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The Big Short 

The Big Short is a movie about the housing collapse in 2008. It shows a story of Michael Burry and how he saw major loopholes in the housing market only a few people saw. He investigates into the housing bonds and realizes they are not what they seem. Most of the AAA bonds which are suppose to be secure and less likely to fail are full of mortgages that are not secure. They were not secure and did not even have income verification.

Many people were affected by this and lost their homes. In the movie they have a scene where they approach a renter and they ask for the home owner and they say his name and ask for him and the renter says your looking for his dog? What that basically says is that anybody could get a home at that time and the banks were making money from selling homes that they would sell them to people who could not afford them and they would all lose them at some time.

The movie also shows Mark Baums perspective. He hates the banks. He thinks they screwed us over on student loans that we can never get out of. He discovers Jared Vennett over a wrong number phone call. Jared Vennett sells them an idea that the housing market will collapse and that they should invest in him and he could make them money but they do not believe him off the bat. They do further research and discover that what Jared was talking about was true.

In the end the housing market did collapse and Mark Baum, Jared Vennett, and Micheal Burry all shorted the housing market and made money off it. They all hate the banks and know that they put the blame on poor people, and lowered level workers.

Training day is an old classic movie that shows a dark side of being a police officer. When a veteran police officer Denzel Washington  trains a rookie on his first day Ethan Hawke, he learns that everything is not what it seems as being  a police officer.  The whole movie is told through out Ethan Hawke’s point of view.

When Ethan meets Denzel, Denzel comes across as a person who thinks he owns everything and gets in to Ethans head by asking about his personal life. He thinks he is above the law by the way he acts and talks and carries himself and by his title, he is respected through out the inner city of Los Angeles where he takes Ethan on his first “Training Day”. Denzel has a reputation for putting the big bad criminals away and not just the small time offenders. Ethan however feels that any crime should be punishable no matter what crime. Alonzo is a dirty cop, however he has done good for the police department but he is still mixed with bad people.

At the beginning they are cruising down the streets of LA and Denzel tells Ethan to smoke marijuana and Ethan refuses Denzel pressures him by saying to get out of his car and that he will ruin his career and will not allow him on his special drug narcotics team. After Ethan smokes the drugs Denzel convinces him that he has connections and pass his drug test. Denzel shows Ethan all his criminal connections and how he allows bad things to happen and Denzel shows Ethan that making money is more important to him than actually busting criminals. They make a huge drug bust and keep all the drug evidence money and split the money between the narcotics unit Ethan says he does not want to be a part of this and will tell the actual police and have the whole unit arrested. However Denzel knew something was gonna happen like this and says that they will not believe him due to the drugs in his system. They go out though a journey of chasing each other and exposing each other.

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I am currently a senior at Vista High School. I am in the Personalized learning program since junior year this program has helped me focus on my goals and in school. This program allows me to get the help I need by making the classes smaller and giving me the freedom to learn more. What I like to do in my free time is play soccer and work out. I have been playing soccer since I was a kid and I have loved it ever since I started working out seriously at the end of junior year. I had a job over the summer at a pizza place but I didn’t like it so I stopped working their after a while. I didn’t like working at the pizza place because of the crazy schedule they would call me 30 minutes before and tell me to come and I would already have plans. What I plan to do after high school is become a paramedic or join law enforcement the reason I would like to do these things is because I love helping people and I feel my strengths would be best applied in this area.