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    Undefeated Film Analysis

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    The movie ‘Undefeated’ is a 2011 documentary directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin. This film displays the struggles and success of a high school football team the Manassas Tigers of Memphis, Tennessee. The Tigers attempt to complete their first winning season after decades of losing. The team is turned around with the help of dedicated volunteer coaches led by Bill Courtney, who struggles to transform the attitudes of young men both academically and athletically. The team had to overcome…

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    the chosen champion to destroy the ghastly gorgon Medusa, bringing back her head as a trophy. In the classic version of the story, Perseus is portrayed as a strong, humble demi god who understands pain and hardship. In the modern film Clash of the Titans, Perseus is seen more as a normal person and not a demi god. He sides with the humans with their campaign against the gods and finds the gods unjust. In the original story of Perseus, Andromeda was a princess who was said to be more beautiful…

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    minority groups were treated poorly for being apart of a minority. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the many people to help abolish segregation, and he was supporting all minorities not just the black people. Remember the Titans took place during this time of segregation. The Titans-football team- was the only team in the state to have black and white americans play together. Coach Boone got rid of segregation on his team by 1 getting the players to get along, 2 he got them to respect each…

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    Throughout Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the reader gets a unique insight on the life and experience of Billy Pilgrim. Billy Pilgrim has gone through unspeakable things. There are three major aspects of Billy Pilgrim’s life that perfectly represent his experience in isolation, and how, or how not it was able to connect him with others. His experiences in the slaughterhouse, on Tralfamadorian, and with his son all answer this very peculiar question. When looking at the question itself, it…

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    When a tragedy occurs, it has the power to provoke many different types of responses. Some people mourn a great amount, some go into a state of denial, and others may speak up and tackle it. In Slaughterhouse-Five, author Kurt Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim as someone who was affected by the bombing of Dresden, and someone who is taken by Tralfamadorians (an alien species) to talk to him about their theories of time. There are many ways to react to a catastrophe, but the author emphasizes the…

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    Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel, “Slaughterhouse Five” recounts his experiences of World War II through Billy Pilgrim, the main character. Vonnegut’s purpose is to describe his wartime experiences and antiwar view. He adopts a complex and elusive tone in order to successfully engage and entertain his readers. Vonnegut begins his novel in the first person. We are given a first-person point of view in the sections embedded in the first and last chapters of the book. Throughout the rest of…

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    Crazy people see crazy things becomes a true statement in Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut when a distressed book about a Billy Pilgrim’s life is impacted by what he saw and went through during the war. In Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Billy Pilgrim suffers from severe PTSD that leads him to time travel and being kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians. Slaughterhouse Five was first banned in Oakland County, Michigan and has been since 1972 according to Betsy Morais. The book should be allowed to be read…

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    NHL Team

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    1) The coach had the ideals that the value of the team as a whole was far more valuable than one individual player. The team followed the same path as the “Part of the House” tale where each member realized the value of the system as a whole and eventually came to support it. First, the idea of systems thinking is introduced when the head coach plans to run his team off of a combination of the Russian and Canadian teams’ approach where each player serves a specific purpose. Next, the principles…

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    Team Flash Factors While DeVoe and his wife might work fine as a duo, Barry works best with his team behind him. That’s the way it’s always been from the day one. Without them, he would have lost a long time ago. The one thing that has always gotten Barry through is the assistance of best buddy Cisco’s inventions. According to Savitar, the way Team Flash stops DeVoe is with the same cerebral inhibitor that wiped Barry’s memories. As to what the thing does to DeVoe, we aren’t sure yet, but…

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    Remember the Titans is an beautiful vast movie about an football team overcoming racism it's an realistic film. The film is starring Denzel Washington as the coach of the football team the Titans the movie cat organize as in realistic film the plot really matches the tone of Denzel overcoming racial attention of becoming the new head coach for the titans in the city of Virginia. The film follows the traditional plot. There's only one plot twist in the story that has a lot of shock value in the…

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