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stories for different reasons; a best selling author may write his story to sell books. While a parent tells a story to set their child straight, others simply want the thrill of telling tales of their adventurous life. For The Tao Jones ,or TJ, in Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk, the most impactful story he will hear and tell is his own. Someone might not solely tell their own story but, are also able to tell the story of those around them. Superficially, TJ’s story is one of brutal negativity and oppression

The Nightmare Before Christmas begins in a small town, better known as Halloweentown. Here, they have a “Pumpkin King,” who is the ruler/ most significant role model to everyone, and his name is Jack Skellington. Jack begins to feel bored of the same holiday they have every year, Halloween, and he soon stumbles upon trees that are embellished with carved symbols for each holiday. He is intrigued by the door that has a bright green Christmas tree on it adorned with small ornaments and baubles. He

The film “The Pursuit Of Happyness”, directed by Gabriele Muccino in 2006, depicted a responsible and hardworking salesman Chris Gardner struggles for life and try his best to improve the quality of his family environment. In spite of facing various difficulties, Gardner never gives up and he manages to pull through in sense of determination and finally obtained his “ happiness” in his life. After watching the movie, I agree on the point that one must ready to sacrifice and works really hard in order

Challenges a Person Faces as a Professional Poker Player Are you a poker player? Have you been playing poker for more than a year now? Planning to take up poker as a career? Then, you should first meet some poker pros who have been playing poker professionally for more than 5 years. Thinking why? Because professional poker may seem as an easy career option but it is exponentially harder than it looks. It Involves Only Math To become a winning poker pro, you have to work more on your mathematical

It was the time my sister and I first got forced on the boat and away from our family in Africa. Three white men put chains around our legs and arms mostly dragging us across the dry sand, leaving cuts on our bare feet and ankles. The ship ride was a long 5 months from Cape Town, Africa to New Orleans, Louisiana. On the ship we were occasionally fed, possibly once a day if we were lucky. If we wanted water, we would have to scoop pales of seawater and filter is as much as we could at the time, and

TED is a nonprofit organization that seeks to spread ideas in a range of topics via short web-based talks. These talks are performed in front of a live audience where the speakers are from a wide range of disciplines and career fields. This particular form of spoken discourse is considered part of a discourse genre and therefore, it is expected that those who speak, share at least in part, some commonalities in the area of how they spread their ideas, as is customarily associated with a TED Talk

of the 140 profane words, including the “F” word 17 times and the “N” word used repeatedly. There are sexual content ,drug use ,suicide ,violence ,and reference to smoking. As said by Debry Bryk in her article called “Remove the book whale talk by Chris Crutcher from the curriculum” she says “this is for 12 and up to read, but if it were a movie it would be rated R 17 and

What is artifice? And why is it known as “the most essential skill” by Chris Hedges from an excerpt from Empire of Illusion. Artifice is a clever trick to deceive others like what many politicians used going from the past until nowadays. Because the Americans love to have good reputation, most politicians that have the ability to do so as Chris Hedges’s argues “the most essential skill...is atifice” proves to be true. To begin with, Hedges states that politicians nowadays do not need to have the

I. Name and background of presenter. What do they do for a living? Where do they do it? What is their education and experiences? Why were they asked to present this lecture? (Approximately 350 words page). Sheryl Sandberg is a 47-year-old woman who was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a Jewish household and is the oldest of three children. Her and her family moved to North Miami Beach, Florida when she was two years old. She graduated from North Miami Beach High School as 9th in her class

In the second chapter of this dissertation it will focus on the work of Manchester born and black artist Chris Ofili. Most known for his experimentation with elephant dung, Ofili communicates a humorous and rather stereotypical reaction to how an African man ‘should’ be painting, “You don’t exist, unless you start to build yourself up, and start to work” (Ofili 2010). There was much comment about Ofili becoming the first black contemporary artist whose name and work was known to a wider British public