Think Cinderella stories and ABBA then throw in some humour and romance and you’ll end up with Muriel’s Wedding. Directed by PJ Hogan‚ this bright‚ yet sad‚ film focuses on Australian family life and the meaning of "success." Muriel Heslop (Toni Collete) is jobless‚ has a low self-esteem and is obsessed with getting married to become successful. She lives in Porpoise Spit‚ a coastal resort‚ has no genuine friends and a dysfunctional family. Muriel’s father‚ Bill Heslop‚ is a corrupt small-town
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Elliot Griffin Environmental Science Final Opinion Paper Should DDT Be Banned Worldwide? First synthesized in 1874‚ DDT’s insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939. In the second half of World War II‚ it was used with great effect among both military and civilian populations to control mosquitoes spreading malaria and lice transmitting typhus‚ resulting in dramatic reductions in the incidence of both diseases. The Swiss chemist Hermann Müller of Geigy Pharmaceutical
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In 1961‚ Alvin Weinberg‚ director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory‚ coined the term “Big Science.” Big Science is the style of scientific research employed following World War II in the fields of physics and astronomy. It is distinguished by the use of big facilities and machinery‚ government spending‚ and national publicity. In his essay‚ Weinberg addressed the political and social implications of Big Science. He asks if this new science is ruining science and the financial stability of the
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Title:Mean Girls Director: Type: Movie Genre: social realism‚ American teen The scandalous lives of a teenager was accurately portrayed throughout the movie ‘Mean Girls’ directed by: Mark Waters. The story follows a teenage girl named Cady Heron as she is starting her first day at high school after being home schooled in Africa for most of her life. Cady learns about the ins and outs of high school life and the cliques that are found throughout the school with the help of her two new friends
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I decided to use the movie mean girls as an example of social identity theory. There are different clips in the movie that show S.I.T. the main character in this movie is a girl named Cady. She was homeschooled in Africa by her parents‚ her parents decide to move to Illinois‚ and she finally gets the experience of going to a public school‚ she notices that popularity divides a lot of the students into little cliques. There is one group in particular that are called the plastics‚ these are the most
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The movie Agora takes place in Alexandria‚ a city full of knowledge that was founded by Alexander the Great. The main protagonist is named Hypatia‚ who was based off of a real person. She was a brilliant woman who taught and explored science‚ philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and astronomy. Respected daughter of Theon the scholar‚ her father sparked her curiosity for questioning the known world. In the film‚ Hypatia is murdered because she was not a follower of the Christian faith‚ and was accused for practicing
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In the essay‚ “Selfies‚” Rachel Syme investigates the true meaning and concept selfies. Syme’s article is really a long article or an idea she goes deep into. At first you wouldn’t be interested in reading seven chapters about selfie and its concept‚ but I can assure you that it is because when I read the article it was worth the time since of how much Syme goes into depth and interesting concept of selfies can be while considering few notable women from history who took photos of themselves or painted
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The Price of Nutrition Rachel Conroy Dr. Price was born in 1870 in Canada. He became a dentist and began practicing in 1893. Dr. Price has been coined by many as the “Charles Darwin of nutrition.” He became concerned with the causes of tooth decay and physical degeneration and started looking at what was the root of the problem. At the time and still today these issues were contributed to genetics. Dr. Price asked why these patients’ parents were not exhibiting
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The book‚ Cupcake‚ was composed by Rachel Cohn and was published in 2007. “Cohn’s first book‚ Gingerbread‚ was published in 2002. Since then she has gone on to write many other successful YA and younger children’s books‚ and has collaborated on three books with the author David Levithan” (Rachel Cohn‚ 2017). Cupcake correlates Cohn to an eighteen year old moving from San Francisco‚ CA to Manhattan‚ NY after high school. The novel illustrates a young woman that is contemplating if she should move
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Courtney Luttrell Dr. White English 101 4 September 2012 Patients Can Be Positive: Danticat Thought in “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” Once I was exposed to reading “Patient” and “Topic of Cancer” I put myself in Christopher Hitchens and Rachel Riederer shoes and realized how humor‚ can be used in a horrendous situation. Not everyone may know what a cancer patient has to go through but as days go by everyone has been through a situation that cannot handle on his or her own. By reading these
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