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The five big bullies of the school had found a big hole at the back of the classroom underneath a loose floorboard. They hid everything in the hole, they thought only they knew about it and that their “punch bag” wouldn’t know a thing, but I had taken to hiding from them, one day behind the teacher’s desk when they lifted up the floor board and examined their trophies. One day as I was waiting to ask the teacher how to do a very complicated maths problem that I had seen, the bullies opened up the

On the night of May 23rd, 2015, a 15-year-old boy walked home from a party. He was so intoxicated, that he didn’t know where he was going. The boy wandered onto Outer Ring Road and he fell into a pothole. The pothole was so deep, that the 15-year-old ended up in China. On May 28th, the boy returned home. During his few days in China, the 15-year-old boy learned to speak Google Translated Chinese. “我討厭這些坑洼” he said. Translation: I hate these potholes. On June 23rd, 2015, another man fell down a pothole

The film ‘Twelve Monkeys’ is a 1995 American net-noir science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. The movie is about a mysterious group called Twelve Monkeys are believed to be behind the virus which wiped out almost all of humanity in 1996. James Cole a prisoner is selected to collect the information on the virus in order to help the scientists to develop a cure to save the world. I think the film is trying to remind us of how we should be aware of the things that might have a devastating effect

Dr. Strangelove is one of the many masterpieces made by the great Stanley Kubrick. The movie was made in 1964 at the Shepperton Studios in London, UK. The time the movie was made is of great importance, in fact, it was made only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kubrick pictures, in an extremely comical yet somewhat serious way, what the world would look like after one of the two forces (U.S vs. USSR) was triggered in initializing nuclear warfare. General Jack Ripper is an obsessively paranoid

2002 documentary about Terry Gilliam’s unfinished film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote which broke down as the result of a variety of issues seen in the various stages of production. Issues include a lack of money to produce the film, illness, weather problems, issues with poorly trained horses, poor organisation for the location of the film and the absence of an adequate amount of rehearsal beforehand. Before any production took place, before even pre-production begun one of Terry Gilliam’s financers

as The Australian’s series, or fictional mysteries, then there’s my true crime collection, gathered strangely enough when I was pregnant with my first daughter. However, the most esteemed of my personal book collection, is the humorous fantasy of Terry Pratchett’s disc world. I love and mourn the author like no other, I love the Disc World series novels and shall endeavour to focus this essay on what I believe journeyed me to them.

Quinn Massey Ms. Davis College Prep English 10 April 2017 The One Behind The Trigger In the modern world, Terrorism seems like a daily occurrence. A bomb here and a shooting there is taken in stride, now. No more than a week and life is back to normal. There is no rallying cry. While most threats come from the outside, as is a hot topic recently, we also recognize that many attacks come from within our borders. However, there was a time when it was inconceivable that one of our own could think of

a vibrant, open political system where no American will feel excluded or voiceless. This would lead to an American foreign policy that does not interfere in the affairs of other nations. This policy would help fight against terrorist like Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, and the others who may have contributed to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Nichols was found guilty for his part in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma on April 19, 1995. On this

the mother tells the three wise men that her child is called Brian, thus relinquishing the Christ parody that could have been. The realism that permeates the first few shots allows the payoff joke to work. Production designer and group member Terry Gilliam describes the achieved realism in relation to the intended overall style: “We actually wanted to give it a very rich feel, we didn’t want it to be too lit. You very often find comedy is over-lit, but we wanted it to look like an art film

Joseph Doerr IDS-1112H Dr. Magnani/Prof. Pizana 05/3/2015 Satirical Dystopian Themes in Terry Gilliam’s Film Brazil “8:49 p.m.…. Somewhere in the 20th Century” (Gilliam). This is how Terry Gilliam’s Brazil begins. The film is set in a 1984-esque dystopian society where every aspect of the citizen’s lives is monitored by the Ministry of Information (M.o.I.). While titled Brazil it is not actually set in Brazil as a matter of fact no mention of where the film