Miracle Miracle is a sports movie made in 2004. The movie is about the story of Coach Herb Brooks‚ and his 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team. Russia has been dominant for years on the ice‚ defeating the best teams the world has to offer‚ including the NHL All-Star team. In an attempt to beat the Russians‚ Herb is hired as the coach the US Olympic team. Brooks now must use his unique coaching method to turn a rag-tag team of hot headed college kids into a medal winning olympic hockey team‚ and finally
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Movie Lesson Plan Ideas Ways to Effectively Use Movies in Class Including movies in your lessons can help enhance learning and increase student interest levels while providing direct instruction on the topic at hand. While there are pros and cons to including movies in lesson plans‚ there are ways that you can help ensure that the movies you choose do in fact have the learning impact you desire. The following list gives ideas for how you can effectively use films to reinforce what is being taught
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Matrix- Movie Review The Matrix is the second film of the writer/director team Larry and Andy Wachowski‚ who have once again hit the mark with their science fiction thriller with the perfect balance of action‚ excitement and suspense. The Matrix didn’t follow the trend of many other sci-fi films of this era‚ which are becoming less and less reliant on plot and focusing their attention on special effects‚ which can often result in them becoming boring and predictable. Instead the Matrix achieved
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Movie Character Presentation Philadelphia Overview of Presentation This presentation will focus on Andrew‚ the main character of the movie‚ Philadelphia. A functional health assessment will be done. Two normal and two abnormal health patterns identified. A nursing diagnosis with interventions and resources included. Background of Movie and Character Andrew is an up and coming lawyer working for a prestigious law firm in Philadelphia. He is a gay man who is HIV+ and hides his
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Babel (2006) Babel is a film about communication. There are four main storylines‚ which involved four countries and five languages. However‚ the director used a rifle to link up the four stories together aptly‚ which makes it a coherent movie. The first storyline was about the married American couple‚ Richard and Susan. They travelled to Morocco‚ but Susan was shot during the journey. Another storyline was about the two brothers lived in Morocco‚ and one of them unintentionally shot Susan. The third
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Effects of Global warming Global warming or “greenhouse effect” is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface‚ which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes‚ both natural and human. In common usage‚ “global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. The atmosphere consists of several “greenhouse gases”‚
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Summary The Indian film industry has been going through a sea change in its attitude. Multiplexes are fast dotting up the metros and are slowly realizing the potential of even the smaller areas. Today‚ there are far more avenues to make money out of a movie than just its box office earnings. DVD releases‚ music launch‚ merchandise‚ overseas distribution rights etc all form a part of the earnings. This has been a slow process which has taken off only recently. For a long time‚ producers had been inconsequential
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Critical 1.) What kind of person is the singer/speaker? Why do you say so? -I would say that the speaker/singer is a hero of some sort. It is because that in the song‚ the singer is talking about fighting and having courage just to reach that unreachable star. Literal 2.) What is the rhyming scheme of the song? -The rhyming scheme of the song is abbb abcb aabb abcb abcb. Literal 3.) What are the those the singer/speaker want to do? -The singer/speaker stated things that he wants to
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Making Dreams Come True The movie Miracle tells the inspiring story of the 1980 United States hockey team and their journey to becoming the best hockey team in the world. Any hockey fan would be a perfect contender for watching the movie. The movie explores the many struggles that the team has to face to conquer their way through the Olympics‚ including on and off the ice. At a time when the country is in a period of struggle with the Cold War‚ Coach Herb Brooks has goals for the team that seem
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Rahmel Ortiz 1/19/15 Period 10 Movie Review Draft Valkyrie Valkyrie is an admirable movie based off of true events of the Valkyrie operation which was created to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The leader of this conspiracy was Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. Stauffenberg was an extremely patriotic and courageous man; he believed it was up to him to save society from the critical epidemic known as the Nazi organization . He believed in German freedom and in the end he died trying to withhold it
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