What is hyperreality and what does it mean? Why is Las Vegas postulated to be ‘hyperreal’? Furthermore why is it that so many people in the world want to visit Las Vegas‚ and people return back to Las Vegas year after year‚ even though we all believe the city‚ and everything within it‚ is superficial and fake? Perhaps it is to do with nostalgia‚ or the fact that Las Vegas is very good at being a themed illusion which puts everyone into a trance and make them believe they are in fantasyland? Why
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Prompt/Question Explore one of these themes either family‚ heroism or the underdog in the story The Outsiders. Provide at least 3 excerpts from the text as evidence to support your answer. Heroes are everywhere; they live the same neighborhood as us‚ and eat the same cereal as we do. We just sometimes too blunt to realize it. Their heroic actions might be small-like sticking up for a bullied kid and other time they can be great like saving people lives like Spider Man. But the thing about heroes
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‘’What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?’’ To what extent do you find this statement applicable in at least two plays you have studied? Drama is created to entertain; entertainment has always been it’s main purpose of course sometimes the purpose of drama is to release a message. To keep the interest of viewers‚ all scenes shown within a play must be interesting and yet still follow the storyline without going to far off from it. Plays often do not show characters going through life’s
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FRQ: Explain the ultimate defeat of the Plains Indians by whites. Select at least three major reasons for the decline of the Plains culture; then tell which you think was the most important and why. From the time that the Spanish reached the New World in 1492‚ European powers‚ and later on American‚ consistently tried to quash the native people‚ one way or another. Throughout the 1800s‚ and especially during the Gilded Age‚ the federal government’s attempts to confine the Native Americans to certain
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With close reference to the issues raised by Munslow‚ critically evaluate the role of the historian in the construction of history Support your argument with reference to at least TWO sources you have studied. “God can’t change history but historians can” – Samuel Butler The role of the historian‚ in regards to the construction of history‚ is one of paramount importance. When constructing history it is imperative that historians do not reduce the integrity of historical sources and maintain credibility
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The Moonstone is structured in a multi-narrative style and Wilkie Collins did this to present the characters and events from different perspectives and also create a sense of suspense. This is because the reader will have many different opinions on events from the different characters so there is not a definitive answer to what was said or what happened. How Collins portrays Victorian attitudes will also be examined in this essay. Not much is revealed about Miss. Clack in any of the narratives
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M4-Analyse the reasons why costs need to be controlled to a budget. Give at least 4 examples of the negative effects of exceeding financial budgets and how it affects the business. Example of costs Variances and whether they are adverse (A) or favourable(F) over the three months (Nov‚ Dec‚ Jan) Identify the possible reasons for these variances Materials On budget Petrol 20 Adverse Petrol prices went up. Wages On budget Advertising 150 Adverse The person in control of advertising
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‘Drawing on any aspect/s of Darwin’s theory of evolution‚ pick at least two environmental and/or cultural factors and show how they have changed or affected any aspect of marketing.’ Darwin’s theories of evolution have changed and affected aspects of marketing in numerous ways. Mainly the concept of natural selection and the ‘Survival of the fittest’ which was put across by Darwin heavily links in with how businesses compete with one another and thus how they market themselves and products in order
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Relationships play an important role in everyday life. You or I may define a relationship with a person in many different ways depending on the context with whom the relationship is with‚ whether this be peers‚ colleagues or loved ones. So is it possible to have a relationship with someone who you don’t know‚ someone such as a therapist? It may be possible; however this is not the type of relationship that is being described within counselling therapy. The client-counsellor relationship is unlike
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Choreographers always have an intention for their dance works‚ but can a dance work be complete without the aural setting to communicate the dance intention? The most common aural setting is music; when the choreographer chooses the accompaniment. Besides music there is found sounds like the traffic a busy Monday morning‚ the sound of a bouncing ball or silence‚ the traffic here would become the choreographers chosen accompaniment to communicate the dance intention. Revelations by Alvin Ailey‚
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