second-highest-grossing film in the US and Canada and is the third-highest-grossing in the world as of 2012. Among the many awards the film received‚ it gained ten Academy Award nominations‚ winning six; the nominations included Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness and Best Picture. The film is often ranked among the best films of all time. Lucas has re-released the film on several occasions‚ sometimes with significant changes; the most notable versions are the 1997 Special Edition‚ the 2004 DVD release
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Goodall utilizes scientific facts about the endangered American burying beetle to create a rhetoric atmosphere in an attempt to persuade readers that invertebrates are significant factors when keeping the ecosystem balanced in her argumentative essay‚ “Hope for Animals and Their World.” Jane Goodall argues that people should voluntarily resolve the situation of extinction because invertebrates‚ specifically
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about the Holocaust‚ which are Maus‚ Diary of Anne Frank‚ and a book we got to pick which I chose Call Me Hope. During these 3 books I got to learn different situations people went through during the holocaust time. After reading about all of this is made me realize how thankful I am not be living during War World time‚ or any type of battles. Call Me Hope was a book about a girl named Hope Marie Elliott. She was an 11 year old girl who was verbally abused by her mother. Every time her mom would
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there were many themes that were shown throughout the movie. The themes that I was able to pull out and see were themes of Faith‚ Hope/ Loss of Hope‚ and Religion. I feel like in this film these themes all go hand in hand and brought a biblical feel when you looked into some of the roles. In Children of Men‚ we see the results of a world stripped completely of hope. The film starts out with Theo sitting in a coffee shop watching on the news about the death of the 18-year-old who was the youngest
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exhibited throughout novel. One theme displayed by wiesel is hope. This is shown by Ellie himself‚ellie always had hope that he might get saved‚ which contibuted to his survival. Because many characters lost hope of survival‚ they were either put to death or commited suicide. Showing this in the novel is the character Akiba Drumer. Their loss of hope was a contribution to their demise. As you can see as people lost hope in these tough conditions‚ they lost their will to live as well.
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Everyday many people around the globe struggle with different difficulties. Many of these people overcome their difficulties by having hope and faith in themselves. Although‚ there is one reason that has always kept people making it through hard times‚ and that is love. Love is the biggest hope in a persons life. Remember how people were once separated just because of the color of the skin? This was not too long ago. About 150 years ago in America and Africa‚ people traded with slaves. And these
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It shows hope in several of characters in the film. For example Red was always denied parole when he finally open up in his parole hearing and was finally approved for parole. Once he left prison he realize that prison was all he know and couldn’t adapt‚ but Andy left Red hope in a letter. Tommy Williams was in and out of jails since he was 13‚ there wasn’t much hope to get an education and make a better life for him‚ his wife‚ and his
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X once said‚ “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat‚ every heartbreak‚ every loss‚ contains its own seed‚ its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” In the face of overwhelming adversity‚ what gives me the cause to hope? Ever since I was little I have been competitive in all different levels and types of sports‚ many of which I have stared right into the face of adversity. Injuries‚ family problems‚ and being strewn out between 400 miles of highway between Tennessee
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Oedipus at Colonus was written by the great and renowned Greek playwright Sophocles at around 404 B.C. or so. In the play‚ considered to be one of the best Greek dramas ever written‚ Sophocles uses the now broken down and old Oedipus as a statement of hope for man. As Oedipus was royalty and honor before his exile from his kingdom of Thebes he is brought down to a poor‚ blind old man who wonders‚ "Who will receive the wandering Oedipus today?" (Sophocles 283) most of the time of his life that is now
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realities each decade had faced. The sense of false hope suggests that the dream is out of reach‚ and it lives on in a whole different world. Gatsby‚ George and Lennie are motivated by their false hope. They believe that their dream can still come true. They are myopic of what can actually be achieved. They don’t know that they can’t enter the other world‚ one that is so different from them that they can’t cross. There isn’t a bridge between hope and reality. They don’t stay away from it to avoid
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