Some people claim that the living in the present can actually cause more harm than good. They say that in order to lead a productive and profitable life‚ one must study both the past and the future‚ the present is only a stepping stone. I think that this is quite the opposite. The past must be learned from‚ the future must be looked at‚ but the present is where things happen‚ where a person can make things happen. In each persons time‚ he has the chance to make a mark upon the world. Each
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Lee Daniels’ did an exceptional job when producing the film Precious. The way he thought out the cast was well planned and pushed the envelope on controversial social issues as he’s always done. It was more than just another black movie‚ but a universal movie about many of life’s combative struggles. Producing Precious was an opportunity to open up the dialogue about incest‚ molestation‚ verbal abuse‚ obesity‚ and other topics that are difficult to talk about within society. The film was created
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and Ramon Bayron who also wrote the film entitled “Tanging Yaman”. This screenplay was adapted from another work which comes from a novel. Directed by the Award Winning actor Eddie Garcia and was made in the year 2001‚ Lorna Tolentino as Estela portrays to be an illiterate mother. In spite of her Illiteracy‚ with dogged determination‚ she manages to gather her family members as a whole. In this Movie‚ Estella portraying the role of being an illiterate mother whose facing serious problem regarding
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To be crass is to be uncaring‚ or uneducated on a sensitive matter. Many people in the world come to a decision brashly or hastily with what they say and it comes out in a very ignorant way. Occurrences like this are becoming more frequent now than ever. This is because there are more problems that occur nowadays for people to have different opinions on. In Wonder‚ Julian acts crassly towards August throughout the whole story. He treats him like garbage and doesn’t feel bad. He wasn’t educated by
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The movie Crash‚ created by Paul Haggis‚ incorporates the many struggles faced by today’s racial stereotypes‚ into a collage of various interconnected‚ cultural dilemmas encountered by the film’s multi-ethnic cast. Paul Haggis uses the dialogue and physical actions of his characters to illustrate the various racial stereotypes that are pre-assigned to each race by every individual. This film is a mesmerizing physical melodrama that touches the emotions of its audience’s hearts and souls. Many
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The Question is‚ “What would capture attention to be a cool and very visual way to begin a movie‚ a book or in particular‚ my Autobiography? Stylistically‚ the latter is often considered to be more complicated. Besides‚ in the labyrinth of “opinions‚” I encountered most diametrically opposed‚ even irrelevant statements‚ when referring to rigidity‚ chronology‚ points of view‚ writing in first or third person‚ what to write and what to hide‚ whom to present to the reader and whom to maintain absent
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or what it means to die with dignity. I like it best the way Dr. Ira Byock‚ looks at dying with dignity and the need for care at the end of life as he states “the need for care is not undignified; it’s just human” (Byock‚ 2010). In the assigned movie Wit‚ the main role is of Vivian Bearing which is a college professor who teaches a course in English Poetry who spent numerous years transcribing and translating the poetry of John Donne‚ who was known as a master of metaphysical poets. She too is
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CRASH August 19‚ 2013 The movie crash has some many different bad situations. I choose this movie because it has at least ten different stories and all to me are for the same reason. Not one story is really different from the other or from real life. I hate to say this but the truth is the truth‚ I have yet to meet some one that didn’t have a racist outlook on someone else. I have friends all different races and I always feel disappointed because no matter black‚ white‚ Chinese‚ Latino‚ or
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artist‚ the cliqued girls‚ the skateboarder‚ they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film‚ seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine shootings. The movie seems distanced from the actors and their actions: an unaware participant from the tranquil introduction to the gruesome climax. His seeming lack of a purpose‚ lack of a reason for the creation of this film‚ is exactly the impetus that drives its core meaning. The high school was as stereotyped
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I. Introduction People often remark how different the students of today are to those in the past. Each generation claim that those who come after them are getting worse‚ while those who came before them are much better than they were when they were students. Are students really all that different “Now” than they were “Before”? It’s been said that with every batch‚ with every generation‚ students are slowly degrading‚ that you could count with your fingers‚ those student who truly excel nowadays
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