...Dodge Ball: A True Underdog Story The movie is on the rivalry between the owners of Average Joe’s gym and Globo- Gym. Average Joe’s Gym is a small and financially unsuccessful gym with a handful of loyal members run by Peter. White the owner of Globo Gym a fitness guru he purchases the default mortgage of Average Joe’s Gym to build a parking lot. Peter has to raise $50,000 in thirty days to cover his mortgage. White’s attorney Kate he tries to charm her but instead she becomes friends with Peter while they try to go over his records. Peter goes to her house and sees she has weird obsession with unicorns all over her house. Average Joe’s employees Dwight and Owen and members Steve “The Pirate”, Justin, and Gorden try to raise money. Gorden tells them that they should enter a dogeball tournament in Las Vegas with a $50,000 prize. They form a team with Peter and watch a 1950 training video narrated by dodgeball legend “Patches” O’ Houlihan. Of course White has a hidden camera and forms his own team to go against them. His team is full of big athletic team where Peter’s is like a bunch of misfits and average guys. Of course Globo- Gym tries to scare Average Joe’s by his big players and lady with the big eyebrows. She knocks a guy out at the bar standing by the juke box drinking his drink. Peter’s team have to compete against a Girl Scout team to qualify, they lose but win by default because the girls came up positive for steroids. The legend “Patches” is now in...
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...The Blind side is a true story, which is also a sad story. It is about Michael Oher, who had a hard life growing up. He met up with a wealthy family who took him in and tried to give him a better life that he was given while growing up. Growing up in the projects in Memphis where this all took place was a hard thing for people to accept. The family made him like a son and protested one another which I don’t feel a lot of families do now a days. Certain people carry guns to protect themselves, and their family members and are part of the NRA. They showed how people in gangs would threaten other people and you need to know how to protect yourself in these types of situations. There were scenes where there were football games, and we were shown how he got to be on the football team. He had to get help with schoolwork so he could pass school. In one excellent scene, the breaking point of human nature is revealed. How far can one be pushed? We see how Michael reacts when taunted and teased mercilessly by a member of an opposing team. When Mike finally reaches his boiling point, he becomes a human bulldozer and physically bull dozes his tormentor off the field. I have experienced bullies in my past and can totally relate to Michael’s reaction. The result of Michael’s reaction helps him show the coaches what he is capable of doing on the field, and so it is a very positive outcome born from a negative start. This is a film about chance meetings. Michael needs to be out...
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...Reading Response to Based on a True Story James Choung clearly writes how to improve our damaged world in his book Based on a True Story. Choung focuses on four actions that offer a solution to the disasters of the world that are parallel to the teachings of Christianity and the Bible. The first action Choung mentions is the fact that we are designed for good. The second is the notion that the world was destroyed by evil. The third idea Choung writes on is that the world was restored for the better. Finally, the last action is the concept that Christians were sent to heal the broken world. Choung analyzes each action by explaining three ways Christians are to react to each situation. Choung highlights the way we handle the world around us, the way we interact with other people, and our relationship with God. Choung excellently describes his main ideas and outlines them plainly in order for them to be readable. From the beginning, Choung identifies a central barrier in Christianity, which is that instead of Christianity being focused on “...getting into heaven”, it is about a revolution of love, service, and justice (Choung, 5). Because Choung identifies this from the outset, it is clear that his central argument is stating the solution in order to transform this damaged world. Another strong argument of Choung’s is his point on the removal of evil from the world after Jesus’ death. Choung states that all evil in the world and damage caused by us died when Jesus died. He also...
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...Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story,” centers on the principle that a reader cannot always trust the narrator of a story to tell the truth. The reader can listen, but must never cease to analyze in order to decipher the truth in each story. In Tim O’Brien’s short story, his narrator is naturally accepted and assumed to be the author of the story. Through this narrator, a story of personal Vietnam War experiences unfolds. Because this appears to be true stories told by O’Brien, the reader is left to assume all the tales are true encounters when in fact, O’Brien mixes truth and fiction in order to make the story believable. It is important to remember that the soldier telling the war story can only relay the facts that he remembers from the event. He may be sincere in telling the events as he remembers, but not accurate in reporting the entirety of the historical picture.. The setting is the Vietnam War; a war filled with controversy, and soldiers and civilians struggling to make sense of it all. In the story, O’Brien creates a believable setting with believable characters. He describes a setting that one would expect to find in Vietnam: rugged terrain, foxholes, jungles and muddy rivers. He also uses the giant canopy of a tree (as one would expect in this area) to tell the details of the death of his friends, Lemon and Rat. Describing the smell of the moss, the white blossoms and the lack of sunlight allowed by the tree, O’Brien creates a soothing feeling...
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...Chimpanzee Lion Lion Chimpanzee who is smarter ✓ who is stronger ✓ who is more aggressive ✓ who has a better family unit Pride vs Troop ✓ Who has cuter babies (more so statistics and opinion) ✓ ✓ who has a better alphas ✓ who lives in a better environment ✓ ✓ Who is overall the better animal ✓✓ ✓✓ A Lion challenges a Chimpanzee to a race, anywhere, any time. This was over some little misunderstanding about who was the best animal. Nobody knows how they met but some say they were out for a jog and were listening to some music and they might of said some of the lyrics out loud. Lion says IF you have any disagreements with me being no less than king of the forest than we might have a little issue here. The Chimpanzee replies with Hey imbecile, I do not care if you were the king of the NBA, or the world, Chimpanzee’s are the smartest animals here. I do not appreciate you calling us Idiots. Lion well I do not see how anyone can be smarter than the king of the jungle Chimpanzee well you wouldn’t know if i was smart or not, even if you were hit in the face with the simple fact that chimpanzees are superior to you lions! Lion well if you are feeling so strong about that, how about we settle this. ...
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...It was a bubbling event for freshers on friday,15th 2011. Everyone was dancing and happy to be in the university and I was over joyous because I was one of the few people who always dreamt about the university......Following the instructions my parents left me before I resumed school,i quickly left for my hostel immediately before my dad start calling and asking where I was.And trust me,that is sa question I dont want to answer....Around 10:00pm on that same day,i was in my room preparing to go to bed when some girls knocked on my door.I stood up to open the door and to my suprise,i saw seven beautiful and classy ladies who were dazzling from head to toe.I couldnt help but stare at them for over 40secs before I asked them to come in. Their names were :fatty,beebah,motun,rashy, stella,moyo and kenny.Even when they were introducing themselves,i just kept staring at their shoe,dress and hair. Then there was this short girl among them,she said her name was kenny.she was so short that I almost thought she was a younger sister to one of them not until they mentioned that she is the leader of the clique....mehn! I was dazed. They came in different sizes and shapes but they were beautiful.Motun and beebah were big and fierce,i almost thought they sent them to beat me up....lol....fatty and rashy on the other hand looked friendly but they were the talkatives,stella was the one who carried their bags for them.Everything was just weird to me,and with the way the short babe was...
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...In the articles, "Are These Stories True? (Nope)" written by Kristen Lewis and "The Story That Got Away" written by Debby Waldman, they give reasons as to why fake news can sometimes be appealing. For example, in the article "Are These Stories True? (Nope)" written by Kristen Lewis, it explains how fake news sellers use big headlines and click bait to attract users to their website. The articles states that websites "put out made-up stories with sensational headlines to lure people into clicking and sharing"(Lewis 10). This is saying that websites use click bait to bait people into visiting their website. This is important, because it shows one way how websites create an illusion that makes you click on their website and want to read their...
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...Super Sad True Love Story, America, next to of course god america i, and I, Too, Sing America, are all story/poems that in some form or another address the theme of American exceptionalism and patriotism. In each of the titles, it is established that America is not as revered as it once was or possibly could be and that change needs to take place. Through dystopian tales, satirical speeches and exaggerated ideals the authors of these works of literature try to identify the issues faced in American society. Super Sad True Love story is a novel set in a futuristic world that portrays America as a dystopia. The conditions of the country are horrible; the dollar is extremely unstable, literacy has gone down the drain, privacy is virtually nonexistent and social networking has reached unthinkable extremes. Through these mediums Shteyngart reveals that patriotism is no longer about being proud but rather about surviving. Throughout the novel the state of the United States keeps deteriorating and none of the characters realize how bad it is. Lenny in the novel still holds love for America and hopes against all odds that it once again becomes a country to be admired as is seen in the lines below. “I took out my U.S. passport and held it in my hand, fingering its embossed golden eagle, still hoping it meant something. I remember how my parents would talk about the luck of their having left the Soviet Union for America. Oh God, I thought, let there still be such luck in this new world”...
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...True Love is my first Melissa Pearl book and I loved it. Nessa and Jimmy’s story pulled me in right away, there was no drawn intro to their story. It went right to the point and showed me what they were suppose to be together. This story was a bit emotional and very sweet. It will definitely touch your hearts and make you fall in love. Jimmy as the rock god in the group, was the biggest manwhore ever. He wasn’t a bad guy, he just didn’t know anything pass girls and sex, that’s what he was brought up to be. He was trained to be that guy, one night stand guy. But one night in the heat of passion he took his best friend Nessa to bed and didn’t think of the consequences of his actions. That night was the biggest mistake of his life that he will...
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...own life far above any other life. They have a biological elitism. With their biological elitism, humans begin developing a superiority complex, which, in result lends them to believe they are a step above “top of the food chain”. Finally, humans can get pleasure from watching the destruction of other life because the destruction reassures humans of their superiority complex. Although each has a unique setting, Super Sad True Love Story, “The People Pound”, and Heathers are all connected in their inherent values of life, each providing a satirical approach to biological elitism and proving the sadism of humanity. Biological elitism starts with the devaluing of other, inferior life forms, which leads to the construction of a biological dictatorship. In Hunter Breckonridge’s story, “The People Pound”, she satirizes the lack of value humans place on animals by paralleling animals with disabled humans, calling disabled humans “duds”. In her story, Gertrude is a middle-aged woman who received brain damage at her job. She is the first “dud” of many seen in the story. The term “dud”, is inherently condescending. It implies a lack of social value in the object. Breckonridge’s writes, “…she probably can’t think anymore. She’s just a dud” (Breck 2). Therefore, anything that cannot think is a “dud”. Although...
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...Tell a True War Story How to Tell a True War Story is written by Tim O’Brien. It is set in Vietnam between the years of nineteen fifty-four and nineteen seventy-five. In this section, the story starts out by talking about a man named Rat Kiley. Kiley is writing a letter to a friend’s sister telling her how good of a man he really was. He also writes about different stories that happened and how he was the first to volunteer for things, just to emphasize the greatness of this man. The sister of the deceased man does not write back to Rat Kiley which greatly upsets him. The story goes on to identify the man as Curt Lemon. Eventually, it is clear how Lemon died. Kiley and Lemon were tossing a grenade back and forth to each other when suddenly Lemon ended up stepping into a booby trap. Another man in the military by the name of Mitchell Sanders tells O’brien a story to teach him lesson. The story is about two men who set out to the mountains on a mission. After a few days of living up there, the men hear strange noises. It gets worse and worse so they order that the land below them be attacked. They pack up their stuff and walk down the mountain. When they reach the bottom their commander asks them what they heard and the men reply with nothing. Sanders claims the moral of the story is that no one listens, you need to listen to the quiet. He goes on to say that the moral of a war story cannot be extracted without a deeper meaning surfacing. The meaning behind the story is if he...
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...In a tiny village called York, on a cold dreary day the funeral procession for the late Hagatha L. Worstshire was about to begin. A small group of relatives and friends gathered for this sad day to pay their respects to an old woman who had recently been found dead inside her oven. The old woman was a quiet soul who lived alone in a house made of gingerbread and cakes with windows made of sugar. However, Hagatha didn’t always live in a house made of confection. While a resident of YorkVillage, she lived in a simple three room cottage. The cottage interior had an open concept floor plan. One room held the kitchen and dining area, the 2nd room was a bedroom and Hagatha turned the 3rdroom into a play room for the children who enjoyed her company. Hagatha never had children but she found great joy in baking and making sweet treats for the children of her village. Every Sunday Hagatha would spend the entire day making cakes, cookies and candies to be shared with the children of York Village. After church, the children would all gather at Ms. Hagatha’s home and feast on the vast number of treats the nice woman spent her day creating. Hagatha would always warn the children against over consumption. She would tell them how even the best things in life require moderation and should be consumed in small amounts or the consequence would be unfavorable. While most of the children heeded the old woman’s advice, there were two young girls who felt the old woman was senile and was...
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...Ah Q is shown to be both a foolish person—through his self-absorbed obliviousness and his made up “victories” (regardless of how much he is shamed, he claims moral superiority) — and a pitiful character. In 1911 he overheard talks about a revolution, however it was beyond the understanding of ordinary Chinese like Ah Q , who took it as something that wasn’t very dissimilar to burglary. He quickly learns that the old, typically sophisticated aristocrats and the new, educated/wealthy individuals from different countries were working together to take over the revolution and told him to stay away. Toward the end of the short story, he became a victim of the useless revolution and was killed by representatives of the revolution for something he didn’t do (robbery), so that they didn’t have to spend time and energy to find the real...
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...The writers of the book Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man, are not new to the world of writing. On the contrary, they are veteran authors who have researched and written numerous books. Judith and Dennis Fradin recognized that investigating and writing about the fascinating life of Solomon Northup would result in an inspiring book. Before the beginning of the Civil War Solomon Northup lived as a free black man in New York State with his wife and three children, which makes his narrative of being kidnapped and enslaved all the more incomprehensible. Solomon was an educated black man; therefore he was able to compile a narrative of his years as being a stolen “free” black man on the Louisiana cotton and sugar cane plantations. After Solomon was rescued from a Louisiana plantation and reunited with his family, he published his autobiography entitled, 12 Years a Slave. This autobiography led to the creation of a movie by the same name as well as a book for which this summary was written. What an individual remembers and what actually occurred can at times be hard to prove, yet the Fradins were able to verify many of Solomon’s accounts by acquiring actual bills of sale and court records. Any author can write about facts, but with the help of Solomon’s memoirs the Fradins were able to produce a...
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