social studies‚ people born from 1982 through the present are the generation of the Millennials. You may have heard the knocks against Millennials. They are narcissistic‚ coddled‚ and work-shy‚ not to mention spoiled. But there’s more to their story. It is the largest and most diverse generation in world history‚ and they are goal-orientated/oriented‚ less ideological than their Baby Boom parents‚ and far more tolerant. While their parents and grandparents preferred to work alone‚ young Americans are
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*Describe your personal culture shock in the United States. What is culture? The word culture has many different meanings. For some it refers to an appreciation of good literature‚ music‚ art‚ and food. If one is looking this word up in a dictionary‚ he will find out that culture is ¡§the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns‚ arts‚ beliefs‚ institutions‚ and all other products of human work and thought. These patterns‚ traits‚ and products considered as the expression of a particular
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Advertisements are too misleading nowadays. What is your view? Advertisements can take different forms such as television‚ radio‚ display lights‚ newspapers‚ adverts or magazine adverts‚ leaflets‚ posters/billboards‚ sides of bags/vehicles‚ direct mail‚ internet and cinema. Advertising can either be informative or persuasive. It is true that businesses do spend a lot of money to advertise their products in order to boost their sales and thus their profit; in other words for their own purpose. They
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It is true what they say about travel; it does broaden the mind. In fact most people who travel a lot tend to me more tolerant and open different ideas about the world. As people move from one country to another they begin to realize that all humans have things in common‚ and most of us are trying to do the best we can. Travel makes you not only more aware of your own culture‚ but it begins to make you feel like a citizen of the world. One problem with travel is there is just so much choice available
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What makes good people do bad things? Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison experiment was to study the behavior of normal people under a particular situation. The students who took part in the experiment would play the role of either guard or a prisoner in a mock prison. Most of the students that played as the guards of the mock prison became very cruel as they abused their power and authority over the prisoners. The students that played as the prisoners were frightened and became submissive to the prison
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The film adaptation of the novel‚ Ordinary People‚ directed by Robert Redford has received massive amounts of critical acclaim since its release in 1980. It has been nominated for several Academy and Golden Globe Awards‚ among others‚ and won four of the Academy Awards‚ five of the Golden Globes‚ and numerous critic awards. The film’s achievement is due to the eloquent screenwriting by Alvin Sargent‚ powerful‚ emotion evoking drama from Judith Guest’s original story‚ and phenomenal acting by Timothy
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should apply too. At my high school‚ it was never second guessed whether the student would be attending college but was assumed. Most people have misconceptions that if they do not get a degree‚ they will unable to obtain a job and have an overall unsuccessful life. In Charles Murray’s‚ “Are Too Many People Going to College” and Freeman Hrabowski’s “College Prepares People for Life”‚ the two author both discuss the education system we have in place‚ however‚ Charles Murray provides a more convincing
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Another type of media is a magazine. What seems to be the most popular and influential thing about magazines in today’s society is who is on the cover. The most common type of person that is seen on the cover of a magazine today is a young‚ skinny‚ white woman. With the amount of diversity that is in the United States‚ when a young girl sees a woman on the cover of a magazine that does not look like her‚ she is made to feel as though she needs to look like her in order to be considered beautiful
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This report is about how films work. In this report‚ I will give examples from the book and movie called ‘The Outsiders’. I will be using examples from ‘The Outsiders’ because the film has a lot of examples on camera movements‚ for example‚ close-ups‚ camera turning around‚ downward views‚ colored screen‚ camera edits‚ etc.‚ and how films work. In the movie of ‘The Outsiders’‚ there were a lot of camera movements. At the beginning of the film‚ the music lyrics restate the word gold‚ the opening
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Film Title: Young Frankenstein Production Design: Dale Hennesy Director: Mel Brooks Cinematographer: Gerald Hirschfeld Cosrume Designer: Dorothy Jenkins Color Choices: Filmed in 1974‚ this movie was filmed in black and white. Our book notes that filming in B/W after the invention of color was a decision based on keeping the audience involved with dialog and characters‚ this movie was filmed in B/W simply to stay as close to the original 1931 Frankenstein as possible. This movie was the mother
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