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    your ISP novel) U4A1 – ISP Annotated Bibliography U5A1 – ISP Progress Report #2 (here you will review your ISP film) U5A2 – ISP Thesis/Outline U5A4 – Final ISP Essay ISP TOPICS FILM CHOICES NOVEL CHOICES Personal Liberation/Redemption Gran Torino Rocky Balboa Albert Camus‚ The Outsider Carol Shields‚ The Stone Diaries Ernest Gaines‚ A Lesson Before Dying Ian McEwan‚ Atonement Jane Urqhart‚ The Stone Carvers John Irving‚ A Prayer For Owen Meany Khaled Hosseini‚ The Kite Runner Margaret

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    “Prejudice is a learnt attitude. You are taught to be prejudice‚ you are not born prejudice.” Prejudice is the quality or condition of judging someone or a group of people before you meet them‚ usually by using stereotypes. People are not born to be prejudice; they are taught and influenced by their parents‚ friends and surroundings. Furthermore‚ prejudicial attitudes stem from ignorance and this leads to an unbreakable chain. People are not born with the mentality of hating someone because of

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    The Latehomecomer

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    The book‚ The Latehomecomer‚ is a fascinating story about a Hmong family and their struggle to get out of Laos and come to America as refugees. The Hmong people are a very proud people and they do not want to forget their culture. One can clearly see that the Hmong people hold close their identity and do not want to conform to the Vietnamese way. They take pride in their culture‚ their society‚ and the way they view how government should run. Hmong people did not agree with the Vietnamese communist

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    halting-voiced leader of a nation is never quite complete. Such is the problem with much of Invictus‚ a movie filled with many moments that do work‚ struggling mightily against heavy‚ heavy clunkers that do not. As evidenced very much in last year’s Gran Torino‚ director Clint Eastwood doesn’t exactly have a light touch when it comes to race relations‚ so the Mandela portion of his film often features scenes so transparent‚ the director may as well step on the screen and proclaim "Why can’t we all just

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    more detrimental effect because victims can be attacked from anywhere at any time‚ bullies tend to send harsher messages since it is not face-to-face‚ and victims are bullied by a large audience. Background In Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino‚ Thao‚ a Hmong teenage boy living in Detroit‚ is bullied by a variety of gangs in his neighborhood. Throughout the film‚ Thao experiences verbal bullying as well as physical bullying. In one scene‚ Thao is verbally harassed by a gang of Latinos

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    The increased demand on luxury cars is substantial for automotive markets to be driven not only by the product itself but also services related with it in the long run (Kapferer & Bastien‚ 2009). Italian automaker - Maserati‚ as a niche market in the luxury car sector‚ on how are they able to bring out on their uniqueness from their competitors‚ such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz (Peterson‚ 2011). The environmental factors refer to the changing and conditions around the industry that affect its working

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    Kevin Miss York English 10 4/16/13 The Man That was Chiseled Out of Stone “I figure that by the time I’m really old‚ somebody at the Academy Awards will get the bright idea to give me some sort of plaque‚ I’ll be so old‚ they’ll have to carry me up there”. Clint Eastwood said this quote because he is still seen as a leader today‚ even though he is old; this shows that Clint Eastwood will never be forgotten. He may be awarded more plaques as he ages. He has shown power by the tremendous

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    Rape And The Kite Runner

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    rAfter the rape‚ Amir and Hassan spend less time together. Baba and Amir take a trip to Jalalabad and stay at the house of Baba’s cousin. When they arrive they have a large traditional Afghan dinner. Baba proudly tells everyone about the kite tournament‚ but Amir does not enjoy it. He says that that was the night he became an insomniac. When Amir and Baba return home‚ Amir continues not to play with Hassan. When Hassan asks Amir what he did wrong‚ Amir tells Hassan to stop harassing him. After that

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    The next example is one of a protagonist that in some way resembles Wilhelmina‚ he as well‚ tries and wants to pull away his cultures and traditions in order to fit in at school. Tayo‚ in the book Ceremony by Leslie M. Silko is a young man who finds himself in between the coalition of two cultures‚ his two cultures. Tayo is initiated into the Native American culture and traditions. The distinction here is between the White and the Native American ethnic-race groups. To sum up‚ one of the takeaways

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    ===============COMEDY============================== 1. The Dictator is a 2012 British comedy film co-written and starring by Sacha Baron Cohen‚  in the role of Admiral General Aladeen‚ the dictator of the fictional Republic of Wadiya visiting the United States 2. The Gods Must Be Crazy is a South African comedy film written and directed by Jamie Uys. 3. The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film‚ co-produced and directed by Todd Phillips and written byJon Lucas and Scott Moore 4

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