...Kenneth Jones Intro to Writing 102 Narrative 22 Feb 15 A Season that was Lost The Eagles are down one with eighteen seconds left on the clock until they move on or the season is lost. They advanced the ball by using a timeout. The eagles run to the huddle and them all standup. They can only hear one voice and that’s coach coop saying relax, take a deep breath, stay calm and don’t panic. He decided the play he was going to call was eagles six. We are going to run eagle six, also win are going to win the game!! The first horn sound, the referee comes to the bench and says that the first horn. Now the second horn sounds and the team breaks the huddle. The referee blows his whistle, loud due to the packed gym and the crowd had the building shaking. The ball is on the side of the court. The gym was hot! All you could hear was the balls boucing on the hardwood floors, the first shot goes up all net swoosh. Now the real fun begins. Ten minutes into shooting drills you hear a loud whistle and a buzzer sound in the gym. Coach Cooper or (Coop) as he refers to his self, yells on the line. Tot the base line. The team is thinking we are going to run. With a huge smile on coops face start running, we are like for how long for? He simply replayed until he was tired. The team responds with laughter to the statement Luke says cannot be like this. The team start saying let’s go, get it done. The team starts running while the clock is just counting up on the...
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...Summary: The current article is a qualitative study in which the researchers specifically used narratives as a way to put together experiences of recovery from individuals dealing with gambling problems. The researchers of this article started by pointing out that for many years gambling was simply a leisure activity, in other words people just did it for entertainment. Today, that is not necessarily the case, gambling has become a major problem not only for those who gamble but also for their family and friends. Thousands of people around the world have been identified as having a gambling problem. “Pathological gambling” is a term use for those people who meet the criteria stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorder (DMS). In the DSM,...
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...Graded Assignments 4 Unit 1 Journal 1: Personal Narrative 4 Unit 1 Journal 1: Personal Narrative Handout 6 Unit 1 Journal 2: Civic Narrative 9 Unit 1 Journal 2: Civic Narrative Handout 11 Unit 1 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 12 Unit 2 Journal 1: Personal Narrative 13 Unit 2 Journal 1: Personal Narrative Handout 15 Unit 2 Journal 2: Civic Narrative 19 Unit 2 Journal 2: Civic Narrative Handout 20 Unit 2 Journal 3: Article Response 22 Unit 2 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 23 Unit 2 Assignment 2: Declaration of Independence and Public Safety 25 Unit 3 Journal 1: Car Commercials 26 Unit 3 Journal 2: Personal Narrative 27 Unit 3 Journal 2: Personal Narrative Handout 28 Unit 3 Journal 3: Civic Narrative 31 Unit 3 Journal 3: Civic Narrative Handout 32 Unit 3 Journal 4: Taste vs. Judgment 34 Unit 3 Presentation 1: What Would You Do? 35 Unit 3 Assignment 1: Habits That Hinder Thinking 36 Unit 4 Journal 1: Invention Exercise 37 Unit 4 Journal 1: SWOT Analysis Template 38 Unit 4 Journal 2: Personal Narrative 39 Unit 4 Journal 2: Personal Narrative Handout 41 Unit 4 Journal 3: Civic Narrative 43 Unit 4 Journal 3: Civic Narrative Handout 44 Unit 4 Assignment 1: What Would You Do? 46 Unit 4 Assignment 2: Invention White Paper 47 Unit 5 Journal 1: Personal Narrative 48 Unit 5 Journal 1: Personal Narrative Handout 49 Unit 5 Journal 2: Civic Narrative 51 Unit 5 Journal 2: Civic Narrative Handout 53 Unit 5 Assignment 1: What Would...
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...accentuated in some way, such as, purposeful camera movements or through the use of slow motion and/or cut-aways. The term was first coined by Laura Mulvey in her article “Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema”. In this article, Mulvey advocates that the use of the Male Gaze in films, causes women to only be admired for their physical appearance and therefore relegates women to the stature of objects, refusing them human identity. She demonstrates this by using film examples that infer a female’s existence in the film world is only in relation to the male, that she has no real importance, besides how she makes the male feel or act. Mulvey states female characters only serve two roles in a narrative: 1) As an erotic object for the characters within the narrative to view, and 2) As an erotic object for the spectators with the cinema to view. They tend to slow the narrative down; they give men inspiration to act, they are considered passive. Where as male characters push the narrative forwards making events happen, they are seen as active. This can be seen in Star Trek into darkness (2013) Directed by J.J. Abrams. In this scene Carol (depicted by Alice Eve) a weapon specialist is informing Kirk (Chris Pine) that they must make a detour to a near-by planetoid – thus also making a detour from the main narrative. As well as you can see from the image above her intelligence and authority is undermined...
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...Personal Narrative I have spent many hours a day doing what I enjoy. For many people, the activity they enjoy is different from another. I like to spend most of my time at my home playing video games. It has been this way for most of my life. To me, there is nothing wrong with it but I have my fair share of problems with video games but it really helped me as a person. My first experience with video games came when I was four. It came in the form of the Nintendo 64. I got to start playing the N64 when my older brother got a PS2. At first I was kind of hesitant to play it. My older brother would say "Here, play this game." I would say "It doesn't look like a game I want to play." "Try it at least," he would say. He did that for a while with me and my younger brother for a few minutes before we found Pokémon Stadium. I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it. I decided to play Pokémon Stadium anyways though because I liked the tv show. As soon as I turned the console on and started...
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... Hemmingway’s writing digs into the depth of morals and themes using metaphors. Throughout the text Hemmingway’s writing style remained the same. A few examples of metaphors that Hemmingway used throughout this entire novel were related to drinking. The consumption of alcohol becomes a part of social communication in this novel. The characters that do not drink such as Cohn are socially awkward. Another metaphoric example that was used in this book was relative to fishing. When Jake and Bill fished, it was a way for them to connect and obtain value from the natural world. This made them feel peaceful, calm, and happy. Ultimately, it represented an old fashion practice that held value. Also throughout the book Hemmingway, used the same narrative perspective as he locked onto it without changing it at any place in the...
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...Michael Muse Speech. 8am 2/16/14 Narrative Speech There was a minute left and my team was down 1 point with possession of the ball. The timing of this next basket would be absolutely crucial for a victory over our rivals the Canyon Condors. For anyone who has been put in a situation where their decisions would make a difference between winning or losing, Jobs being cut or not, or even where to go out when the group is split up between two places, would know exactly the spot I was in. I have been playing basketball for the better part of my life, and have been the starting point guard for the majority of the teams that I have played on. With this being said, I knew exactly what needed to be done in order to get the victory. I will give you a detailed explanation of how the two teams had become rivals, to the near minute it took to go up one point, and then having to play tough defense in the last few seconds in order to keep the lead and win the game. Like I said earlier, it was the biggest game of the season. Not because it was the championship game or the league title, but because we had to play are city rivals. This game was essential in order for us to keep what little dignity we had left when facing this team. Quick background on why my school the Creekside Wildcats has a rivalry against the Canyon Condors. Both of our schools are in the city of Castro Valley, a few streets apart, and we have all the same sports as each other. Just like every other school sports team...
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...think the young center's 8-foot wingspan should do the trick. Mo Bamba has the potential to be a really good starting center in the league. But even if he doesn't reach his full potential, his current skill set is enough to keep him in somebody's consistent rotation. His freakish combination of length and athleticism along with his ability to defend the rim at a high level is something that every coach in the league can use. Of course, he needs to put on some muscle, but he's only 19 so that will come. Bamba also has room for improvement on the offensive side of the ball but seems to be a high IQ player with the ability to run the floor so he'll be able to figure it out. One thing Bamba has in his favor is that a lot of the attention is going to be on his two fellow freshman big men, Deandre Ayton (Arizona) and Marvin Bagley (Duke). He won't have to deal with the same kind of pressure that most top big men face coming into the...
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...Lashaunde Smith English 110-28 Mr. Moore Narrative 09/07/2013 “Oh Scholar My Scholar” Bright lights and fame has always been my dream. I can count on all ten fingers and toes how many talent shows and auditions I been too to profess my desire to act and be on TV. Nothing seemed more important than that. Not school or friends can defer me from that dream. However; my passion acting and TV did terrible for my academic’s. High school- senior year has always been the best year in high school; for me anyways. I was getting selected for plays, short films, debutante and much more. Nothing could mess up my senior year, until my guidance counselor call me into her office. “Lashaunde, we need to talk.” Ms. Ellis said. Her tone was very calm. That was unusually for her, being that was a “loud mouth.” I lashed back with “about what? “Being that she called me away from my rehearsal for debutante practice that I was on my way to. She started to ask me what my plans were for the future. Everyone knew what I wanted to be. Hell, they had me on the morning announcements. I lived for acting and broadcast. “Well when I graduate I plan on moving to New York or California to pursue acting! Duh! ” I said back with attitude. She started to bother me with college question. She told me that this was a big decision and I needed to figure out back up plans. She said “A college degree goes a long way, when you apply yourself.” I always wanted to go to college and I figured I would go one day...
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...Compare and Contrast American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro focussing on the topic of the unreliable narrator The unreliable narrator is a technique used by authors where a scenario is created in which the reader cannot trust the narration of the book usually done in the first person. In American psycho, Ellis explores the sinister nature of Wall Street yuppie culture by examining the sanity of the narrating protagonist Patrick Bateman using the unreliable narrator. Ishiguro also uses this, exploring ideas of regret and also self-justification in the character of Mr Stevens in The Remains of the Day. Unlike Ellis who examines Bateman during his early working years, in his mid-twenties and presenting a snapshot of his life, Ishiguro uses his take on the unreliable narrator to look at Stevens towards the end of his life using a series of flashbacks narrated unreliably, by Stevens. Both novels are comparable in the sense they examine the topic of failure using unreliable narrators that will do anything to escape the idea that they are failures. A popular debate regarding American Psycho is whether Patrick Bateman is a murderer or not, certainly Bateman describes in detail of murders he commits and why he commits them, however, certain factors bring Bateman’s reliability of narration into question. Bruno Zerweck argues that due to the lack of ‘detective framework’ and ‘unintentional self-incrimination’ the narration of the novel is...
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...chemicals. There is currently no cure for type 2 diabetes but it can be managed with proper treatment. This treatment mainly involves living a healthy lifestyle and maintaining a healthy weight. Without proper treatment, diabetes can be a very serious disease. Over time, the high glucose levels in the blood can damage the nerves and small blood vessels of the eyes, kidneys and heart. This, in turn, can lead to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries and can cause a heart attack, stroke or loss of vision. In some cases, it can result in death of the host when the diabetes reaches its most advanced stages. No two people on this earth are the same. This is especially true when it comes to diseases. No one on this entire earth is going to experience the same symptoms, life altering changes and medical treatments as anyone else. The case that I will be using in this report is one of a sixty-seven year old male. This male is a Caucasian and also a catholic who goes to church every Sunday. This male is my grandpa and he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes around the age of fifty-five. However, since most people with type 2 diabetes are...
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...Depression in Teens Andrea Alessio Grand Canyon University Concepts in Community and Public Health NRS 427-V Kamala Steel January 29, 2016 Depression in Teens It came to this writer’s attention a few months back that something needed to be done about depression in teens. It states that 5% of teens in the United States suffer from depression (Poncelet, 2015). As a Psychiatric RN, most types of depression have passed this way. There are two types, but both can intertwine at some point. Noticeably now a days, many are coming into the unit depressed by bullying. The cause of picking this topic was something this writer came across in the community paper. It was a high school student who did not know what depression was and what she was feeling, until her best friend died. She went to the Board of Education meeting to bring up teaching this subject in their curriculum. It has still not been decided. Another concern was the rate of suicide over the past few years in the community. After just explaining the rational for this paper, you will also learn the summary of the teaching plan chosen to get the information of depression to teens, how it felt and the experience learned while doing it, the response of the lesson taught, and lastly what areas of strengths and weaknesses could be worked on further. The summary of the teaching plan was to get the most across in the least amount of time. Making sure all the important issues dealing with depression were covered this...
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...Rebecca Hower Professor Hamilton Narrative Essay Rough Draft 16 September 2013 Narrative Essay When I was seven years old, my parents decided to cut my hair short. I was very anxious. I hopped on the bus the next morning and kept my hood up. Then, someone pulled my hood down from behind. Everyone started hysterically laughing and pointing at me. “Are you a boy?” an older girl had asked from behind. “Do you like girls?” a younger boy inquired. The kids were so unpleasant. I continued to keep my head up high and keep smiling. Bullying is an event that still occurs after high school. When I was in sixth grade, I had a circle of three best friends. We would spend every day together, hanging out, having sleepovers, etc. The third marking period, I started having problems. I had accidentally said a “bad word.” These three girls started to laugh at me. “You said a bad word” the girls joked as they pinned me against the gym wall. One of the girls tattled and told my teacher, and continued to antagonize me more. “I am sick” I told my mom when I woke up every morning. Eventually, my parents figured out that I was not sick and called the school. “We need to figure this out” my parents screamed on the phone with my school. A few weeks later, not only was the school involved, but the cops were as well. Not only did they talk to me, but they talked to the group of girls. The girls all tried to deny that they were bullying me. “We didn’t do it” the girls cried. “We never did any of...
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...Copyright © eContent Management Pty Ltd. Health Sociology Review (2010) 19(4): 437–450. Embodying the gay self: Body image, reflexivity and embodied identity DUANE DUNCAN Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia ABSTRACT The emphasis on a sexualised muscular body ideal in gay social and cultural settings has been described as facilitating body image dissatisfaction among gay men. Drawing on a concept of reflexive embodiment, this paper uses qualitative interviews to analyse gay men’s embodiment practices in relation to discourses and norms that can be found across and beyond any coherent notion of ‘gay subculture’. The findings reveal body image to be more complex than a limited focus on subculture or dissatisfaction can account for. In particular, gay men negotiate a gay pride discourse in which the muscular male body generates both social status and self-esteem, and deploy notions of everyday masculinity that imply rationality and control to resist gendered assumptions about gay men’s body image relationships. KEYWORDS: body image; gay men; reflexive embodiment; sociology INTRODUCTION Body image dissatisfaction and gay men Following the shift from individual pathol-ogy to cognitive-behavioural and feminist perspectives in psychology (McKinely 2002; Pruzinsky and Cash 2002), a significant volume of psychological and health research has identi-fied a greater incidence of body...
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...the winning lotto numbers. Do not make nice with a sociopath. Or so you'll think after reading Martha Stout's book. The Sociopath Next Door is an intriguing look at these devious, tricky people who live a life without a conscience. She describes the sociopath as a person who doesn't have guilt or remorse, or a sense of conscience. Literally they have no conscience. Their minds are such that the sociopath is free to run among us in the world, doing what they like without feeling bad or upset. They don't lie awake at night, wishing they could take back a nasty remark. They don't bite back and keep from saying nasty things to the clerk at Blockbuster when asked to check their backpacks at the store. If they say something awful, they're not going to feel sorry for it. That really seems to be the gist of sociopath, the total lack of remorse or regard for other people. The DSM-IV criteria -- the gold standard for diagnosing mental disorders -- Dr. Stout says, lists seven characteristics: failure to conform to social norms, being deceitful and manipulating, being impulsive, being irritable or aggressive, being unconcerned about the safety of the self or anybody else, being consistently irresponsible, and being unconcerned and unremorseful...
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