Three Days Before the Shooting

Jontavious Edwards 9/29/90 Intro to Film Screen Report In Class we viewed three films that fall into the “Gangster” genre. In this genre, characters rise to power with a tough cruel facade while showing an ambitious desire for success and recognition, but underneath they can express sensitivity and gentleness. Also in this genre according to our “Engaging Cinema” book (CH.7), we enter a world revolving men whose ambition spills beyond the law, for which they often pay the price.…

concentrates on the aftermath of what it means to survive, and to continue to believe at the edge of your faith. Hey Nostradamus! By Douglas Coupland is four stories united by a single tragic thread. It opens with a Columbine High School-style attack by three students at a fictional Vancouver high school in 1988. the main character Jason is tragically affected by the death of this secret…

grandma. The car ride was probably the worst because I had to be in a little car with two of my other cousins Sadie and Samara but it wasn’t really that bad. But when we got there in Montgomery we stayed at my aunt Cookie’s house because we still had three hours until we got to Mobile where my cousins all live. At my aunt Cookie’s house we played things like bingo and UNO until it was time for bed. When I was woken up by my cousin screaming BROCK YOU’RE ON THE DOG!! I was quite alarmed…

Charles Joseph Whitman was a twenty-five year old male living in Austin, Texas and enrolled in the University of Texas. He was married to Kathleen Leissner and had three younger siblings by his biological parents Charles Adolphus and Margaret Hodges Whitman. He grew up in a very authoritarian style household and his parents had marital problems brought on by the physical and emotional abuse of Charles Adolphus. Charles Whitman was a part of the Boy Scouts at a young age, joined the United States…

Tom, Daisy, and Myrtle all had parts in the murder of the great Jay Gatsby. His death was a sad day when Nick held the funeral he invited many people to come, but for a man who was known for his great parties and wealth, there were only three people at his funeral. These three people where the only three that actually wanted to get to know him and not just use him for his magnificent parties. The three people to show were Gatsby’s dad, Nick, and the owl eyed man. Gatsby was a man who lived a…

he was lonely; One day a boy about his same age came to school, and eventually they became friends. His name was Fortunato and his family was new in town, his dad owned a small Italian restaurant right down the street from Montresor. It was called Russo’s; it had a large wooden stained sign with the Italian flag on it. The two boys clicked from the moment they meet and where the best of friends. Five years passed by, both now of age they were able to do so much more. One fine day…

homicide, suicide and unintentional. • Two of the 1996 gun reforms put in place were, making gun control laws stronger and uniform across Australia and had the world’s biggest gun buyback seeing nearly 700,000 guns removed from circulation. • The three gun factors of owning a gun in Australia is, the applicants age, criminal convictions and (A) designed for killing or (B) highly coveted by people who…

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” This quote by Patrick Rothfuss shows exactly what can be expected of fear. It is unpredictable, dark, and startling. In this way, fear is funny; it gives people different emotions in different situations. Fear is worry. It throws people into different situations, waiting for the reaction of worrisome. It sits in the waiting room at the doctor’s office patiently waiting to hear the…

My production group chose to do the documentary that I pitched about the increase in hate crimes and hate groups, specifically anti-Muslim violence, that has occurred over the last few years, particularly in relation to the presidential election. I chose to frame the incident around the specific incident in which a Muslim student was threatened to be lit on fire if she did not remove her hijab because it was the most shocking local incident that has occurred and I thought it would be a…

great detail on the events that happened during his last few days alive. This book also focuses on the civil war and the generals in them such as Robert E. Lee. The first part of the book “Total War” goes into great detail about Robert E. Lee, his plans, and his thoughts. The second part which is named “The Ideas of Death” goes on to discuss about John Wilkes Booth and what he does within the time before Lincolns assassination. Part three of the Book “The Long Good Friday” is about Lincoln and…