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    Rhyming with Big Fish Little Fish Objective: Students will be able to recognize rhyming words and will be able to produce them. TEKS: English Language Arts and Reading‚ Kindergarten (b) Knowledge and skills. (2) Reading/Beginning Reading Skills/Phonological Awareness. Students display phonological awareness. Students are expected to: (C) orally generate rhymes in response to spoken words (e.g.‚ "What rhymes with hat?"); (D) distinguish orally presented rhyming pairs of words from non-rhyming

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    Analysis of Big Fish - 1

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    An Analysis of Big Fish (2003) Big Fish is a film of Tim Burton in 2003. It is a fantastic film focusing on the relationship between a father‚ Edward Bloom and his son‚ William Bloom. The main storyline is talking about the life of Edward. Edward tells his life to William as if his life is a fairy tales which is full of magical characters and experience. However‚ William thinks that his father is just keeping telling lies and always brags to him. William wants the truth of his father’s

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    Big Fish Essay Example

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    In the movie Big Fish‚ there were many creative elements used to portray the story. Being relatable in a story makes it easier understand. Many of the events that took place‚ may have been slightly fabricated‚ but are events that have happened to us. Meeting your love of your life‚ for example. It is said that “time stands still when you see your future spouse”‚ and honestly it does. Technically the earth does not stop moving‚ it is just a moment where nothing else matters but the one you see. Another

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    Big Fish The philosophical twist of mixing fact with fairy tale in story telling put a great spin on the plot. It gave the director the ability to make the impossible seem probable! The movie is about a very interesting father named Ed whom loves to tell facts with a little bit of flavor‚ as quoted in the movie. However we portray them as tall tales‚ but since he tells them with such a seriousness and attachment to his own life you want to believe them. However the son‚ will‚ does not enjoy

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    Big Fish Hero's Journey

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    the small town hero of Ashton; excelling in sports and academics. When a giant begins terrorizing the town‚ Edward volunteers to talk to him. During their conversation‚ Edward convinces the giant that they are both “too big” for the town of Ashton. The pair agree to travel to “the big city” in order for them to be in a place that better suits their ambitions. This moment changes Edward’s life forever because it is when he travels outside of Ashton that he begins his new life. STEP 2. Refusal of the

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    Big Fish Magical Realism

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    When the story holds influence of oral tradition‚ such as a tall tale‚ legend‚ or a story narrated by a charmed storyteller‚ it depicts magical realism. Edward Bloom‚ the father of the protagonist (William Bloom) of Tim Burton’s film Big Fish‚ is a storyteller that incorporates magical and whimsical pieces into his stories. Even though Bloom lengthens the truth‚ it is to a point of enjoyment to the reader. His charming personality and his addition of “flavor” to the story enables magical

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    The storyline of the film Bigger Than Life follows a schoolteacher and family man named Ed Avery. Ed has been suffering of severe pain and is hospitalized and diagnosed with a rare inflammation of the arteries. At this point Ed is told that he will die shortly and agrees to try out an experimental treatment that might save his life. The experimental treatment involves taking doses of hormone cortisone. The treatment works‚ and Ed retunes back home to his wife and kid. Though not all is good‚ Ed begins

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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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    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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    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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