Notes for How Dumb Do They Think We Are? 1.) I didn’t know what implacable meant so I looked it up. Implacable - unable to be placated. Opposed to someone or something in a very angry or determined way that cannot be changed. 2.) Didn’t understand at first why the teacher would blame themselves for students plagiarizing. But as I continued reading I understood. 3.) It was surprising to me that the teacher found it shocking they would see more and more cases of plagiarism. 4.) Loved when the
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January 12‚ 2014 Word Count: 923 The Development of Doubles in Kafka on the Shore: Duality within Individual Characters Parallelism is a common theme Haruki Murakami includes in Kafka on the Shore. Arguably‚ the main protagonists can be connected to one another through commonalities. It is also falsifiable to say that duality is also present within each individual character. The dramatic change of character description from the beginning to the end of the novel indicates that within each character
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because he has a mental illness‚ gets shot‚ and some of the characters talk down to him because he’s not smart. George deserves sympathy because he constantly looks out for someone who can’t look out for himself. He’s always telling Lennie that he’s dumb because he doesn’t know anything. George also talks about how life would be simpler if Lennie weren’t around. For example‚
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they should and shouldn’t do. In a horror movie there are always the stereotypes of how people act. There are always rules on how to act. The stereotypes are always the same‚ the cool‚ the dumb‚ and the smart friend. The cool one is the jock or the popular guy. They think about their looks and girls. The dumb friend is that one girl who thinks more about their appearance than smarts and staying alive. THEY ALWAYS DIE. Don’t be them. The smart one is the popular girl. She doesn’t really care about
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Jaehun Lee D Block‚ Film Studies 3/29/17 Film for Change: Analyzing Wong Kar Wai’s Mise-en-scene Filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai knows a thing or two about being the new kid on the block. After moving from Shanghai to British-controlled Hong Kong as a young boy due to the Cultural Revolution‚ Wong struggled to fit in (Gregerson). His siblings were stuck on the mainland after the border closed‚ making him an only child‚ and he struggled to fit in due to his inability to speak Cantonese or English (Wong only
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Although most of us who pursue higher education are intellectually well aware of the extensive effect of the media‚ Jean Kilbourne’s and Jackson Katz’s documentaries brought the whole new awareness of stereotype advertising‚ to which I never actually paid attention. How often do we really take this fact into account while assessing a client? The truth is that “I never paid attention” is utterly the complete opposite of what is happening. Indeed‚ what I did not realize is that I always paid attention
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BILLY I know. But we’re gonna go for another. A BLONDE SECRETARY enters with coffee for the tired MUSICIANS and ENGINEERS. The music starts‚ but George misses his cue to begin. Nods off again on the mic. Billy turns to his BLONDE SECRETARY. BLONDE SECRETARY Want me to get some more whiskey? Billy looks at the blonde girl. He gets an idea. 146 INT. RECORDING STUDIO. A LITTLE LATER. 146 George is asleep on the mic. In the CONTROL BOOTH‚ Billy seats the blonde on a stool in the corner. He lowers the lights
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and Linton. While Cathy is growing up‚ the reader begins t see the contrast between cathy and her mother. Catherine is a typical Earnshaw‚ having dark hair‚ and dark eyes. While her daughter’s characteristics are the exact opposite. Cathy has blonde hair‚ fair skin‚ and irrestibly brilliant eyes. Catherine and Cathy is emotional aspects also contrast a great deal. Young Cathy’s emotions are calm‚ while her mother’s rage‚ and are as unpredictable as a storm. Catherine’s emotions are so passionate
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When I was in second grade my grandmother asked the hairdresser to cut my long blonde hair to my shoulders. I was unaware of this conversation until after the woman had already begun cutting my hair. When I got home with my newly cut hair I went straight up to my room and called my dad hysterically crying‚ telling him about how grandma was a monster and had all my hair cut off. His initial consoling‚ telling me how he was sure that it looked fabulous and that we could find great ways to style my
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The Lavender room scene describes Holden as a young boy attempting to portray a grown man through his language‚ actions‚ and his interactions with the opposite sex. In “The Catcher in the Rye‚” J. D. Salinger depicts Holden who hates “phonies” and “moron‚” but he is sneaky and deceitful as well. The diction from the lavender room scene describes the way Holden carries himself in a mature atmosphere. The order that he made with the waiter wasn’t an easy request to be done. Holden knows he is a minor
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