause these students to struggle to succeed because they will neither gain resources and support from parties nor success in academics since they spend too much time on social networking. A real example happened to one of my friends who also come from China to study here. Unlike my family, his family is extremely rich and has a sound capital base. When we are all freshmen, he chooses to study hospitality management in order to inherit his family business. In class, he met a friend who also came from China, but his family condition was only ordinary middle class. While they exchange information during social communication in a group, the rich side becomes the center of the social circle at ease. The weaker side wants to integrate into the social circle of the rich to get more resources, To achieve this, they eat, drink, and entertain together every day, and the result of spending too much time and energy on social entertainment is decadence in the academic area. Last year, they both dropped out due to their lack of attendance and bad academic performance and can no longer maintain the status of their F-1 visa. After they both go back to China, the rich one is still the center of the party, and he told me his father can still support him to complete higher education using another method if he wants to. On the other side, the middle-class classmate directly goes to work with a high school diploma since his family no longer has the financial ability to support him, which splits him further from the party he originally wants to join. Like the research case provided in the book, among the less popular students that Armstrong and Hamilton followed, those who moved to regional universities or community colleges were actually more successful than those who tried to stick with the parties in University, although the result is they were less successful in their careers than other students that graduate in the same year with rich family resources, all of the six working-class students in Armstrong and Hamilton’s floor successfully graduated in five Graduation years. This can show the bond between party and individual in University is actually not decisive, though still attractive by its charm. But until states invest more in higher education, it is likely that universities will find it hard to turn their attention away from students who bring the most tuition fees and donations. (2014, Hamilton)

The mobility pathway, however, is considered negative if we use common sense to judge it. Influenced by some parents’ relationships and resources, the jobs their children will get after graduation are already prepared. This has resulted in bad professional ethics in a few privileged classes and has a bad impact on those unfortunate students who are in the mobility pathway around them. These students are driven by pressure to challenge themselves academically, and rise up in life to succeed, which leads to a goal that increases their class status. Most managers are committed to improving the quality of education and academic level, serving first-generation and ethnic minority students. Their goals are well aligned with the mobility pathway. (2014, Hamilton). Since the tuition fee of UD is not low in the standard of a Private American University, students of a mobility pathway would probably work harder. I once had a chance to meet with an Arabic student called Mohannad, who had won a scholarship with outstanding academic achievements. He came from a very unknown Arab States in worldwide (the name of the country begins with Y). He told me that, unlike other Arabic students he knows, he neither has any relatives that live in the United States nor a family with extensive social connections. He came from a normal middle-class family and passed the University entrance examination all by his own effort. He had no background advantage compared to other students entering UD at the same time, but this willingness to change the situation becomes what drives him to succeed. The social capital that he lacks is going to be built in his generation. From what we had talked about in the lecture, it is unclear how to measure social capital in contemporary society due to the increase in non-place-based connections facilitated by the rise of internet communication, can also be said that social capital is decreasing. This will hinder his development of networking to some extent, but being an international student means that he has access to a wider range of social resources, which will reduce this hinder. Hamilton and Armstrong conclude their book with another reference to Alana, a mobile path student who overcame the hinders in front of her when she was at MU and graduated. However, she began to work without a degree, which shows that students on a mobility pathway do have more choices for the future since they work harder.

Last but not least, Armstrong and Hamilton talked about professional pathways, which might be the most common pathway for students in traditional thoughts: Regardless of external factors, students get skills for some specific jobs that they consider as their career goals. As all educational institutions do, UD provides resources, for example, a library and academic counseling. These resources are developed to help students get better with their academic skills because this is the original meaning of education. Rationally speaking, a professional pathway is good for all individuals whose social identity is a student. However, financial status and social status matters. Higher education is not affordable for everybody. To some extent, the existence of party pathways and mobility pathways are the outcome of social hierarchy problems. As an ideal way to study in college, the professional pathway is more advanced, the core of the professional pathway is competition (2014, Armstrong& Hamilton) since the individuals on this pathway have a clear target (such as an entry top program or internship) and wills to pay effort in order to gain more resources. In UD, these settled goals are like study abroad chances and scholarship funds. Because these goals are set higher than the general academic goals, we can find that students on the professional pathway are highly qualified and well-prepared for further competition.

In conclusion, Armstrong and Hamilton identified a range of ways students could go through college experiences. These include approaches based on the gatherings of social groups, improving class status, and developing professionalism and acquiring skills. Each pathway generalized some unique behavior that familiar to college students, such as UD students. The impact of different roads is also very different, which needs us to pay attention to and take it seriously.

Infatuation… Warmth… Happiness… Those are the words people think of when they hear the word love. People seem to feel that love only has positive traits because the negative ones are often overlooked people find themselves exhausting significant amounts of energy on one person, creating unhealthy side effects. Love is a very strong force that can scientifically change the levels of chemicals in your body which can cause irrational actions and amplified feelings.

In Act II, Scene II of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the son of the Montague family, Romeo, immediately falls in love with the daughter of the Capulets, Juliet, shortly after meeting her at a party. When leaving the party, Romeo sneaks up onto Juliet’s balcony to hear her saying that she would “deny [her] father and refuse [the] name” of being a Capulet to be with Romeo (Shakespeare, 2.2.38). She says this because Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family have had a long history of rivalry but Juliet fell so deeply in love with Romeo that she was willing to abandon her family name so that she could be with a boy she just met at a party. Later in the story, Romeo and Juliet confess their love for each other. Romeo explains that he has a “night’s cloak to hide [him] from [her kinsmen’s] sight” and that he would not care if he died when Juliet expresses her concern for his life (Shakespeare, 2.2.81). Romeo felt that he would do anything for Juliet because he was so in love with her, and this made his actions of climbing into the castle of his family rivals and not caring about his death irrational.

In “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love,” Helen Fisher uses scientific research to explain the great phenomenon of love. Fisher explains that when humans are particularly attracted to each other, or they have fallen in love, levels of dopamine and norepinephrine are elevated. When dopamine levels are elevated in the brain, it “produce[s]

Infatuation… Warmth… Happiness… Those are the words people think of when they hear the word love. People seem to feel that love only has positive traits because the negative ones are often overlooked people find themselves exhausting significant amounts of energy on one person, creating unhealthy side effects. Love is a very strong force that can scientifically change the levels of chemicals in your body which can cause irrational actions and amplified feelings.

In Act II, Scene II of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the son of the Montague family, Romeo, immediately falls in love with the daughter of the Capulets, Juliet, shortly after meeting her at a party. When leaving the party, Romeo sneaks up onto Juliet’s balcony to hear her saying that she would “deny [her] father and refuse [the] name” of being a Capulet to be with Romeo (Shakespeare, 2.2.38). She says this because Romeo’s family and Juliet’s family have had a long history of rivalry but Juliet fell so deeply in love with Romeo that she was willing to abandon her family name so that she could be with a boy she just met at a party. Later in the story, Romeo and Juliet confess their love for each other. Romeo explains that he has a “night’s cloak to hide [him] from [her kinsmen’s] sight” and that he would not care if he died when Juliet expresses her concern for his life (Shakespeare, 2.2.81). Romeo felt that he would do anything for Juliet because he was so in love with her, and this made his actions of climbing into the castle of his family rivals and not caring about his death irrational.

In “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love,” Helen Fisher uses scientific research to explain the great phenomenon of love. Fisher explains that when humans are particularly attracted to each other, or they have fallen in love, levels of dopamine and norepinephrine are elevated. When dopamine levels are elevated in the brain, it “produce[s] extremely focused attention, as well as unwavering motivation and goal-driven behaviors” which can be translated to the central characteristics of romantic love (Fisher, 428). Things such as dwelling on the beloved and having that person be the only thing they can think about are examples of these characteristics. The elevation of another chemical, norepinephrine, can have side effects that are some basic characteristics of romantic love. Fisher states that “exhilaration, excessive energy, sleeplessness, and the loss of appetite” are all produced when the levels of norepinephrine in your body are increased (Fisher, 430). This can explain the excessive energy used to think about a significant other when someone is in love, causing unusual changes in hygiene.

In “The Raven,” the speaker is reading a book when all of a sudden he hears a knock at his door. He opens the door, seeing nothing but darkness “[a]nd the only word there spoken [is] the whispered word, ’Lenore?’” when he says it (Poe, 423). This tells us that he is expecting someone named Lenore, a past lover of his that is no longer with him, making him only think about her. When no one responds and Lenore does not show up, he walks back into his home until he hears another knock. The speaker opens the door again and sees “a stately Raven” on the chamber door and speaks to the bird (Poe, 423). This demonstrates that the speaker is delusional because he is hearing sounds inside his head and talking to a bird, hoping that one day Lenore would show up at his door.

In the end, people usually overlook the negative traits of “falling in love” and usually get caught up in the fantasy that they are living when in love. When someone is deeply in love, chemicals in their body make it so that their significant other is the only thing that they can think about, making them unable to sleep or think properly. This obsessiveness can cause amplified feelings which can lead to irrational actions.