Although a community is a place where people come together and are able to draw strength and identity from each other‚ Alison Bechdel is not fortunate to have this kind of supportive and uplifting relationship with her family. Instead of wanting to delve further into learning about her parent’s early lives or stories of how they met‚ she wants to physically and mentally separate herself from them: “I had imagined my confession as an emancipation from my parents‚ but instead I was pulled back into
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HiSupporting Account For my practical production I choose to design and create 5 pages of a magazine including a front cover‚ an advert‚ a contents page‚ an article and a horoscope page. These 5 conventions formed to make part of a magazine that would be used to complete my practical production. This task intrigued me as I have a genuine interest in reading magazines myself‚ and the idea of creating and editing my own appealed to me more. I decided to pursue this task by myself as this shows originality
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Harry Potter films are based on a series of books and this film is the last in the series of eight written by Joanne Rowling‚ who writes under the pen names J.K. Rowling. An epic saga of childhood temptation‚ danger‚ and adventure‚ the Harry Potter series has been seventeen years in the making. This film’s unique selling point is that well-known story coming to an end. It is so well known that the title on the poster itself makes people want to go and see it‚ the audience recognition is so strong
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The Sailor’s Delight was a dreary‚ dismal and seedy bar on the edge of downtown Galveston and close to The Strand‚ a collection of small tourist shops‚ good and bad restaurants‚ and shops for Aunt Milly and Uncle Bob. Close to Broadway are several old and historic wooden houses that are over priced and recently remodeled‚ and all are painted in pastel shades with chalk white trim. Filippo owned a rather large house on a comer‚ and it is unique for it has a couple of large trees‚ and they are the
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How is the movie appropriate for the audience and text? The movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby is appropriate for the audience and the text as it does not stray far from the original work‚ but also is entertaining and easy to follow. Modern actors and music are used in order to make the audience more comfortable with watching the film as the viewers are already familiar with these people or the music. Furthermore‚ the fast pace and similar‚ but slightly modern‚ language are important as this
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"Doing Gender" At dinner: I was out at dinner one night and I took sometime to start observing the different ways men and women "do gender". As men and women came into the restaurant I began to notice how different we walk‚ the women seem to walk with their legs much closer together with a dainty tippy-toe gait the men however walk with the legs further apart and much more of a slow dragging stroll. Watching the different groups of both sexes eating there were many similarities‚ the women have
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This year’s annual hunger games are full of unique skills and talents from the tributes but which talent will determine the victor of the 74th hunger games? Following the recent training scores‚ it is clear that this year’s hunger games will be spectacular. Skills such as archery‚ spears throwing‚ knives and agricultural knowledge will be present this hunger games. Inside the capitols training center there are several training stations where tributes have been given the opportunity to learn and
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After watching Hotel Rwanda‚ I had many emotions including confusion‚ frustration and gratitude. I was initially unfamiliar with tribal labels‚ such as Hutu of Tutsi. ‘Tribal violence’ is not discussed frequently on the western part of the globe. I was incredibly frustrated by the non-stop nagging of the supposedly officials. The officials took advantage of their power and chose to ignore the genocide. Their ignorance made them responsible for the thousands of innocent people horrendously killed
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‘Mirror’ By Sylvia Plath – Textual Analysis ‘Mirror’ is one of many works by the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ which was written within the last few months before her death‚ along with a number of other poems. One of the greatest qualities of her poems was its versatile nature. Her poems were never restricted to one interpretation. ‘Mirror’ is one such poem‚ where each reader is free to interpret her art differently. The speaker is not Sylvia Plath‚ but the mirror itself. As the first line of the
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presented are introductory passages to a larger excerpt that remains unpresented. Both passages use stylistic and rhetorical devices to capture their opinions and easily convey their standings on space exploration. Passage 1 uses diction to produce and satisfy his opinion of space exploration
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