Nolan Ryan

Garcia.Session1.Journal My childhood is filled with good memories, birthday parties, family dinners and abundance of things, food and stories. But on the other end of the spectrum, is sadness, avoidance, and a lack of love. Looking back I see that my parents did the best they could. I also see how my mother’s childhood influenced the way she raised us. I see how the loss of my father’s first family caused him to be somewhat distant. As a teenager, I was moody, didn’t like affection…

The Career Values Scale Report (CVS) is a Psychometrics assessment tool that looks at how an individuals’ personal values influence their career path. Career values can be defined as facets that individuals find important in relation to their work life. An individual may complete it before entering the work force or if they are looking to switch careers. Completing this assessment allows an individual to gauge what they are interested in as well as what they are not interested in. After…

Domingas Fernandes Evaluation #3 On Wednesday night March 30th, I opened my Blackboard page and noticed that I had a notification from my Virtual Group. My group members had already started the discussion about what Electronic Meeting System we would be using for the assignment. GoogleDoc, being the most widely used, was suggested and everyone seemed to agree with it. We also shared our phone numbers and decided to use iMessage. On the following day, it seemed that everybody forgot that we…

The Dark Knight, was a brilliant film directed by Christopher Nolan, produced by Emma and was released for the public to enjoy on July 18, 2008. There were many big name actors in this movie, such as Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Gary Oldman, but the list could go on. The film follows the basic flow of the action/thriller…

1. Describe any challenges you faced while taking the course for which you are applying to SI Lead. What were the challenges and how did you overcome them? BIO 1114 was a challenge for me personally because it was my first exposure to science at the college level. This true for many students. BIO 1114 taught me to believe in my ability to work hard in order to conquer any information that was put in my way. I remember watching my professor write the chemical reactions for cellular respiration…

The movie The Prestige follows an intricate and remarkable story about the rivalry between the two 20th century magicians, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden. Directed by Christopher Nolan, this movie’s story grows from simple acquaintances to taking drastic measures just to one-up each other, and be the better magician. The movie contains many plot twists, the largest of which was that Borden and his ingénieur Fallon were actually twins in disguise. This and some of the other plot twists were…

The Auteur Theory is defined by a director who is the main force for a film. A main creative force is usually someone who wrote, directed, and maybe even edited their own film. Although in MMP’s it’s extremely rare for a director to edit their own movies, it’s not unheard of in the indie market. It is debatable whether if directors who are the main creative forces in their film make it any better, because sometimes they fail. A great example of an auteur theory director is George Lucas, and he…

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…

Leonard, the main character in the movie Memento, finds himself in a situation no man wants to be in. His wife was murdered and because he witnessed his body goes into shock causing him to lose him memory which is his downfall throughout the movie. He keeps polaroids and tattoos of clues that will lead him to his wife’s murder so that he won’t forget them. Throughout the movie it shows Leonard waking up in a hotel room. The film genre that best fits this film is Detective but also mystery and…

Inception. Memento. Two award-winning films directed by one of the greatest storytellers of our generation, Christopher Nolan. Inception: a story of a man struggle to determine whether he is living in a fantasy or a reality. Memento: a story of a man trying to avenge the death of his beloved wife. At glance, both films seem anything but alike. However as the possibly of deeper meanings are explored, we find that this is far from the case. Memento tells the tale of former insurance investigator,…