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Anthony Zamperini and Louise Dossi, both native to Verona in Northern Italy. He had an older brother named Pete and two younger sisters, Virginia and Sylvia. He was raised in a strict Catholic household. The family moved to Torrance, California, in 1919, where Louis attended Torrance High School. Zamperini and his family spoke no English when they moved to California making him a target for bullies. His father taught him how to box in self-defense. Soon he claimed to be "beating the tar out of…

The horror genre is a severely underrated and neglected literary zone that not many writers choose to call home. Stephen King is an author who dares to face the odds, writing about what he truly enjoys, which has paid off for him in the end. If you have read any amount of King’s books, you can see a similarity in both tone and style. With over fifty works under his belt, including books, movie adaptations, and short stories, King has worked his way to the top, becoming one of his generation’s…

survive as a prisoner of war in Japan during World War II. Zamperini, who was born in Olean, New York in 1917, would live to be 97 years old passing on July 2, 2014. The story covers Zamperini’s troubled youth growing up in a poor Italian family in Torrance. Zamperini’s brother, Pete, would play an important role, getting Louis, the younger of the two, to take his running from the law and convert it to running for the school track team. Louis would eventually take his talent to the World…

Kubrick has Wendy, a woman, do all of the work, which suggests since she is insignificant in the masculine Overlook, the work she does is insignificant in turn. The Overlook is a masculine structure because only men are in charge of running the Overlook and is a masculine dominated space, as well as being very misogynistic, declaring “women need to be corrected” (Kubrick 1:31:08). Frank Manchel reinforces that Kubrick depicts the hotel as masculine, and females as inferior to men, and Manchel…

products and brands into TV shows, websites, music and video games "in a seamless way, so it doesn't really look like an ad at all" (Torrance, 2014). There are many advantages to this new type of advertising and product placement. First, it does interrupt viewers like traditional TV advertising. Consumers have become very savvy at avoiding traditional advertising (Torrance, 2014) and do not like the interruption. If placed properly native advertising is natural and fits right in so consumers do…

side that was common around his immediate family. The community of Torrance, California, where he grew up, often witnessed his wild, rebellious, and reckless side. Louie’s Italian heritage also made him a target for bullies to pick on in addition to his size and build for his age. According to Hillenbrand, Louie’s neighbors, “petitioned the city council to keep them out” (8). The lessons and experiences Louie went through in Torrance would prove very useful later on in his life when he is pushed…

Something most people struggle while they’re in college or even in everyday life is pursuing something that will make them happy. Elizabeth Vansickle, Lead RN at Torrance Memorial, is someone who has found this great aspect in achieving a life goal many want. Although Elizabeth Vansickle comes from a rough past, her persistence has driven her to become such a strong women. Her background, experience, and views on how things are handled in the medical field has become a fundamental in why nursing…

The first questions that pop onto mind when studying Intelligence and Creativity are ‘what are the differences and similarities of the two?’ as well as ‘what are their relationships?’ For years, this topic has been a debacle for many researchers and psychologists. Most have thought “(1) creativity is a subset of intelligence; (2) intelligence is a subset of creativity; (3) creativity and intelligence are overlapping sets; (4) creativity and intelligence are essentially the same thing (coincident…

a person to insanity. Edgar Allan Poe was the writer of the story “The Tell Tale Heart” that is a story about a man with such an obsession over a little eye that he decided to kill. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a movie about Jack Torrance becoming the winter caretaker of a hotel with a very large history. Both of these compositions use the characters, the plot and the setting to demonstrate that obsession can cause a person to go completely psychotic. The characters in both…

childhood out in Torrance, California after his family relocated there when he was two years old. Zamperini would be as normal as my neighbor except for the superhero like resilience and perseverance he had. Louie Zamperini lived a long and full life of 97 years, but not all of those years were pleasant. Zamperini passed away from this world on July 2, 2014. I titled this paper with a statement that is very true to Louie’s life, let me explain. Louie Zamperini grew up in Torrance,…