...In my life, I have taken many journeys without which I would not have experienced important truths. My father started us off early, taking us on many journeys to help us understand that true knowledge comes only from experience. We took trips every winter break to Madrid, Mexico, Costa Rica, and to Jamaica and Trinidad, my parents’ homeland for Christmas. Silly things I remember from those trips include the mango chili sauce on the pork in Maui, the names of the women who gave out the towels by the pools in Selva Verde, Costa Rica, eating dinner at 10 p.m. in Spain. These were all tourist experiences that I, at first, found spellbinding. My truths were the truths of the tourist brochures: beautiful hotels, beaches, and cities. I did not see the blindfolds. I did not appreciate how being held hostage by the beauty of the surface—the beaches and cities—blinded me to the absence of Puerto Rican natives on the streets of San Juan; I did not understand how the prevalence and familiarity of English conspired to veil the beauty of the Spanish language beneath volumes of English translations. I learned more about these truths in my sophomore year of high school, when I was among a group of students selected to visit Cuba. My grandmother was born in Cuba, yet I had never thought to research my own heritage. I have remained the naïve American who saw Castro as some distant enemy of my country, accepting this as fact because this seemed to be the accepted wisdom. I soon became intrigued...
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...ACADEMIC PHRASEBANK (http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/index.htm) ABSTRACT Motivation ... Problem Statement An experimental investigation was conducted to explore … The effect of …… is numerically investigated for Reynolds number range of … This article provides numerically study of the ….. In this study, ….. was analyzed. This article presents an exhaustive review of these studies and suggests a direction for future developments. Approach … is investigated by a numerical study. Results The results reveal that … Based on the results, …. The calculation in this work suggest that …. The results also show that … The results of the numerical simulation indicate that the …. It was found that … Conclussion …, and areas for future research are recommended. Implications of the results and future research directions are also presented. The results presented here may facilitate improvements in the … INTRODUCTION Establishing the importance of the topic: The topic of natural convection in enclosures is one of the most active areas in heat transfer research today ... One of the most significant current discussions in nanotechnology is .... The knowledge of the X in Y is important for an understanding of ... The X has been investigated by many researchers using ... In the recent decades, X has been one of the major interesting research subjects due to ... In the past two decades, X spaces have been studied extensively. Recent developments...
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...Transformation is an amazing thing that could happen to anyone. Finding Forrester is a movie that was released on December 19, 2000. It is a movie about a young, black teenage boy, named Jamal Wallace. Jamal has the tendency to act unintelligent around his basketball buddies so that they will continue to accept him, even though he has outstanding test scores and is an amazing writer. While on the basketball court, the boys talk about the older man that stands in the window watching them, so they gave him the name “The Window” . Rumor has it that “The Window” has killed someone before. One night, Jamal’s friends dare him to sneak into the “The Window’s” house and steal something out of it, proving that he has actually completed the dare. As Jamal was in the apartment,...
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...The American drama film entitled Finding Forrester is directed by an award winning director Gus Van Sant and is written by Mike Rich. It was released in theaters on December 2000 and it garnered mostly positive feedbacks. The two stars of the film was Sean Connery, who played as William Forrester, and Rob Brown, who played as Jamal Wallace. Sean Connery was also the film’s producer. The film was about William Forrester, a reclusive writer, who wrote “The Great Twentieth Century Novel”. This earned him a Pulitzer prize but after gaining fame he shut his world to the public and settle in an apartment in South Bronx, New York. He was befriended by Jamal Wallace, a talented basketball player and an intelligent sixteen year old teenager. Jamal hides his intelligence in writing from his friends because he fears that they might make fun of him and put him out of place. One night, Jamal sneak into the apartment of William. Out of fear he accidentally left his bag in the apartment. Jamal talked to the delivery man of the apartment and showed his knowledge discussing the history of BMW. The delivery man left and his bag was dropped down from the apartment. He finds that the man read his journals and made notes in them. He asked the man to help him in his works, but he was told to write 5000 words on why he should stay out of his home, which Jamal completes and submit to the man. That’s when he started going to the man’s apartment. A...
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...FINDING FORRESTER TEACHERS’ NOTES Finding Forrester is a film about the inspirational relationship between a street-wise black teenager and a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. This study guide is for pupils of GCSE and A level English and Media Studies. The areas of study include starting points for creative writing, writing a critique, what makes great writing, representation and mise en scène. SYNOPSIS He was a vibrant personality who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel four decades ago. And that is the last word heard of William Forrester (Sean Connery). That is until Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), a brash sixteen-year-old with writing aspirations of his own, cracks the veneer of Forrester’s sheltered existence and re-ignites the dreams of this literary legend in the winter of his life. Known as the neighbourhood recluse, silver-haired Forrester is a man whose mystery and eccentricity border on the mythical. When he discovers that Jamal - a talented African-American scholar-athlete who is recruited by an elite Manhattan school for his brilliance on and off the basketball court - has sneaked into his apartment and left his backpack full of writings behind, they both get something unexpected in return. Forced to look past skin colour and suppositions, Jamal encounters not only his first fan, but a mentor who will challenge and change him forever, and Forrester has his first reason in years to emerge from his self-imposed solitude. Visit www.columbiatrlstar.co.uk/forrester...
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...Secondly Jamal’s relationship with Forrester also grew because they were each able to have a voice and were actually able to talk to each other. No one voice would overpower the other voice it was an equal friendship. Though they did still have some tough moments. As I said in my last paragraph Jamal lashed out on Forrester and it ended up helping their friendship and made the movie even more enjoyable. This movie had real emphasis on a new life and starting over. Jamal had to do that exact thing he had to start a new life at a new school. That is difficult for everyone especially when you’re new school is full of white kids and you’re an African American. It was also a new life for Forrester once he got involved with Jamal it really helped...
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...I. Introduction: In our everyday lives we confronted with many obstacles and choices. We look for escapes and stress relievers. The media provides a false comfort away from those stresses. “Thus the predominant genres and modes of representation (news, chat show, soap opera) meet the needs and the desires for order of, and in, the everyday, and even in those areas of media production and consumption where it may be suggested that there is scope for both resistance and ambiguity (and there is evidence, for example, in popular music culture and in some online networks and bulletin boards that this is the case).” (Silverstone, R., 2002). It’s the media, producers and the fortune 500 companies that produce consumer goods and those companies that feed our imaginations with fallacies through “entertainment” television. i. Thesis: It is my belief that we should hold the media accountable for its not only on a deontological level but, a judicial level as well. II. Ethnics: while not mandatory is in good character. i. Promote your business in a positive light. ii. Provide positive influences for children. III. Where the stereotypes are: “There are many formal fallacies, mistakes in reasoning that occur due to the structure of the argument (the fallacy of affirming the consequent is, therefore, a formal fallacy). There are also hundreds of informal fallacies.” (Mosser, 2010) i. Stereotypes and the media influence consumers with fallacies such as Slippery Slope, False Authority...
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...on the road to success, there will be bumps and setback standing in our way. Only through perseverance can we conquer those obstacles that stand in our way. Perseverance is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary to be: “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.” No matter ones culture or what factors life has thrown your way, perseverance is always the instinctual force that tells the subconscious to never quit. Perseverance through strength and determination can be seen in our countries early foundation. It was perseverance that led to westward expansion for inexpensive land, and leads in an age of manifest density and shaped our country. My favorite quote of perseverance is from Disney's Finding Nemo. Through perseverance the protagonist tries to get his son home and only succeeds because he continually reaffirms himself to “just keep swimming, just keep swimming”. With no way to avoid a challenge, you must continue and learn from the experience to become successful. Perseverance is fighting to be on top and achieve that goal to be number one. Perseverance is coming back from a torn ACL and MCL from playing football and becoming 2012 defenseman of the year award in lacrosse. This was won by me after a huge setback in the fall of my senior year in high school playing football. This injury happened when I was...
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...Review of Finding Forrester Brandon 12-1-12 The movie Finding Forrester is about a young sixteen year old African American boy named Jamal Wallace, who one night accepts a challenge from his friends to break into the apartment of a man who they refer to as The Window. It is soon revealed to Jamal that The Window is actually the famous author William Forrester and not only that but Forrester agrees to help Jamal with his writing as long as he never takes anything out of Forrester’s apartment and as long as he never asks Forrester about himself or his family and friends. This is great for Jamal because around the same time, due to his test scores and basketball skills he is accepted into one of the top private schools in New York. However, at the new school Jamal has a whole new set of problems; not only does he have to deal with sharing the spot light with the school’s star basketball player, but he also has to put up with a teacher who insults him and questions his writing abilities because his writing just seems to be too good. The movie was directed by Gus Van Sant and it received 7.2 stars. However, unlike most modern movies that receive a lot of stars this movie did not star any really famous Hollywood actors, for example, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, or Adam Sandler and it did not include a lot of special effects. The movie also did not vary its locations that much either; about 75% of the movie took place in the school, Forrester’s apartment, or Jamal’s...
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...Velasquez May 23, 2011 Comp & Lit “A window is not only a window but it’s the feeling of what you see and what you hope to see that signifies the beginning of what can become with the chances that come your way”. In the movie “Finding Forrester” there are many chances and times were there are bumpy roads that may take you one way or take a way where there is no change for the better. There are moment‘s were others try to prevent others from their success, but it is the way that it is handle that shows were your true destiny lies and this is what occurs to Jamal it is up to him to make the right decision as to where he belongs. The setting of this young man’s life is in a middle class neighborhood in the Bronx were many don’t live up to what life has to offer. It is a neighborhood where others don’t really expect much from them but Jamal prove the contrary he was a very intelligent, bright, and talented young man who had the abilities that many wouldn’t expect from a neighborhood from which he was raise. His talent lied far beyond the basketball court in lied in the love for writing and reading and he truly captivated many with his capabilities. In the movie “Finding Forrester” the meaning of basketball signified many things to me it signify escape, refuge, two separate worlds were life is different this was a sort of world for Jamal were he could bond with his friends and could have a connection between one another but to me it also...
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...Sports Fans Sports fans are a definitely a different breed of people. When their team or teams are playing their mentality is they better win this game and if they lose its then end of the world and puts a lot of the people in bad moods. This happens on the daily basis. Sports fans thrive for the excitement of the games. The excitement of the games and the atmosphere of the stadium bring them in to a whole different world. The fans that take it the most seriously are definitely soccer, baseball, hockey and football fans the most. The die-hard fans care about every game that is played by their team. Most of the time they will take the hard fought loss as if they are part of the team. People are crazy about sports, they’re die-hard fanatics, which sometimes care more about sports then their actual life. The biggest sports fans would have to be football; they go all out for their team. People plan their day around the game by getting to the field to barbeque and tailgate before the game. Most of the time it will be two to three hours before the game. Even some times people will just get to the stadium to tailgate and be in the atmosphere of everyone else and not go into the game because they don’t have tickets. Football fans are crazy they will throw parties in the parking lot before and after the games. They also have fans that paint their bodies and stand out in the freezing cold when normal people would be bulled up in cloths. Football Fans are crazy but that is just the...
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...Trust is a precious thing that many people are not so willing to give freely. In the movie Finding Forrester, William Forrester learns to share his trust with a boy named Jamal when they connect through writing. Forrester is closed off and mean at first, but slowly opens up to Jamal throughout the movie. When he finally lets Jamal in, he starts to teach him how to write and talks to him about his life before Jamal. When Forrester is able to do this, they form a trust and friendship that stays strong even when they are separated. Whether that is by distance, as they go their separate ways or in death, or when Forrester leaves this earth at the end of the movie. Due to the strong sense of trust they have, when Forrester dies he is able to leave...
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...Killa Tay-K Taymor Travon McIntyre better known as Tay-K is a seventeen year old rapper from Arlington, Texas. He burst on to the rap scene with his song “The Race”. Tay-K started his career by posting songs on Soundcloud. His songs got thousands of plays on Soundcloud and his music video posted on Youtube got 76 million views. Tay-K’s songs had violent and vulgar lyrics which reflected choices he made that landed him in jail. Tay-K has violated federal crimes and those crimes are murder and assault. On July 26th, 2016 Tay-k went and did a house invasion and homeowner Ethan Walker dead. Tay-K then found guilty and was arrested for murder and then let out and was put on house arrest. Tay-K had a separate killing in San Antonio, Texas and...
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...As I sat watching “Finding Forrester,” I found myself vacillating between contradictory thoughts and feelings. I felt that I was not supposed to enjoy or appreciate the movie because I have trained myself to question sincerity of a movie about Black life, directed and produced by a very famous White male actor, and in this case one who also plays the leading role in the movie. I am automatically suspicious and, perhaps, offended by a movie in which a White person mentors a Black person. Because of the historical relationship between Blacks and Whites, I programmatically expect to see a movie in which James Earl Jones or Whoopi Goldberg mentor a young White child or adolescent. Despite these thoughts, I found myself totally engaged in the...
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...On Monday, The first poster for Pixar's forthcoming American 3D computer-animated film - Finding Dory was released, and Finding Dory's poster is showcasing a sweet throwback to 2003's American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film - Finding Nemo. The tag on Finding Dory's poster remarks "she just kept swimming," which provides fans with a direct one's gaze toward Dory's fin as she propel her body in the ocean. The American comedian, television host and actress who hosted her syndicated TV talk show since 2003 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Ellen DeGeneres, is behind the voice of the adorable, absent-minded blue tang fish named Dory. Ellen DeGeneres shared the poster on her Twitter account, with a public and typically formal statement about a trailer to be released on Tuesday....
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