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    History Torrance Memorial Medical Center is a nonprofit medical organization that has serviced Los Angeles South Bay Area since 1925. The hospital was founded by Jared Sydney Torrance who unfortunately passed away in 1921 before the hospital opened. Since its opening, Torrance Memorial has provided vital services to the community ensuring their patients have access to the highest level of care and technology available. Torrance Memorial is the largest acute-care center in the South Bay Area. The

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    SALLIE MC FAGUE AND THOMAS TORRANCE This paper seeks to compare two theologians, one male, one female, one Trinitarian and one mythological, Thomas F. Torrance and Sallie McFague. At the heart of all of Torrance’s theology is the truth of the Trinity. It is foundational to all of his work. For him, the ultimate purpose of theology is knowing God in a personal way that involves both head and heart. He felt we must be faithful to Scripture’s logic. (Torrance, 2008). Torrance was also interested in

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    Unbroken was written in 2010 by Laura Hillenbrand and later adapted into a movie in 2014. It is a story about a young Olympian named Louis “Louie” Zamperini, who made it into the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He later gets drafted into the Air Force and fought in World War II; only to get stranded in the ocean and captured by the Japanese. The book and the movie both cover the same main topics and are over the same events, but they aren’t both the same. The book goes into more detail than the movie in many

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    Over the summer I read Room, by Emma Donoghue. Jack and Ma, Joy, have lived in Room for as long as Jack can remember it's all he's ever known. To Jack outside of Room is TV land, space, and Old Nick. But Jack is 5 now and he's ready to know about the world, days when Sunday treats aren't just on Sunday. So Ma and Jack plan, they are going to get out of Room. Dead. Truck. Run. Police. Save Ma. And Jack finds the courage to do it, he and Ma go to Grandma and Grandpa's, they get to live on their own

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    Introduction: Captivating and horrifying visuals flood Stanley Kubrik’s The Shining. Solace in the rockies may sound pleasant, but in The Shining, the beautiful Overlook Hotel becomes a nightmare. Jack Torrence, a recently recovered alcoholic and writer is in search of a big break to please his clients. He interviews for a job at the Overlook hotel as a groundskeeper in the winter months in which it is closed. He hopes that the solitude that the hotel brings is exactly whats he needs to succeed

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    The settings of “The Shining’ s Overlook Hotel” and “The Cask of Amontillado’s catacomb” are very similar. The catacomb of The Cask of Amontillado describes the darkness and creates horror scenes in the story, it also reflects the darkness of human beings, such as Montresor murdered his friend Fortunato. The set-up of “The hotel of The Shining” is a complex and creepy building, Mr. Ullman introduces the history of the hotel, Delbert Grady and his family’s tragedy, “He murdered the little girls with

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    Unbroken Film Techniques

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    Unbroken is unfinished Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best seller, the film Unbroken is an inspiring, three-time Oscar nominated, World War II biography that tells the story of a young man, Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell), enduring the unimaginable brutalities of war. Directed by Angelina Jolie and produced by Erwin Stoff, this film is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption. Although this movie has some tear-jerking moments and a few memorable quotes, it seems to have fallen

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    1. Brandon Lynch, Fullerton College, Contemporary Cinema, Paper #1 2. The Shining, Stanley Kubrik, 1980 3. Netflix, on a TV, by myself In Stanley Kubrik's, The Shining, Jack Torrence takes a job as a ski hotel caretaker and moves his family to the resort for the off season. Their son Danny, seems to possess a power called "the shining" that allows him to see into the past and the future. Through a series of complex scenes and excellent plot twists, the audience sees Jack Torrence slowly lose his

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    The Shining Movie Themes

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    The Shining is a movie written and directed by Stanley Kubrick and it is based off a novel written by Stephen King. The movie was released in the year 1980. The setting of this movie is in The Overlook Hotel, in Colorado, which is considered one of the scariest and most fictional buildings ever built. It is known to be built over an Indian burial ground, which I think can never be good. The movies main character Jack Torrence is a writer and post alcoholic. He agrees to watch the Overlook hotel in

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    In an earlier report, Cal/OSHA had previously cited the Torrance refinery with 25 safety violations in November 2014 (Kenealy, 2015). Following the explosion, workers at the refinery voiced their concerns over these past and present violations and even conducted a strike involving 7,000 employees across 15 refineries. The strike was intended to bring awareness to the occupational hazards created by ExxonMobil’s failed safety protocols and procedures. By not addressing these problems earlier when

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