Word: pride
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...emotions defy comparison to any American sporting event. The national pride of the competing sides is at stake. Coaches and players who lose key matches frequently retire just hours afterwards. Sadly, people are killed for their mistakes on the field. And those who succeed become national heroes forever with a flick of an ankle...
...frustrations. Less than three years after throwing off the communist yoke, Russia is ensnared in a financial, political and spiritual crisis as great as any in its thousand-year history. The economy is tottering like a besotted barfly. Crime and corruption are rampant, and citizens who once took pride in their nation's world-class stature now find themselves shoved to the margins of the world stage and forced to swallow a mortifying demotion from superpower to global beggar. While Yeltsin seems increasingly isolated at home behind the Kremlin and liberal politicians drone endlessly about mastering inflation and listening...
...national symbol, the bald eagle is supposed to be the embodiment of American strength, grace and pride. But for much of this century, the majestic bird has been an emblem of the country's careless and sometimes callous treatment of wildlife. Pinched by human population growth, poisoned by pollutants and slaughtered by hunters, the eagle went into such a decline that by 1940 Congress felt compelled to pass a law protecting the highflyer. It didn't work: in 1963 there were only 417 breeding pairs of bald eagles left in the lower 48 states, and by 1978, when the eagle...
...Lion King" is the story of a young lion named Simba who, through the example and inspiration of his father, the king, learns the importance of bravery and responsibility. Simba's father Mufasa tells his son that one day he will assume his position as the king of Pride Rock, the range in Africa where the lions live in harmony with many other species of animals...
...Lion King" includes a highly successful examination of the often painful, always powerful emotions inherent in a father's relationship with his son. The movie does not skirt, but rather unabashedly examines all the feelings of love, inadequacy, pride, frustration, ambition, and the myriad other emotions that are present in every son's relationship with his father...