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    Norman Rockwell and the American Dream Norman Rockwell is the most well-known American illustrator in history. His illustrations have become a reference to how life was from the 30s – 70s. Much of his art caught the average American in an everyday situation and made it come to life. When his art was first published‚ the people of that time would see America in her real moments. A barber playing his saxophone with his friends in the backroom of his shop‚ boys skipping school to go to

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    Sharks have always been an important part of Earth. Many cultures - beyond just the Chinese with their famous shark fin soup - consider them to be powerful symbols‚ deities‚ or sacred animals. They help keep the ecosystem in check. This‚ in turn‚ highly benefits the economy. It’s difficult to imagine a world without sharks - considering that sharks have existed for over 400 million years (What If There Were No Sharks?). This makes them approximately three million eight hundred years older than us

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    Did you know that vending machines are bigger killer than sharks? And that 10 people are killed by sharks worldwide every year? Yet we continue to kill 10 million sharks every year. Shark culling was implemented in WA in 2013 to protect swimmers‚ with great whites being targeted‚ although 50 species of sharks including great whites‚ are listed as vulnerable‚ endangered or critically endangered. The system isn’t cheap either with the government paying fisherman $610 000 for 107 days of the catch and

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    English oral - Shark Cullings Each year in Australia‚ the number of deaths from shark attacks ranges between zero to three deaths. To put this into perspective‚ more people around the world are killed as a result of falling coconuts or vending machines. Following a small rise in the number of shark attacks in Western Australia over the past two years‚ the Western Australian Government has legalised the culling of all sharks over three metres long caught on baited drum lines‚ in an attempt to

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    The Goblin shark isn’t like most sharks. Normally sharks have a short nose but unlike the goblin which has a flat and unusually long snout. It also has “thirty-five to fifty-three top teeth and thirty-one to sixty-two bottom teeth”. Its teeth are very sharp just like other sharks maybe even a bit sharper due to its hunting disadvantages. The Goblin shark also has very small fins which is a disadvantage. The Mitsukurina Owstoni doesn’t have blue colored skin nor white colored but instead has a pink

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    one generation of the animals (TEDxYouth). This is just one example on how sharks keep everything in balance. Another example is coral reefs which serve as a home to thousands of fish in the ocean such as the parrot fish. Parrot fish eat coral reefs and if they don’t have a predator to control their population size it could be detrimental to the coral reefs. The parrot fish would become overpopulated and all these fish would eat away the coral reefs. (TEDxYouth). The ocean’s ecosystems would collapse

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    gothic theme. The son‚ Norman Bates‚ is the perfect representation of the masculine gothic theme incorporating things such as a male being dominated by a woman and victimizing the heroine. The classic gothic theme of murder is also incorporated into the film. Norman Bates mother murders are heroin in a scene .that has gone down in cinema history as being one of the best horror scenes ever made. The whole movie has an underlying dark tone and also a mascline gothic theme. Norman Bates does what any good

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    Blacktip reef shark The blacktip reef shark‚ is a shark of tropical and warm seas. One of the most common sharks found in shallow water around coral reefs of Indo-Pacific and Caribbean waters. The water they swim in is usually 70-80 degrees . Blacktip reef sharks do not venture into tropical lakes and rivers far from the ocean. Like its name‚ the tips of the shark’s fins are black‚ with a white underside. Their skin is brownish in color on the top-half of their bodies. It has been recorded

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    Sharks are known for being fierce‚ hungry‚ man eating creatures that attack any human in their sight. This view of the shark is entirely not true. They are concentrated on killers when they an actual attack on a human is rare.1 Sharks are located in all parts of the globe. Sharks are like humans in a way‚ they come in all different colors‚ all species look different and are unique in their own different way.2 Sharks can range in size from nearly 5 inches‚ to a 45-foot long whale shark. All sharks

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    sound is also brought to light through the manipulation of voices. Like for example‚ after Marion has stolen the thousands of dollars and the guilt builds in her mind‚ the audience begins to hear the voices of other characters. The same goes for when Norman is exposed to being a psychopathic killer and hearing the voice of his mother. These voices symbolize the mental breaks when guilt and evil have affected the mind. Tying into the element of diegetic sound‚ the second major element that expresses

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