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    In the suspense movie‚ “Dans ton sommeil (In Their Sleep)”‚ Sarah and her husband moved to the country in a house when Sarah’s young son Loic dies. A year later‚ Sarah is still mourning the death of her son. A year later‚ Sarah lives alone in the house; and works long hours. One night at Haguenau Hospital‚ she is sent home at 2 AM‚ because for giving a patient too much medication. After leaving her job Sarah is pulled over by a police officer and warned that three houses in the area was burglarized

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    In "Great Expectations"‚ the virtuous/vixenish dichotomy is mainly explored through Estella‚ one of the main female characters in the novel‚ and also through Miss Havisham‚ who brought her up from the age of 3‚ and Biddy‚ a simple country girl. Estella begins the novel as "vixenish" character‚ brought up by Miss Havisham to be so. She is cold‚ cynical and manipulative‚ trained to grow up to break the hearts of men. She hurts Pip and crush his feelings continuously‚ and the audience picks up on these

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    Post-war Soldier and Civilian expectations of the British government British soldiers and civilians had high expectations of their government following World War 1‚ most of which did not eventuate. The soldiers needed understanding of their suffering and emotional pains of the war‚ while the British civilians felt that Germany’s reparations were highly important in the short-term. Employment was a significant issue to both groups‚ with the soldiers arriving home to no jobs whilst the civilians wanted

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    teacher says or do has a great impact on students’ lives as students depend on the teacher for guidance‚ for determining acceptable and social behaviour in the classroom and more importantly their learning and academic success. In addition‚ the role played by the teacher in fostering students learning causes them to exhibit certain attitudes which could have a long lasting negative or positive influence on students. Based on research it was surmised that high teacher expectation mean that the teacher

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    How was suspense created in three scenes in The Sixth Sense In M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 critically adored thriller/ drama ’The Sixth Sense’ there are many scenes where we can see that suspense and tension and been built up through; mise-en-scene‚ camera angles‚ editing and sound. I will be looking at three main scenes within the scene and discuss as well as evaluate how these elements are used to create and build tensions as well as the affects that this has on the audience and why these affects

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    Gangster Auteurs In order to be a great author‚ you have to be able to show your originality from the other creators. Here‚ in the cinema field‚ more specifically in the Gangster genre you have to be able to impress the viewers‚ you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear‚ excitation‚ violence and inhumanity

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    arrive in Canada Hurstwood’s feels guilty and return most of the stolen funds‚ but he realizes that he cannot return to Chicago. Hurstwood and Carrie get married‚ and the couple move to New York City. In New York‚ Hurstwood buys a smaller apartment at first‚ is able to provide Carrie with a satisfactory standard of living. The couple grow distant. Hurstwood soon discovers that his savings are running out and urges Carrie to save‚ which she finds embarrassing and offensive. Carrie turns to New York’s theatres

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    First Impression In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby experiences a major change in his identity all so that he could impress the love of his life. Gatsby‚ whose real name was James Gatz but changed it when he meets Dan Cody and begins to work with him‚ knows that he was born into a family that was not economically stable. As a teenager‚ he realizes that he wants to succeed in life and he has his mind set on the future and how he could have an impact on the world. Towards

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    amount of suspense a story contains. Therefore we harveys literary work is examined to evaluate how does he create suspense in “August Heat”.Horror stories are designed to make our pulse race or skin tingle. They often revolve around mayhem and nightmare with death evil and demonic subjects revolve around horror stories. The horror genre has its roots in folktales and traditional tales but it did not truly blossom until the 19 century . All good horror stories feature a great deal of suspense. Suspense

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    Introduction: • Topic sentence:There are so many reasons why "The landlady"and “"Lamb to the Slaughter"”create suspense.They play important roles in the stories one is a murder and another wants certain men.These roles create suspense and will tell the author what is going on in the story. Summary of both stories : In lamb to the slaughter Mary kills her husband‚Patrik‚because she wants to be with him because him and Mary are having a child.As Mary hits patrick with the lamb Mary tries to hide

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