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    Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope‚ released in 1977‚ was mainly about a young man named Luke Skywalker that was from Tatooine‚ in other words in a desert planet‚ and meets Obi Wan that begins to train Luke Skywalker in a mission in rescuing Princess Leia from Darth Vader. While attempting to carry on this mission‚ Luke meets allies‚ Han Solo and two robots‚ and enemies. In the end‚ Luke rescues Leia and destroys the death star‚ proving that the Force was in him. This movie relates/compares to a Hero’s

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    The first stages known as the ordinary world‚ which introduces the hero and the situation to the audience‚ it also talks about the hero background and how the hero is against a background of environment and his personal history. Some kind of forces in the hero’s life is pulling in different directions and causing stress. In the Iron Fist‚ a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics which created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane during a pop culture trend in the early

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    Hero’s Journey (12 Stages) The Ordinary World- (The hero’s normal world before the story begins.) In the beginning of the movie you see shrek doing his daily behaviors‚ brushing his teeth with slug juice‚ eating eyeballs as food and setting a fire by burping on a matchstick. Shrek’s ordinary world would be his swamp‚ where he lives peacefully without any worries. Shrek has sign saying “stay out” which indicates he likes being alone. The Call to Adventure- (The hero is presented with a challenge

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    are living in their ordinary world‚ which fits the archetypal pattern. Near the beginning of the story the hero must begin his or her adventure (Rice). This can be referred to as the hero crossing the first threshold (Rice). The character leaves his or her world and enters a new world (Rice). The first threshold in “The Epic of Gilgamesh” is when Gilgamesh decides to fight Humbaba. It is at this point that he sets out on his journey to make himself more liked by

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    between Aditi’s attractive young cousin Ayesha Verma (Neha Dubey) and Indian-born Australian student Rahul Chadha (Randeep Hooda) o plays out the conflict between traditional Punjabi custom and the emerging capitalist society in contemporary India‚ crossing boudaries of class‚ continent and morality o interweave the ancient and the modern‚ the old-fashioned and the irreverent‚ the innocent and the sexual in today’s globalized Delhi ----- the mise-en-scene Setting Location: o film plays

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    road traffic safety

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    transportation safety‚ including comprehensive checks on drivers‚ vehicles and safety processes.[2] The basic strategy of a Safe System approach is to ensure that in the event of a crash‚ the impact energies remain below the threshold likely to produce either death or serious injury. This threshold will vary from crash scenario to crash scenario‚ depending upon the level of protection offered to the road users involved. For example‚ the chances of survival for an unprotected pedestrian hit by a vehicle diminish

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    Dramatic Structure in Film Chapter 3: Fictional and Dramatic Elements The Elements of a Good Story Unified Plot (storyline) Carefully selected and arranged to make relationship to theme clear Single thread of continuous action (casual relationship) With sub-plots and complexities that make the otherwise simple story interesting Rejection of chance‚ coincidental or miraculous happenings. Plot Exceptions (episodic plots) e.g..:Monte Python and the Holy Grail‚ Four Weddings and a Funeral

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    Elemental Geosystems‚ 5e (Christopherson) Chapter 10 Weathering‚ Karst Landscapes‚ and Mass Movement 1) The science that specifically studies the origin‚ evolution‚ form‚ and spatial distribution of landforms is A) geology. B) geography. C) geomorphology. D) environmental chemistry. Answer: C 2) All processes that cause the wearing away or rearrangement of landforms are included in the term A) mass movement.

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    actions into each other. Chicken Wings will open in the center of the stage at a dinner table. The two men share their conversation. The father remains seated and eating while the son who is frustrated by his father‚ gets up‚ walks around the table‚ crossing from Stage Left to Stage Right‚ to the door and glances back before his exit from the stage area. During this movement by the son‚ a narrator will enter from upstage. As the son exits‚ the narrator moves down stage to center stage to explain in a

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    Tea Industry

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    SWOT Analysis Strength 1. Strong back end integration‚ it plants as well as process the tea 2. Very large installed capacity of tea factory of 1.5 million kg/annum 3. Operates its own wholesale outlets at Indore‚ Jaipur‚ Kanpur‚ Allahabad 4. Have a diversified portfolio of investments in various industries 5. Estates located in quality tea producing belts in Jorhat district in Assam Weakness 1. No technology has been imported from abroad and the company thus lacks operational efficiencies

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