Flight or Fight Specific Purpose: Inform people about the “Fight or Flight” response and the better understand the way the body responds to certain stress. I. Introduction: Driving your parents home one night you begin to lose control of the car and crash. You’re able to escape the car unharmed‚ but notice one of your parents are stuck inside with the door jammed and the car on fire. Your heart rate begins to rise and you feel this surge of energy flow through your body. You react and rip the
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The movie‚ “The Breakfast Club‚” by John Hughes takes place at a high school in Illinois‚ where 5 kids have to come in on a Saturday for detention. These kids are all teenagers going through different walks of life‚ under the responsibility of a “power-hungry” teacher. At the beginning of the movie‚ the kids start out practically hating all of each other. As the movie progresses‚ the kids begin to tell their stories‚ and you begin to know a little bit about each person. You begin to learn why the
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culture of political correctness and female empowerment‚ Fight Club would have never been written. However‚ Fight club offers a unique and new definition of the word masculinity in the context of self-help and violent empowerment rather than modern day’s overbearing and crude meninism. As Tyler Durden proclaimed “we are the middle children of history‚ no great war‚ we have no depression. Our depression is our lives” (Palahniuk 35). Fight Club is an irresistibly fast‚ timely and quotable book which
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The Panyee Football Club By: Kira Hampton In stories‚ characters learn to work together to achieve their common goal. In the Panyee Football Club movie‚ the boys learn to do that too. In the Panyee Football Club movie‚ the boys learn that they all have to work together and all pitch in to achieve a common goal by‚ all helping to build the pitch with not much supplies‚ they practiced after school when they could have been doing something else‚ and most of all‚ the caught up in a game they were
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joyHigh-context Cultures and Low-context Cultures The Joy Luck Club explores the clash between Chinese culture and American culture. One way of understanding the difference is to look at communication in these cultures. Chinese culture can be classified as a high-context culture and American culture as a low-context culture. First I will define these terms‚ then explain the significance of these two categories‚ and finally apply them to The Joy Luck Club. * Culture is the way of living which a group of
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There is one underappreciated factor in John Hughes’ 80s high school movies that make them so good‚ and that’s the acting. In one of the most well known films to this day‚ The Breakfast Club‚ the condescending Mr. Richard Vernon (Paul Gleason) supervises detention where five students with completely different personalities felt trapped‚ but by being stuck together‚ they learned they had more in common than they thought possible. There was an athlete‚ a criminal‚ a princess‚ a basket case‚ and a brain;
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“Devon has a book club?” is a question probably a lot of kids at this school would ask. Though not the most populous of Devon’s extracurricular activities‚ the book club is an important intellectual outlet in which students with exceptional interest in the literary arts may go to read-up on some of the best works of literature out there. Despite being a relatively young club of only one year of age‚ the book club has taken part in the reading and analysis of such works as Orwell’s 1984‚ Stephen King’s
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center themes‚ there would be no story of Excalibur. In the movie‚ "Excalibur" a lot of magical incidents took place‚ mostly done by Merlin. If not for Merlin‚ Arthur wouldn’t had ever been alive. Merlin is the one that conjoured up "the dragons breath" which allowed Uther to change his own identity in order to have sex with Tintagil’s wife ‚ and thus Arthur was born. Excalibur‚ Uther’s sword‚ was created solely by some sort of magical forces. Merlin uses his magic through out the entire movie. Merlin
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The Breakfast Club is very different from almost every other entry into what was (at the time) a burgeoning genre. Instead of relying on the staples of bare flesh‚ crass humor‚ and brainless plots‚ this movie focuses on five dissimilar characters‚ is almost entirely dialogue-driven‚ and doesn’t offer even a glimpse of a breast or buttock. It’s a story about communication gaps‚ teen isolation‚ and the angst that everyone (regardless of how self-assured they seem) experiences during the years that
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to them by their mothers. They spoke of American husbands‚ equality between both sexes‚ and how they ’d rather believe that their futures could indeed be controlled. This novel being reviewed for recommendation in minority studies is The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ where the minority groups being presented are both the Chinese Gelman Page 2 and women. The view seen of women in the United States is that of a rising class; once always under the wing of a male‚ but in the present day‚ rising to
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