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    In the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, a group of disarrayed men search for the true meaning of their lives and what it means to be a man in the postmodern time period. Postmodernism is a period that followed modernism, portraying less organization and more freedom. Fight Club addresses the dominant mindsets, ideologies, and preoccupations of the postmodernism era found in the film. Throughout Fight Club the mindset of not conforming to the way other men live regularly is practiced

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    “I am here today to say that refugees are not numbers. They’re not even refugees. They are mothers and daughters and fathers and sons – they are farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers, they are individuals all. And most of all they are survivors –" Angelina Jolie, spoke this as the into of her great speech at World Refugee Day in 2009. Known to most as an exceptional actress, Angelina surprises some with her title of Special Envoy of Refugees given to her by the UN High Commissioner of Refugees.

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    Mr. Harris, I hope all is well with you. As you probably already know, I am not at Bowdoin for the fall semester. My father has said he has spoken to you about the issue already, so I know you are informed about my situation. I hope we can sit down and talk about it when I return to campus in the spring. Regardless of that I am not writing this email to you today about that subject. I've got a friend at Bowdoin named Heyab Chocol, who recently I have become a little concerned for. Frankly the guy

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    The start of Imagine Dragons was in Provo, Utah where lead vocalist Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman while attending Brigham Young University. Then soon in 2009, the group included guitarist Daniel Wayne Sermon, bass player Ben Mckee, and Andrew Tolman’s wife Brittany Tolman on keys and backing vocals. Originally Dan Reynolds was from Las Vegas but then the whole group came from Las Vegas. The album that “Believer” is in is the most recent and modern album called “Evolve” that was made because

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    Fight Club, a 1999 film based around Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, was at first seen as very odd and often times questionable. However, in years since its release the movie has cultivated a specific cult following. While the movie emphasizes consumerism, it also has a reoccurring “fight the power” attitude embellished throughout the film. As for setting, it was set in a very dull, dark city and the narrator remains unnamed for the entire film. The film attempts to show the reader the effects that societal

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    Fight Club Narrator

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    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” –Friedrich Nietzsche Many people find different ways to cope with the events that take place in their lives or lack there of; some go to therapy, some take drugs, and then there’s the narrator of Fight Club he makes another personality, or a new monster. Although it was never stated, the narrator may have had childhood issues that were never resolved or a trauma that impacted his life in ways that he couldn’t

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    If Tyler Durden from Fight Club was sitting inside $340,000 a Lamborghini Aventador, his hatred towards materialism probably would have driven him to accelerate the car right into the ocean. If author James Twitchell was sitting inside of it, he probably would have just left the car in a parking structure with the keys still inside. Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club and James Twitchell’s essay “The Allure of Luxury" both take a negative perspective against the concept and phenomenon of Western

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    FIGHT CLUB Tiffany Constant ECPI University   Fight Club is about a man and his “friend” finding a different way of dealing with their problems other than traditional therapy, by resorting to the most primal way they know how to; fighting. The movie starts off with main character, Jack, stating that it’s been six months since he has been able to sleep. That right there tells me that is something mentally off about him. It makes me wonder if anything is real or what is being imagined by Jack. Jack

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    "Everything is a copy, of a copy, of a copy" (Fight Club, 1999). As told by the narrator, Fight Club is a movie about an office worker suffering from insomnia and a soap maker who form a Fight Club. The narrator (Edward Norton) and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) acquaint themselves while they talk about modern day philosophy. After the narrators’ apartment is blown to pieces by a gas leak he is left with nothing. Leaving him to ask Tyler if he can stay at his place. Tyler's house is a real piece of

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    Mexico Experience

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    An experience I’ve had is a trip to Mexico. I was about 9 years old when I first took a trip to Mexico. It was also my first time out of the states. I didn’t know what to expect from Mexico. I was so used to the U.S because that’s where I’ve been my whole life and never traveled to a different country. I was so nervous because I knew that you needed to have some type of documents to come back to the U.S. I remember my first time coming back; there was always negative things feeding my mind like what

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