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    Sound & Fury Presentation

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    March 21st‚ 2013 5 Min Presentation Outline Sound & Fury I will be doing my presentation on a movie that I watched called: “Sound and Fury.” It’s a documentary that was filmed back in 2000 by director Josh Aronson. The movie focuses in on two brothers and their nuclear families that are affected by deafness in different ways. The two brothers names are Peter and Chris Artinian. The brothers were raised by their parents Peter & Marianne who are both hearing. Peter is the older brother

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    ΛΙΓΗΤΣ “ΝΔ ΣΟΥΝΔΣ The trip on February 10 ‚ 2011 to Lights and Sounds was very educational and was very fun . The parts about Jose P. Rizal were very interesting and I learned a lot about his life. There were two parts that scared me the most . First ‚ was the one where we saw the characters of Noli Me Tangere and El Felibusterismo . What scared me there was Sisa ‚ because of her laugh( while she cried ) and how she moved . The second thing that scared me was at the last part when we

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    Unit 39 – The sound and music industry – task1 Introduction: Music industry has four areas. The different roles and jobs are link to the different areas of music industry. People need to sign the contracts and every areas of music industry have different content of contracts. People or companies have copyright. Licensing and copyright are very important in music industry. P1 Describe four areas of the music industry. 1. Music publishing In the music industry a music publisher or company

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    in others‚ irony is used in both stories to help readers understand their message‚ but the messages that are portrayed to the audience differ. “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer and “Federigo’s Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio portray how greed can be the start of something evil‚ and how sometimes sacrifices have to be made for the people that are most loved. Therefore “Federigo’s Falcon” and “The pardoner’s tale” are similar because both authors portray their message with irony. The three

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    authors fail to do. Unlike the general crowd‚ Sophocles uses positive personality traits to bring conflict to his characters. He breaks normal organization of works and pushes the use of character flaws out of view. With this‚ persuading irony is formed—an irony which immortalizes the play just as a proper burial would immortalize Polyneices. Standard positive traits result in Creon and Antigone’s disgraces. Creon is a determined captain of a severely injured ship. He is aware of the torn masts

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    Symbols‚ Irony‚ and Feelings in “The Metamorphosis” and “Astronomer’s Wife” Randall L. Breeden Jr. ENG125: Introduction to Literature Deborah Duff May 11th‚ 2010 Symbols‚ Irony‚ and Feelings in “The Metamorphosis” and “Astronomer’s Wife” A community is defined as a unified body of individuals. The community is represented by a family‚ bank‚ and loggers in “The Metamorphosis” and a married couple and hired help in “The Astronomer’s Wife” The authors of these two short stories give

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    TIME IN THE SOUND AND THE FURY One of the main realities of human existence is the constant‚ unceasing passage of time. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner explores this reality of time in many new and unexpected ways as he tells the tragic tail of the Compson family. The Compsons are an old Southern aristocratic family to whom time has not been kind. Years of degeneration mainly stemming from slavery have brought them to the brink of destruction. Most of the story focuses on the

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    there is more wine to drink‚ tricks him‚ and leaves him down in there to die. This story has tons of literary elements to help readers dig deep into this golden piece of literature. Along with all the other features about this story it shows signs of irony. In the story the antagonist is Fortunato. He is the innocent one in the text and shows how things can escalate quick. He is just playing small

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    T. Coraghessan Boyle uses irony in his short story Carnal Knowledge‚ which gives it a humorous tone. The way the narrator reacts to ironic events shapes our understanding of both him‚ and the meaning of the story as a whole; although humans can adapt to their surroundings to get want they want‚ they will always return to their original basic set of morals and standards. The first use of irony is arguably the most humorous‚ which foreshadows the ridiculousness of the narrators actions throughout

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    "giant sucking sound" as jobs left the United States and went to Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Why and how does free trade help the U.S. economy? How might free trade hurt the U.S. economy? Choose one side of this argument and support your perspective with the theories presented in the course readings and video resource‚ Trade: Its Trials and Triumphs‚ using proper APA forma” I well remember the election of 1992 and Mr. Perot’s “giant sucking sound” comment. I was

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