The performance ‘Hoods’ by Barking Gecko Theatre Co. is a play about two young children‚ Jessie and Kyle‚ who create video game style situations to pass the time as they are left in the car by their mother. This play was performed at Thornlie Senior High School’s Performing Arts Centre on Friday the 1st of April 2011. It was a great honour to have this brilliant play shown to the high school students as it showed perseverance of the young children. The play was written by Angela Betzien and directed
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Despite the incoherent special effects and relying on clichés about young black men‚ Boyz N The Hood is an inspiring and thought-provoking film‚ which features riveting performance by Cuba Gooding Jr. Synopsis Boyz n the Hood: The story opens on a normal South Central‚ Los Angeles day. Tre styles is a smart kid whose pride and slick mouth in school causes his teacher to take disciplinary actions and calls his mother. As a result Tre’s mother Reva‚ decides the best thing for both of them would be
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Nonverbal Communication in Mrs. Doubtfire In the movie Mrs. Doubtfire Robin Williams plays Daniel Hillard‚ a divorced father who‚ after losing custody‚ tricks his ex wife into letting him become the nanny and housekeeper for his children. Throughout the course of this movie Daniel Hillard’s deceit grows as he struggles to keep his true identity a secret. While disguised as Mrs. Doubtfire who is a wise‚ elderly British woman‚ Daniels nonverbal communication behavior shows his underlying feelings
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case Study 1: Technology changing the face of education ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technology is changing rapidly with new innovations and discoveries being made across the world. The change has touched our lives‚ directly and indirectly. One of the core aspects of an individual’s life is education and today‚ technology through the availability
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| Mother Hood | | Mother Hood | 2/10/2013 | Maya Phinizee | For my narrative/descriptive essay I chose to write about becoming a mother. There are positives and negatives about being a teenage mother but I choose to always look at the good. My son wasn’t planned but he isn’t a mistake either. I only have one child for the moment but from this experience I’m still debating on having more. This had been one long
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The classic novel‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ by Mark Twain satirizes the topic of identity and disguises. There have been many occasions in our history where people disguise themselves. Halloween is one big example of that. People all over the world pretend to be someone they’re not for one night. Actors have to pretend to be someone else for a living. There are many advantages and disadvantages to having a separate identity‚ and Twain shows both sides of the situation in his novel. In the
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Off the top of my head‚ one movie that had a impact on me was Boyz-In-Da-Hood. The film was about a young man who had made an agreement with his mom...that if he kept getting in trouble he had to go live with his dad. Upon living with his father‚ he was exposed to things he didn’t see living with his mother. His father was quite the intelligent man‚ and was able to keep him out of trouble. Some of the lessons his father taught him stuck with me to this day about how to be leader‚ He spoke on Gentrification
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“Boyz N the Hood” is one of the many films from the 1990’s that displayed gang violence among African-Americans in urban areas such as “Juice‚” “South Central‚” and “Menace II Society.” However‚ “Boyz N the Hood” is known for more than just depicting violence. The Library of Congress had place it on preservation in its’ National Film Registry and even referred to it as “culturally significant” in 2002. Never realizing it after watching it the first few times‚ this film gives a perspective on what
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On May 6‚ 1993‚ three eight year old boys were found savagely murdered in West Memphis Arkansas. The investigation lacks hard evidence and a suspect‚ and the police automatically turn their focus on Satanism. Unfortunately‚ three teenage boys became the prime suspects: Damien Echols‚ Jason Baldwin‚ and Jessie Misskelley. Because they wore black and listened to hard rock music‚ they were outcasts. With nothing but circumstantial evidence mounted upon these teenage boys‚ the community lets a "Satanic
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The World of Collecting You are going to read a magazine article about people who collect things. For questions 16 – 30‚ choose from the people (A – D). The people may be chosen more than once. A. Ron Barton shares his home with about 200 sewing machines. His passion began when he was searching for bits of second-hand furniture and kept seeing ‘beautiful old sewing machines that were next to nothing to buy’. He couldn’t resist them. Then a friend had a machine that wouldn’t work‚ so she asked
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