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    is a collection of characteristics that molds the way people live their lives. In the article “The Marks of Maturity” by Tim Elmore‚ Tim addresses what he considers to be the marks of maturity. Tim breaks down maturity into three main characteristics. A mature person is developed “intellectually‚ emotionally and spiritually.” (Elmore). The list of characteristics that Tim created covers most of the fundamental traits that define a mature person. There are many deeper and more detailed characteristics

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    Karla Lopez   Block 4   March 5‚ 2013    Tim Burton Stylistic Techniques                       Tim burton is a famous director who earned an Oscar nomination for best animated  feature. Burton lived with grandmother as a teennager he spent his days drawing and dreaming  and watching old monster movies. He liked monsters because he felt connected with them since  Edward also felt like an outsider. Tim Burton became a filmmaker at the age of 26‚ when he  made a short film for Disney. This is impor

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    Tim Burton’s use of Sound and Lighting What would a movie feel like without different light and sounds? There would be no mood to the story of the movie. Tim Burton uses different sounds/music and lighting to emphasize a different mood. The change of lighting can change the emotions of a movie. Tim Burton changes the lighting to gives you a different mood about the scene. In Edward Scissorhands when Peg went in the castle and saw Edward there was low key lighting. He wanted the audience to feel

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    The Things They Carried: Catharsis and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder “Men killed‚ and died‚ because they were embarrassed not to” (O’Brien 20). Tim O’Brien is the author of The Things They Carried‚ a fictional memoir written from the perspective of the narrator‚ whose name is also Tim O’Brien. This fictional O’Brien’s experiences cover many themes‚ most notably those of fear‚ guilt and humiliation. In this novel‚ O’Brien uses a distinct blend of fact and fiction as an outlet for his actual experiences

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    Tim Burton is one the most influential and perhaps oddest individuals in the film industry today. Having not only directed about a hundred films‚ he’s also produced‚ written‚ and animated others‚ while making his own art! Of course‚ Burton’s diehard fans will recognize his work‚ but there is a wide audience that hasn’t even heard of Burton’s films and certainly hasn’t heard of his background. Who exactly is Tim Burton and how has he changed the industry of film with his unique sense of style? How

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    The main business activity of Tim Hortons is to sell as much of their product as possible‚ and continuously innovate new products in order to sustain organic growth in the company as well as attract and retain customers. THI has two main operating strategies from which they generate revenues; company owned restaurants and franchising restaurants. The majority of the revenue generated comes from franchising however; in 2012 99.5% of restaurants were franchised while only 22 locations were company

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    Effects of War Tim O’Brein is an author who often writes about war themed stories. He tries to make people feel and think about war‚ he himself was a war veteran. He served two years in the Vietnam War‚ the same war the Private First Class Paul Berlin is fighting in in the story. He makes points about how war can change a person‚ how war can scar your memories‚ and about how it can effect everybody. In the story he does not specify that war changes a person but you can tell there are behavioral

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    patriotism and heroism there are often feelings of shame and loneliness. In The Things They Carried it is clear that most of the soldiers in the war do not come back with a sense of pride or honor. Most come back wishing they had never gone at all. Tim O’Brien reveals that because Vietnam precipitated such traumatic experiences‚ his storytelling is a great way to cope with his shame and loneliness‚ emphasizing that the war experience is not one of patriotism and heroism‚ but one of loneliness and

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    Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed

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    amazing turnaround in the mid-nineties. For many years‚ the world perceived Jobs and Apple as integrally linked. As a result‚ consumers and investors now question Apple’s future and worry that the company cannot survive without Jobs. Since Jobs’ passing‚ Tim Cook has been tasked to continue Apple’s success. While Apple could potentially suffer long-term consequences from this switch‚ the more probable alternative is that the company will prosper because Cook is stronger leader than Jobs and can elevate

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