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    continues to look for them, but she forgets about them because she has short- term memory. While she is searching for her parents, she runs into Marlin who is also searching for someone dear to him, his son. Dory helps him find his son in the film Finding Nemo. One year later, Dory eventually lives with the two on their reef. Dory suddenly has a flashback of her parents. She decides to search for them, but her short-term memory gets in the way. She eventually remembers where they live when Nemo mentions

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    “Courage is grace under pressure,” -Ernest Hemingway. The book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and the movie Finding Forrester, have many similarities, yet many differences. The Old Man and the Sea is about a man named Santiago and a boy named Manolin who progressed their relationship through fishing. Finding Forrester features a poor boy who lives in the Bronx and a famous writer who helps him with school. The mentors showed the kids their techniques and helped them improve their

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    My Strengths

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    One of my earliest childhood memories that I can recollect is my mom constantly telling me "para ser mas fuerte debes enferentar a tu debilidad". The translated version is "to become stronger you must face your weakness ". Indeed she is a wise woman. This gave me a perspective from a young age that in life in order succeed you have to fail. Additionally, this phrase always resonated with me and has characterized who I'm today. From a young age, I had to mature more rapidly than an average teenager

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    In the movie Finding Forrester, courage is displayed throughout the whole film. Each character has their own way of showing it, and they each learn something from others courage. Finding Forrester is about an African-American teenager who is very smart and a very good writer. He is dared to go up to an apartment owned by “The window” who ends up being William Forrester, a famous writer who hasn’t been heard from in decades. These two end up becoming very good friends, and William helps Jamal with

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    In the movie “Finding Forrester” , it’s main focus was to imply the word “Plagiarism” into the acts of the main character Jamal Wallace. This plays a role later into the movie in which he is assumed to have plagiarized the work of William Forrester a famous writer. Although the movie promotes the harms of plagiarism it also tells a good story about a friendship amongst two strangers. Throughout the movie Jamal Wallace developes a friendship with William Forrester that starts to become more than just

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    Frog Fish Research Paper

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    As inconceivable as things for years and years scientists have missed the two new species of psychedelic fish found in the water surrounding Indonesia and The Colossal Pink Lizard that lives on the Galapagos Islands. Ted Pietsch a scientists imperfection at the University of Washington named the species “psychedelica” which is a type of frog fish. Frog fish have fins under the body that looks like worms and a white frog like mouth. The body is jealous tonus comma with 6 old love skin which gives

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    helpful for the development of social and emotional characteristics in children is Finding Nemo. In Finding Nemo, Nemo stands out from his peers because he has a foreshortened fin that causes him to swim slower but he finds ways to gain acceptance from his peers. Nemo then tragically gets separated from his father, which helps him develop and broaden his self-coping skills and reinforces his emotional regulation. With Finding Nemo, the movie encourages children in

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    Finding Nemo is about a clown fish (Nemo) being taken from the sea and his dad, Marlin, crossing the ocean to save him. At the beginning of the movie Marlin, Marlin’s wife Carol, and their unborn children just moved into a new anemone at the edge of a coral reef. Marlin and Carol were enjoying their new view when Marlin saw a barracuda at open sea; while he wants to hide, his wife wants to go and save her unborn kids from being eaten. When Carol went to save the kids, Marlin was knocked unconscious

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    In the movie Finding Nemo, Nemo learns to understand that believing in ourselves can overcome any condition. This is shown throughout Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. Marlin, had his son taken away by a scuba diver, this is where the monomyth takes place. It is Marlins call to adventure to find his son. The refusal of the call as seen in the monomyth, is exemplified through Marlins fear of the deep sea. While defying his fear, he runs into his supernatural aid whom is Dory. Dory acts as a supernatural

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    Finding Nemo Essay

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    The movie Finding Nemo, directed by Andrew Stanton and previewed of May 30, 2003, is about a clownfish, Marlin, who has to raise a disabled son, Nemo, with a short fin that makes it a challenge for him to not stand out from the others. Nemo then gets captured by a reef diver, and Marlin is on a mission to get his son back, along with the help of a new friend Dory. Marlin, our quester upon this movie, has a son who ends up being kidnapped by a human diver, and taken to an Australian dentist’s aquarium

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