On September 7‚ 2012‚ Amanda Todd posted a 9-minute YouTube video entitled “My Story: Struggling‚ Bullying‚ Suicide and Self Harm‚” which showed her using flash cards to reveal her experiences of being bullied. During the video‚ Amanda writes that when she was in seventh grade‚ she once used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and soon began receiving compliments on her looks. A stranger convinced Amanda to flash her breasts on camera. The stranger later blackmailed her with threats to
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Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie recounts a beautiful story about a single mother and her family struggling to make a living during the depression. Amanda‚ a single mother‚ viewed as a hopeless romantic woman longing to find a husband for her oldest child. Laura‚ the oldest child‚ was a quite‚ imaginative women who admired the small things in life. Tom‚ the main support for the family‚ was written as a powerful young man with different opinions and ways of living than society would accept
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prominent stars: Vilma Santos‚ Christopher De Leon‚ Piolo Pascual‚ Marvin Agustin‚ Carlos Agassi‚ Danilo Barrios‚ and John Wayne Sace. Set in the ‘70s in Urban Metro Manila. This is a story revolving around a rotation of drama between a married couple (Amanda and Julian) and their five growing boys who have witnessed the shaping of the decade‚ and their growing involvement in the country’s politics. It details the struggles and the changes that the people have to face under Marcos’regime in his proclamation
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With the help of Patrick‚ he is able to use his status as a private investigator to get information from his local contacts. He finds out Helene was not at home when Amanda was abducted‚ but was in fact snorting cocaine at a local bar with her boyfriend Skinny Ray. Further information is discovered that Helene and Ray had brought Amanda with them on a drug run into New Hampshire. The police raided their accomplices‚ leaving the three with the money. Helene tells her boss‚ the Haitan drug lord Cheese
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and community mobility. Also to provide the patient with education to help prevent another stroke. To abide by the Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC) code of Professional Conduct (2002) on confidentiality the patient will be referred to as Amanda. Amanda was a 56 years old lady‚ who lived with her husband. She had four children. She smoked 20-30 cigarettes a day for the 25 years and drinks alcohol occasionally. Her past medical
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the glass menagerie serves as main representation of Laura’s conflict. However‚ this conflict can be represented by Laura’s glass menagerie in which she blocks herself from the world. Also‚ the menagerie serves as the disappointment held deeply by Amanda. The feelings and bond held between Jim and Laura can also be seen through the glass figurines. The representation of multiple feelings and relationships through one major symbol creates a central dogma with which the so-called house was built.
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of Lualhati Bautista’s prize-winning novel Dekada 70 chronicles a middle-class Filipino family who‚ over the space of a decade‚ become aware of the political policies that have ultimately led to repression and a state of martial law. Vilma Santos stars as Amanda‚ who realizes the implications of living within a dictatorship after sorting out the contradictory reactions of her husband and five sons. Julian‚ her husband‚ supports his eldest son’s efforts to rail against the government while simultaneously refusing
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All right! What about Laura? AMANDA. We have to be making some plans and provisions for her… TOM. I guess she’s the type that people call home girls. AMANDA. There’s no such type‚ and if there is‚ it’s a pity! That is unless the home is hers‚ with a husband.”
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Raymond’s Run and Maniac Magee. I think these two stories are saying sometimes you need friends in life. In Maniac Magee Maniac/Jeffrey meets a girl at school named Amanda Beale. Amanda shows Jeffrey her books in her bag and Jeffery is shocked. Jeffrey wants to borrow a book and then they both start talking to each other and then Amanda has to go inside of the school. Then Jeffrey starts living with The Beales. Later on‚ in the story‚ something happens to Jeffrey that he doesn’t like and he wants to
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the humus for the renowned religious-political event‚ the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution. [2] Dekada 70 journeys with the central character Amanda Bartolome (Vilma Santos)‚ the reticent wife of an alpha-male husband‚ and the worrying mother of a boisterous all-male brood. Thoroughly relegated to domesticity in a world slathered in testosterone‚ Amanda begins to undergo a transformation when her family becomes imbricated in the sociopolitical realities brought about by the Marcos dictatorship.
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