HOW TO TELL A STORY (A) From an instant to eternity‚ from the intracranial to the intergalactic‚ the life story of each and every character offers encyclopedic possibilities. The mark of a master is to select only a few moments but give us a lifetime. —Robert McKee1 Stories are all around us. Stories move us‚ make us feel alive‚ inspire us to be more than we would be otherwise. As famed screenwriting coach and author of the screenwriting bible‚ Story‚ McKee says: “Story is not only our
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About eight decades ago‚ the most cruel and infamous prison in United States history was officially opened‚ Alcatraz. It was built on a deserted island 2.4 kilometers from San Francisco with cold‚ shark-infested waters in between. The building itself consisted of 336 jail cells housing approximately 200 to 350 prisoners at once‚ and had a cafeteria and recreation yard. The guards treated the convicts horribly‚ making their experience far worse than expected. Their overall goal was to isolate the
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Introduction In this personal project I am going to described information about "Did anybody ever escape Alcatraz?" Here‚ I included three subtopics to answer the question: - Military Prison - Alcatraz Most Notorious Criminals - Average prisoners stay in Alcatraz Alcatraz was a jail were the most dangerous prisoners lived‚ located in San Francisco‚ composed of little buildings inside the place‚ and with capacity of 450 prisoners. This place is known for the famous security system they used. At the
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Jim Watanabe looked around his new office. He couldn’t believe that he was the assistant director of information technology at Petrie’s Electronics‚ his favorite consumer electronics retail store. He always bought his new DVDs and video games for his Xbox 360 at Petrie’s. In fact‚ he had bought his Blu-ray player and his Xbox 360 at Petrie’s‚ along with his surround sound system and his 40" flat-screen HD LED TV. And now he worked there too. The employee discount was a nice perk1 of his new job‚
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What is a Story? * a narrative‚ either true or fictitious‚ in prose or verse‚ designed to interest‚ amuse‚ or instruct the hearer or reader; a tale. * a fictitious tale‚ shorter and less elaborate than a novel. * a narration of an incident or a series of events or an example of these that is or may be narrated‚ as an anecdote‚ joke‚ etc. * Therefore‚ narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly‚ and more usually‚ something told or recounted
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Natasha Jean Cabuco Ms. Anne Rudholm 23 May 2013 8D What is so Different about Them? They are Both Love Story! “I love Twilight! Oh and yeah‚ I hate Vampire Diaries lovers! So GO TWILIGHT! I love you Edward and Jacob!” “Vampire Diaries is so much better than Twilight. The girls and guys are so much not all pale ugly people.” These two quotes were from the comments in a blog about Twilight and Vampire Diaries. Both are from different fans of the movies and they
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS IGCSE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 0486 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Signalman Charles Dickens 2. The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman 3. How It Happened Arthur Conan Doyle
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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How does Dickenson explore the concept of belonging in the poem ‘A Narrow Fellow in the Grass’? Emily Dickenson’s poem “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” explores the concept of belonging through her effective use of poetic techniques. The use of these techniques intrigues audiences to attempt to understand what the poem is about. It is essentially about A speaker comes across a snake in the grass‚ literally. This basically isn’t much but Dickinson examines how a daily occurrence like this might be
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Escape from the Zombie Apocalypse Have you ever felt that your days has come and that it time for you to give up on your life and people that truly mean the world for you? An intense feeling that you wish you will never experience again. I have always considered myself as a brave and courageous individual. On May 5th‚ as I woke up from a wonderful sleep‚ I found that my house has been invaded by monstrous creature know as Zombies. They were over the fence of my backyard and I still needed to gather
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