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I could ramble on with this review and waste your time, but do you really need to be told to watch John Carpenter's other masterpiece (the first being Halloween) The Thing? The film is pure perfection in every form and it's something that will live on for generations. I never personally tackled reviewing The Thing on this site before, because I just don't see the point. Us horror fans know that The Thing is a masterpiece, so what exactly can be said about it that hasn't been mentioned a million…

memory. This is an important point of research because the extensive literature on the misinformation effect shows that witnesses who have been exposed to misinformation may recall these misleading details during later testimony (Rivard, Lapaglia, Wilford, Chan, Fisher, 2013). Past research has indicated that taking an initial memory test can enhance one’s retention of learned material. For this study in particular, the purpose was to examine whether the cognitive interview, with all of its…

The Ancient Olympics Ever thought about when was the Olympics created, where it originated or why was it created? How many sports were included and what were the roles of women during this vital period in history? The Ancient Olympic were based on religious beliefs, filled with many competitive sports and had stringent rules for women during the games (Goldman). The first ancient Olympics started in 776 B.C. ancient Greece. The event was very important to the Greeks and it was so special that…

The favor that Estevan and Esperanza did for Taylor was pretending to be Turtle’s parents and lying to Mr. Jonas Wilford Armistead so that Taylor could take legal custody of Turtle. This was not a decision based in legality because pretending to be a child’s parents so that you can give said child to someone else is pretty obviously not a legal thing to do. This favor…

Conclusion The primary purpose of this study is to examine Judith Butler theory of gender performativity. In her work Gender Trouble, she argues that gender identity cannot be biologically determined. She challenges the belief that certain behaviors are natural. Her argument is that gender and sex are not natural but they are constructed through the working of power in societies such as institutions, discourse, and practices. Consequently, gender is prompted by obligatory norms to be one…

increased religious and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army. The killings brought worldwide attention to the crisis in Northern Ireland, and sparked protests across Ireland. Six months after this massacre, Lieutenant Colonel Derek Wilford, in charge of the soldiers responsible for this bloodshed, was awarded and decorated with honors given by Queen Elizabeth II…

Thesis Statement The term marriage has changed greatly over the last couple of decades, ranging from arranged marriages, polygamy, polyandry, traditional marriage, and same sex marriages. How is the definition and meaning of marriage changed over the years? History of Marriage “The first recorded evidence of marriage contracts and ceremonies dates to 4,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia.” (www.theweek.com). Originally, marriage was a way to preserve power or for alliances. Kings would marry off…

The film stars Kurt Russell and Wilford Brimley. It features an extraterrestrial with the ability to transform into anything it desires. This alien wreaks havoc on a research station in the Antarctic. The goal of the protagonists in the film is to prevent The Thing from reaching populated…

A great comic book is a parody of the real world with its heroes and heroines behave similarly to how an ordinary person would behave if he or she was to put in the same situation. A great comic book takes place in a world that is similar to the real world but with an added twist which has a profound but believable effect on its world. With such a heavy inspiration from the real world, it is not surprising that the world of comic books has similar social issues to that of the real world. These…

The issue I will discuss is spies by Lewis H. Lapham. My whole life I’ve wondered if there are people who live in the shadows that gather information on our country’s enemies and even spy on the average citizen. I think every person should be concerned with being spied on it’s an invasion of privacy and breaks the rights we have as humans. It bothers me that there is a group of people that knows everything yet we only get told what they want us to know. The two main articles I will discuss are…