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    The necessity of hunting has been doubted since a US dentist Walter Palmer killed Zimbabwe lion Cecil. Is hunting good or bad? Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping some animal, or pursuing or tracking it with the intent of doing so. In modern society, with the well-developed meat production industry, do we need hunting actually? However, in macro, maybe hunting is not as obnoxious as its look like. Hunting can satisfy and alleviate human needs on meat while esteem animal rights in the same

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    Good Will Hunting is a flawless example of how meritocracy has an enormous impact on society. Will’s entire childhood and adult life have proven that advanced skills and knowledge have a minimal effect on on quality of life in regards to income.According to Miller and McNamee’s article, “When factors associated with individual “merit” are related to income and wealth, it turns out that these factors are often not as uniquely individual or as influential as many presume. Most experts point out, for

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    The movie Good Will Hunting is about a twenty-year-old man Will, who works as a janitor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A professor on campus posts an extremely difficult math problem for his graduate students and Will to the professor and students surprise can solve it. Will solves another difficult question that professor posts, and he runs off as he catches him insisting his anonymity. Will finds a connection with a psychologist and is able to find a purpose and good direction

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    Hunting is good for the environment because it helps keep habitats healthy through conservation. Due to conservation people are able to rebuild herds of wild game animals up to numbers they have never been before. When in the early 1900’s some of the herds were virtually extinct. Before conservation began in the 1900’s the number of wild game animals were decreasing rapidly. By hunting animals, hunters regulate the herd populations so that the herds do not destroy their own habitats. A helpful management

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    ranging films from Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights to Pulp Fiction. He has 3 Oscar nominations for best picture including Inglourious Basterds (2010), Good Will Hunting (1998), and Pulp Fiction (1995). With so many hit movies and tv shows to select from, it’s hard to choose a favorite, but mine is Good Will Hunting. In this film, we see Will Hunting, a 20-year-old who has the same struggles many face at his age. He doesn’t have much money, works a mediocre job, is somewhat defensive, and finds it

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    The Films The Castle, Secrets and Lies, Good will hunting and What’s eating gilbert grape all have the same aspect of “The Class in society doesn’t define or restrict the capabilities of someone or their success”. These films all have a different way of portraying this aspect by the different ways the directors use themes throughout these films such as setting, language features, costume etc. Throughout these 4 different films the director's message they want the audience to receive is that class

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    Good Will Hunting is a story about a young man who struggles to find his true identity. Mr. Hunting is a 21 year old Caucasian young man and who grew up in South Boston, Massachusetts and works as a janitor at MIT and as a construction worker. He lives in the slums and always spends his nights at bars with his best friends. He is afraid to step out into the world and never had a chance to explore life or to use his gift due to being abused as a child. The experiences from his birth to childhood negatively

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    Everyone has fears, our experiences in life are the ones that shape them; for Will Hunting from (Good Will Hunting) it was the fear of abandonment. His trust was broken at a young age by many people, by the ones that were supposed to care for him the most. After that, he expected everyone would do what was done to him by his biological and his foster parents. The only family that Will ever had was his friends. This was Sean’s reply when Lambeau questioned Wills choice in friends. “And why does he

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    Sociological Perspective of Good Will Hunting

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    with social location, and with rules come social control mechanisms and social stratification that keep people in line. With social location also come institutions that provide roles which form one’s identity. In the movie, “Good Will Hunting,” the main character Will Hunting is a young deviant what grows up in a rough neighbourhood and has the intellect of a genius. Role theory and other concepts from the sociological

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    Vu Nguyen English Composition I Mr. Dylan Travis RELATIONSHIPS IN GOOD WILL HUNTING Good Will Hunting is an interesting story of a young genius orphan growing in a slums of South Boston with a group of best friends, written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and directed by Gus Van Sant. In this film, Will Hunting is the main character played by its father Matt Damon who is trying to himself identify his value in the world. He is not a normal teenager, he has a special ability that called the “photographic

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