Phantom

positive sanctions. For example, in one scene, he told his class that every fifteen seconds they went without talking, he would drink one carton of milk. Also, because of the classes’ grades and changes in attitude, Mr. Clark took his class to see Phantom of the Opera, and had an end of the year party for them where he gave each student an award. Examples of negative sanctions in the movie include Mr. Clark telling his class that their bad grades disappointed him, not letting his class go to…

The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was written from a child’s point of view at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Harper Lee used actual event in her life to fabricate the foundation of the novel. It expressed the views of racism concerning justices with a gothic mixed in the context. The novel was centered on a child seeing everything in black and white. Lee used characters to symbolize mockingbirds. The novel experienced character persona of good and evil. There were similarities…

As sleep, addiction effects our behaviors and physical states of the body. Addiction can be referred to as a state in which one perceives intense intolerable desire for something because the response after contact with the stimuli simulated perceived pleasurable response. Consequently, Internet addiction has been acknowledged as a clinical diagnosis. Internet addiction is a compulsive–impulsive spectrum disorder, involving online and/or offline computer usage for excessive gaming, sexual…

decisions that caused them to either die or find themselves back in prison and then die. A quote about this, “When the saga finally ended, all of the defendants were finally released. But not after they had served an average of ten years for the phantom crime” (History). The trials of the Scottsboro Trials also served as a turning point for the country’s judicial system giving minorities, such as African Americans, a fair and equal trial. The Scottsboro Trials proved a point that everyone in…

Amy Tan’s talk, Where Does Creativity Hide? was interesting. She talks about her process of creativity. There were some elements that I could identify with and others that I found conflicting to my beliefs of creativity. The first thing that I identify with in Tan’s speech was when she said, “…one of the principals of creativity is to have a little childhood trauma”. I too, had traumas growing up as many do. My mother was diagnosed with MS when she was pregnant with me and I had a brother die…

Patton Patton is a historical drama surrounding United States General George S. Patton and his career in Africa and Europe during World War II. While I initially chose this film because it was easily available on Netflix, I came to enjoy that it focused on the war in Northern Africa and Italy, which are often overlooked in modern cinema and other mediums. The film depicts General George S. Patton, a loud mouth, no nonsense, and pugnacious general stuck in the middle of the fight in North…

Doctrine Command, 2012). James Lovell had degrees from the United States Naval Academy, the University of Southern California, and Harvard Business School. He was a test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center and served as Program Manager for the F4H "Phantom" Fighter. While there, he logged over 7000 hours of flight time. He served as backup…

hall there is a cupboard that has the imprint of the hoof of a Devil. The most scary and dramatic haunting occurs every Christmas Eve when according to legend a headless horseman come riding down the driveway with four black horsed pulling his phantom coach. It is supposedly quite a frightening sight and has scared all who have witnessed this. The Haunted Dining…

Ana Baletskaya Ms. Jemar ENGL1302AN01 30 March 2017 Ignorance is Bliss “The Jewelry” is a short story that makes you question all you know about human nature. It requires you to examine all relationships with those close and wonder about the agendas of the heart, the depth of a person’s love and their promise of devotion. This story is particularly interesting because of the irony it casts over the reader by providing such realistic descriptions of a married pair. The couple in this story seemed…

of director (he had directed the first film but not its two sequels) and utilized a new cast of popular young actors—including Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman—as well as recent advancements in digital video technology. Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace (made in 1999), Star Wars: Episode II—Attack of the Clones (made in 2002), and Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith (made in 2005) were all box-office successes, though they received far less critical acclaim than the original…