In the opening scenes of the movie Star Wars by George Lucas Princess Leia‚ who is a leader of the Rebel Alliance‚ has stolen the plans for the Galactic Empire’s new weapon‚ The Death Star. Leia has to get the plans off the ship so she records a message to Obi Wan Kenobi‚ an old jedi knight in hiding‚ and loads them onto a droid named R2D2. She sends him and another droid‚ C3P0‚ off of the ship on an escape pod which lands on the planet Tattooine. This is the home planet of the protagonist Luke Skywalker
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Alexander Charles‚ what a nice name. I wonder if Mr.Charles was an English teacher? In his poem star-crossed‚ Charles talks about two skeletons discovered in Mantua Italy. These skeletons "linked in a lovers embrace" are the underlying theme throughout the poem. At the the beginning of the poem Charles links love to these 5000 year old lovers while at the end he links them to his age. However he incorporates a sense of bias in the poem. "I shall grow old" age is a something that some
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Unburdened by excessive length and convoluted storytelling‚ James Joyce’s The Dead is able to detail and explore simple and brief‚ though highly intimate‚ moments of visceral human emotion and engage deeply with an array of themes. In this sense‚ The Dead is driven far more by an investigation of characters’ motivations‚ emotions and reactions‚ and the continued development thereof‚ than it is by plot. Nevertheless‚ the story’s enduring success reflects that this has resonated with audiences. Despite
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A Braindead Country Called Lebanon By: Rasha Abouzaki Published Tuesday‚ June 26‚ 2012 http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8933 The myth of superiority clearly has a grip on the Lebanese. They presume that they are the masters of science‚ civilization‚ and progress. But looking beyond this “chauvinist” posture‚ we find a country barren of any institutions that encourage achievement. The feebleness of Lebanese scientific research could be one of the reasons for Lebanese society’s ignorance of its
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“ Dead Men’s Path” Over the years‚ populations around the world have been raised with many different cultures and beliefs. These are cultures that are accepted by some and denied and frowned upon by others because they have their own beliefs. Over the recent years the cultures do tend to change in the fact that they add new beliefs to the old ones. In Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path” Michael Obi the newly appointed headmaster of the Ndume School has different religious and cultural beliefs then that
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James Joyce’s “The Dead” is a story that is centralized around a party with much joy. At the party‚ readers see the affectionate interactions between families and friends of all ages. The story as a whole mixes the joy with somber further on in the story‚ and readers gradually recognize that changes in the mood of the story. The story takes place in Ireland‚ and the oppression the country is in reflects on the moods and personalities of the characters. Throughout the story‚ Joyce uses different elements
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The Fault in Our Stars Our lives are a set of building blocks‚ and we always yearn to be perceived as skyscrapers. But not everyone has this capability. People have faults‚ and sadly‚ it can get to the point where those wrecking balls intervene. And the thing that was once a set of building blocks is no more. Some people have it harder than others. People live with cancer‚ deadly diseases that could ruin their lives. The Fault in Our Stars is a story mainly about the life of a girl named Hazel
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whilst pondering the mysteries of death and chance through constant rambling and anxious confusion. To understand the notion that ‘“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” locates us in places of social and psychological change’ we must acknowledge the context in which the play was written. When Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead appeared in 1966‚ it was evidently linked to The Theatre of the Absurd. Absurdist Theatre emerged after World War II‚ it was this experience which caused the public to
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“Nuit of the Living Dead” by David Sedaris “Nuit of the Living Dead” written by David Sedaris‚ the setting in rural France leads to part of the comedic element of this story. Reading this story very much feels like trying to follow an ADD chipmunk. There are generally several thought patterns running simultaneously throughout the entire thing. It’s a quick‚ fun‚ charmingly quirky read. One of the most charming parts is the internal dialog of the main character that’s constantly drizzled through
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Dead Poets Society by Lipatova‚ group 505 Dead Poets Society is a great film about a perfect teacher with unusual methods of teaching to a strict conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959‚ where he once studied‚ and it is not difficult to guess‚ that it was he who created that very society at the time of his youth. The other characters are the boys‚ Neil Perry‚ Todd Anderson‚ Knox Overstreet‚ Charlie Dalton‚ Richard Cameron‚ Steven Meeks‚ and Gerard Pitts ‚ who study
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