Lisa Shen Black Student Union hosted a school wide event where students received the honor of meeting a World War II veteran on Friday‚ February 21. In addition‚ essay finalists delivered speeches that reflected the significance and impact of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. Sophomores Zane Landin (1st place winner) and Mia Liang (2nd place winner) received the opportunity to present their essays. “The speech was about the Tuskegee Airmen and how their past‚ present‚ and future has affected
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Fight Club and Generation X In the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk we are introduced to our narrator‚ a nameless male who stands atop the Parker-Morris building with a gun pressed to his mouth waiting for the moment when the bombs go off and the building crumbles. Holding the gun to his mouth is Tyler Durden who represents everything the narrator is not. The narrator is a man presumably in his 30 ’s‚ although it is never stated. He works as a recall campaign coordinator and lives in a condo
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“Truth and the Historian” Main argument This is both an introduction to the book and an essay about the causes of World War I‚ as seen by other historical writers and Lafore himself. He states that “World War I has become a fashion and a fad‚” and‚ while there is nothing wrong with the topic being widely discussed‚ historians should be careful in using research and analyzing historical topics. The introduction outlines the sources of the conflict that later was known as the Great War. All of the
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enjoying the extra hours of sleep‚ many are still bouncing around to the sounds of techno music. Thousands of teenagers and even some adults gather into clubs decorated with black lights‚ disco balls‚ and tons of smoke machines. Their hearts are pounding and their pulse is racing at the speed of light‚ all compliments of designer drugs known as club drugs (National Institute on Drug Abuse). Changing the molecular structure of an existing drug or drugs to create a new substance creates designer drugs
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Social Trends Assignment Movie Analysis of “The Breakfast Club” The features of Generation-Xers were efficiently showed in this movie. For most Generation-Xers they were lack of sense of safety and social identity‚ they were dissatisfied with the government because a lack of trust in leadership‚ which caused their misleading personality trait. When they watch The Breakfast Club they have to have the same sense of this movie. In the United States only a small part of people had taken drug
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Toddlers climbed and clomped around the playground area of the park as their watchful mothers sat gossiping and trading parenting tips currently in vogue. Sweethearts‚ half hidden by Willow trees‚ inhabited personal islands consisting of blankets‚ absorbed in each other as a group of skins and shirts played a game of two hand touch up and down the field. Two silver haired gentlemen‚ engrossed in a chess game‚ met here everyday from spring thaw to first frost. Both were widowers and their wives had
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The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club has a few characters‚ whom are portrayed with different personalities. There is Andrew Clark‚ the athlete; Claire Standish‚ the princess; Allison Reynolds‚ the lonely girl; Brian Johnson‚ the nerd; and John Bender‚ the criminal. Each one has unique characteristics‚ that set them apart from each other. My personal favorite out the entire bunch‚ would be John Bender‚ the criminal. Bender has a different attire‚ then the rest of the adolescents. He wears plenty
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“Fight Club” Shadow Interpretation In the movie “Fight Club” is about the narrator‚ Jack’s‚ fantasy of an alternate reality‚ his personal shadow. Tyler Durden represents Jack’s unconscious collective shadow. Jack‚ the protagonist‚ has a meaningless‚ boring and empty life‚ and suffers from insomnia. Jack tries to lend color to his insignificant life by purchasing new commodities like his furniture which are the fetish items of the narrator and they provide him with more meaningful existence. Jack
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The Breakfast Club Chanetta McFerguson Childhood April 28‚ 2013 Melissa Harper The Breakfast Club Cliques are groups of people with mutual interests and goals‚ who spend a majority of their time with each other. They can be found at every high school. The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings five students belonging to different cliques together in an unfortunate situation-detention. At the beginning of the movie‚ these five students appear to be very different people who have nothing
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In this modern age why do people stigmatize people with substance abuse issues? For the first time Cope is beginning to ask himself the right questions that will lead to sobriety. For example‚ he asked‚ “What did I mean by God? Where would I find this faith? Why was I the only one in our family who became addicted? And most importantly‚ why do I keep relapsing?” Cope realizes everything he has in his whole life depends on his sobriety. I think this is the first step for anyone recovering. Admitting
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