Tushall Sharma Scott Lankford English 1A / Essay 2 / Prompt 1 03/17/2015 Overcoming Odds the Singaporean Way: Lee Kuan Yew Once a small fishing village with almost no natural resources‚ Singapore has flourished into a point of pride for the world. As Nicolas Berggruen‚ a famous French investor and philanthropist said‚ “Singapore was created out of the swamp‚ with a strong emotional idea: a safe place mostly for Chinese‚ but accepting other cultures and other races.” Singapore had been at a disadvantage
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BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM Stereotypes generally refer to statements made from members of society about ceratin groups‚ at times regarding appearance‚ culture‚ disability‚ this includes things such as; all men do it better than women or mainstream women are not as conserved as cultured women‚ assuming someone by appearance is also a stereotype; a girl has black hair and favours the colour black‚ she is most likely to be stereotyped based purely on non fiction opinions created by society. In Bend
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novel and also cuts herself off from the society she lives in through the idols that the Trojans dearly believe in. These idols served as a way to take hold of the Trojans and make them believe in something thus‚ giving them all a purpose in life. As the belief grows stronger‚ more idols such as “Helen and the Trajan horse” also beginning to surface to give the people a purpose which is like believing in deception‚ made up idols in order to empower individuals
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My two texts are “The Namesake” and “Bend it like Beckham”. Our prescribed text‚ Jhumpa Lahiris “The Namesake” explores the link to belonging in detail. The emphasis is on Gogol Ganguli. Gogol struggles with a sense of belonging to his family and his Bengali culture and heritage throughout his life in the course of the novel. Born and raised in the U.S.‚ while his parents spent their entire life in India following Bengali culture and practices and moved on to America as young adults. Gogol must try
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What key principles did you see in the assignment? The key principals I saw in Idols of the Heart‚ was the idea that we are all worshipers of something. We were created to worship God‚ but in our fallen state we have misplaced worship. Anything that we worship that is not God is an Idol. Idols are just not physical things‚ but anything that we give our passion‚ devotion‚ and love to. But these idols will give dissatisfaction instead of sustenance. We desire completion and fulfillment of
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Table of Contents Executive Summary 1. Introduction 1.1 Behavioural Learning Theory 3 1.1.1 Classical Conditioning 3 1.1.2 Operant Conditioning 3 2. Reinforcement Theory 4 2.1 Application of theories 4 2.1.1 MasterChef Australia 4 2.1.2 The Biggest Loser 5 2.1.3 The Block 5 3. Involvement Theory 5 3.1 Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) 6 3.2 High Involvement 6 3.3 Low Involvement 6 3.4 Cognitive and passive (Left and Right brain) 7 4. Conclusion 5
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What you want versus family expectations are common though out most family households. In the movie ’Bend it like Beckham’ we saw the conflict between Jess and her parents on how they feel and what they want for her‚ how Jess sees the situation‚ and how it is resolved. Mr. Bhamra‚ Jess’s father is worried about Jess playing soccer in fear she will get hurt like he did when he wanted to play fastball‚ he was discriminated because of the way he looked. He wasn’t allowed to play on any of the teams
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The movie “Bend it like Beckham” is about a young Indian girl trying to break stereotypes and adventure out to be a great soccer player just like her hero David Beckham. The main character Jesminder Bhamra‚ nicknamed Jess‚ wants to play soccer but her parents have a different plan for her. The parents want their daughter to leave sports and focus on finding a husband just like her sister Pinky did‚ by marrying a nice Indian man and learning how to cook. Jess is trying to fulfill her dreams without
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An important event near the end of the film “Bend it Like Beckham” directed by Gurinder Chadha was Jess’s final football match. It was important because it was the climax of the film. Jess’s dream was to be a professional football player. Jess’s culture and tradition were in the way of achieving her dream. In order to achieve her dream she had to use deception. Verbal and visual features such as camera work‚ symbols and music were used throughout the film to show that the event was important.
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The story of David and Goliath is one which is well known for exemplifying what it means to be an underdog or to work through disadvantages. The story pits a duel between David‚ a small peasant farmer‚ and Goliath‚ a tall‚ strong‚ soldier who knows his way around hand to hand combat. Knowing this was Goliath’s specialty‚ David takes a different approach and decides to use a slingshot as his weapon instead of a sword as Goliath had expected. Not only does this catch Goliath off guard‚ but it also
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