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This story is about an eleven year old boy who communicates through numbers. This boy doesn't speak any single word but he gives number messages that only his dad tries to understand. Every time he gives his dad specific number or pattern and then his dad try to find out these numbers all across the space to save the world from danger. This story comes from a series called "touch" created by Tim Kring and it is set in the United States.

This story relates to me in two different directions. First, working as a teacher gives you the chance to deal with special need cases. After watching this series, I realized how open minded and understanding we should be in order to understand autistic children. It taught me that if a child doesn't communicate with us it doesn't mean he/she does have thoughts and ideas that want to share through his/her own way of communication. Second, as a mathematician, I have my own relation to numbers and patterns. I believe that this world is based on certain calculation of numbers that few are aware of.

That was last year when my friend told be about this series and since then i became addicted to that series. Unfortunately, this series isn't very popular worldwide maybe because people don't look at details around them.

This story has awakened my sense of human to tolerate children who have special needs. We should never underestimate nthe stremgths that these children have and the contribution they might have to make a change. In my community people underestimate special need children and don't give them the chance to express who they are.

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Popular Culture/Fictional Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
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1. Sandokan
2. Dune
3. Cinderella
4. Sailor Moon Sailor Moon is a young teenage girl that learns that she has magical powers that allows her to fight against the evils of the extraterrestrial world. She finds the Sailor Scouts, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter. Each of them have powers that relate to the symbolism of their planet and a specific superhero outfit that they wear. Based in Neo-futuristic Tokyo the story was released in the 1990’s as a manga and then a television anime came out. It became very popular among teens especially young Asian-American girls because of where it was based although the characters were many depicted as white skin tone.
5. Chef "Chef is a film released in 2014 that was written and directed by Jon Favreau who was inspired by his own career in film and love of the culinary arts to create a movie about a popular chef who needs to find his creative spark and fall in love with cooking once more. The film begins in California where Chef Carl Casper lives and works. After receiving a brutally negative review from a well regarded food critic, Carl reevaluates his job at a fancy restaurant in California. He realized that sticking to a strict menu has taken away a lot of joy from the profession he used to love. After he quits his job, Carl heads to Miami, Florida with his family because his ex-wife, Inez, needs him to watch their son, Percy, while she works.
6. The Lion King
7. Sanjay's Super Team This is an animated short film from Pixar directed and written by Sanjay Patel who based it off his experiences as a child. The story revolves around a young boy, Sanjay, and his father, an Indian-American migrant. Sanjay is watching his favourite superheroes on TV while his father is praying by the shrine in the same room. His father urges him to join in the ritual but Sanjay refuses so he switches off the TV and takes his toy in order to force him into it.
8. The Golem
9. The colonial city
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11. The Simulators
12. The Little Prince
13. Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
14. Freedom Writers: Bridging Racial Divides Through Writing Freedom Writers (the movie) is based on a true story of a school in Long Beach, California. The main character, Erin Gruwell, is a new teacher at Woodrow Wilson Classical High School and placed with the students who are considered at-risk and unteachable. These students were almost entirely comprised of minorities, with the exception of one student. With such a diverse class and a group of students who had no apparent desire to learn, the film explores the real-world challenges that Gruwell faced trying to get her students to come to class wanting to learn, if they would even want to come to their classes at all. The class divides itself based on race, and fights and arguments breakout regularly. The class later finds common ground on their feelings and discussions around The Holocaust. Her students become inspired to break free from the things that originally divided them, most notably with one character speaking out against someone who she was being forced to lie for during a trial. She tasked her students with writing in a diary and then compiled those journals and writings into a collection of them all in “The Freedom Writers Diary.”
15. Writing Your Own Deliverance
16. patterns and challenges
17. Hamilton's Rise to Success
18. The Infinite Forking Possibilities of the Future
19. Who will comfort Toffle? by Tove Jansson (1960)
20. A different kind of princess
21. Guy Montag from Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451"
22. Braveheart
23. Zootopia: Disney's Introduction to Reality for Children
24. Hamilton: An American Musical
25. SkyNet: the danger of Artificial Intelligence
26. Story of courage and survival
27. Sandokan: A Post-Colonial Coldwar Hero The plot of the novel revolves around the adventures of Sandokan - a Bornean man who lost his status, home and family to British colonialists. Embittered by his experience, Sandokan sets up camp at the island of Mompracem. From there he leads a gang of pirates under the flag of the Tiger. Together they destabilize the colonialists’ authority through robbery and violence. Steeped in the colonial period in which it was written, Salgari’s novel pitted indigenous populations against the colonial powers in ways that highlighted the evils of imperialism and celebrated resistance. As Maria Bianca Gerlich (1998, 34) observes, “Sandokan, Mompracem, and the flag of the tiger are allegories in the fight for freedom.”
28. Gradual Granules | The Gradual Reform Sweeping through the Sands of the Gulf.
29. Be kind to yourself
30. Equilibrium Equilibrium is set in 2072 in Libria, a city state established by the survivors of World War III. “Equilibrium” is an action/thriller movie following John Preston (Bale), an enforcement officer in a futuristic world where a regime has decided to eliminate war by suppressing emotions using a certain type of drug. Books, art and music are strictly forbidden and "feeling" is a crime punishable by death.
Dareen N. Sangita Shresthova
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1. patterns and challenges
2. Hakuna Matata, Simba!
Hakuna Matata, Simba! Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
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