Good afternoon. I am pleased to announce that one of our students‚ Marissa Kelleher‚ has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. Today‚ I presented Marissa the Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). About 34‚000 Commended Students throughout the nation (and the only one at GHS!) are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit
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Centrally planned economy is defined as an economic system whereby economic factors are fixed by central authorities namely the states and the government of a respective nation. Such system is as opposed to one where decisions are made by private residents and companies‚ specifically the market economic system. Centrally planned economy approaches toward an assumption in which the market does not revolve around the utmost interest of the people‚ and that central power decisions are required in
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helping Annika and her friends‚ she became closer to her and met her father‚ Craig. They later fell for each other that had made her to break up with her boyfriend and pursue her life with Craig. Most evident type of conflict that can be found in the movie‚ Laggies‚ is the approach-avoidance conflict which
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Szner “Bamboozled” written and directed by Spike Lee is an outstanding movie describing a problem of racial injustice in the United States. I can say so because while watching it‚ I felt constantly anxious and interested about what was going on screen. All of the characters in “Bamboozled” were amazingly grotesque‚ and that was why I had to be more cautious to grasp the essence of the picture. The protagonist of the movie‚ Pierre Delacroix (whose real name is Peerless Dothan)‚ is a well-educated
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produced by Steven Spielberg and released in 2012‚ stars Daniel Day-Lewis as President Lincoln. Written by Tony Kushner‚ the film was inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Set in 1865 the movie focuses on President Lincoln’s struggle to get the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through the House of Representatives‚ all while facing challenges presented by the American Civil War. Lincoln won two Oscars and 108 other
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The movie The Mission (1986) staring Robert DiNiero‚ is set during the colonial time period and sheds light on the Jesuits and their early missions in Brazil. It shows us a timeline of the behaviors of countries such as Spain and Portugal as well as the Jesuit missions. The movie opens with a focus on an Indian village set on the top of a waterfall. This village is depicted from two separate viewpoints‚ as the viewer is shown a Jesuit Priest named Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) in the beginning
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excellently. Macbeth the film accurately portrays the intensity‚ meaning‚ and the plot of the play. One of the scenes is Act V‚ scene i about Lady Macbeth sleepwalking. Director Jack Gold did not modernize the original Shakespearian version of the play‚ the movie shows that correct time era and use the
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The message in the movie The Way‚ I think his son said it best‚ “you don’t choose a life dad‚ you live one” (The Way‚ 2010). Each character in this movie were dealing with different issues in their life and set our looking to find themselves or to find meaning in their life while walking the path of pilgrims. Life circumstances had brought each one there‚ from a loved one’s death or abortion‚ being overweight‚ to writer’s block. On this journey of walking The Camino‚ each character finds inner
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black and white movie. Although the color film caught my attention because while reading the novel I pictured everything‚ and it made it more clear to prepare myself for my essay. On the film made on the fifties everything was old school and I did not find it interesting. I was honestly falling asleep while watching the movie. For each scene there was a tone and the graphics were not so great because it was an old movie. The reason why I disliked it because it was a black and white movie and I never
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Parenthood could be dismissed as nothing more than a feel good movie for yuppies struggling with the complications of raising children. If it were not so well made‚ it most certainly would suffer that fate. Clearly‚ it is targeted at a certain demographic group. After all‚ the subtitle says‚ "It could happen to you." The movie is about the parental challenges faced by four siblings. Gil Buckman is a self-conscious dad‚ desperately concerned about being a better parent than his own father. His sisters
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