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    Tommy Boy Movie Analysis

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    may affect the theory chosen to counsel them may be their level of intelligence, ability to identify their thoughts or feelings, the length of time the client has for counseling, and more. Person-centered counseling was originally created by Carl Rogers in 1942. This type of counseling has since then evolved but research still proves this method of psychotherapy to be effective for certain types of people. Tommy Callahan from the movie Tommy Boy, which debuted in 1995, is…

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    The Outsiders Monologue

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    I Bailey Jaggers was at the hospital with my dad, who had been shot, when I met Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry Curtis. They were greasers just like me, and they happened to live right up the street from my house. They were there to see two of their friends, Johnny Cade and Dallas Winston, who had been injured in a fire. My dad is doing really bad and I don’t know how to deal with stuff like this. “I have a son of my own,” I tell the brothers, “ his name is Roman and my wife’s name is Kiana.” I love…

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    “Outfoxed” is a documentary that strictly describes a specific media union as a false representation of what the world consists of. Instead, this group also known as “Fox News” is exclaimed to set a “smoke and mirrors” illusion. During the film, different officials, state and show explicit evidence and facts about the misconduct of the Fox News channel. The documentary begins by introducing Rupert Murdoch, a wealthy businessman that bought the Fox station in 1985. Fox began as an affluent news…

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    Rugged Maniac Festival

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    I started out both days of a busy weekend by running the Rugged Maniac course in Englishtown NJ. At this point, I have pretty much done most of the OCR’s that are on my bucket list to complete, but Rugged Maniac was one of the few left that I had yet to complete, so I was excited about this weekend and the chance to run the course on both Saturday and Sunday. • Festival / Spectator Area: I have participated in four other different events at this specific Englishtown venue and all but one have…

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    The Male Gaze

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    The male gaze is the way in which visual arts depicts women for a masculine point of view. Mulvey suggests that visual media exposes a deep-seated drive known as “scopophilia”: the sexual pleasure involved in looking. Mulvey believed mainstream movies are filmed in a certain way in order to satisfy male scopophilia. Therefore, according to this theory woman are regulated to the status of objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any…

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    The referees or officials need to come up with better rules. “Referee Walt Anderson, also the head of officiating for the Big 12 Conference, led a meeting with the Houston Texans on Friday. He said commissioner Roger Goodell has been "very involved" in discussions with the league's rules committee and referees to find ways to limit the number of head injuries, while also maintaining the game's integrity” (“New NFL rules designed to limit head injuries”). They…

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    Barriers In Mending Wall

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    The Berlin Wall, built during the cold war, was a barrier with the purpose of keeping the allies and the Soviet Union away from each other. The wall kept some Germans from seeing what was really important and helped hold the grudge the Soviets and the Allies had with each other. Although The Berlin Wall was way more severe than the barriers people set in everyday life, they both serve the same purpose, to keep people from seeing what they do not want to see. While both Lion in “Goin’ Fishin’” by…

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    Watching the film Outfoxed one would think that, yes Fox News is extremely bias. Their tactics of promoting their slogan of fair and balance news is far from being true. I completely agree with the claim that Fox News with their political bias is a danger to American society. Although I believe that claim could have been better supported by adding the news coverages from all the other networks, and showing statistics on the decisions of the public based on the given news by other networks in…

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    The Music Of Dolly Parton. Hey everybody how you are doing? Well I know you guys love music and I'm glad to see that you guys made it here to hear my speech. Some of you music lovers say that Kitty Wells and Jean Shepard were the best country singers in the 60’s. (Pause for the audience reaction) they are WRONG while they were on the charts, Dolly Parton was the number one hit. You might be wondering who I am. I am Dolly Parton's sister ~Stella Parton~ This is important for me to talk about…

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    THE DEATH WAY TO SYRIA ________________________________________________________ Abo and Karo wake up to there fathers blood on the floor as my mom is screaming me and Karo we run out the door. There is a whole turkish army burning and killing all of armenia my uncle zaphyn was dragged out of his house and a turkish soldier took a knife and cuts his head blood splatters all over the place. And screaming from everywhere some running and shot and some escape as we dart toards the woods as we bump…

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