...Field of Dreams Synopsis of reviews/articles written about the film Based on the review written by Roger Ebert (Ebert, 1989) The farmer Ray Kinsella is in the middle of his cornfield when he first begins hearing voices “If you build it, he will come.” Prior to the farmer hearing voices, Field of Dreams is a sensible film about a young couple who want to run a family farm in Iowa. When the voice speaks for the first time the audience is stumped with the thought of this movie turning into a religious based film. The movie develops a fantasy when farmer Ray understands the voice wants him to build a baseball field in the middle of his corn crops so Shoeless Joe Jackson (deceased) can materialize out of the Corfield and come play there. The movie prudently does not try to explain the strange events that happen after the field is built, it depends on a poetic vision to make its point. A specific speech in the movie describes baseball in a simple and true way, which ultimately describes the goal of the players who emerge from the cornfield, which is to simply play they game they love. The believable relationship created by the young couple Ray and Annie develops the theme that love means sharing your loved one’s dreams. Field of Dreams will not appeal to realists, it is made up of fantasies but stays true to what the plot promises, “if you build it, he will come.” Shoeless Joe Jackson does not return from the dead to save the world, but to answer the cry of a baseball legend....
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...Marian University Final Paper Alex Ghattas Asian Religions Mr.Gides April 30th, 2013 Buddhism is one of the largest and most well known pantheistic religions today. In this paper, I will argue that the Eight Garudhammas are controversial because they attempt to push women into an inferior role, and since men are equal to women in the Buddhism, why must they complete these extra tasks. First I will review the Eight Garudhammas, then I will show findings how some Buddhists, especially those of Theravada, believe the Eight Garudhammas are not really teachings of Buddha. Finally I will compare and talk about the differences of becoming ordained as a man or woman in Buddhism. The Eight Garudhammas date back to 1000 of years ago, which are the eight heavy rules which bhikkhunis (nuns) must follow in order to become fully ordained. Since these “rules” date back so many years and also from a different language, the translations have changed over the years. The Eight Garudhammas are as follows: 1. A nun who has been ordained even for a hundred years must greet respectfully, rise up from her seat, salute with joined palms, do proper homage to a monk ordained but that day, 2. A nun must not spend the rains in a residence where there are no monks, 3. Every half month a nun should desire two things from the Order of Monks : the asking as to the date of the Observance day, and the coming for the exhortation (bhikkhunovada), 4. After the rains a nun must 'invite' before...
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...Deborah Sampson was a very smart, strong, and tough woman. Deborah was big boned and tall; she was five foot eight. All of these features helped her give off the perception of being a man. During the time of the Revolutionary War .It was shocking for a woman to dress like a man. Women were supposed to stay at home, raise a garden and take care of the children. Deborah was brave enough to do what she knew was right even when society would not agree. Deborah Sampson was raised by friends and relatives until she turned the rightful age of ten. For the next eight years, she was an indentured servant and was educating herself. With her self education she was a teacher. Towards the end of the war, she decided she needed to help the efforts of...
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...Adam Brown Ivy Tech Community College Dillinger on the Run English 111 Intro John Dillinger was one of the most well known bank robbers of all time. He reeked havic in the middle west during the Great Depression. He was born on June 22, 1903 in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis and this is also where he grew up. When he was only three years old his mother, Mary Ellen lancaster, died. His father remarried six years later to Lizzie Fields Dillinger who John resented. The Great Escape When John was frequently in trouble during his teenage years. He ended quitting school and got a job in a machine factory in Indianapolis. He was a good worker, but he soon got bored and started staying out too late. His father, John Wilson Dillinger, began to suspect that the city of Indianapolis was corrupting his son. He sold their property in Indianapolis and moved to a farm in Mooresville, Indiana. John’s actions did not change even though they moved to a rural area and he soon began to run wild yet again. Having some time on his hands, John Dillinger decided to pay visit to a lady friend he had met earlier that year. Her name was Mary Longnaker and she lived in Dayton, Ohio. Unknown to Dillinger and Longnaker, the police had been following him while he was gathering funds for the prison break. Once the police received a tip from...
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...not attempt to be illuminative; it is no more than a record of Murray's dream. One of the most puzzling phases of that strange waking sleep is that dreams which seem to cover months or even years may take place within a few seconds or minutes. Murray was waiting in his cell in the ward of the condemned. An electric arc light in the ceiling of the corridor shone brightly upon his table. On a sheet of white paper an ant crawled wildly here and there as Murray blocked its way with an envelope. The electrocution was set for eight o'clock in the evening. Murray smiled at the antics of the wisest of insects. There were seven other condemned men in the chamber. Since he had been there Murray had seen three taken out to their fate; one gone mad and fighting like a wolf caught in a trap; one, no less mad, offering up a sanctimonious lip-service to Heaven; the third, a weakling, collapsed and strapped to a board. He wondered with what credit to himself his own heart, foot, and face would meet his punishment; for this was his evening. He thought it must be nearly eight o'clock. Opposite his own in the two rows of cells was the cage of Bonifacio, the Sicilian slayer of his betrothed and of two officers who came to arrest him. With him Murray had played checkers many a long hour, each calling his move to his unseen opponent across the corridor....
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...The Nazis planned out the arrests, but the French carried out the gathering in the winter stadium known as the Velodrome d'Hiver. The age of operation was for men 16 to 60 and women 16 to 55. Also, children less than 16 years-old will accompany their parents. Buses transported the French Jews to the winter stadium. There was a total arrest of 13,152: men, women, and children.Velodrome d'Hiver, a cycling stadium in Paris, kept twelve thousand-eight hundred forty-four Jewish men, women, and children. According to “The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews”, families that were affected by the roundup of Jews in France share their story. About 24 percent of the Jews in France perished in the death camps. These families explained how their future was affected and the process of the rounding up of Jews of France. According to “After the round up”,Joseph, a child held in the Velodrome d'Hiver stadium, gave details of what had occured in this tragedy. Joseph goes in detail about his escape from a...
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...Introduction: The paper I will be addressing is Factors Impacting Domestic Violence. I will talk about it and the impacts of it as well as some the effects it has on children and the women that are domestically abused. My paper will give women some comfort and the information they will help them. The paper also will determine the barriers of identification and the management of domestic violence from battered women’s perspective on it. Describe research topic: Domestic violence is violence or physical abuse that is directed towards your spouse or domestic partner; usually its violence that is by men against women, however sometimes its women doing the violence against men but it’s not as often as it is the men doing the violence against a woman. The reason I decided to do this topic is: I chose to do my paper on factors impacting domestic violence is because I am a woman that came from a domestic violence marriage, so i want others to know they don’t have to put up with it, there are ways to get out of it and to get help. Also doing this paper it will give me more insight to domestic violence. As a woman you never know when an attack will happen or where. I visited my fiancé in his country and a neighbor was raped while her husband was at work and their kids was in school, it made me worried so I want to stay aware of domestic violence and how to stay safe. ...
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...investigation into the truth behind the stories of the giant ape-like animal. Many scientists have studied the supposed evidence of Bigfoot and the stories that have been told about the creature. For years, the research into the existence of Bigfoot has gone on with no conclusive evidence being found to prove the existence or non-existence of such an animal. As the questions remain, the legend of Bigfoot lives on and continues to grow from year to year. The stories and evidence provided in this paper are all from David Jenkins’ personal collection and experiences. David Jenkins was my zoology teacher in tenth grade, my biology teacher in eleventh grade, and finally my marine biology teacher my senior year. Mr. Jenkins has gone to church with my family and I since I can remember. He is a science teacher by trade, but is also a legitimate Bigfoot researcher and is affiliated with the Bigfoot Field Research Organization. When I spoke to Mr. Jenkins in May 2013, that I would be writing a research paper on the subject of Bigfoot, he was more than pleased to help me. BIGFOOT: LEGEND OR FACT? 3 When people hear talk...
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...Twelve Angry Men This play is about twelve jurors who are to decide the verdict of a 19 year old boy who is accused of killing his father. The jurors go into a room with the foreman to talk about the case and decide on a verdict. The vote has to be unanimous either guilty or not guilty for the case to end. To start the deciding, the jurors decide to take a preliminary vote to see where they stand. After counting the ballots the vote is 11 to 1, guilty. Juror number eight is the one who votes not guilty. The reason that juror eight voted not guilty was because he was not sure that the boy was guilty and he wanted to talk about it. One of the jurors decided to take a minute for each juror to tell their side of the story and what they personally think about the case. After a lot of main points were made such as there being two of the identical knives, the woman in her apartment saying she saw the murder take place through the window of the El train, and how the old man said that he heard the boy say that he was going to kill his father and then went to his door to see the boy run down the stairs. After all of this has taken place they decide to take another vote. The verdict is still 11 to 1 in the favor of guilty. Juror eight is now going over the time periods of when the woman said she saw the murder. Juror eight is also trying to explain how the man could not have seen the boy run down the stairs because the old man would not have had enough time to get out of bed. After juror...
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...the struggle between the two clans, but also represents the code of Bushido that samurai’s followed in life. The text “The Tales of the Heike” gives examples of Samurai that abides to “The Bushido Code: The Eight Virtues of the Samurai.” Four of those virtues practiced in the text are rectitude, benevolence, loyalty, courage. Rectitude deciding one’s way of conduct without wavering like choosing to fight or dying. A...
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...street school grade-8-room-305 Autobiography Jefferson and Alison Crowther Mr. Jefferson and Mrs. Alison look like a great family to me. For someone to love there kid as much as any one, is some what great. I read a paper that said in the being. That ever morning when he got up he would put his suit, he would have a nice white handkerchief in the pocket. He would have a blue bandanna. so when there son the hero turned seven or eight, and they were getting ready for church and he put his jacket he ask could he have a handkerchief too;. So he got a white handkerchief so he put it in his pocket, so then he said I want a bandanna so he got him one of his and he only had two. Mrs. Alison said going right to 9/11. Welles had actually recovered in the lobby area of the south tower, with a group of men. One man was named Donald the later learned captain burns that was incident of the south tower. Welles had the bandanna around his face trying to falter out as much bad air as possible. But as the were saving people the men and boy got blown, as a group they were out and against the wall the world trade fell passing as a group I for ever more rest in peace. I pray for the family having to go through 9/11 with out there...
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...A knight, cowboy, and a samurai were not just fighters, but also warriors that followed an unwritten code of conduct. A Japanese warrior who follows a code of chivalry is a Samurai. The origin of “The Tales of the Heike” was believed to be written down by priests as a collection of stories. The text is a reflection of the conflict between two clans the Genji and the Heike. The Heike clan holds all the power at the beginning, but by the final blow the Genji clan defeats the Heike clan. The story not only shows the struggle between the two clans, but also represents the code of Bushido that a Samurai followed in life. The text “The Tales of the Heike” gives examples of a Samurai that abides to “The Bushido Code: The Eight Virtues of the Samurai.” Four of those virtues practiced in the text are rectitude, benevolence, loyalty, courage....
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...place each year on a daily basis referring to domestic violence including; women who are in college, different ethnics, different sizes, and so much more, which really means there is no particular woman that is chosen to become a victim. With domestic violence it is never a good situation for anyone to be in because of the outcome can be very serious and deadly for the victim. Even though there are many social problems in the world that we deal with, domestic violence should be taken more seriously especially with the consequences that could follow it. There are research studies that I will discuss in this research paper which are; Violence perpetrated by males against their female intimate partners, Violence against women from men who uses alcohol, Factors of violence against women by men, and leaving dangerous relationships. There are many things that...
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...been the initial development and getting started. Making sense of what is in my thoughts and translating those ideas clearly on paper. Often times, I think really hard into it and just coming up with that opening sentence to catch my reader’s attention can truly frustrate me. Once I get started there is nothing stopping me at that point. I just let the flow of thoughts and ideas smoothly translate into my essay while still making sense and sticking to my main objective, which is sticking to central idea and not getting off topic. As I been told many times over, the main purpose of composing is to send a direct clear message across to the reader. Once I have reached the conclusion of my essay, I feel a sense of true accomplishment and pride in my essay. I have successfully pass the initial hurdle. Then comes the easy part which is the revision of the first draft. The revising process is piece of cake and where all the fun starts. Going back proofreading and making all necessary adjustments in order to have a solid and well polish essay is the goal. One of my greatest accomplishments for me personally, was to be given the opportunity to serve my country honorably for eight years in the Marines. I enlisted into service at the age of eighteen. At the time I had no clear idea or path of what I wanted to do with my life, and truly only enlisted out of pure necessity. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into and only going by what the recruiter told me...
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...her husband didn’t have. Because of their lack of resources, the Colsons moved 15 different times within the Boston area. As a result, Charles had attended eight schools by the time he was...
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