"All my life Ive wanted to do something big... something bigger and better than all the other jokers" Burt Munro The World’s Fastest Indian is the stunning new film from NZ director Roger Donaldson. Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro... the Southland motorcycle legend who rode his modified classic bike into the history books‚ against all odds. After a lifetime spent perfecting his Indian Scout motorcycle‚ Burt set a new land speed record in 1967 at the Bonneville Salt Flats‚ Utah at almost 185mph
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The Lumber Room The text under analysis is written by an outstanding British novelist and short story writer Hector Munro. Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer‚ whose witty stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The author’s style of writing is satirical in a humorous way. He uses a witty tone to mimic characters in order to subtly criticize them. The criticism is done in a subtle way that is humorous. The excerpt is homogeneous. The story is narrated in the 3rd person
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haven’t even met. So that’s my first puzzle: why did Munro give this story that title? What game is she playing with that structure and our expectations? It’s surely not just a ha-ha-gotcha ploy. The second puzzle is this: why are so many of the people in the story pretending to occupy roles they don’t? First‚ we have the Peebles‚ who have recently moved to the country but who‚ according to our narrator‚ will always be city people. We have Alice Kelling‚ a woman who is chasing her fiancé around the
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Megan McCave Dr. White Children’s Literature May 30th‚ 2013 The Examination of Victorian Education in “Alice in Wonderland” And “Through the Looking-Glass” Throughout the Alice books Louis Carroll conveys a feeling of amusement mixed with disdain for Victorian educations that emphasize such subjects as Greek and Latin‚ refinement of character‚ and that concentrated on morals about obedience and safety. The illogical description of Victorian norms in Wonderland inspires curiosity and refuses
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story “The Interlopers” by H.H Munro exemplifies that individuals never know what life has in store‚ so it is important to let go of grudges and make peace before it’s too late. Primarily‚ life goes up and down‚ and you will never know what the future holds. For instance‚ in the beginning of the story the narrator reveals that Ulrich Von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym have bad blood‚ “If there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym”(Munro 34).However‚ later on because
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the 1930’s the time when this story takes place‚ men are usually the ones working for the money‚ and performing all the hard labor‚ while women are supposed to do all the house work‚ and behave in a polite manner. In the story "Boys and girls" by Alice Munro the protagonist struggles with societies ideas of how a girl should be. This story is about a girl who prefers helping her father with chores on the field as opposed to helping her mother in the kitchen. As the story progresses her mentality changes
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Hector Hugh Munro was born in Akyab‚ Burma on December 18‚ 1870. Hector’s father was Inspector-General of the Burma Police. The youngest of three children‚ Hector spent most of his early childhood at Broadgate Villa‚ in Pilton village near Barnstaple‚ North Devon. Their father had left the children there in the care of his two sisters and mother before leaving for India. Charles‚ Ethel and Hector grew up in a house populated by three adults‚ their aunts Charlotte (Tom) and Augusta‚ and their grandmother
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TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PHIL 241: Theoretical Ethics FALL 2012 Alice Guillen 12-06-2012 Final Examination [Fall 2012] 1. “There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all in the world‚ or even out of it‚ which can be regarded as good without qualification‚ except a good will.” [AK393] What is the argument that Kant introduces with these words? Comment on the suggestion made in the content of the argument that neither prudence nor utility can comprise a good without qualification
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Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch by Alice Fulton You sway like a crane to the tunes of tossed stones. I am what you made to live in from what you had: hair matted as kelp‚ bad schools. Oh‚ you will never know me. I wave and you go on playing in the clouds boys clap from erasers. I am the pebble you tossed on the chalked space and war- danced toward‚ one-leg two-leg‚ arms treading air. In this‚ your future‚ waves rechristen the sea after its tiny jeweled lives that hiss “Us Us”
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needed. The house and nursery replaced the mom and dad. Peter and Wendy become disrespectful towards their parents. Along with the personality changes of the children‚ the nursery scenes change with them. The nursery used to be fantasies‚ such as Alice in Wonderland‚ Aladdin‚ or the land of Oz. After the kids’ behaviour changes‚ the scenes in the nursery change to a hot burning sun in Africa were lions are feasting by a water hole. Since the parents didn’t have anymore options‚ they decide to call
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