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    Alongside film trailers‚ posters are the paramount method through which film makers ensure their target audience become aware of their product. This media text is imbued with greater intention than merely to inform; its aim is to persuade using a number of techniques. Is it ethical to produce posters that contain images that are not to be found in the film? The poster of Tsotsi is a collage of scenes‚ few taken from the film. A furore arose over Sweeney Todd when some members of the audience walked

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    A Christmas Carol was also written by Charles Dickens in 1843. This novel is about Ebenezer Scrooge‚ a cold-hearted creditor‚ which continues his greedy ways on Christmas Eve. He rejects a Christmas dinner invitation‚ from his nephew fred he yells at charity workers; and he overworks his employed bob . At night‚ Scrooge’s former partner Jacob marley ‚ dead for a long time‚ visits him in the form of a ghost. Marley’s spirit has been wandering since he died as punishment for being stingy and greedy

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    around Britain. While Dickens was a young man‚ he suffered from poverty along with his mother and father. His father was imprisoned for dept and Charles wanted to become a social reformer. Dickens used these problems as themes for his book ‘A Christmas Carol’. These themes involve poverty‚ pollution and a changing of ways. Dickens used Scrooge‚ the main character in the book at first to show how current society was at the time and then at the end‚ after the visits from the three ghosts‚ how the society

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    Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol: A True Gentleman According to Dictionary.com‚ a gentleman is a civilized‚ educated‚ sensitive‚ or well-mannered man. However‚ by Victorian definition‚ a gentleman was‚ perhaps most importantly‚ a rich man. “Charles Dickens…was an author of relatively humble origins who desired passionately to be recognized as a gentleman‚ and insisted‚ in consequence‚ upon the essential dignity of his occupation” (Victorian Web). In Great Expectations he portrays Pip‚ a

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    Charles Dickens book A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite books that I always read around Christmas. The main character of this book is Ebenezer Scrooge. He is a very mean old man who doesn’t like Christmas. On Christmas Eve‚ Mr. Scrooge is visited by a ghost named Jacob Marley who happens to be his old partner. Because Jacob Marley was also very mean when he died his spirit was left to wonder the earth weighted down by heavy chains. Marley wants to save Scrooge from ending up like him so Marley

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    How does dickens use language to create the character of Nancy and its effect on the reader’s interpretations of her? Charles Dickens uses language to create the character of Nancy‚ as he displays her to be able to comprehend and is capable of both good and evil‚ being a criminal on the streets and a caring mother towards Oliver. At the beginning of the novel when Nancy was first described Dickens refers to her in a negative light. His reference to her “free and agreeable . . . manners” indicates

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    people in many different ways.He influenced many people by decorating for Christmas and inspired other authors to create different versions of his stories for example A Christmas Carol. This gives people a different perspective on A Christmas Carol. In the book A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens wrote about decorating for Christmas. This influenced people to start decorating their homes for Christmas and to get in the Christmas spirit. According to the website made by Charles Dickens daughter Mamie

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    Page 1 Snow fell lightly on the cold ground outside as Robbie eagerly tore open his first Christmas present. When he saw the content in the box‚ his face fell in disappointment. “Socks! I didn’t want clothes! I wanted toys for Christmas!” Page 2--- Do you think when giving the kid socks the parents would really be shocked that the kid was disappointed? Maybe adjust the story line a bit here to be realistic. The story reads better and would be more sincere if this was almost a planned exchange between

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    “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Christmas Carol” “ I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link‚ and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will and of my own free will I wore it” (Dickens 10). This statement made by Marley from “A Christmas Carol” not only embodies that of the story it hails from‚ but also another prominent Christmas classic titled “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Additionally both stories share similarities that only a senseless man could miss. But behind the mutual correlation

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    How the Grinch Stole Christmas‚ written by Dr. Seuss and the cheerless‚ misanthrope‚ miser‚ Scrooge‚ from The Christmas Carol‚ written by Charles Dickens. Both bad‚ beastly‚ brutal‚ and barbarous acting. Each character starts of bad‚ then turns good in the end‚ but the big question is which character is meaner? Out of both the Grinch and Scrooge’s reactions to Christmas; the Grinch is the meanest meanie of them all. The Grinch is meaner because he tries to stop Christmas from coming‚ lied to a

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