It is a show on television that we as Americans have never had or experienced before. It is in your face about social issues that need to be confronted immediately and doesn’t seem to shy away from anything. It conveys messages and helps shape peoples’ opinions on stereotypes and the characteristics that are associated with these stereotypes. By portraying reality through typical high school students lives‚ Glee tries to construct social realities in American life by focusing on gender‚ sexuality
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commonsense knowledge that people use to understand the situations in which they find themselves.” For this requirement‚ I had to “break the rules” during a specific activity and observe the results. I chose a rather safe approach to this requirement‚ breaking the rules of how I should behave when speaking to someone. I tried this out on two people‚ my boyfriend‚ and an acquaintance. Usually‚ it is not expected and probably considered rude to suddenly grab the face of someone you are talking to and then
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In the series Breaking Bad‚ Walter White‚ a high school chemistry teacher finds out he has cancer and teams up with an old student to cook meth. His motivation to cook meth comes from the need to provide for his family after his death. Walt’s desperateness for money causes greed and a constant craving of power. In the beginning of Breaking Bad‚ Walter White’s desperateness immediately appears when he learns that he has lung cancer and only has a few months to live. After hearing the bad news‚ Walter
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on the journey will hold great significance. This is one of the many ideas I have learnt from my study of “Journeys” during my area of study analysis. To journey is to move from one point to another‚ not just in a physical sense but in imaginative ways as well. As we journey we learn new things about ourselves‚ the world around us and life in general. This is particularly evident in the prescribed text “Away” by Micheal Gow in which the characters go through much pain and suffering to ultimately
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someone or something moves from one place to another. The film‚ Cast Away‚ directed by Robert Zemeckis‚ shows concepts of physical journey by using the character Chuck Noland who trapped in an isolated and uninhabited island as a result of a plane crash. Through the film‚ Robert Zemeckis shows that physical journeys are often arduous by nature‚ a person can feel isolated during the journey‚ and a physical journey can be repeated in the reverse order. The film Cast Away reflects the idea that physical
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starting a world wide struggle that would eventually kill 9 million people. World War I had the Allies made up of Britain‚ Belgium‚ France‚ Serbia‚ Russia‚ Japan‚ Italy‚ and the of course the United States. The Central Powers made up of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ the Ottoman Empire‚ and Bulgaria. In the beginning of the war France‚ Germany and Britain made trenches that went for 460 miles‚ from the North Sea to Switzerland. Millions of people would die in this trench over the next four years. Most of the
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Crime is the breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. I believe that every country has some problems with crime‚ Lithuania isn’t an exception too. It’s not a secret that crime rate in Lithuania is rather high. According to the statistics the crime rate is about 50 % higher than it was 20 years ago‚ so a growth of crime is uncontrolled. Most often committed crime in Lithuania is probably thievery. For some people in Lithuania it’s the
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Even though the colonists were breaking British law‚ the colonists had a right to rebel for they were unfairly taxed without representation and subjected to a king over 3000 miles away. Some people still on both the colonials and the British crown were attempting to avoid a full scale war even after they had begun fighting‚ like in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Most of the colonists did not want war because these were the people that they had been living with‚ and protected by the British for over 150
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Breaking the Social Norm My social norm was walking on campus backwards for an entire day. This was a major challenge to me because when people are not doing the expected in a social environment‚ I have many opinions on those particular people. So this was definitely a new experience for me. When I first knew this was my idea‚ I was very nervous and anxious. I was so worried about what other students on campus would think about me. I had various questions going on in my mind. What were others
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Breaking through the Silence An elderly woman waits along the sidewalk as the Metro bus full of student swings by to pick her up. As she enters‚ she holds a number of 99¢ Store bags in hand. She is clearly Hispanic‚ her brown skin and white hair and her modesty stand out. The bus continues its route. The elderly woman knows her stop is coming up. But she obviously strains to put her words together when notifying the bus driver. Impatient and incomprehensive‚ he simply ignores her. Seeing this
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