Jim Brooks: The Baseball Player "I am a nerd!" was the answer of Jim Brooks upon being asked "How would you describe yourself?". Sitting sideways at her desk‚ Mrs. Gatewood laughed as she talked to another student. The others in the background appeared engaged in their own excited conversations about "who did what at the mall". Jim‚ on the other hand‚ looked down at his questionnaire and wondered "How long would this really take?" I looked at him and he signaled me to come to the back seats. Wearily
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of history’s more charismatic leaders are also symbols of destruction and evil. One of the most famous examples of charisma used for destruction is Jim Jones. Jim Jones was the founder and leader of a cult called the Peoples Temple‚ which is best known for the November 18‚ 1978 mass suicide of 914 members in Jonestown. The mass suicide consisted of Jim Jones having his followers knowingly drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. Not only was he able to accomplish this act‚ but he had the audacity to trick his
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satire. Homeward Bound also consists of amusing characters that the audience can relate to. This type of play appeals to mostly sophisticated audiences and actors because the play consists of clever use of language and brilliant conversation. Elliot Hayes’ use of satire in Homeward Bound plays an important part in the telling of the story. His use of satire expresses how the characters feel about each other and their situations. There were many parts of the play that had satire in them
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Jimmy v speech analysis Jim Valvano‚ better known as Jimmy V‚ was a men’s basketball coach in the NCAA for many years and is remembered most for coaching his North Carolina State Wolf pack squad to the 1983 national championship over the Juggernaut University of Houston team. That team established the term “Cinderella” as no one ever expected them to win the way that they won. Jim Valvano received some horrible news in the middle of 1992. His doctors told him that he had terminal cancer. Several
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the middle of a jungle in Guyana and five people were killed on an airstrip. It has been called the largest mass murder suicide. The story of the massacre was told by survivors and relatives who happened to survive and know Jim Jones. According to Jim’s childhood friends‚ Jim was a weird kid‚ he was obsessed with religion and death‚ and he used to conduct funerals of small animals that have died. One of his friends saw him killing a cat with a knife then having a funeral which was very weird. Jim’s
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form of persuasion. This technique helps cult leaders get what they want‚ without necessarily having to put a spell under the followers. Mind control allows you to enter a person unconscious and create influences. Getting people to agree with Jim Jones was easier since he was seen as a powerful leader of the group. They trusted his opinions and judgments. Back then it was not common for people to find someone to guide them toward a decision. Mind control techniques are not always negative
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very strange movie was produced in 2004 by Michel Gondry. It is a remarkable experience which is only to be expected from the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. This film bounces around crazily on its timeline but the director never abandons the audience. Jim Carrey and Kate WInslet are our leading stars in this film‚ playing Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a beautiful romantic comedy mixed with a little fantasy and science fiction. It is full of real emotions
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of the Soviet Union and writing that Suzanne Jones Cartmell should receive no assets.[105] Stephan‚ Jim Jr. and Tim Jones Stephan‚ Jim Jr.‚ and Tim Jones did not take part in the mass suicide because they were playing with the Peoples Temple basketball team against the Guyanese national team in Georgetown.[25][102] At the time of events in Jonestown‚ Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. was eighteen.[106] Tim’s biological family‚ the Tuppers‚ which consisted of his three biological
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movie shows the pain of team work and what happened during emergency. There are primarily 3 teams in the movie. First one is the mission control center team with Flight Director Gene Kranz. The second one is the Apollo 13 mission team with Commander Jim Lovell and the third one is the team of
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Jim Harrison’s novel Dalva (1988) has a unique way to integrate depression and everyday life expressed throughout the novel in the character Dalva herself. Dalva faces numerous events throughout the novel that brings her depression to the surface‚ which adds a drama irony aspect to the novel in response it shows Dalva does not realize that throughout most of the novel she was expressing a depressed behavior. The novel Dalva by Jim Harrison expresses a depressed behavior through the main character
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