Hurt

“Nothing but the Hurt Left Here…” Brian Turner’s “The Hurt Locker”, is a poem about the Iraqi war and the suffering the soldiers face there. It depicts the real suffering felt by soldiers, not just in this war but in any and every war. It is something that should be taken seriously, and not taken lightly. It is not like the video games make it seem, it is rough, deadly and scary. In real life though, you do not get a redo, there are no extra lives. When you break down the elements of the poem,…

“You only begin to heal when you let go of past hurts, forgive those who wronged you and learn to forgive yourself for your mistakes” People who make mistakes can forgive others but some may not be able to. People become hurt by what has happened and who they have been hurt by. Some people will never be able to move on. Conflict destroys the best of people, the strongest of the weakest and the powerful of the powerless. No one can overcome conflict its emotionally and physically destroys…

Introduction: For my film report, I chose to watch the movie The Hurt Locker. This movie was about the Iraq war and it followed a team of men who were being targeted by the Iraqi’s. This movie not only showed us both sides of the war, but it showed us the different effects war can have on a person. The movie started out very intense and sad with the master sergeant dying which led to the group getting a new leader. None of them really liked him because he was so calm all the time, but soldiers…

competitors, starving, exhausted, uncomfortable, and desperately needing the trophy. You jump hearing the crackling of the mike cutting through your corrupted thoughts. “Pretty Hurts”, are the first two words the third contestant sings. You’re rammed with the depressing realization that this is your reality. Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” music video is about a pageant girl who has been competing in pageants for a very long time. She’s won hundreds of trophies but is still unhappy and unsatisfied with…

Do drugs hurt society? In 2014 the FBI reported 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations. 83.1% of those arrests (1,297,383) were for possession of a controlled substance. Annually the U.S. spends more than $51,000,000,000 on the war on drugs. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1 in 111 adults. There are countless stories of people overdosing on drugs, people who are arrested for possessing these drugs even if they are responsible users. There are hard questions that…

Everyone has been hurt at some point in their life; wither it be physically such as being punched and kicked or verbally, such as verbal bulling. Teen activists are no different they have been hurt too, some cases more extreme than others. One way teen activists can be hurt is physically. One day Malala was on her bus ride to school, when some Taliban members came onto the bus and asked for her. When Malala was pointed out the members of the Taliban shot at her. One bullet hit her in the head…

can only take you so far then you break when the fake facade leaves you in the dark, you’re left with the shattered mirrors and the shards of a beautiful girl”. This quote from Pretty Hurts by Beyonce’ is one of Robin’s favorites. She is a former pageant girl and she knows better that anyone pretty really does hurt. On the contrary, her soul does not need surgery. Robin is a beautiful soul with a great personality to match. Robin is gorgeous, brown-skinned, with dark hair and eyes. She…

When he's not working at the rodeo, Nash works on a different kind of bullying—childhood bullying. This kind of bullying happens in school, on playgrounds, and even on the Internet. To help prevent bullying, Nash has developed the "Bullying Hurts" program. Older students are trained to help younger ones learn to handle bullying. Students also learn that violence is not the answer. "So many people think that bullying is just a [part of life]," Nash said. "[But] kids have feelings too. And so…

Roger Ebert, a reputable movie and art critic, wrote a review on the movie entitled The Hurt Locker. This movie dives into the war-ridden life of William James and his squadron during the Iraq war. William James, played by Jeremy Renner, is an Explosive Ordinance & Disposal (EOD) specialist who risks his life to disarm deadly home-made explosives. J.T. Sanborn and Owen Eldridge, played by Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty, are James’s eyes and ears over an active bomb site; Sanborn being the…

Christina Aguilerra's "Beautiful" and Beyonce's "Pretty Hurts" videos have many similarities. For example, one of the similarities that they both have been both dealing with an issue in society today. The issue in society in insecurity. These two songs and the videos are spot on with this issue. They both talk about how they feel about people changing themselves for other people. In Beyonce's "Pretty Hurts" video, it talks about all of the things people so to please other people and the…