Stephanie Rennie Class Project 2 March 27‚ 2012 Boys Don’t Cry The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense‚ sad‚ and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank‚ is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community. Gender identity disorder
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Don’t get me started on.... Football. I hate football. I loathe it. I detest it and I despise it. It represents everything I hate in the world. It is a children’s game played by grown men‚ followed by millions and treated as a religion by all. It is a Sunday afternoon kick about in the park‚ high jacked by television and forced down the throats of everyone for 10 months of the year. People even call it ‘the beautiful game’. Beautiful? Art is beautiful. Music is beautiful. Football is 22
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In the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater‚” David Zinczenko describes himself as a kid who would eat regularly at fast food restaurants until he got “lucky”. He argues that most teenagers eat fast food instead of healthy and nutritious food. I‚ on the other hand‚ had a very different experience as a child. At my house there was always an emphasis on nutritional health. From an early age I had a vast amount of knowledge about which foods to eat and which to avoid. My dad is very particular about the
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I chose the song “Don’t Panic” by Coldplay because I strongly believe it reflects myself‚ and my life quite accurately‚ which expresses my beliefs. The song “Don’t Panic” is a pessimistic/optimistic song that can be especially shown in some lines of the lyrics. The pessimistic side of the song shown by “Bones sinking like stones” expresses that we are all going to go through some sort of suffering that we will have to endure. This line relates to a part of my life as a child living in New York‚ which
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The “reading war” has raged since the early 1930’s. What is the reading war and why is a “simple” thing such as learning to read and spell so controversial. Why‚ when Johnny sees the words “yellow pencil” can he color the bird yellow however‚ ask him to spell the word and he stares with a blank face and says (Y_I_L_O). Is this a byproduct of the wars or as people have hypothesized it is for the reason that Johnny comes from a “bad family.” This paper delves into the “Reading Wars” and discusses
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Prison is a long and lonely road to go down and with some of the craziest laws in the country‚ it’s not always clear why people go to prison or if the reasoning is even valid. The best thing that you could do to help pass the time is to write a letter to someone that desperately needs it. Things You’ll Need: * pen * paper * envelope * stamp * photos Step 1: There are a lot of things to remember when writing to a prisoner. The first thing is that you cannot talk about anything that
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In Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds‚ Elizabeth Kolbert explores the idea that even when an individual is presented with a fact‚ it would do very little to change their overall mindset. In the beginning of this article‚ Kolbert explains an study of undergraduate students at Stanford University to see if interjecting a fact‚ post observation‚ would alter a test groups overall mindset. The students were divided into two groups where they were given 50 suicide notes and asked to determine which noes
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“Why don’t you let the big guy talk?’ This is a quote from a book written by John Steinbeck. The book is called Of Mice and Men‚ published in 1937. The book is about a journey of two friends looking for work to obtain money to buy some land to live on. Based on Aristotle’s theory of friendship‚ these men either have an entrepreneurial‚ consumer‚ or true friendship. George and Lennie‚ based on their complex interactions in the book‚ have a true friendship. For example‚ George and Lennie were
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Nothing Don Pedro and Don John have similarities‚ as well as some differences. Don John’s jealousy over his illegitimate half-brother‚ Don Pedro‚ makes himself an outsider of sullenness. The friends of Don Pedro‚ which are Leonato‚ Claudio‚ and Benedick‚ strive for goals that are not as extreme as Don John’s. Don John’s goal‚ with his associates‚ Borachio and Conrad‚ is to ruin the happiness of Claudio and Leonato’s daughter‚ Hero. Despite their similarities in striving for a specific goal‚ Don Pedro
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having my diploma in 2011. I never thought that I would be majoring in Graphic designer. That challenges me deeply and helps me to discover myself because the art wasn’t my dream and wasn’t my strength. So‚ why people think about dropping out? According to Alex Kern’s in his essay “Don’t Drop Out Why There’s Still Value in College”‚ he argument about this problem. I agree with him because they may lose the opportunity to discover themself and it’s maybe the best thing that will happen to them. I agree
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