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    don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own” (Michelle Obama). Through the conflicts that the characters in Life of Pi by Yann Martel and Big Fish by Tim burton experience‚ it is evident that hope should never be abandoned in order to persevere through life’s obstacles. These characters gain hope through the telling of stories‚ change of perceptions‚ and the importance of relationships. Storytelling

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    negative and positive concepts of belonging in reference to Peter Skrzynecki’s‚ Immigrant Chronicle and the 2004 American drama film‚ ‘Crash’ directed by Paul Haggis. Firstly we must consider the concept of belonging. What does it mean to belong? Belonging is defined as fitting into a particular environment. It refers to relationships and a sense of acceptance to individuals‚ groups‚ societies and our environment. A sense of both positive and negative concepts of belonging can be seen quite clearly in

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    Section B The two texts that will be analysed in this essay are an excerpt from the book‚ “Jonah and the Big Fish”‚ and a print advertisement from the Seattle Soap Company that advertises the company’s Whale Oil Soap. The two texts serve completely different purposes; the first text‚ or the story‚ aims to entertain readers by telling a fictional tale of a man who was swallowed by a fish. The second text aims to promote a specific product‚ to make sales and generate profit from advertisement and

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    The concept of belonging and acceptance is a major part of our modern society. Most stories and films represent belonging or alienation in one way or another. Strictly Ballroom‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann represents the concept of acceptance and rejection through the use of many film and language techniques. There are many concepts of belonging shown in the film Strictly Ballroom. This is shown through several film techniques like role of the characters‚ costumes‚ make-up‚ hair‚ music and camera angles

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    Over Fishing the World Big Fish Population Insert your Name Here SCI275 Axia College of University of Phoenix The overfishing of our world’s oceans is causing a depletion of some prize fish‚ such as tuna and swordfish‚ to the point that some scientists believe that 90% of these big fish populations have been fished out. Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography published a study in 2001 in which he asserts that overfishing is more destructive than toxic pollution or

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    Big Fish Games What is bigfishgames? (Time Taken: 40 minutes) Big Fish Games is a video game industry headquartered in Seattle‚ United States. Ex-RealNetworks‚ Inc. (Internet streaming media) executive Paul Thelen in 2002 founded this company with $10‚000. The Venture Capital fund in the year September‚ 2008 was $83M. In 2009‚ company extended its headquarters in Cork‚ Ireland. Churchill Downs Incorporated is the

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    The Big Fish is based on a genre‚ Southern Gothic‚ where freak nature comes in a role in story telling. The Big Fish have three most common elements in Southern Gothic. Those elements are imprisonment‚ freakiness‚ and supernatural. The father would tell a story to his son about his life. However‚ his son thinks his father is full of lies. It brings the conflict between reality and fiction. In Southern Gothic‚ it doesn’t matter because it combined reality and fiction into one story. Although‚ it

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    to the experience of belonging have been challenged and enriched as a result of your studies. In your response‚ you must make a detailed reference to your prescribe text The Simple Gift and ONE other related text of your own choosing. Belonging can be recognise as an examination of self and what it means to be human. We are somewhat applied to rules‚ conditions and limitations that cause discretion for one‚ that work to shape‚ or sometimes disguise our identity. Belonging is not a cognitive concept

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    The Comparison Between the Storytelling Style of the Book Big Fish‚ and the Film For the past few weeks‚ I have analyzed the storytelling style of the book and film Big Fish. The biggest difference I noticed was that I thought that the book focused more on the telling of Edwards inane stories‚ while the film was mostly centered around character development and relationships. I also think that while the book was very euphoric and felt like

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    Tim Burton’s Big Fish had elements of folktale‚ fairy tale‚ and legend: which creates a conflict between Edward and his son Will. Like any good parent‚ Edward Bloom tells his son bed time stories about past experiences from his life that intrigues his son. Even after Will’s childhood his dad continues to tell these stories throughout his life and eventually Will feels he doesn’t know any truth about his father until he is on his death bed. The conflict between Will and his father begins with one

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