Sean Combs

The Blind side/The Simple Gift “Relationships are essential for a sense of belonging” Relationships are essential for a sense of belonging as it makes you feel acceptance. Relationships are a vital component of health and wellbeing. There is evidence that states that strong relationships contribute to a long, healthy, and happy life. The health risks from being alone and isolated are a comparable risk to smoking, blood pressure and obesity. A review of 148 studies found that people with strong…

Due to the fact that Italy didn’t have anywhere to keep the mentally ill, in 1922, the island was transformed into a mental asylum. The highly disturbed could be kept isolated from the mainland. The hospital was large and had a very impressive bell tower. Right when the asylum opened patients immediately began reporting sightings of the ghosts of the plague victims. Patients would be kept up at night because they were able to hear the tortured cries of the suffering spirits. These complaints…

Lately, my crew and I have had a very crazy journey. We have done a lot of traveling lately and it has been very frustrating because my crew has not been listening to my commands of what I tell them to do. My crew and I started out our journey my sailing all the way from the land of the Cyclops to the land of Aeolus. I got the chance to meet Aeolus and he is the God of the Wind. I was also very fortunate to receive a tremendously nice gift from the God Aeolus. This gift made me very happy…

The Blindside is a film that deals with the life of Michael Oher as he grew up in a rough neighborhood and got adopted by a more affluent family. Michael goes throw many emotional turmoil and has a hard time fitting in at school and at home as his life with his new family is nothing he has ever encountered. The film shows the progression of Michael Oher throughout his senior year as he becomes one of the more attractive football prospects in the country and opens doors for him to have a future.…

In the world that we live in today, people are always looking to improve their appearance. They use methods such as makeup, plastic surgery, Photoshop, exercise, etc. Certain businesses take advantage of people’s insecurities by trying to look a certain way and make a profit off of it. For example, Muscle Milk, a protein based company, advertises supplements in order to achieve that goal, suddenly making achievable goals possible. Muscle Milk advertisements look to attract mostly the male…

THE GOONIES An Adventure like no other, a completely unique and a one of a kind movie. The Goonies, directed by Richard Donner, is a family classic, from the great character development, to the great storyline, and to the great cinematic techniques they had especially for a film made in this period. The Goonies has all the elements of an action/ adventure film, they even have some romance in there for the lovers. The Goonies is also a humorous film with a much different adventure story…

insight into the human condition that in turn helps us to interpret concepts like isolation in our world. Isolation seemingly defines the character’s lives in the poems 'The Tuft of Flowers' and ‘Home Burial’ from Robert Frost’s ‘The Collected Poems’ and Sean Penn's film 'Into the Wild'. More importantly, it is through the way they overcome their isolation or lack, thereof, that we discover the importance of human relationships in our world. 

Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Tuft of Flowers’ opens with…

What do you think of when you hear the word hero? Courage, perseverance, bravery? Well, in the book Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt published in October of 2015, I learned that heroes come in all shapes and sizes. The book is told from the point of 12 year old Jack who lives a quiet sheltered life on his parents' farm in Maine until his family takes in a foster kid named Joseph. Joseph, a normal looking black haired 14 year old with a past of hurt and abuse, became a father at 13 and was…

McCandless was raised comfortable in a upper-middle-class and had graduated in june 1990 from Emory University in atlanta. In the article “Death of Innocent,” by John Krakauer and Sean Penn movie “Into the Wild”. Both have just a grown man to escape into civilization into the wild. Well I haven't watched the whole movie or read the whole article yet but by some of what i've read and seen id say to admire him only because hes kind and caring for others when it started with a hitchhiker. He did…

“The Blind Side” is a movie about not only football and new beginnings, but culturally ingrained racism and poverty, as well. The Touhy’s, a well-off white family living in Memphis, Tennessee, take in Michael Oher, an underprivileged black boy whom they save from wandering the streets one particularly rainy night. Michael is soft-spoken and introverted, but is gifted at playing football. The movie follows his life with the Tuohy’s as he becomes a part of the family. They give him new clothes, a…