Twisted Up Research Paper

The first cooking show I watched was Chopped. Chopped is a competition show where contestants are given a diverse array of ingredients that are unusual and don’t necessarily go well together. Some of the strange ingredients the contestants were given included pink marshmallow peeps, a chocolate bunny, and also a lamb leg. The idea is to create a dish using all the ingredients you are given to make a dish. There are three rounds, appetizer, entrée, and dessert. Each round one contestant is eliminated or “chopped” from the competition until two contestants are left standing in the dessert round. The show is hosted by a man, Ted Allen and there were three judges, this episode there was a male and two females. The contestants were equally distributed in respect to gender, two male, two female, also

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a historical biography about the life of Louie Zamperini. Louie began as a delinquent and soon became a track star. Heading into the battlefield, Louie Zamperini became a bombardier. On a search-and-rescue mission, Louie’s B-24 crash landed into the ocean. He became a castaway with two other crew members. Louie was captured by the Japanese and sent to a POW camp. After two years, Louie was reunited with his family. During his childhood, Louie was troublesome turning into a resilient individual during the war, then developing into a forgiving person after the war.

What would you have done if you were stranded on a raft with two other men for 44 days with provisions to last less than 3 days? This is one of the easiest things Louie Zamperini had to endure in “Unbroken”, by Laura Hillenbrand. The most important thing to be learned from the life of Louis Zamperini is to never crack under pressure, because of his survival on a raft, how he withstood the cruelty of the bird, and how he survived through the torture of Japanese POW camps.

Robert H. Schuller once stated, “Tough times don’t last, but tough people do.” In the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie struggles with fitting in anywhere and staying out of trouble. He was constantly doing things to cause trouble and making mistakes. Pete, Louie’s brother pushes him to run to escape his troubles. Throughout Zamperini’s life, he gains perseverance which gave him the ability to survive through life.

“If I knew about the things I was going to endure before I was captured, I would kill myself.” (Louie Zamperini). The biography Unbroken was written by Laura Hillenbrand was told about the famous Olympic athlete and World War Two POW Louie Zamperini. Louie was held in a number of POW camps across the Pacific and witnessed the true horrors of the Japanese guards who enforced the inhumane standards throughout these camps. Louie shared his experiences about the endeavor and became an icon back in the United States, but was still unraveled from his time in the camps and his captors. POW camps were the areas of holding prisoners who had been captured and the POWs were supposed to be protected by the Geneva Convention about quality of life and labor, but the Japanese thought otherwise of the quality of life POWs should have while apprehended.

People were mistreated during WWII and were tortured in POW camps. Louie Zamperini, a character and a real person from the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, was in the army during WWII and had to go through the torture of being a prisoner at a camp in Japan. In the book Unbroken, Louie was going to be a famous Olympic runner until the Olympics were cut short when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and caused World War II to start. Louie drafted in the air force and crashed on a mission; he had to live on a raft for 47 days without any food or water. He was washed ashore on a Japanese island and became a prisoner of war. He then had to go through many painful experiences until the war ended September 2nd, 1945. Internees also had to go through harsh times during the war. Both POWs

War is a state of armed conflict between different nations, states or groups (War).No one can think of a time when the United States has not been in a war because this nation is constantly fighting. The element of war is seen throughout the novel Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, it is seen throughout the movie as well. In Unbroken whenever planes went missing there were search planes to look for those them. In some unfortunate cases, “Search planes appear to have been more likely to go down themselves than find the men they were looking for” (Hillenbrand 91). During this time of war in the novel, if some of the

Nowadays, phones have been glued to our hands. But how many people would be attracted to their phones if they know they are being tracked? Over the recent years as technology began to grow phones has been a big success. People are making calls, sending text messages, accessing the Internet , and sharing personal data.It doesn't matter whether your phone is a smartphone or whether you use it to make calls; as long as your phone is turned on, it registers its location with cell phone networks several times a minute, and all U.S. cell phone companies hold on to that data, some of them for years.

On June 17, 1972, 2:30am, five men were caught trying to bug the phones and offices of Watergate Hotel and Office in Washington, D.C.. There were wire taps discovered in all of the Democrats’ offices, as well as Democrat supporters. Each man had thousands of dollars in their pockets; and ties to the re-election of President Nixon. Additionally, top secret documents were found in their possession, belonging to the government and state of Virginia.

The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal once said, “I was always lucky in my bad luck”. The luck Louie had in the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand connects with Hrabal’s quote when Louie and his two friends Mac and Phil survive a brutal plane crash during World War II, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The crew must survive if they want to see their families and friends. With some luck will Louie help these men be reunited with their old lives?

Beyond athletes, Cutter High School also contains problematic coaches. Part of the reason T.J. doesn’t participate on other sports teams at school is because of the coaching staff. He explains, “Coaches have tried to get me to turn out for sports since junior high. Sometimes they’re insistent and sometimes downright nasty…even to the point of calling me a traitor” (11). These are grown men who place an overwhelming amount of importance on their sports and can’t look past their goal of winning. T.J. refers to Coach Benson, the football coach, and Coach Roundtree, the basketball coach, noting that at some point he’s sure the two coaches would “retreat to the time-tested and highly grating tool of public humiliation as a motivator” (12). Besides the way this coaching style grates personally on T.J., it shows a lack of tolerance from these coaches as well as a lack of respect for the very

A NFL player who has had a great career, multiple Super Bowl rings, he’s a millionaire. You could say he has a pretty damn good life. He has a beautiful wife, great kids, a loving family. But in his game he has suffered a torn ACL. He has to undergo a pretty hefty surgery. But after the surgery he has an enormous amount of pain and the doctor’s gave him oxycodone. He starts off with a small doses. The player starts to get used to that small amount of pain pills. Slowly throughout time he needs more and more to feel the effects of them because his body’s tolerance for them is getting higher and higher. The doctor takes them away since he doesn’t need them anymore. But since he was taking multiple a day for

Then on December 16th, the Posadas begin. This is when a small procession with the images of Joseph and Mary is taken from house to house each night until December 24th. Then on the 24th, families come together to share a delicious Christmas dinner. They spend all night, chatting, drinking, playing games and having fun while waiting for midnight. Once midnight strikes, a whole bunch of fireworks go off while everyone hugs each other and wishes one another and “Happy Christmas”.

Social and racial differences have all caused genocide, refugee camps, and suicide bombers to exist. And even though some rules are made to please two parties, some consequence can arise. This is what happened in the book written by Neal Shusterman named Unwind. The book takes place in the future were there is a civil war over abortion. To end the war, the Bill of Life is proposed and it requires for all babies to be born, but when the child grows up, the parents can choose to have him aborted for a greater purpose. Unwind may take place in the future, but the events are not too different from the past and present, where genocide,

Have you ever dreamed of living forever? Or have you had a fear of dying? Well the Tucks ,(From the book Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt), had discovered a spring with everlasting water; or water that keeps you alive forever without aging, which they drank. After some time, the man in the yellow suit, figured there was something fishy about the Tucks, and discovered the Tucks’ secret about the spring water. The man in the yellow suit wants to sell the spring water. The Tucks appose. Here are a few reasons I oppose as well. First, there is only a limited amount of spring water, and there will be a fight over who gets it. Next, if everyone lived forever, the world would be overpopulated. Lastly, if there is no death, there