In the famous movie Remember the Titans‚ the captain of the T.C. Williams football team stated‚ "attitude reflects altitude". When your attitude is positive you can fly higher than the sky‚ but if your attitude is negative then you can fall deep into the ocean. It has been said that a positive attitude is the key to success in life‚ and I just so happen to agree. Positivity can make you more motivated. When you are positive‚ others respect you and want to help you succeed. Also‚ with a positive attitude
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Neil Perry shows us what it means to be a leader in the film Dead Poets Society he is the person reviving and rejuvenating the society‚ though shows us that an outward appearance is not all that there is. In the near beginning when he first finds out about the dead poets society from asking his teacher‚ he instantly wants to start it again to open his and other’s minds this begins his distinction as a leader. Perry brought people like Todd Anderson a shy and nonvocal person into the “club” to try
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La Isla Diversa There is no perfect society in the world‚ and there will never be any perfect society. People can have their imagination on what they would prefer as their ideal society and everyone varied from person to person. If I had the opportunity to create what I thought would be the ideal society our world would be a completely different place. There would be so many changes to the world that we live in today. The idea behind my society is to bring people together and understand other
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the strife between Homo sapien tribes to terrorists in modern society. However‚ what if there was some way to achieve the same ending without contentions of war? This is what who can be assumed as brothers and pacifists‚ James and Christopher Collier‚ are trying to tell us through their novel‚ My Brother Sam is Dead. The example they use is the American Revolution. So many people‚ innocent or evil‚ were killed. “My Brother Sam is Dead” takes us through these events using the perspective of Tim Meeker
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How Captain Cook influenced the ways see and understand the modern world ‘I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before‚ but as far as it was possible for a man to go’James Cook. So Captain Cook was born in 1778 originally a apprentice in Whitby before becoming a sailor and in time a British naval officer a veteran of the seven year war. Cook is unquestionably known for his three voyages of expiration and discovery that took place in the Pacific. The first voyage was between
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I am not a painter” rather serves as a manifestation of the similarities between the two arts. What struck me during the reading of “Why I am not a painter” is that it bears an elusive similarity to ekphrastic poetry‚ the type of poetry wherein the poet discusses a work of art (a painting‚ a poem) and thereby tries to extract a concluding truth or principle. But instead of using poetical aesthetics to produce a cryptic succession of words and result in a memorable declaration‚ O’Hara takes the New
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Text: Portrait of My Dead Brother is an oil painting executed on a 69 inch by 69 inch piece of canvas. This is the most common medium for Dali as well as for other artists in this time period. The main focus of this piece is Dali’s late brother. To the lower right hand side of the painting there are what appear to be soldiers holding lances‚ a long pointed weapon primarily used by knights. To the left hand side there is a recreation of The Angelus. It is believed that Dali added this to the portrait
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My Brother Sam is Dead As you go through the journey of life you begin to realize the many obstacles you have to over come but what charts your growth is home you over come them. This quote resembles the story of My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. Brothers Christopher and James have been writing historical fiction for young people since the early 1970s and have been known as masters of the genre. This book was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1975 and
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INTRODUCTION Structure and agency debate provides an understanding of the actions and attitudes of an individual.This essay will be critically analyzing and discussing the attitude and actions of Captain Louis De Koster and how structure-agency debate can help us understand them. It will further go on to unpack the influence that structural or agency factors has on De Koster in the police department. Structure is the network of recurring patterns in which people behave in routine situations (Van
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me death‚” Patrick Henry once said. This is a great example of someone stating one of their guiding principles. Patrick Henry wanted liberty and nothing would stop him. He would have sacrificed his life to get liberty. In the great novel‚ My Brother Sam is Dead‚ written by James Collier and Christopher Collier‚ the four main characters all live by a principle that guides their life‚ and they stand up for it at any cost. Their values are put to the test as they go through the Revolutionary War. Mr
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