Eggsy Unwin

The Crash Reel is a documentary that was created in 2013 and directed by Lucy Walker. It covers the life of Kevin Pearce, a legendary snowboarder. The documentary focuses on the life changing accident that occurred to Kevin in Park City, Utah while training for the Olympics trials. The feature shows Kevin’s life and his recovery process after the horrifying incident. In the film, we see Kevin battle for his life with the support from his family and friends.

For warm ups we would run for at least 10 minutes around the track, after that we stretched and did burpees and up-downs, it was very hard work in the core and upper body. We one time had to team up with a person farthest from your weight class and hold at least a 9 lb medicine ball over our heads and run through the halls. Training was hard since I didn’t have any girls in my weight class other than smaller boys which I didn’t really want to wrestle. I decided to work with a girl that was at least 20lbs more than me, which made me push more harder.

I knew I needed physical improvement just as much, if not more than, technical improvement. I also figured that hard physical training would make me tougher, harder, and less likely to get injured. With that mindset I practically killed myself over the offseason. I weight lifted every day, and went to club practice four days a week.

Practices would start by running trail and stretching is still the way we start practice. The first half hour is the only thing easy about this two hours. The second half hour is spent shooting high crotches and double legs like in a match. This is when the sweat starts to pore. Following that is live wrestling. Occasionally we will wrestle a card like in high school but it is normally not going to be that easy. One of the hardest things is to wrestle twenty minute matches with a short break for an hour. The most common way we work on ground wrestling is thirty second goes. A thirty second go is when with your partner you wrestle for thirty second the guy on

1. Quester- In the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy, the main character, is a tough “street” kid who is sick of his mom being mistreated and angry about his father’s death.

training programs to increase their muscular mass for some roles in movies. One of those actors

As a human being there is a natural instinct to search for a higher power and their intervention. Furthermore, it is also an instinct to tie yourself closer to that power. Religion was the primary focus in the life of a Puritan in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. The Puritans actively searched for God and His intervention in everyday life. Edward Taylor was a Puritan clergyman who lived and wrote poetry until 1729. Naturally, his work reflected the Puritan beliefs. One of Taylor’s fascinating pieces, “Huswifery” gives the reader a brief glimpse into the hopes and desires of the Puritan society. Throughout the poem, the reader can see a conceit comparing the making of clothing to the making of a

Despite some critics consideration of Finny as naive because he fails to realize the reality in the war, he truly desires a life without confrontation. During the boys’ conversation of the infamous war, Finny relays his emotions towards the topic when he describes the war as fake and a conflict created by “ ‘fat old men’ ” (107/115). Although the war prowls around at Devon and damages souls like a savage beast, Finny’s reluctance to accept such a violent act reveals his humanitarian effort to truly keep peace within his community, school, and country. Finny’s innocence also manifests when he remains friendly to his peers within the Devon School. Gene recounts how Finny’s kindness blooms as he believes that “only [Finny] was never afraid, only [Finny] never hated anyone” (204). Gene’s statement proves true since Finny never hurts anyone in his lifetime. Gene ironically does the opposite when he causes the death of

There is heavy celebration and feasting among all of the court for fifteen days until New Year’s Day. King Arthur proposes a game and refuses to eat his dinner until he has heard a wonderful story. Everyone sits in quiet at Arthur’s request, and suddenly they hear something coming from the door. The Green Knight burst through the door glowing, decorated with gold speckles and wielding a glowing green axe while mounted on his Green Horse. The Green Knight has very handsome features including long hair and a long beard. The Green figure shocked the guest and the court leaving their jaws locked open at the sight of this Green Knight. The Green Knight proposes his offer reassuring Arthur that he is not there to fight, as he has no armor on, but rather test Arthur’s court that he has heard so many great things about. He offers the court a particular challenge against his life, saying that whomever strikes him must let the Green Knight repay the same blow he suffered to the challenger. With such a odd challenge at the courts midst, Arthur and his guest are still shocked at this figure and hesitate to reply. The Green Knight begins to question the courts reputation and Arthur will not take this disrespect. King Arthur steps up and grabs the Green Knight’s Axe, prepares to take a blow, but is stopped by his nephew Sir

The film Warrior was released September 9, 2011 by director, writer and producer Gavin O’Connor. O’Connor takes us through a story of two former MMA fighting brothers dealing with a harsh family past (“Warrior”). Gavin has also directed the 2000 film, Tumbleweeds, and the winner of the Best Sports Movie Award in 2004, Miracle (“Gavin O’Connor”). Tom Hardy (Tommy Conlon) was also featured in a major 2010 film, Inception, and This Means War in 2012. He also played one of the main roles in The Dark Knight Rises as villain Bane (“Tom Hardy”). Joel Edgerton is most recognized for his role as a main character in an Australian Television show, The Secret Life of Us, but is also famous for his role as Uncle Owen in Star

I bet the author, Christian Danielsen, could have chosen anyone famous within his own community to do a profile on; instead, he picked a funny math student from UC Davis with a goal of winning an odd world record. The profile of Daniel Meyer, the “Paperclip man”, shares the same elements of hard work and dedication we come to expect from a story of a man and his dream, but with a twist. It takes a peculiar personality to want to dedicate time and energy to breaking the world record paper chain.

His greatest foe ultimately turns out to be not the Green Knight, but himself, as the major conflict is within: his own fear of death. He does triumph over that fear insofar as he seeks out the Green

books I have read, the kinds of training depicted in the movie may very well be accurate. There are only two things that may be

For the most part yes, it took practice, patients and cooperation with my group members but in the end I was able to achieve both my goals. First goal: Not only did I have to challenge myself with new moves I also had to find the balance with others, because all of us could do certain things that others could not. Therefore we had to be understanding and be willing to try out new things.

In the 2013 film Man of Steel, Henry Cavill, an up and coming British actor, portrayed Kal-El. Mr. Cavill brought a cool and quiet, yet at times very detached and alien performance that did not elicit a similar sentiment from me as did Mr. Reeve’s portrayal. This was due in part to the story being retooled in favor of a bold retelling of his origins. The story now focused on him being an alien from a distant planet whose attempts to integrate into society are further complicated because he feels humanity is not ready to accept him for who he is and what that represents. The change to the storytelling dynamic also afforded a closer look at the main protagonist’s relationship with both his birth father, Jor-El and his adoptive father on Earth, Jonathan Kent. Also, in comparison to Superman The Movie, the opening sequences of Man of Steel provided a more intimate portrait of the last days of Krypton, his home planet. This of course served to better flesh out more of the backstory for Kal-El and provided new insight into what had become a relatively one dimensional character in the comic books over the years. The apparent aim was to create a connection with this larger than life character that we as the audience would come to understand in ways that went simply beyond knowing the persona of Superman.