view of an anti-hero‚ our main character‚ Alex. He is a 16 year old criminal who is involved in violence‚ rape murder and robbery throughout the book. After reading the whole book‚ I think the whole story can be divided into three parts. The first half of the book focuses on Alex’s criminal and ultra violence lifestyle‚ the second part focuses on Alex rehabilitation in prison‚ and the third based on Alex’s entry back into society. The novel opens with Alex and his gang‚ Pete‚ Georgie and Dim at a
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William Wallace Analyse the different ways in which the life‚ career and death of William Wallace has been presented over time. Support your response with source that you have studied in class. William Wallace is portrayed in many different ways‚ as both a good and bad man. There isn’t much historical evidence about William Wallace‚ so people just make up most of the information about him as you could tell such a great story. Some people believed that William Wallace was a heroic man‚ so wrote
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into a passive stupor of complacency‚ blind to the insidious growth of a rampant‚ violent youth culture. The protagonist of the story is Alex a fifteen-year-old boy who narrates in a teenage slang‚ which incorporates elements of Russian and Cockney English. Alex leads a small gang of teenage criminals through the streets‚ robbing and beating men and raping women. Alex and his friends spend the rest of their time at the Korova Milkbar that serves milk laced with drugs and a bar called the Duke of New
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Alex is the leader of his gang‚ has a privileged place in it to enjoy hurting‚ controlling every detail. Nothing escapes his approval in his misdeeds‚ and he and the rest enjoy being violent. Gets a unique pleasure to see blood‚ that is linked to music. Both make him feel an indescribable pleasure when he hits someone. Music is used against him in Ludovico treatment as aversion therapy of violence‚ and is associated to negative feeling that hurts and makes him feel physically ill (Classical conditioning:
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fake eyelash and an elaborate top hat‚ symbolically the mockery of a civilised society‚ and it is through this intimate close-up that the audience realises that the character of Alex is i n fact an evil one. This is further reinforced in his character’s name‚ “A-lex”‚ which literally means ‘without law’‚ showcasing that Alex is a character with a “law unto himself”. This choice of character’s name‚ coupled with the intimate close-up‚ demonstrates that he does not care for positive interactions within
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“Hank Williams is the father of contemporary country music (CMT).” Hank was an American singer and song writer who is regarded as the most important musician to country music of all time. Hank’s career was cut short by a sudden death at the early age of 29. Hank was born September 17‚ 1923 in Mount Olive‚ Butler County‚ Alabama. His birth name was Hiram Williams which was later changed to Hank when he began his career. This is where he met Rufus Payne‚ who they called Tee Tot. This black street
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John Williams Lesson Group R John Towner Williams was born on February 8th‚ 1932‚ in Flushing(Queens)‚ New York. John attended North Hollywood High School in Los Angeles and graduated in 1950. After High School‚ he attended college at UCLA. There he studied with Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In 1952‚ John Williams was drafted into the Air Force where he composed music and conducted the Air Force band. In 1955‚ John’s Air Force service ended and he moved to New York City to study
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Serena Williams Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26‚ 1981 in Saginaw‚ Michigan to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. Today‚ she is a renowned American professional tennis player. Serena was the youngest of her five sisters. When the children were young‚ the family relocated to the city of Compton in Los Angeles‚ where Serena started playing tennis at the age of five. Serena and her older sister Venus began daily two-hour practices with her father. Her father home-schooled Serena and
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John A. Moretta author of William Penn and the Quaker Legacy‚ writes William Penn’s life in a positive way and explains how his work and effort over the years made a change today in history for the United States of America. Being one of the most successful leaders in history‚ Moretta explains and supports Penn’s decisions over the years. Believer of good relations‚ Penn had successful treaties with Indian tribes and resulted the development of the Province of Pennsylvania that today is the state
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Anthony Burgess novella of the same name. The Orwellian‚ science-fiction film‚ catalogues the life and crimes of antagonist Alex Delarge; a young‚ violent and hedonistic delinquent with an enthusiastic appreciation for music‚ specifically German composer‚ Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex’s ‘droogs’‚ Dim‚ Georgie and Pete often accompany him on his escapades‚ delving into what Alex refers to as ‘lashings of ultra-violence’. The term ‘ultra-violence’‚ refers to exceptionally violent acts such as‚ assault
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