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    Some Like It Hot Analysis

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    movie and what is bound to happen next. In this narrative‚ jazz singers Jerry and Joe (Jack Lemmon) and (Tony Curtis) witness the execution done by ‘spats’. They‚ however‚ decide to run away to Miami while dressed like women‚ and they call themselves Daphne and Josephine. At Miami‚ Joe plays as a millionaire Cruise Captain‚ hitting on Marilyn Munroe (Sugar). One night Joe tries to use Jerry to dance with Osgood Fielding and him and taking advantage of this chance to bring Sugar to Osgood’s ship Claiming

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    that he cannot spend a moment alone; rather he is getting too much attention from people that wish to use him for the money that his father makes. Both the movies focus on romances that are created with the lady’s knowledge about the man’s money. Daphne‚ though not a biological woman‚ is told directly from Osgood that he is very rich and willing to date and marry her‚ as long as his mother approves. Joe masquerades as the son of a millionaire to fool Sugar‚ who is pretending to be a debutante to

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    introduced to Daphne‚ and revising the scenario that followed on from last week. Simulations begun soon after‚ which I played roles in both and enjoyed very much. During the initial simulation I played Maxine‚ an elderly member of the community. At first I was unsure of how to portray Maxine particularly in relation to the concerns of the youth. I found it to be positively challenging to respond to the heated conversation that occurred between Daphne and Jane. I sided with Daphne at first when

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    Apollo and Dephne

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    Gianlorenzo Bernini "Apollo and Daphne" The statue "Apollo and Daphne" was made by the artist Gianlorenzo Bernini‚ the statue was commisioned in 1622 by the Borghese family and was completed in 1625. The statue is roughly 243 cm tall and is located at the Galleria Borghese‚ Rome. Bernini was a Italian sculptor‚ architect and painter who lived from 1598 till 1680. At first he worked in the late Mannerist tradition but left this style and helped create a new style that had more emotional and psychological

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    Brownies essay

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    reason for wanting to beat up  troop 909. The extremely unpleasant environment imposed on the African American  girls‚ from their parents and peers‚ causes them to act out inappropriately or with  violence. The introverted‚ hesitant troop member‚ Daphne wrote a poem confronting her  feelings towards the effects of racism stating‚ “You are my father‚ the veteran‚ When  you cry in the dark‚ it rains and rains and rains in my heart.” The significance of  Daphne’s poem was to symbolize the explicit effects of racism in a child’s life

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    In both stories the girls‚ Pomana and Daphne‚ have decided to shun away men and never to fall in love. Both Vertumnus and Apollo see these women from afar for their first meeting and instantly deeply fall in love. In both stories the ending revolves around one key aspect of transformation. In

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    accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. They find out through a high school experiment that they are not the biological children of the parents they grew up with. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother‚ while Daphne Vasquez‚ who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis‚ grew up with a single mother in a working class neighborhood. The two families moved in together.  The Vasquez’s moved into the Kennish’s guesthouse so they can all get to

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    noticed the amount of socialization was in TV back then. I will go over how the show and some of the commercials stereotype gender‚ social class‚ and race. In Scooby doo they make Fred the macho man and made Velma and Daphne them typical scared women who can’t defend them self. Daphne seems to follow Fred where ever he goes and it looks like she needs him wherever they go. She always seems to be the one that always gets captured because she is the weaker woman in the group. The creators gave her a

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    Amelie

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    Amelie Title of film: Amelie Genre: Foreign Films/ Drama/ Comedy Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Year: 2001 Actors in principal roles: Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)‚ Mathieu Kassovitz (Nino Quincampoix)‚ Claire Maurier (Suzanne) Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)‚ is a young woman‚ quite and shy she goes around hoping to pass un-noticed‚ yet she pay attention to all that goes on around her. A wide-eyed girl she looks at the world in a magical light‚ and from the beginning you find yourself submerged

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    Ezra Pound

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    with the tree-like state in which the nymph‚ Daphne‚ of Greek myth finds herself in order to escape Apollo. Pound begins the poem explaining how he was a “tree amid the wood” meaning a changed being amid a familiar yet under-perceived environment. He likens this form to the myth of Apollo who chases Daphne until she asks the god‚ Peneus‚ to change her into a tree. Even though she is transformed into a “laurel”‚ which happens to be the Greek word for Daphne‚ Apollo is still able to recognize her by the

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