American films

In the movie Mystic River, the character Jimmy Markum portrayed by Sean Penn is former ex/con who is running the local neighborhood store. In the film, we learn that Jimmy’s oldest daughter Katie is murdered by an unknown assailant. Throughout the film, we learn that Jimmy’s old friend Dave is considered a suspect in his daughter’s murder, and many other people believe that he has killed Jimmy’s daughter including Dave’s wife. In the end Jimmy kills Dave after he makes him confess to killing…

It was a great pleasure reading each of the postings that I commented on. Overall, 71% of students analyzed their articles from a teleological perspective while 29% analyzed articles from a deontological school of thought. The first student analyzed a Supreme Court decision that was rejected by the court. The case involved five residents who took their case to the Supreme Court because they want to carry a concealed weapon in public. This article was analyzed from a teleological school of…

The Westcliff Wraith Hayden Andrews and her parents pulled up to their new house in Westcliff, California. “Well, this is it!” Hayden’s parents announced to her excitedly. What did they expect when they showed her this? “It looks like it’s 1,000 years old.” Hayden said, unenthusiastically. Hayden always seemed to have this sixth sense on getting good or bad vibes from people or places, and this place gave off major bad vibes. It was kind of weird, but Hayden decided to give it a shot. Her…

Many people have survived the Holocaust and it’s safe to say that a lot of people who got out were feeling terrified, sad, and traumatized. Millions of people who were unlucky died there, sometimes from the beginning, and a majority got transported there to burn in gas chambers. Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, lived through this experience and for him and millions it was damaging to them physically and mentally. He conveys this theme of traumatization through various literary devices such as…

Silly poems and deep, dark truths are the world of Shel Silverstein. The lights in the attic always seem to be on; however, if one takes a hard look at Silverstein’s work, one must look beyond the lights in the attic to delve through the rest of the house to come up with a whole picture of who Shel Silverstein was. As with most authors, the face put forward in public for consumption rarely matches the behind-the-scenes person who keeps personal secrets away from society. All understand this…

Going to State for cross country is one of my favorite things that I have done in my athletic high school career. It took hard work to get there and when we finally did that it was eventful and fun and was one of the best trips that I have ever had. It started out way back in June when a group of girls got together and went for a run. At that time we only ran about 3-4 miles or so, but by the middle of the cross country season we were running up to 6 miles everyday. We trained all throughout…

It's Friday at Glendale Elementary school and that means it's Friday friendship friend of the week, day in Ms. Day’s class where the kids vote on who was the friend of the week with the winner getting a 150 mini chocolate bar bag prize. Susie had never won the Friday friendship friend of the week but this week was going to be different. Susie's friend Johnny had always won every Friday and she had never come close. Susie thought to herself I have to do something different than just being nice…

Downdraft 5 Someone once asked me if I could write a book about myself what would the title be and how do I see the ending of my life. I would title my book, “Why Naughty is the New Nice”. The reason for this title is because I am probably one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. I would do absolutely anything for anyone. Always being the nice girl means I work my ass off to get others to like me because I cannot stand to think that anyone hates me. I usually go out of my way to do favors for…

Driving School Driving is very difficult at first. I learned that first hand. Before driving a car, all I had driven was a golf cart. I thought it was about the same as driving a car. Boy, was I wrong. “Start off slowly and keep both hands on the wheel.” “Ok, ok. I know what I’m doing Mom. It’s not that hard. I got this.” At this point, I did not realize I would soon regret these words. However, soon came a little quicker than anyone had imagined. I treated the car just as I treated my golf…

Target Security Breach 2014 On December 15th, 2013, Target verified they were hacked. In as little as two weeks, millions of customer’s credit card and personal information were electronically stolen. Whose fault was it, technology or people? The Target security breach was successful because of two human failures. Target hired a “team of security specialists in Bangalore” who where part of FireEye, a recognized computer security firm, to monitor their computers at all times (Riley). This…