Let me get right to the point: The Big Short is as sharp as a serrated 100$ bill. Ever reminiscent of The Wolf Of Wall Street (with much less sexual exploitation)‚ The Big Short tackles serious themes with flare without ever forgetting to bring the viewer along for the ride. Just as Jordan Belfort would interject witty remarks to keep Wall Street fresh and as beautifully self indulgent as its protagonist‚ The Big Short allows the great Ryan Gosling to narrate and keep you up to date with the help
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Adult women have learned to hate the blackness of their own bodies. The person that suffers the most from the white beauty standards is Pecola. Pecola wants blue eyes not because it conforms to white beauty standards but because she wants to view different sights and pictures to escape reality. To Pecola‚ the color of one’s skin and eyes do influence the way one is treated. Pecola is beautiful because she is human‚ but this beauty is invisible to the community who has identified beauty with whiteness
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Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish tells the story of a father and son trying to communicate and make up for lost time at the time of the father’s death. In the novel‚ the father’s death takes place in four different stories or "takes." In the midst of these accounts of his death‚ we are told through stories and tall tales just what the father‚ Edward Bloom‚ was really like. Throughout the story are one page chapters where the story shifts and the life of Edward Bloom is told by others and through this
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The book The Eye of Minds is an amazing‚ one of a kind book. The Eye of Minds is the first book in the series of three by James Dashner. At the end of this book you are left with a unexpected cliff hanger‚ which definitely makes me want to read the second and third book. I am not usually a fan of reading. However‚ I found this book to be very interesting and enjoyable reading . The book is a masterpiece and I’ve never read anything like it before. The book is based on the planet Earth set in
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At the end of chapter 8 in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye‚ the reader is reminded of a graphic scene that was mentioned on the first page of the book between a father and his daughter. In this chapter‚ Cholly comes home very drunk and rapes his daughter‚ Pecola. While almost all of Morrison’s readers cannot understand‚ at the beginning of the book‚ how a man could impregnate his own daughter‚ they later start to grasp at why Cholly could do such a thing because of his past. Tragically‚ Cholly is
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Blood Brothers is a very intricately crafted play‚ full of techniques and themes that create a complex and brilliant piece. During Blood brothers there are a variety of relationships between different characters. These relationships are portrayed using many different techniques‚ which are subtle and clever. For example‚ the relationship between Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons is shown to be quite distant‚ which is very realistic of the women’s different status at that time. This is presented through
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An Eye-Opening Experience One of the most terryfing and eye opening experiences is when I went through a car accident. I was on my way to go to my aunt’s house‚ and then out of nowhere a car came and hit us.Both cars were completely wrecked‚ and people came to see what happened and tried helping us. I fainted and was covered with bruises and blisters all over. I was litreally about to die. When I was hospitilized‚ the fact that I was about to die kept me thinking and askded myself‚’’Am I ready
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Eye on the prize It was an enthusiastic decision I made‚ going back to school. Fall term‚ 2013‚ I ventured back to Mount Hood Community College to finish my business transfer degree. It was a familiar place‚ in its structure and appearance‚ but the energy I had to be there made it seem so much more exciting than my past experience. I had taken a couple terms at this school before‚ but I found myself completely uninterested. I needed a break from school. The last 13 years of my life I spent in a
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has tips for being prepared in the event of a terrorist attack. This information is available at the DHS website‚ www.ready.gov. The Eagle Eyes program is an anti-terrorism initiative that enlists the eyes and ears of Air Force members and citizens in the war on terror. The program reveals some typical activities in which terrorists engage to plan their attacks. How You Can Help Anti-Terrorism Efforts in the Northern District of Georgia Preventing terrorist
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The Big Rocks of Life! One day a wise teacher was speaking to a group of his students. He pulled out a one-gallon‚ wide-mouthed mason jar and set it on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them‚ one at a time‚ into the jar. When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside‚ he asked‚ "Is this jar full?" Everyone in the class said‚ "Yes." "Really?" he asked. "Let’s see." He reached under the table and pulled
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