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basketball but no one thought he would be good at writing or, have the knowledge that most people didn’t think he would have because of his skin color. Jamal was mad at the fact the people weren’t giving him the respect that he should of gotten. William Forester was the only one giving Jamal respect for his writing. The principal or the school board went to Jamal before the big game and said “ If you win this game we will forget about you palyzerzing” (Movie: Finding Forrester). But if you don’t

The Monuments Men (2014) Review by Sara Phillips “It was the greatest art heist in history.” Based on the true story, The Monuments Men were a group tasked with going into Germany to rescue culturally prominent art, buildings and monuments from Nazi thieves. With no military training and a passion for historical artifacts, a group of seven men risked their lives to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of human achievements. Firstly, the screenplay was written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov

Good Will Hunting, produced by Gus Van Sant, was released in 1997. In the movie, Will Hunting is a genius who can memorize everything that he reads and solve the theories that no one can solve. Although he has a genius level IQ, Will rather chooses to work as a janitor at MIT and hang out with his childhood friends from Southie. One day, Gerald Lambeau, math professor at MIT, puts his math theories on a board on the hallway. Few days later, he realizes that Will, a janitor, not his students, is the

Name Course Number Professor name Date of Submission Response to The Good Shepherd (CIA) The Good Shepherd is a fascinating, adult film. It is an adult film not merely because of its high rating but because it depicts the difficult and problematic professional and personal life of a CIA operative with an adult, realistic approach that is rarely shown in films. In addition, The Good Shepherd tells a compelling, complex, personal and political story and tells it extremely well. The film utilizes

Comparison: Temple Grandin vs. Invictus The film Invictus tells the story of a divided nation and its president who tries to heal old wounds prevalent from decades of racial segregation by way of the apartheid laws in South Africa, and his relationship with the nation’s rugby team. The film Temple Grandin is about the life of a young woman of the same name, born with autism in a time when the condition was understood very little and respected even less so, and how she overcomes the obstacles of

"Fringe" is a science-fiction television series developed by renowned director J.J. Abrams. It aired from September 2008 until January 2013, spanning 5 seasons and 100 episodes. The series focused on the experiences and cases of the Fringe Division, a task force within the FBI. The agents of the Fringe Division investigated cases relating to fringe science, such as mind control, pyrokinesis, hive mind, and parallel universes. This case study will focus on the protagonist of the series and the agent

War is a painful, terrible, and sad time for a country. There is no good positive reason for war because all it does is lose people’s lives, separates families, and makes life a lot more complicated Through war, we learn from our past to grow our communities in the spirit of a hopeful future by learning honor and trust. Honor is used in war because it shows respect for people and your country. In Hiroshima, Mr. Tanimoto shows honor because right after the bomb, he helped people. Dr. Sasaki also

Tom Ripley isn’t entirely sure of who he is, taking on the identity of multiple characters to hide behind a mask of insecurity. We meet him in the beginning of Patricia Highsmith’s, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” taking on someone else’s job as well as pretending to be a well-educated well-mannered Princeton graduate. Tom Ripley has gotten away with all his frauds, impersonations, and forgeries until his past comes back to haunt him. His imagination runs wild as he imagines the horrible deeds he has done

Invictus is a movie based on the real life story of how Nelson Mandela united the country of South Africa through the sport of rugby. To give some background, before Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa (which made his presidency very historic), he had been a prisoner on Robben Island for almost 30 years while South Africa was under the cruel regime of Apartheid. Apartheid was introduced in 1948 by the white National Party government to make segregation between whites and

The main character of this film was Will Hunting, a young man from South Boston who grew up in the foster system and was portrayed to be of low social-economic-status. Regardless of Hunting’s background he was remarkably intelligent, he explained it as similar to the way Beethoven could naturally plan a piano. There was never and official diagnosis given for Hunting’s condition but there were symptoms that pointed towards anxiety and borderline personality disorder. The most distinct symptom I noticed