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    Week 1: Screening Australianness ‘Newsfront’ (1978) Newsfront (1978) is about the commencement of Australian television. It notions the changing times; the context before the television was a household object. The movie marks the beginning of mass social and political change that was intensified by World War II. With countless men at war‚ Australian women were able to enter and overtake male roles in the workforce. As a result‚ Feminism was strengthening. Along with the Women’s movement into

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    Scene 1 grabs the attention of both the higher and lower classes of audience with the use of poetry for the higher classes and the comical influences would draw the lower classes into the play. Modern film adaptations of "Romeo and Juliet" - such as Baz Luhrmann’s version - appeal to modern audiences because of special effects‚ lighting and sound. Shakespeare on the other hand used only the language he wrote down and the space on the stage in front of him to create dramatic tension and hold the audience’s

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    2011 H I G H E R S C H O O L C E R T I F I C AT E E X A M I N AT I O N English (ESL) Paper 2 — Modules Total marks – 40 Section I General Instructions • Reading time – 5 minutes • Working time – 1 hour • Write using black or blue pen Black pen is preferred Pages 2–3 20 marks • Attempt either Question 1 or Question 2 • Allow about 30 minutes for this section S ection II Pages 4–5 20 marks • Attempt either Question 3 or Question 4 • Allow about 30 minutes for this

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    passion has been prototyped countless times on the silver screen‚ as it is the greatest love story ever told. The most well-known movie versions of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo And Juliet are Franco Zeffirelli’s (1968) Romeo and Juliet ‚ and Baz Luhrmann’s (1996) Romeo + Juliet. Both versions captured the main essence of the original play with Zefferelli’s staying true to its source‚ while Luhrmann’s takes a more modern‚

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    Analogy Examples Understanding the meaning of an analogy is key to the success of the analogy in communication. Some analogies will be understood by most people that speak the same language. Within small social groups of people‚ there are often shared analogies that bind the group together. Other analogies are only understood by people living in a certain region or country. Ads by Google Class 1 to Class 12 Lessons‚ Animations‚ Videos & more… Math‚ EVS‚ Science‚ English‚ SST… www.MeritNation

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    Romeo and Juliet both live in Verona. They’re from feuding families. Romeo is from the family Montague and Juliet from the Capulets. Romeo is in love with a girl named Rosaline. He wants to show his love for her but Rosaline has sworn off love. Juliet’s parents want her to marry Paris. Romeo is accidentally invited to the Capulet’s party. Romeo and his friends crash the party and that is where he meets Juliet. They instantly fall in love. Juliet’s cousin Tybalt sees Romeo there and is angry. The

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    Moulin Rouge(2001) is an Oscar winning master piece from director Baz Luhrmann. It followed the success and recognition of Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Strictly Ballroom (1992). All three films were recognized for Luhrmann’s characteristic style. His films feature stylistic choices such as blue and red lighting‚ the use of rapid cuts and vibrant‚ period accurate costume. To analyze Luhrmann’s use of the four elements of the stylistic system‚ I will consider two specific scenes from the film‚ namely

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    A popular game for children to play is “telephone.” In “telephone‚” the children line up‚ and certain words are whispered into the first child’s ear. The first child whispers what they heard into the second child’s ear and this trend continues until the last child is reached. The last child then announces what he heard and‚ usually‚ he says something completely different from the original words. Stories change in much of the same manner the words in “telephone” do—as time passes‚ understanding

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    Stephen King once said‚ “the most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings”. This quote is a complex way of saying that people need to share how they feel even though most of the time it is hard to be able to say how you feel‚ whether out of shame or just not wanting to share. When F. Scott Fitzgerald could not say how he felt about his dwindling marriage he turned it into fiction by writing his wife‚ Zelda‚ into Daisy

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    In Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet‚ is a traditional adaptation of Shakespeare’s original Romeo and Juliet‚ with some variations. Baz Luhrmann directed the 1996 version‚ also known as the MTV Romeo † Juliet. This version is very modernized‚ but keeps the language intact with few changes. There are many differences between Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet and the Signet version of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo’s entire speech that begins “Alas that love‚ whose view is muffled still‚ Should

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