Beyond All Recognition was based around a group of friends whom had served in the army together. There were many turning points in the show, between Andy’s uncomfortable interaction with his ex-girlfriend Steph, the broken relationship between Denise and her husband Peter and Denise’s relationship with her brother. The actual show Beyond All Recognition was a TV show based on a conspiracy about soldiers having their memories wiped clean after a war. I had no idea what to expect when I walked…
Schrute (Rainn Wilson), Jim Halpert (John Krasinski), Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer), and Michael Scott (Steve Carell). Dwight Schrute works at Dunder Mifflin as a sales representative. He wears the same type of clothes everyday, a mustard-colored dress shirt, dark tie, and a brown suit jacket. He is a tall, skinny, white male, and he has short brown hair. Dwight does not have much of a social life, and he spends most of his free time on his beet farm. Another character is Jim Halpert. He is also a…
Hidden Cults in Today's Society In Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan uses cults to illustrate that there are societies in everything. He cues towards this through work, Clay’s friend group, and his lifestyle. Both the bookstore and google are great examples of this. To average onlookers, the bookstore seems like nothing more than a room with millions of pages; though, behind this mask is the secret society of the unbroken spine. Clay recognizes this once he looks into the Festina…
Apollo 13, was a failed space mission that occurred in April of 1970. The manned mission was the seventh in the Apollo space program and it was intended to be the third program to land on the moon. The astronauts that took flight in the mission include Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. Twenty-five years later, in 1995, a dramatized film of the event was released to the American public. Apollo 13, is a historical film, intended for the audience to understand what occurred during that…
Report – Performance Meeting Notes, Trevor Kitt Claas Harvest Centre (CHC) - Warragul Meeting Notes: Trevor Kitt Informal Meeting – 15 September, 2015 8:15 AM Meeting was called to discuss Trevor’s management of the spare parts department and the effective delivery of spare parts to the workshop and customers. During our meeting, Trevor reacted negatively towards my requests for him to improve his management of the Spare Parts department. We also discussed the need for continuous improvement in…
Captain William A. Mercer took over the school and loosened the rings a bit; he strongly pushed for sports teams for the school. One Jim Thorpe-whose former named before it was changed at Carlisle was Bright Path- emerged from the school as a football star and eventually played for the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Braves and won six of ten events at the 1912 Olympics. The experiences…
Life’s What You Make It Life is filled with countless opportunities that will more or less make or break the pathway to humanity. Sometimes an individual may question his or her values and beliefs because society does not idolize them, but that does not mean they are not true. In order to live a good life one must have their own free will to make decisions and put meaning in their own life. Also, when thinking about what it means to live a good life, maintaining social order becomes…
Looking For Alaska by John Green (Book) and Skins S2E7 - Effy (TV Series) the idea that drugs and alcohol can influence your decisions and have negative outcomes is clearly shown but each their own way. In the movie Basketball Diaries the main character Jim Carol revolves his life around basketball and he dreams of being a famous sports star one day or at least that was the plan, but with his best friend, Bobby, in the hospital dying of leukaemia, and a growing addiction for what just started…
students possessed brutish dispositions. Assaulting the students’ speech abilities was not the only instance in which McKnight ridiculed the students. Later, McKnight discusses activities that took place at a graduation ceremony in which students seemingly embarrassed themselves in a variety of public spectacles such as climbing a greased pole and attempting to catch a greased pig; all of this happening while townspeople looked on and watched in amusement. The interaction between the students…
Imagine being 4 years old, watching your favorite character perform on your favorite show. Confident that you were knowledgeable of everything he was going to do next. Then you get a surprise, Big Bird is going to China. Your level of excitement is uncontainable. You have only seen him on Sesame Street, with Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Burt and Ernie. He was leaving his nest; he was not just traveling to another place, but to an entirely different country. I had to question, “How was he going to…