NOTE: Go to assignment directions on page 2: “Prove This Claim.” You do NOT have to answer the questions because we’ve already done them in class. The History Teacher (Billy Collins) Trying to protect his students’ innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the chilly Age‚ a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age‚ named after the long driveways of the time. The Spanish Inquisition was nothing more than an outbreak of questions such as
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1. Billy is a voluntary patient and can leave the ward at any time. He has attempted to commit suicide more than once. He is deathly afraid of his mother and authority figures. I think that Billy has Anxiety disorder as well as social phobia. I do not think that Billy should be in the ward‚ he would do better at a rehabilitation facility. The ward is for insane or criminally insane and Billy does not belong there. 2. I do not think that McMurphy (Mac) was voluntarily committed. Someone who is
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The movie starts out with billy beane played by brad pitt being very distressed. We soon find out exactly why. Come to find out‚ as he put it‚ their team the Oakland athletes were “being gutted”. Teams with a lot more money offered three of his players‚ key players at that‚ bigger contracts. Which they did take advantage of‚ leaving the team behind. To the other recruiters‚ and scouts it the problem was replacing the strengths of the key players they lost. However in billy’s eyes the problem was
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In “Ugly”‚ William McKibben highlights the understated word “ugly”. He feels “ugly” has lost its powerful meaning. To show true ugliness‚ he spends time detailing spikes used to prevent homeless people from sitting. McKibben views ugliness as any gesture that place one’s comfort over another’s and says “go somewhere else” to that person. Placing your arm on both armrests in the movie theater is ugly. When theater 2 already has every seat occupied‚ taking both armrests places our comfort over our
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Group Essay on Uglies By Claire‚ Tara‚ Tarah‚ Genevieve‚ and Soojin Introduction: “A perfection of means‚ and confusion of aims seems to be our main problem” (Einstein). As humans‚ we try to achieve perfection‚ and fail often. We know how to achieve what we want‚ but when it comes to what we want to achieve‚ we get very confused. We have been told by sci-fi authors repeatedly that striving for perfection will be the downfall of the human race. In Uglies by Scott Westerfeld‚ the government strives
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Agatha Christie knew what she was doing when she wrote the play‚ Witness for the Prosecution in the 1920s. Around the middle of the 1970s‚ the play script was adapted into an ever so successful film that was directed by Billy Wilder‚ which held the same name as the play‚ “Witness for the Prosecution.” Unlike “The Cat and the Canary‚” in my opinion‚ this play to film adaptation was easily seen through the directional telling of the plot. With simple sets‚ for example‚ the courtroom and lawyer’s office
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campaign and keeping a large amount for himself‚ and using Methodist money to support the anti-Smith democrats. Although he was not found guilty‚ these cases ruined his reputation and standing as the most prominent leader of the Prohibition Movement. Billy Sunday
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to but the Lord‚ How Great Thou Art‚ Crying in the Chapel. Bob Dylan was later to declare “The highlight of my career? That’s easy. Elvis singing one of my songs.” Gospel songs were frequently sung by church choirs and performed in events‚ such as Billy Graham’s four month “Down Under” Crusade of 1959. Graham claimed: “…young people today are searching for something to believe in……….and a song to sing.” He talked about a fear of war and for a while‚ the hordes of teenagers who flocked to hear the
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Animal Farm vs. Soviet Russia Allegory means “a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another” (Dictionary.com). The novel Animal Farm by George Orwell has allegorical connections with the Soviet Union because it has similarities and differences between Snowball and Leon Trotsky‚ Napoleon and Joseph Stalin‚ Squealer and Vyacheslav Molotov. Orwell writes Animal Farm to have an allegorical connection
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rapidly‚ before suddenly becoming almost forgotten‚ with a ghost town emerging in its place. How could such a thriving town‚ that was so full of life‚ be forgotten‚ to be allowed to die??The tale of Barkerville began with a young sailor form England; Billy Barker. After some time searching‚ he finally struck it rich in eighteen- sixty two when he uncovered gold in Williams Creek in the Cariboo area. The news of his finding spread like wild fire‚ and miners flocked to the area‚ hoping that they too might
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