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    The Movie Crash

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    The Movie Crash is about racial in social division. These factors are what prevents the characters communication effetely. For example‚ Terrance Howard and Thandie Newton where pull over because they where driving a high profile vehicle at night and because they where African American people. The fact that they are were from different backgrounds in had different lifestyles obtusely affected how they communicated. For example‚ Ludacris and Larenz Tate lived in a more poverty stricken neighborhood

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    Movie Essay

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    disorder characterized by poor thought processes and poor emotional responsiveness. It is said to mainly affect cognition‚ but someone with this disorder will also have problems with emotion and behavior. In the movie “Of Two Minds”‚ the character Elizabeth has schizophrenia. This movie portrayed the trials and emotional hardships that a person with schizophrenia has to go through on a daily basis. It also shows the social problems and family problems that are commonly found with someone struggling

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    Blackbeaire The Movie

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    The movie talk about a boy named peter. he is an orphan who was leaving by his mother when the world war II in the orphanage for boys. peter grew up and he has a friend named nibs. One night they realized that every day the kid in the orphanage always decreased. They decided to figure it out. But‚ before they’d known what happen‚ the Blackbeard’s crew had taken them in the pirate ship. before They had go to the neverland‚ nibs had jumpped to the roof and left peter in the ship. In the neverland‚

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    Rotting Roots Relationships between family members can play important roles in the shaping and outcome of our lives. Caring and loving family members can give each other needed support and be there for one another helping our growth. Families that are disconnected‚ lack care‚ and fight‚ can bring the entire family down‚ just like Gilbert’s family. Gilbert’s family was eating away at his life‚ and causing him to be unhappy. At the beginning of the film‚ Gilbert was already experiencing stress and

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    The movie Awakenings

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    Meagan McGee Psychology 1300 Awakenings The movie Awakenings starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro portrays the true story of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and the events of the summer of 1969 at a psychiatric hospital in New York. Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ who is a research physician‚ is confronted with a number of patients who had each been afflicted with a devastating disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. The illness killed most of the people who contracted it‚ but some were left living

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    The series‚ Roots‚ symbolize the obstruction of freedom that was displayed amongst Africans in the 18th century until the late 19th century. Throughout the series‚ director‚ Marvin J. Chomsky‚ pulls the audience through a coming of age story for young Kunta Kinte‚ the main character‚ through his transition to manhood. But‚ also demonstrates the effects of colonialism as a whole on the indigenous people of Africa. It is made clear that the involuntary request given to Kunta Kinte‚ becoming a man and

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    Movie Review

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    Movie Review: Freedom Writers We are here! And we matter! With the help of their English teacher‚ the high school students‚ known as Freedom Writers‚ at Woodrow Wilson High set out to prove their significance in the world. In 2007‚ Paramount Picture studio released the drama Freedom Writers‚ directed by screenwriter Richard LaGravenese‚ and starring Hilary Swank‚ Scott Glenn‚ Patrick Dempsey‚ along with young unknowns in the student roles. The film portrays the real-life Erin Gruwell‚ a white

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    Armageddon the Movie

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    In the movie Armageddon the main character are faced with very difficult situation. A Texas-sized asteroid will hit the earth in 18 days that would destroy earth‚ as we know it. Not sure of what to do to prevent this with the help of the military and NASA scientist‚ they decide to insert a nuclear bomb imbedded 800 feet inside the asteroid splitting the asteroid in two preventing it from impacting the earth. NASA contacts a deep-sea oil driller‚ Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis)‚ who is considered the

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    Movie Analysis

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    where the upper class lives in. The two settings in this book‚ Minnesota and New York are completely different because New York is full of business people and everything happens so fast‚ and Minnesota is more slow and out in the country. In this movie Nick Carraway moves from Minnesota to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn more about the bond business. He decides to rent a house out in West Egg district of Long Island. Next door to Him lives Jay Gatsby‚ a mysterious man who lives in a gigantic

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    Scar Movie

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    Why do we jump when we watch a scary movie? People jump when watching scary movies because the loud noise or flashing picture (the stimulus) passes through out eyes or ears (the receptor) and our endocrine system responds to the surroundings thus sending electrical impulses to the brain causing our muscles (the effectors) to spasm causing us to jump or scream. In addition‚ the blood has a increased amount of hormonal adrenaline and a higher heart rate. Hormones Hormones are a chemical substance

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