Torrance

A 10th grade student sits in his desk nervously tapping his foot. His pencil glides across the paper as he final gives up and blindly filled in the letter bubble marked C. He is in hour two of a four hour long test. However you might be surprised that he is not directly affected by how he scores on the test. So why is he talking the test? His teachers and school administrators both pray that he and his classmates do well. Higher scores could mean more funding and an increase in attendance. They…

be put into for prolonged lengths of time, and can cause the mindset of an individual to be triumphed by evil. Kubrick use a variety of film techniques such as dialogue, sound and camera techniques to characterise Jack Nicholson’s character, Jack Torrance, by showing how his character changes throughout the film and how isolation is an unnatural environment for human beings to be put into and causes evil to triumph over an individual causing their mindset to be tainted and can set off evil…

survivor of these dreadful camps. Throughout his life, Zamperini exemplifies what it means to have moral courage. Louis Zamperini was born on January 26th, 1917, in Olean, New York. He grew up in Torrance, California where he smoke, drank, and stole on a regular basis. After attempting to run away from Torrance, Zamperini joined his high school track team. He focused his energy and time into running, and not long after joining, he started to win. "In 1934, Louis set the national high school…

and career in track, his time stranded in he Pacific ,in the POW camps, as well as his life after the war. Louis Zamperini was born on January 26th, 1917, in Olean, New York. He grew up in Torrance, California where he smoke, drank, and stole on a regular basis. After attempting to run away from Torrance, Zamperini joined his high school track team. He focused his energy and time into running, and not long after joining,…

“if you’re going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill said. Churchill might as well have been talking to Louie Zamperini. In other words, Louie went through hell his whole life, from a young boy running away from the police, to a mature young man setting a NCAA record by running the mile with bleeding shins and an impaled toe. Furthermore, being a prisoner of war almost dying of hunger and beaten to death to also having PTSD after the war ended. These are some trials and tribulations…

Introduction Whereas some understanding about creativity and its importance in education exists, many questions remain. For example, while individual aptitudes have been explored as academic outcome predictors (Alloway & Alloway, 2010; Noftle & Robins, 2007), their relationship to creativity lays at the fringes of academic research (Plucker, Beghetto, & Dow, 2004). Although it is considered a higher-order cognitive skill (McWilliam & Dawson, 2008; Perkins, 1990; Sternberg, 2006 Yang, Wan, &…

Case Study of Motive: Season 2, Episode 4 Kai Mizuno Motive, a crime show with a unique twist. At the beginning of every episode, the viewer is shown who the killer and victim are. The episode goes on to show detectives trying to solve the crime, while also showing scenes from the past to allow the viewer to decipher what the killer’s motive was. This unique twist of presenting crime also allows viewers to see different angles of how forensics play into solving crimes. Forensic tests performed…

How The Shining can be seen differently depending on the audience and the socio-cultural context through Performance, Narrative and Time ? The words ‘The Shining’ is most known for two simple facts. The first one entails its origins and the second one its universal success. Stephen King is well known for his terrifying and striking novels, and The Shining (1977) is definitely one of them. However, it is disputed that even with King’s well known recognition, The Shining (1980) became widely…

Department of Corrections Probation and Parole consist of the Corrections Operations Director who is George Hinkle, following is the Administrator for Community Corrections, Marcus Elam, and then the Chief of Probation and Parole Erma Torrance. Under Chief Torrance there are three Deputy Chiefs: Aleandro, Schafer, and Taliaferro. Following the Deputy Chiefs are six Senior Probation Officers (SPO), and under supervision of the…

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is a well known and very talented movie director. He has directed multiple films, for which he is most known for the film, Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Quentin was named after Quint Asper who was Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. His mother, Connie Mchugh was a nurse and his father, Tony Tarantino was a musician. However, after his birth his mother and birth father separated and Connie…