The Karate Kid

they’ve completed their practice and bow towards the classroom before stepping away, smiles adorn their features. They’re not just students attending a class, they’re family. This family extends beyond the students at the small Shorin-Ryu and Shorinkan karate dojo nestled within the St. Anthony strip mall. The practice of martial…

hated Pencey so much that he barely tried, resulting in him having to leave the school. Similar things happen to everyone because life has lots of unpredictable obstacles that cause you to alter what you’re doing. For example, I had to end up quitting karate when I was younger, which was hard because I enjoyed it. On a normal Tuesday, my 10 year old self would usually be lounging in my living room, enjoying a nice session of cartoon watching. However, this was not the case today. Our car pulls…

Daniel in a few parts of the movie is seen as a dyadic character. The scene where a rich kids pull up next to Ali and asks if she wants to go hang out and parked right in front of them is Daniel’s mom. Ali says she doesn’t want to because she wants to spend time with Daniel and Daniel gets mad at Ali for not going when he says “you can go if you want”. The whole situation is made worse when one of the kids says “Nice car Mrs. Larusso”. This tells us that Daniel evaluates his self worth based on…

and change your perspective. You can’t stubbornly stand where you are and expect your photo to be the way you imagined it to be. Likewise, sometimes you must adjust your viewpoint of an activity in order to learn something new, such as karate. My first day of karate had taken an unexpected twist…

back to the morning dishes. She listened to the commotion from the living room that happened every week day at about 7:30 in the morning. She shook her head and laughed. In a few minutes she would have the house to herself and it will be quiet. The kids will be at school and the husband will be at work she thought. “Come on, Brat, you do this every morning. Let’s go!” spat Jason as he clomped down the stairs with his own backpack bouncing off his back and headed out of the front…

stature today. Football, football, football, one may think it is my whole life and it has been; however, without my begging and pleading it may not have happened. I suffered with the distaste of my lame karate class that my mother insisted on being trendy. “It’ll be fun...you’ll learn character.” Every kid in the third grade wants that, right? Not exactly. Classes took place on Tuesday nights after school, a smelly, stuffy upstairs space above a gymnastics studio. This was the place where I…

fight was no big versus little guy it was an average kid fighting an average kid kind of fight, but I will say I wish I knew more about the kid and thought more of the after effect of a fight. Before I go anywhere with this story I will say I lost this fight and I lost it days before it started. The start of it all, when a fight comes to happen it not someone who woke up with it in their mind that they want to fight it’s a buildup and me and this kid, whose name is Jacob, had been building up…

Born and raised in a ghetto-like neighborhood, I lived my childhood in the most dangerous part in the city. Very few of us could strive from that situation and managed as a functioning member of society, whilst the rest of the neighbors’ kids either ended up dead or in jail due to the serious crimes committed. Entering the first day at school in elementary school, I was equipped with one notebook and a pencil. My parents could not afford to buy more than those two items. When the whole pages of…

In this exercise, I chose my four favorite movies and arranged each movie with six poetic elements. The six poetic elements are plot, character, idea, dialogue, spectacle, and music. As I was rearranging the six categories with my four movies, I realized several similarities to the genres of movies with the poetic elements. To give an example, Spider-Man (2002) is a character-driven movie. The movie expands on the main character’s personal development as a superhero. Throughout the movie Peter…

Hà _ DOB: 13/07/1993 _ MSSV: 11032034 1 Full name: Phí Thị Thái Hà Class: GTLVH-ENG2054 02 Title: Intercultural Reflection Intercultural Reflection This essay considers the popular concept of culture shock that occurs in a famous film named “The Karate Kid” (2010). According to Kalervo Oberg, culture shock is “precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse”. It involves “a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feeling of…