Sung Wung Eun English 1B Lee 2013-01-22 Have you ever been in the situation when you took a shower and freshened up for a new day‚ but were offended and felt unpleasant by the smell of cigarette? You would not be feeling that soon. The University of California is banning the cigarettes and all tobacco products from its campus over the next two years. Students and staffs would not be able to smoke anywhere on a UC campus. Main purpose of this policy is to reduce exposure of second-hand smoke
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In the short story‚ “Thank You‚ Ma’am by Langston Hughes‚” Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is a large‚ but very nice old woman. In the story‚ Roger‚ a little young fourteen year old boy‚ tries to take Mrs. Jones purse. After snatching her purse‚ he falls to the ground where she picks him up and asks him why he is so dirty. After making him pick up her pocket book‚ she takes him to her home. There‚ she makes him wash his face and eat a good meal. While making his meal‚ she asks Roger why he tried
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Angeles on September 24th‚ 2012. The film was directed by Jason Moore. It is based on Mickey Rapkin’s non-fiction novel Pitch Perfect. The director of this movie has assembled a celebrity cast on the set‚ including Anna Kendrick‚ Rebel Wilson‚ Skylar Astin‚ Anna Camp‚ Brittany Snow‚ Ester Dean‚ Alexis Knapp‚ Ben Platt and Adam DeVine. The movie takes place at Barden University‚ Georgia where Beca (Anna Kendrick) is a new arrival and joins the Barden Bellas‚ a female a cappella group. There is a rivalry
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Have you ever had somebody try to steal something from you? You don’t see that every day! This story is from the book‚” Thank You Ma’am”. The author’s name is Langston Hughis. The main characters name ips Roger. He is a skinny‚ weak kid. The claim is Roger learns to think before he does. The three reasons why Roger learns to think before he does are as follows‚ there are always consequences for one’s actions‚ actions always affect others‚ and forgiveness. To start off‚ Roger learns to think before
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Liz Burgess English 152-06 The movie Life if Beautiful by Roberto Benigni addresses how love between people can remain strong even through the most horrible of events. The movie takes a very interesting approach on how a father can bring comedy and light to the events of the Holocaust to maintain his son’s happiness. I personally thought this movie was excellent because it challenged the way that most people would want to think about the Holocaust. It is hard to bring an element of comedy to
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billion dollars were incurred‚ and 53 people died along with thousands more injured. Based on the best-seller novel ‘The Freedom Writers Diary’ by Erin Gruwell‚ director and writer Richard LaGravenese – best known for his films “P.S. I Love You”‚ “Paris‚ je t’aime”‚ and “The Fisher King”‚ which earned him an Academy Award nomination – sets his film in Long Beach‚ California‚ just after the riots occurred. “True stories resonate with me”‚ Says Swank We’re first introduced to Eva‚ an innocent
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Hunger Games: Movie Review The Hunger Games is a young adult novel written by Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen‚ who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol‚ a highly advanced metropolis‚ holds absolute power over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol
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is being blamed‚ she receives a call about how ‘being too old’ was a lie to get rid of her. When expecting Shelley to immediately drop everything and return to the Mansion‚ she decides to stay the hose mother of the Zetas. Using this movie I plan on analyzing the movie through different scenes of the typical activities of the sorority girls on campus and comparing them to how college life is today and what could be done differently. Throughout House Bunny‚ a constant rival goes on between Phi Iota
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THE BLIND SIDE Movie Review ‘The Blind Side’ is the real life story about Micheal Oher‚ an Afro-American football player and his struggles from being an abandoned kid growing up in a foster home to a NFL (National Football League) player after being adopted by the family‚ the Touhys‚ who were white skinned Americans. What makes ‘The Blind Side’ such a compelling story is the fact that it tells the true life story of a boy with little or no prospects. It is a film about human relationships‚ the
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Movie Review: UP (2009): Starring Edward Asner‚ Christopher Plummer and Jordan Nagai Every so often‚ a movie comes along that really inspires the audience to live a better way‚ to take risks‚ and stop making excuses. I was truly stunned that this inspirational‚ physics defying film actually came in the form of a kid’s movie. An animated wonderment about an old man wracked with grief‚ a yellow dog‚ a chubby little boy and a huge flightless bird‚ in a floating house. The film was particularly
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