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    The Book Thief is an encouraging tale of a fictional girl named Liesel. Liesel was raised during a time of great pain and suffering: Nazi Germany. Many Jews‚ Gypsies‚ mentally and physically disabled‚ and others were killed over a ten year timespan. Scope magazine adapted the book and the movie to create a play. One of the characters‚ named Death‚ states‚ “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty‚ and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” True‚ we’re

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    many people like The Walking Dead? Audiences these days are fascinated with the idea of how life would be if something on an apocalyptic scale would occur. Some believe that there will be some kind of doomsday occurrence that will radically change the world as we know it. A few television producers have successfully taken the ideas of these people and made them into entertaining series that keep audiences glued to their TVs wanting more. One of these would be “The Walking Dead”‚ a TV series about

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    Movies and book are never the exact same. Sometimes the book have boring or imposable parts to reenact in it. In those scenes they either skip or adjust to fit the movie and make it better‚ but that is not always a good thing. Some people think that the book is better than the movie‚ others think that the movie is better than the book. Sometimes people say you should read the book before you see the movie‚ because the movie is make from the book. Books and movies are different and even if they are

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    ‘The North London Book of the Dead’ is a comic story about the vital and dead sides of London written by Will Self in 1991. The story begins with the death of the narrator’s mother‚ after that he experiences depression and hallucinations of her. Suddenly‚ he see his dead mother alive. The uncanniness of this story lies in the nature of the term ”uncanny”. There are great number of definitions exist that are used for explaining the word. The term came from German ‘Unheimlich’‚ the antonym to Heimlich

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    Dead Mens Path” In the story‚ Dead Mens Path‚ the beliefs between modern thinking and religious beliefs clash together between a transfer teacher and a native priest. Different points of views come to pass and while the two men believe that one is right and one is wrong‚ is actually false. Modern thinking and religious beliefs both have their own time and place‚ and while it may seem strange‚ both can be right. Michael Obi‚ the transfer teacher‚ argues that the only way people should live their

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    A loose adaptation of “I am Legend” written by Richard Matheson‚ The Omega Man is a film that appeals to the social conscience of its viewer. Charlton Heston plays Army Colonel Robert Neville‚ a scientist‚ living in post-World War III Los Angeles. Neville finds himself the last man on earth after taking a experimental vaccine for the disease that wiped out humanity a few years before. Those who are left are infected and have bound together as “The Family”‚ inspired by the real life events of Charles

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    Frankenstein book was a little long to read and not very interesting to me. The pictures were good to have to somewhat visualize what was going on‚ but otherwise the book was a waste of time to me. I could never really get into it very much making it difficult for me to read it without getting bored of it. We also just finished the movie today with Carrie Fisher which was weird not seeing her shooting a blaster at storm troopers‚ but that is beside the point. It did not follow the book that we read

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    Even fine arts can be added to the list. trying to reflect upon this subject everyone views it from its own angle. So there are multiple explanations of different problems arising in school as a social cell. What i’m driving at is that Dead Poets Society movie may be interpreted in various ways‚ and i’d like to focus my attention on the themes or ideas of the film. Refering to John Dewey’s words i should start with taking Welton Academy students’ side and see the events from their point of view

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    alike. In the movie Hercules compared to the myth Hercules there are many differences. In the book‚ Apollo and Hercules have a quarrel about Hercules taking the oracle for himself and Apollo would not let that happen‚ however; this was not mentioned in the book. Within the book‚ Hercules got so angry at the sun for being too hot‚ that he shot the sun with an arrow‚ yet; it was failed to be reffered to in the movie. In the movie‚ Hercules was born atop Mt. Olympus‚ although; in the book‚ it mentions

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    whether or not the film adaptation of Holes was good Holes is a book by Louis Sachar that was first published in 1998. The film adaptation of this novel‚ also titled Holes‚ was released in 2003. These two literary works have many similarities and differences that can be easily compared‚ or contrasted. The film adaptation‚ directed by Andrew Davis‚ successfully represented the original novel by Sachar. Holes is the story of a young man by the name of Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is convicted of a crime

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