...By freighting times I mean for myself personally I dislike being forced to go up in front of the class and present a presentation or paper. I am extremely shy around basically everyone except my normal everyday friends. When I step in front of the room to fortitude, my face gets bright red, my hands start to shake, I can barely talk and when I do I mess up on the words. I always have to be doing something with my hands to distract me, like crack my knuckles, which are my usually go to. I also hate finals, because at the end of the term or semester every class has there finals on the last day, which means you, have to study a whole ton on Thursday night and it is a struggle. The second thing I can connect with is Rachel being sick. I connect with her because last year I watched this movie that became very popular that is called the fault in our stars. It connects because one of the main characters in the movie...
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...moment her mom noticed a bump on her stomach.Elizabeth's mom was really worried so she immediately took her, left the park and went to a tall building with a big red cross. Elizabeth's heart couldn't stop pounding. Once they got to the hospital they waited for about an hour,”Elizabeth!” a doctor called. Elizabeth's heart started pounding even faster than before. After doing some tests the doctor sighed and sadly said,”Elizabeth, we found something that is not good, the results came back and confirmed it to be cancer.” Elizabeth's heart sank deep to the bottom, like anchor falls into the sea. Elizabeth's mom started crying so much, it was unstoppable. Elizabeth was wondering what was going to happen next,” Am I going to die, am I going to lose my hair, am I going to be able to go to school?”she thought to herself. She was worried what people were going to say about her and to her. When she got back to her family’s house, they were so worried about her, everyone just wanted to hug her. Her mom thought that they should go home immediately to see her family doctor, so Elizabeth had to say goodbye to everyone, pack up her stuff and felt depressed that she was leaving. On her way to the airport, she heard a door slam “BAMMMM”, she jumped up breathing heavily and sat up. She woke up, just like that, touched her hair, touched her face, touched her stomach, felt her bed, realizing it was all a bad dream. ...
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...excited to go on a boat with my whole family.When we got there we headed on the white and blue boat but when we got out far waves started knocking us back and forth like crazy.I was so happy that my family let me do this. We were all in the car ready to go on the boat when I asked “are we almost there”, to my Mom. She said “yes,”right when we pulled up. When we finale arrived, I bursted out of the silver car like there was something chasing me. Then I wandered around to see where the boat was, then when I finally found it my whole family were already waiting for me.After that, I happily raced to go get the orange and blue tobb with my dad and about ten minutes later we were back.Then we were off we raced towards the big red lighthouse as the “light...
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...“That one!” My brother screamed as he pointed to the biggest roller coaster in Disney. It was called Everest Expedition, it had a big picture of a Yeti on the front of the sign. As we waited for the roller coaster to come I stood there with my Mom, Dad, and my brother, Will and my cousin, Paige and her friend, Maddy. My fear kept building as the start of the ride was nearing.This was supposed to be a fun filled family vacation at Disney and now it was turning into a nightmare. “Please I don't want to go,” I said in a worried voice “You're going to be fine,” my dad said.No i'm not I thought. Zooom I could hear the coaster coming down the mountain like a train.It flew down the mountain a lighting speed I could see it coming. Come on, break down I thought.But it didn't it came to a stop and the people climbed out hooting and hollering like it was nothing.We climbed in and the guy running the ride said in a boring announcer voice “enjoy the ride,” and hit a few buttons.The cart started going forwards with a jerk and a screech, then we were we were off up the hill....
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...in and the lights were starting to come on and everything around me reminded me of Vegas. “Mya, Jessica wants to know if you will go with her on that one.” My seven year old brother pointed, in the direction of where one the biggest rides where. His smile was mostly silver but he was a cubby cheary always seen things half full kind of kid. I myself could never get over how dark he was, his hair his tan skin, his eyes he definitely had gotten more mexican than I but this is besides the point. I can never remember the name of the ride for the life of me. “What one Noah? Your pointing at like five different rides.”I told him “That one, Amaya the one with the ball that shoots you up in the air.” He was more specific this...
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...“Hurry up!” Journey exclaimed as she ran out of her house with her polka dotted suitcase. Journey had been counting down the days till her family was going to Disney World, and it was finally here. A few Minutes after Journey came out her little brother K.J. followed with only a small backpack stuffed with clothes. Next came Journey’s parents Tammy and Derick. Her older sister Leah, who was the eldest of them all, and Hailey were already in the van waiting for them. As they got settled in on the van packed with cousins, aunts, and uncles, “Wait I forgot my peanuts,” Derick said. “We’ll get you some on the way up,” Derrick’s younger brother Rick, who was driving the van, said annoyed. Journey quickly found her seat next to her favorite cousin Cameron. It did not take long for every to fall asleep. After hours of driving, they finally stopped at Derrick’s older sister, Ella’s, house. All the Jeffersons unloaded the bus. The kid’s quickly jumped into the pool....
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...He throws back his head and laughs. Geriz takes off his sunglasses and leans forward, elbows on his knees. "When I was young my father often told me stories about my grandfather. A forward-thinker, he would say, a pioneer, captain of industry...a demigod. As I grew older I deduced the true character of the man. He was a thief, a used-car salesman turned greed-driven opportunist, hiding behind a pretense of entitlement that he and men like him perpetuate. He made his first real money selling the same cemetery plot to hundreds of grieving widows during the war who were too trusting. There was no pioneering. His extraordinary ability was merely to avoid incarceration. I swore to myself that I would never be a man like my grandfather." "What would you do?" "I considered giving everything away, but to whom? Charities? They only treat the...
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...the boat and dutifully took my position, bracing myself against the torrential downpour and the rancid taste of sea brine . In the brief moments of reprieve I found I could see that even our most veteran mariners were having trouble keeping their feet against the wraith pouring down from the heavens, still I stayed in position, praying for mercy to a god I stopped believing in years ago. “Isiah!” Ezekiel's voice snapped me out of my stupor. As the worst of the storm had passed, Ezekiel relieved me of duty and allowed me to go below decks to convalesce. As the newest crew member other than myself, he has only been with the flogging molly for a year or two, but he knows his...
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...need to see the light and be set free. All my life until the time I went to Vanuatu last year, my first full-time missionary work, I was tunnel-visioned and focused on just getting to the mission field. I was like a bull behind a gate, trying to get out! I kept crying out for years, “God, send me now!” As a matter of fact, the year before God opened the door for me to go to the mission field full-time, the desire to go was so strong, it was like a burning fire in me, and I cried, “Lord, take it away or send...
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...I could feel my scratches and bruises healing themselves when Gale’s magic washed over me. Gale didn’t have to say a word for me to feel his urgency and slight despair when he let go of me and started sprinting over to Rachael. I followed after him running sideways to always have an eye on the witch who continued throwing fireballs, but this time aimed at Sleepy who must have shown up to cover for us. I vaguely had a sense that Sleepy had training as a ninja looking back at her swiftly and with much agility dodge the huge balls of magic. Slam! Thump! Thump! I barely miss getting taken down by a bookshelf that suddenly appears and started dropping in my path. I glance behind to the fallen bookshelf to see a smirking female ghost hovering about the bookshelf....
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...encyclopedia "The Hero's Journey" redirects here. For other uses, see The Hero's Journey (disambiguation). The twelve stages of the hero's journey monomyth following the summary by Christopher Vogler (originally compiled in 1985 as a Disney studio memo): 1. TheOrdinary World, 2. The Call to Adventure, 3. Refusal of the Call, 4. Meeting with the Mentor, 5. Crossing theThreshold to the "special world", 6. Tests, Allies and Enemies, 7. Approach to the Innermost Cave, 8. The Ordeal, 9. Reward, 10. The Road Back, 11. The Resurrection, 12. Return with the Elixir. In narratology and comparative mythology, the monomyth, or the hero's journey, is the common template of a broad category of tales that involve a hero who goes on anadventure, and in a decisive crisis wins a victory, and then comes home changed or transformed.[1] The concept was introduced by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), who described the basic narrative pattern as follows: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.[2] Campbell and other scholars, such as Erich Neumann, describe narratives of Gautama Buddha, Moses, and Christ in terms of the monomyth. Critics argue that the concept is too broad or general to be of much usefulness in comparative mythology. Others say that the hero's journey...
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...Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk HEIKE HÄRTING N HIS REVIEW of Anil’s Ghost, Todd Hoffmann describes Michael Ondaatje’s novel as a “mystery of identity” (449). Similarly, Aritha van Herk identifies “fear, unpredictability, secrecy, [and] loss” (44) as the central features of the novel and its female protagonist. Anil’s Ghost, van Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated...
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...Hui-Fen Hsu The Heroic Pattern in Life of Pi 95 The Heroic Pattern in Life of Pi Hui-Fen Hsu Applied English Department National Taichung University of Science and Technology Lecturer Abstract This paper examines the universal structure of a mythological hero’s adventure in Life of Pi. The theory is based on Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which illustrated and distilled heroic patterns from various cultures. The hero’s journey has three stages: separation, initiation, and return. Answering a call to adventure, the hero departs from his familiar world and ventures into a region of supernatural wonder. Miraculous forces are encountered there and a decisive victory is won. He then returns from this mysterious land, bringing an elixir to bene¿t his fellow men. Through this journey of trials, the hero transforms his former self and achieves spiritual growth. Such heroes range from monster slayers to spiritual leaders such as the Buddha and Christ. Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel about an Indian boy who survives a shipwreck by drifting on a lifeboat with a tiger. His adventure ¿ts Joseph Campbell’s hero archetype. Similar to the mythological hero, Pi departs from his familiar land of India, answering the call for adventure to a new country. Protected by the supernatural powers of Hinduism, Catholicism, and Islam, he penetrates the dangerous and mysterious realm of the Pacific Ocean. After experiencing harsh ordeals, he returns...
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...ACT ONE The Ordinary World: The hero’s life is established in his ordinary world. This story beat is also known as: * The Known * The Set-Up * The Status Quo * Limited Awareness Call to Adventure: Something changes in the hero’s life to cause him to take action. This story beat is also known as: * TheInciting Incident * The Call to Action * The Catalyst Refusal of the Call: The hero refuses to take action hoping his life with go back to normal. Which it will not. Also known as: * Threshold Guardians * Defining Moment * Separation * Reluctance * New Situation * The Debate * Meeting Mentor Crossing the First Threshold: The hero is pushed to a point of no return where he must answer the call and begin his journey. Also known as: * Energetic Marker 1: End of the Beginning * The Point of No Return * Committing to the Goal * Act One Climax * Plot Point One * Break into Two * Turning Point One * The Threshold * Awakening ACT TWO Tests, Allies, and Enemies: The journey through the special world is full of tests and obstacles that challenge the hero emotionally and/or physically. Also known as: * The Fun and Games * Resistance and Struggle * Rising Action and Obstacles * Belly of the Whale * Push to Breaking Point * The Special World * Road of Trials Mid-Point: The energy of the story shifts dramatically. New information is discovered (for positive or negative)...
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...alternative filmsMainstream films can best be defined as commercial films that are made by major entertainment studios or companies that are owned by international media conglomerates. Because of better financing, these films can afford more expensive actors, wide releases, and are sold at popular retail stores. This has become known as the studio system. Films made by major studios or companies that are not owned by a media conglomerate but are distributed by a company owned by a media conglomerate (see Lucasfilm) are also considered to be mainstream and are often referred to as mainstream independent films. Companies that are completely independent, such as Lionsgate, also produce mainstream films, from a cultural standpoint, but independent of the studio system. The alternative to mainstream films are sub genre films that appeal to a certain audience, such as African American films. Low budget films, art films, and experimental films are often the starting point for entertainers who wish to enter into the mainstream circuit or a sub genre circuit. Mainstream films are targeted for all cultures and audiences, with the dominating culture and audience being the primary marketing focus, while sub genre films are marketed towards only one specific culture and audience. Mainstream films often recruit talent from all film genres and backgrounds. Alternative media are media (newspapers, radio, television, magazines, movies, Internet, etc.) which provide alternative information to the...
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