For me, Black Rain is just another prime example of why I consider Ridley Scott to be a mixed bag as a Director. Sure he’s definitely made some classics like Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator but other films that I’ve seen in Scott’s filmography (Robin Hood, Exodus, and G.I. Jane) seems like he gets so caught up into creating visual atmospheres (especially in this one) to the point of where he loses focus on maintaining a genuine plotting or narrative. Black Rain is an 80’s recycled tough cop…
reminders to users and allow users to share fitness results on social networking sites, which motivates users to implement their workout plans and thus increase the frequency of using health clubs. With the release of Apple Watch in 2015, this promising new trend is irresistibly developing, triggering more fitness clubs to combine wearable technology with their fitness…
BPM Fitness Growth Phase III: So You Can Achieve Faster Results! If you were to ask me only one piece of advice, here’s what I would tell you: Everything you desire to bring forth in your physical reality starts from within. Your physical reality aligns itself to your inner world. So if you wish to change your life, you must make the shift from within; you can not fight your design. Everything is possible when you discover your purpose and consistently follow your intuition and take action.…
Introduction A Fitbit Zip is like a pedometer, with many more features than just tracking your steps. The purpose of a Fitbit is to track steps and see how far the walker has traveled. This is a great tool to use to make sure activity levels stay up or manage weight. A Fitbit Zip is about 0.4 inches thick and about 1 inch wide and 1.4 inches tall. The square tracker comes with a silicon clip, as seen in Figure 1, that the device is placed in to and then the walker can clip tracker to any type…
The Reign Of Terror, A little less than two years from when Louis XVI was beheaded in January 1793 through July 1794. Within that time period, over 20,000 were put to rest by the guillotine. Maximilien de Robespierre was perhaps the famous French Revolutionary. Educated as a lawyer, he believed in Rousseau’s teaching that the right to govern comes from the people. Robespierre also held the belief that all people should be able to vote. He dreamed of making France a constitutional republic rather…
Fight Club (1999) doesn’t need much of an introduction, and the first two rules state that I can’t talk about. I guess I’ll have to make an exception just this once; I just hope Tyler will be able to forgive me. The movie itself performed moderately well in its opening weekend but was ultimately a box office failure, as it only brought in about $37 million in revenue. The main character who is played by Edward Norton, a nameless narrator, is unhappy and discouraged with his mediocre life. In…
The Breakfast Club Five high school students, John Bender, Andrew Clark, Claire Standish, Allison Reynolds and Brian Johnson are in detention at school. “The Breakfast Club” classically depicts your cliché 80s kids from the suburbs of America. The Breakfast Club is a great drama/comedy from the late screenwriter, John Hughes and features some of the most popular young actors of the 80s like Eimilio Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Anthony Hall and Ally Sheedy. The film is a great hit of…
The Reign of Terror, which lasted from 1793 to 1794, was a period of severe violence during the French Revolution, which was led by Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety ruled during the Reign of Terror and killed thousands at the guillotine. Robespierre’s followers were called the Jacobins which were the most powerful and radical political faction during the time and he was a spokesman for urban workers, who became known as the sans-culottes. The purpose of the…
Have you ever thought how much longer you can live if you exercise? If you exercise you can live so much longer, and you feel so much better. Instead of sitting on the couch and watching tv, go outside and go for a walk or go for a run. When it is 65 degrees out and you are sitting on the couch that is a very bad thing to do. It is very bad for you. When you are just on the couch all you eat is junk food all the time. I think it's time for people to start running and not sitting.…
In “Fitness Culture: A Growing Trend in America”, Sheila McClain gives several key points on how today’s society has increased its interest in physical fitness. With a larger and diverse group of people gaining interest in wanting to become physically fit. The appeal of exercising and eating healthy has become more popular to people of all ages and diversities. McClain states that, “Research linking fitness to health and longevity has led to the growth of the “fitness culture” in America.” (415)…