Finding Nemo

How is it that people can look around at other individuals and watch them transform right in front of their eyes? In the movie Finding Forrester people are able to watch many characters transform just due to the human beings around them. Jamal has a strong passion for writing but, is always looking for help to improve. William is a writer who has shut himself away from society. These two happen to have a truly unique meeting, Jamal breaks into William's apartment due to a dare, from this point…

been very talented at basketball but not so much at school. In the book the kids called the main character Slam. Slams real name is Greg Harris. In the movie Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace was a good kid. Jamal did great in school and both on the court. There are many differences and similarities in both the novel Slam and the movie Finding forrester. In the book Slam, Greg harris went to Carver school. Then, Slam had to move schools not because he wanted to but because he had to. Slam then…

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a classic for the ages. Its crisp details of the oceanic life and its scenes of action will leave a reader breathless. Through the eyes of Professor Aronnax, we learn about ocean life and why Captain Nemo does what he does. Our main character is Professor Aronnax. Smart and well-known around the world, he travels with his servant, Conseil to teach and lecture about the marine world. Conseil, on the other hand, is quiet, and speaks whenever he…

Then there are people that enjoy watching the movie more for the simple reason that they do not enjoy reading. Gus Vant Sant is an American film director, screen writer, painter, photographer, musician and author. He directed the film called “Finding Forrester” in the year…

know this quote, or have at least heard of it. Most of them even agree wholeheartedly with it. Why is it then, that we still feel the need to fit in? When watching Finding Forrester, the theme of struggling to fit in and the reality of how hard it can be when you stand out, become the most apparent to me. In the beginning of Finding Forrester, Jamal Wallace does his best to fit in with his group of friends in the Bronx by maintaining a solid “C” average in school. His test scores, however, end…

Transformation paves the way for all people, and Jamal and Forrester are able to do this in a way that will benefit their lives forever. In Finding Forrester a young man by the name of Jamal, a 16 year old from the Bronx turns out to be an extremely gifted writer and basketball player. He decides to hide his talent in writing from others until a dare comes up where he goes into a mysterious man's house to take something when in reality this became one of the most important moments of his life.…

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea One of the most important technology in the story was the Nautilus AKA the submarine used as the transportation for the crew in the story and harpoons to attack the monster and kill it. Captain Nemo is the one leading the crew and does not like war but still kills many monsters with the harpoon. Deep sea exploration was possible during the time period talked about in the story submarines were used for underwater exploration but there was no mythical creatures such…

In the novel 20 00 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the main characters’ lives are turned upside down and are forced to live under the sea for a total of 20 000 leagues of traveling. Now being in a submarine can be very incredible. But after a couple months, the life of the past can seem to be missing, and being stuck under the sea for that long can start to be a bother. Jules Verne clearly shows the limit to how interesting something, to the day it becomes a pain to sanity. At the…

Method, also known as Newton-Raphson method, is a method used for finding the zeros, roots or in more simple terms where any given function exactly crosses the x access. In calculus we may be presented with problems given that we cannot find a definite answer to, but we can use Newton’s Method to calculate a group of answers that get closer and closer to the actual solution. Newton’s Method has given the world of calculus a method of finding extremely refined educated guesses to once before…

“Nemo me impune lacessit” means nobody could hert me without impunity in Latin. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allan Poe depicts a man named Montresor who decides to seek revenge against a man named Fortunato who has insulted him even though they seems like good friends. He meets Fortunato at a carnival, using psychological tricks to pretent that he could provide Fortunato a chance to teast a bottom of Amontillado, then lead Fortunato into the catacombs of his home. along…