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    Dan Breen COM117: Languages of Film & TV 11/5/2014 Jason Molloy Good Guys and Bad Guys Jimmy Conway and Sam “Ace” Rothstein, two of the most charismatic characters in their respective films, are a lot more alike than they seem. Without actually analyzing and going in-depth with both characters, you could see why they both come off more different than alike. First off, and a huge noticeable difference, is Jimmy’s love life compared to Sam’s love life. Jimmy has no attachments to the ladies. Although

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    A Good Guy With A Gun

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    “It’s Really Hard to Be a Good Guy with a Gun” by Adam Weinstein focuses on the issues that surround having a concealed weapons license. Weinstein mentions that while he still has a concealed weapons permit he no longer carries around a weapon because he is unsure if he could appropriately identify the right time to use it. Weinstein also addresses how gun violence is increasing and how “good guys with guns” are unable to use their weapons to reduce this statistic by properly protecting themselves

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    A Good Guy With A Gun

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    LaPierre, an American author and gun rights advocate, once said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” which is an expression that has no implication with civilians stopping a criminal during a crime scene and is a statement that continues to lead everyone getting hurt in the end. No mass shooting in the past thirty years has been stopped by an armed civilian. A ‘good guy’ with a gun has never contributed to stopping a felon during a crime scene, so why would people

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    The Good Guy Or The Hero

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    It also seems that in these stories, the “good guy” or the “hero” is not distinctly judged by others for disrespecting women and are often, despite multiple transgressions against the female race, still pitched as “good” characters. This goes back to the point that we discussed with the Conan the Cimmerian readings, where the lines between good and evil are sort of “blurred.” We have a character who is a thief, and who makes part of his living by “stealing wenches,” and yet somehow he is still not

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    our lives as people we are faced with difficult decisions. And the choices we make determine what kind of people we are. But sometimes, the line between good and bad gets crossed depending on what your intentions are, and what effect your decision will have. Your decisions show your character, and we learn more about Mrs. Kittredge and the Good Guy based off of the difficult decisions they have to make. Mrs. Kittredge is Jenna’s mother in the story, “Cover-Ups”. In the story, a teenage couple is faced

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    Bad Guy vs Good Guy Hey Babes, so before I begin I want to thank you for taking part of Inside Life and helping me choose out this topic! I'm actually super excited to do this topic because I feel like sometimes us as woman or even men settle for what we think we deserve rather then what we actually deserve and that mainly has to do with what type of significant other you are associating yourself with! Sometimes we as woman or men tend to not know the difference between a bad guy and a good guy

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    Why Guy Montag is a good person: Guy Montag is a fireman. Burning books because they're illegal. But his intentions are changed by a young lady named Clarisse, who questions his own happiness. Guy Montag was left with a different perspective of life. Then attempts to change the laws about books. But obstacles are on his way and now the question is, how is Guy Montag a good guy? Montag is a good guy, and here’s a few examples to prove so. First, when Clarisse was killed in a car accident. Montag was

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    The Road Essay In The Road, motifs throughout the novel formulate into not one, but several messages. “Still the good guys” and the “Bad Guys” develop a raging war against what’s right and wrong in this book. One message these two motifs perpetuate is that, there will always be evil in this world; but with evil, comes good. There always has to be a balance between the two. This ‘balance’ is the very essence of our world, and literature. Sometimes though, the balance can be slightly tipped in the

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    their teenage son who has cerebral palsy) who is diagnosed with inoperable cancer, and turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s future (Breaking Bad). Although on the surface Walter White is depicted as a good guy turned bad, in actuality the character is truly embracing his deviant subconscious self. Walter White can reasonably be deemed as an immoral character due to the fact that his criminal behavior was instinctual, he continuously justifies his decisions

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    Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? The short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” is written by Joyce Carol Oats and in this story the protagonist Connie intends to have a fun night out with a friend at a shopping plaza where they went to a restaurant where all the older boys hang out but later in the story, this one night out leads to something much more than Connie expected. While Connie and her friend Betty caught the eyes of several boys, one in particular plays an important

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