The movie thirteen touched many important factors of adolescent’s development. Some of the ones I want to concentrate in this paper are: family system‚ developmental tasks‚ and peer pressure. The movie begins with Tracy‚ the main character‚ as a normal teenager whose life seems from the outside “ok”. However‚ even at this point in the movie‚ there are hints of Tracy’s inner pain and discomfort or distress with her world. Tracy lives a tough life. Her parents are separated‚ and do not have a good
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Human Development Writing Project In the movie “Thirteen” (2003)‚ we are introduced to a character played by Evan Rachel Wood (Tracy) who comes from what appears as a broken‚ but loving home. Theorizing‚ it appears Tracy’s mom Melanie (played by Holly Hunter) has custody of Tracy and her brother Mason (played by Brady Corbet)‚ and that the father remarried and has only visitation rights with his children. Tracy starts off as a normal thirteen-year-old girl who is good in school‚ has nice friends
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Movie Review: Thirteen Days April 20‚ 2013 Summary The movie Thirteen Days is based off of the real life situation of the Cuban Missile Crisis that occurred back in 1962. The United States learned that the Soviet Union was placing missiles with nuclear weapons in Cuba. The movie follows President John F. Kennedy and his advisors as they are trying to come up with a plan of action for how to handle the situation. The missiles are positioned to be close enough to hit almost any city
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After watching the movie‚ Thirteen‚ there is a situational argument that arises. That argument being the decision of what was the foremost factors in Tracy’s‚ the main actress‚ life that caused her to be such a defiant thirteen year old. First of all‚ it is obvious that Tracy’s self-esteem has dropped. So‚ the question is “what had such a significant key in her life to cause her pain?” The two sides of that question are that she has low self-esteem because of issues or does her self-esteem drop
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Thirteen Interpersonal communication does not comeup in everyday conversation. It is not disscussed or even contemplated by most‚ yet it is important to everyday life and yes even your health. There are advances in technology today that would have blown your mind not only a century ago but thirty years ago as well. But with this technology has come much lower levels of faceto face communtication‚ causing misconceptions to arise. People in todays society needto be more educated and aware of how
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Cyclone Tracy indeed caused a great devastation to the city of Darwin.Bruce Stannard of The Age magazine stated that Cyclone Tracy was a ‘disaster of the first magnitude…without parallel in Australia’s history.’’ it caused great destructions on both the environment and the people which link to one another. First of all‚ the cyclone caused a great destruction on the buildings where 70% of Darwin’s homes were destroyed or suffered from severe damage. 41‚000 out of 47‚000 people were homeless.
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Cyclone Tracy Cyclone Tracy has been labelled by many as the most severe Tropical Cyclone to ever affect Australia. A vast majority of Darwin was completely demolished during the 25th of December 1974. Even though the cyclone is considered small in world standards’‚ stretching with a radius of just 50km‚ Tracy was very intense. In Darwin Airport‚ a wind of 217km/h was recorded before the anemometer was destroyed. On the 20th of December 1974‚ what was soon to be Cyclone Tracy was identified in
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"Thirteen Days"‚ written by Robert F. Kennedy‚ is an account of the Cuban Missile Crisis based on the view of Robert F. Kennedy. This book contains Kennedy’s thoughts about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the actions that he and the rest of the United States cabinet took to prevent a nuclear disaster and World War III. There is also a movie based on the book starring Kevin Costner. Most movies that are based on books are often exceeding inaccurate‚ due to Hollywood directors trying to "spice up" the
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of their skin‚ but by the content of their character”. The movie Hairspray takes place in 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. Tracy Turnblad has one dream and that is to dance on The Corny Collins Show. When she was put in detention with African American kids‚ she becomes good friends with them. They teach her some of their dance moves‚ and the dance moves wines her a spot at The Corny Collins Show. Her first day on the show‚ Tracy says that the only change she’d make is that she’d make every
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states Tracy Whitmoyer‚ a current resident of Berks County‚ Pennsylvania. Tracy was vacationing in Mexico with her husband Bart while this tragedy happened‚ they had no idea what to do or what to think. She says that all she wanted to do was go home. Tracy Whitmoyer and her husband‚ Bart Whitmoyer were on vacation in Mexico as the disaster struck. Shocked‚ Tracy had no idea what to think. Two airplanes had hit the twin towers in New York City and all chaos broke loose. Sixteen years later‚ Tracy speaks
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