1). The documentary My Beautiful Broken Brian is a story about a 34 year old women named Lotje who documented her 1 year long journey of recovery. She suffered from a hemorrhagic stroke‚ which leas to aphasia. 2). A hemorrhagic stroke can occur when a blood vessel raptures in the brain‚ causing bleeding within the brain. The bleeding in the brain causes brain cells to die and that part of the brain where the brain cells are dying can be affected and that part of the brain will stop working correctly
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Brian Black introduces the impact of mass consumption and petrochemicals on our society in his article Oil for Living: Petroleum and American Conspicuous Consumption. Black uses the World Fair ride‚ Futurama‚ to explain the futuristic ideas of utopia while introducing the idea of America being an ecology of oil. Black moves forward to describe the continuous spending after WWII developing into what is now called mass consumption‚ named due to the dramatic transformation of living patterns after WWII
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In the talk given by Randy Pausch‚ Achieving Your Childhood Dreams‚ Pausch gave some of his personal insights on life. He began his presentation by addressing the “awkward elephant” in the room‚ explaining that he had liver cancer and was expecting to live three to six months. Pausch quickly establishes that this is not something that he wishes pity for‚ but rather‚ conveys his attitude that these were the cards that have been dealt to him and he simply has to make the best of what he has left. During
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When Brian was out alone in the Canadian wilderness‚ he needed to survive. He used survival strategies to stay alive. Some of these strategies were learning from trial and error‚ and being observant. Yet another‚ was using the power of positive thinking. One of the first survival strategies Brian used was learning from trial and error. The first time Brian used this was when he was flying the plane. Brian let the plane down slowly‚ then raised it back up again. Brian also used this when he was
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Different people define success in many different ways. What is considered success by one person may be viewed as failure by another person. Randy Shilts‚ a homosexual newspaper reporter / author‚ attempts to make fundamental changes in America’s opinion on AIDS. In Randy Shilts’s essay‚ "Talking AIDS to Death‚" he speaks of his experiences as an "AIDS celebrity." At the core of Shilts’s essay is the statement‚ "Never before have I succeeded so well; never before have I failed so miserably"(221)
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Brian Doyle’s work‚ Joyas Voladoras‚ is about humming birds‚ a whale‚ worms‚ and a cat dragging itself into the forest to die. He uses a lot of metaphors and anthropomorphism in his style to grab your attention. By describing the life we live and how we love‚ Doyle compares and contrasts differences and similarities between the Hummingbird‚ Tortoise‚ Blue whale‚ small insects and humans. He talks about love and emotion‚ insecurities and loneliness‚ and childhood memories. Doyle emphasizes that
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In the graphic novel‚ The Private Eye by Brian K. Vaughan‚ Marcos Martin‚ and Muntsa Vicente‚ a society has their private released in an event known as the ‘Cloudburst’. Now‚ all personal and private information is out in the open‚ therefore there are no secrets and privacy has been severely threatened. Behaving just like humans do‚ they either find a way to hide from the threat or fight it. As a solution to their problem‚ the people decide to hide faces with masks. The masks can have a double meaning
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most of the information we know about it comes from letters written by slave ship captains‚ slave traders‚ or people that opposed the trade all together. We have very little firsthand accounts from actual slaves as to what life was like for them. Randy J. Sparks’‚ "The Two Princes of Calabar‚" reveals a bit of this mystery by telling the tale of two Princes out of Old Calabar that were captured and forced into slavery but were able to record some of their travels and eventually find their way back
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Brian Crane Throughout history‚ social norms have dictated the opinions of all members of society to a certain extent. Expressing disapproval of these social norms is a difficult and ambitious task‚ seeing as one challenging a social norm is essentially disputing‚ in addition to often disproving‚ the reasoning and opinions of the majority of any given culture. Take‚ for example‚ the ending of one ’s own life under the circumstances of terminal illness. Now‚ our basic and most common cultural
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Why was building a raft challenging for Brian? 4.) How did Brian solve his problems with the raft? 5.) How does Brian in this chapter show us he has learned to be patient? 1.) How did Brian get into the plane? 2.) What does Brian think about he noticed the pilot’s head? 3.) How was Brian able to calm himself after he saw the pilot’s head? 4.) How long did it take Brian to get to the plane‚ get the survival bag and get back to his camp? 1.) How did Brian feel about the items in the survival bag
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