My Grandma’s really into buying bootleg DVD’s at the Flea Market and picked up Mona Lisa Smile. I didn’t see it in theaters but I heard awful reviews of it. Everything from "this movies doesn’t make sense‚" to "just feminist garbage". Bored off my mind one night‚ I decided to pop the DVD in and have a look with my cousin. Both her and I agreed it was one of the best movies we had ever seen! We loved every character‚ we thought it was so well done‚ and the plot was just amazing. There is not one
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A. What makes these documentaries effective (or not effective)? What did you like and not like about the documentaries? Explain in detail? In the film “My name is Lisa” I like the documentary it show what people deal with everyday that there relative have Alzheimer’s disease. The film made me tear up knowing that the young girl has to grow up dealing with that. Also‚ the actors play their parts real good. This is a film was about people who have to look after their family members suffering from
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recently witnessed a Wiccan Mabon ritual on September 22nd 2012. This ritual was the celebration of the change from summer to fall. It took place in Colorado Springs‚ on the outskirts of town. We were outdoors‚ in a small grove of trees. It was a clear sky with the First Quarter moon beginning to rise over the horizon. The breeze was cool but not cold yet and slowly people started to drift into the clearing. My friend Tiff (name has been changed) was the leader of the ritual. Everyone was wearing dark blue
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Mitch Mahoney and the judge that was a woman‚ her name was Rona Lisa Perretti. Everyone else’s voices were okay‚ when they hit the wrong note or tried to hit a note that was too high‚ you could hear them croak. The play was unamusing to me. I liked that they asked four people in the audience to perform in the play. The four people who “acted” in the play made it a little more interesting. In the play there were two judges‚ Rona Lisa Perretti‚ who was egocentric and arrogant because
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Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Make this inductive (statistical) syllogism into a relatively strong argument by supplying an appropriate premise or conclusion: Greg must be into all that New Age stuff since he wears his hair in a ponytail. 2. Make this inductive (statistical) syllogism into a relatively strong argument by supplying an appropriate premise or conclusion: People who go to Burning Man are not like you and me. Why just look
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Worship is a term which draws many images. In this case Worship involves the celebration within a church community which includes Jesus Christ‚ Christian Worship. This reflection is regarding my home church‚ on Palms Sunday. I find it to be a very unique celebration of Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem. In that it is a celebration of a community it is important to know the community to understand the worship of the community. Plymouth Congregational Church has gone through a series of changes
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Brooklin Jefferies Body Ritual among the Nacirema In the Article‚ “Body Ritual among the Nacirema” anthropologist Horace Miner talks about a group of people known as Nacirema‚ or better yet‚ Americans. This article was to show how American’s are very ethnocentric. This is when we think our cultures are superior and everyone else is inferior. We find other cultures to be weird‚ but yet we’re not perfect. We think everything we do is perfect and better than everyone else. That is not the case at
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The Ritual of “The Lottery” It is often said that there is strength in numbers. While it is true that a large group of people has more power than an individual‚ a single person within a large group will almost always conform in some way. This weakens the individual and leads to fewer new ideas in order to maintain group status and agreement. Many times‚ rituals or ideas are allowed and accepted just because they are favored by a majority or have been part of that society for so long that they
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Commenting on “Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder” Gavin I. Langmuir wrote “Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder‚” which was published in Speculum’s October 1984 issue. In this article Langmuir discusses Thomas of Monmouth’s investigation of St. William of Norwich’s death‚ and accusations of ritual murder brought against Jews. Langmuir starts the article with some background information on “The Life and Passion of Saint William the Martyr of Norwich‚” written by Thomas of Monmouth
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Not everyone discusses every detail of their life to family members. It doesn’t mean they aren’t close‚ just afraid of their reaction‚ afraid of being seen as different or changed. The poem‚ “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker‚ is about a student who came home from school to spend time with her grandmother. Her grandma asked her about school and she couldn’t speak up about her experiences for it might trouble her. Parker uses a combination of elements of poetry such as imagery‚ speaker‚ alliteration
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