Ma Antoinette B. Rios Weekly Assignments: Week 2: Movie Review MY LEFT FOOT… March 15‚ 2013 True to life story of Christy Brown‚ who was born June 5‚ 1932 in Crumlin‚ Ireland diagnosed and suffered cerebral palsy‚ condemned by people and assumed to be confined in the convalescent for fear that the family‚ would not be able to care for him. Instead Christy’s parents took and cared for him at home‚ not only accepted him as normal boy but as part of the family. Inspired by this‚ He grew up
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In the 2002 movie release of My Big Fat Greek Wedding‚ the writer Nia Vardalos‚ director Joel Zwick and producer Tom Hanks‚ tell the story of a real life scenario that is increasing in our ever diverse world. Vardalos‚ basing the movie on her real life marriage‚ gives the audience an inside view as to what goes on inside an interfaith marriage and how to make it work. Yet in today’s society‚ the typical view of a marriage is seen as either a fairy tale or ball and chain. However‚ after watching this
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My Movie Prozac Nation is based on the book written by Elizabeth Wurtzel and her struggles with depression and drug addiction. Her book Prozac Nation was written during her time at Harvard University while she studied journalism. During this time Wurtzel writes about her battles with being a student‚ severe depression and drug addictions. During Wurtzel’s academic career at Harvard she received The Rolling Stones College Journalism Award. Even though Wurtzel struggled with many demons she was able
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At the beginning of the movie we see Lincoln talking to two African Americans who served in the war‚ and they went on to say that they loved his speech and one of them even quoted the end of his speech. This movie shows us how much we need rescuing. According to Spielberg‚ Lincoln and his contemporaries debated the moral merits of ending slavery now or ending the war now. Lincoln was gaining and losing votes. People are looking at it as this: if African Americans are given rights then women are next
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morning Mrs Njapha‚ teachers‚ parents‚ students and to the class of 2016. It is really an honor for me to be addressing you at your speech day function today. When Mrs Lategan asked me to be the guest speaker at this function I was initially pretty nervous was I going to be funny‚ interesting or inspiring. Afterall the last time I spoke at a public function was at my sister’s wedding and considering they were family it wasn’t a tough crowd to please. Standing here on the podium gives me an immense
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out of the love for daughter and the young man’s inclusion‚ he helped them hold a big weeding and bought a house as a gift to this couple. Key Words：intercultural marriage‚ Greek culture‚ self-surrender‚ inclusive‚ religious Part 1: Introduction My Big Fat Greek Weeding is a romantic comedy film which is centered on Fotoula“Toula” Portokalos‚ a middle class Greek American woman who falls in love with a non-Greek upper class “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant” lan Miller. Toula is a dull girl‚ being
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Nombre: Bryana Martinez Period: 4 Movie Reflection: “WALKOUT” The movie “WALKOUT” was a very informative movie on the struggle of mexican americans to gain the rights they deserved. Being that I have family from Mexico‚ I know that there is a struggle for people to get to the promise land of America. When they get here they deserve the rights everyone else has. This movie showed us how the chicanos fought for that right and used the freedom of speech to get the word out. As we know‚ many things
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“Why I Am A Visigoth” In “My Graduation Speech” written by Neil Postman‚ he indicates how there are two types of people in the world: an Athenian or a Visigoth. He explains how both groups flourished more than 1‚500 years ago and gave a general idea of what an Athenian is and how they lived versus what a Visigoth is and how they conducted their life. What I understood from Postman’s speech is Athenians are well rounded‚ overall good people. They cherished life‚ language‚ and knowledge. Postman wrote
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TITLE: GLADIATOR PLOT: The story is about Maximus‚ one of the leading generals in the Roman army. He led the Romans to victory in a decisive battle with the Barbarians that ended a long war between them. This victory helped him gain trust and favour from the old Emperor Marcus Aurelius‚ which is now old and near his end. Emperor Aurelius wishes to appoint Maximus as the temporary leader of Rome‚ even though he has a son‚ Commodus. Commodus‚ being told by his father that he would not be the appointed
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The Patriot Movie The Patriot movie has been a great movie. All the scenes were incredible and others were devastating. Having to watch this history movie has become one of my favorite movies with the scenes that I have chosen. My first scene I chose was actually a very sad part of the movie. It was when Benjamins 2nd oldest son was shot by one of the British cruel leaders. He was killed because he was trying to free his oldest son Gabriel and was shot instead. After that‚ Benjamin became upset
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