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Space Jam was one of the first popular animated movies. There is a very short list of animated movies that were successful prior to the release of Space Jam. There are only five animated films that are grossing higher than space jam that were released before Space Jam. After the release of Space Jam in 1996, six movies came out in the decade that topped Space Jam on the top grossing list. These six movies could most likely thank the success of space jam that made animated movies increasingly…

Hollywood’s Depictions of African Americans in the 1980s The 1980s, characterized by Ronald Reagan’s presidency and policies, saw the many black economic and social gains of the previous decades come to an end. Things like college attendance rates, income levels, and the proportion of two-parent families all declined. At the same time, crime rates escalated and poverty levels increased. Hollywood was not interested in showing this unpleasant reality to its audience; the industry was interested…

Truth be told, I was only vaguely aware of the Noble Foundation before Jim Johnson, a Noble consultant, was seated next to me at an Oklahoma Crop Improvement Association banquet. While having small talk about summer plans, Jim got out his phone and walked me through the website to find the application. Little did I know that my summer plans would be drastically changed when I took his advice and applied for the Lloyd Noble Summer Scholar program. Being an agribusiness major from Oklahoma State…

The property is zoned Office Regional District (ORD) and within the Community Office/Institutional Land Use Category. As the property is zoned ORD, per Article VI, Division 4, Section VI-401, the intent and purpose of stated designation, “is to preserve land for office and major institutional developments”. Therefore, our clients are requesting a Minor Conditional Use Permit as required by Table VI-401 to continue the operation of the House of Worship known as “Hope House” (Per Sarasota Code…

• White Box Testing. White Box testing is very efficient for detecting and fixing bugs in the program. In this type of testing, the tester must have a good understanding on the internal components of the program code (Jovanović, 2006). • Black Box Testing. Black Box testing does not require any knowledge of how the internal components or interior structure of the program interacts. This type of testing completely based on requirements of the output (Jovanović, 2006). • Gray Box Testing. This is…

Tsubaki walked to the box filled living room and looked around. Both friends started at the front of the pile of boxes, gradually melting down the cardboard mountain. Eventually, Watari came to join them, a smudge of peanut butter on his cheek. About thirty minutes after Watari joined the duo, a cry came from the inside of the small…

and ultimately attempts to murder his wife and son. Opening weekend for The Shining was a big one. The box office results were $622,337 and this was in 1980. Another film or Kubrick in the drama – horror genre is A Clockwork Orange.…

It takes many factors to make a good director: a director must be calm, he must be articulate, and most of all he should be inspiring. However, Christopher Nolan is not simply a good director, he is one of the greatest directors of all time. Not to mention his impeccable writing, his directing expertise is beyond comparison: he skillfully draws the best performances out of the renowned actors in his cast, his imaginative stories can bogle even the most ingenious of minds, and his movies, while…

Fight Club is tangible proof that movies don’t need to smash box office records or take home a multitude of awards to find a place in the public’s memory. Despite not doing exceptionally well at the box office or with the Academy, people still talk about Fight Club with unbridled affection. To test this, just ask someone what the first rule of Fight Club is. All this talk is not without founding, as Fight Club is a mostly entertaining film. This David Fincher movie follows a man identified…

CRAZY DOCTOR FEEDS KIDS ORAL MEDICINE; TRACES OF CAT VOMIT AND RUSSIAN VODKA FOUND Investigators went to the office of Dr. Min Te Lin in Illinois upon getting complaints from various health care providers saying how kids were getting unapproved versions of medicine during routine check-ups. When looking through Lin's office, they found it to be dirty. Furthermore, they found a box that the doctor used to create his very own vaccinations. Lin later admitted to using cat vomit and Russian vodka…