i think that i show leadership in a lot of small ways that often go unnoticed, not that i mind. during the school year, i taught younger school kids many lessons that should prepare them for their future lives in high school. that involved a lot of preparation on my part because i wrote and [...]
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singing, reading, playing guitar, talking, drawing, painting, newspaper, skateboarding, walking, writing, helping each other, shooting basketball
someone drawing or painting a person who is skateboarding, then zooms in to the person in real life, then see a basketball court in the background and zoom in to them playing. then see someone walking by, maybe dragging along [...]
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i think historical movies like remember the titans that are entertaining can tell the story through the use of characters. i think once you get the know certain people in the movie and how they were affected by what was going on, then you understand more of what it was like to live at that [...]
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The most recent movie I’ve seen was last night, I watched The Fifth Element for about the 20th time. I have no idea what I like about it. There have been many futuristic movies that try to create the world in a few millenniums as filled with technology and even everyday life with aliens. It [...]
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In the Anti-Apartheid movement, music was something to give the strugglers (blacks) strength and encouragement. They used it in almost all occasions, and what it sounds like from the film is that many of these songs were spur-of-the-moment bursts of emotion that brought the group closer together. They sang during funerals, riots, interviews and more, [...]
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in the movie i think the matrix is just the world we want it to be. they said it was the world in our minds, that we’re not really there, it’s just what we think it is and that the real world is oblvious to us. i understand it way more than i can explain [...]
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The news story about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has gotten much more attention than I would initially expect. I would never think that this would make national news. I do think that the cops were pretty much wrong in what they did. If they had looked at his ID, which they might [...]
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Ok I have made movies before, in school going through the whole process of brainstorming ideas, storyboarding, shooting, editing, archiving, but i still get surprised with how long it takes to get started. i’ve never had to write a script before and that took way too long. i am always eager to just jump to [...]
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Ok. The headline is: Teenager Wings it with a Fake Airline. It’s about a teenager in Britain ( or whatever) that kept up a charade for about 6 months pretending to be the representative of some big company that wanted to lease some of the jets. He claimed that he was in his twenties and [...]
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According to Yahoo! News, Sotomayor is being endlessly questioned about her views on abortion. But because this is politics, it seems somewhat fair for them to go there. If she refuses to answer, let her refuse but I don’t think the court should be blamed for asking her to answer. I don’t get into politics [...]
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