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    speak‚ think or handle any minor situations. She’s also falling in love with a bad boy and he is to. She is having difficult time letting go of her brother when her parents make the family splitting decision to send her brother to the Holland House‚ a house that helps kids with autism. She’s decides to stop helping‚ stop tip toeing around her house and brother‚ stop trying‚ stop ignoring her crush on bad boy Dave‚ and to give up the love of her music. She let’s everything go to help her on the inside

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    that he still has a chance with her and will do anything in his power to make his dream come true. If Daisy chose the security of money over love once‚ what makes Gatsby so confident that he will be able to win her back for sure? Gatsby sacrificed his identity for Daisy’s sake and in the process‚ he does not focus on anything else which shows that his love for her is

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    The Shawshank Redemption ‘Darabont’s direction in The Shawshank Redemption emphasises contrasts and paradox: in ideas‚ in characters‚ in mood. How does he use cinematic techniques to achieve this?’ In The Shawshank Redemption Darabont uses cinematic techniques to illustrate contrast. Power & Weakness‚ Freedom & Oppression‚ Isolation & Companionship are the fundamental themes that differentiate from each other in the film. Darabont effectively utilises filming techniques to highlight

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    Great expectations by Charles dickens was written in 1860-1861. The opening chapter of great expectations is extremely important as it tells of each character from Pips perspective (also telling the readers just how naïve‚ young and innocent Pip is amidst this gloomy dwelling)‚ for example Pip says "…my first fancies regarding what they were like‚ were unreasonably derived from their tombstones" this tells us that Pip is a blank canvas ready to be painted on and every little thing will shape and

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    Review A story of hope is just about the last thing you’d expect to find in a prison movie. But in The Shawshank Redemption‚ that’s exactly what you get. Shawshank is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ a man convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and shipped to a maximum-security prison in Shawshank‚ Maine‚ for two consecutive life sentences. Over the next years (two hours‚ movie time)‚ he finds his way to inner peace and self-reliance in the midst of the terror and inequity of

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    Corrections February 26‚ 2012 “The Shawshank Redemption” Prison has always been a place of intrigue for people who have not spent time behind the bars of justice. Countless movies have been made to feed that intrigue by depicting prison life‚ but most have been grossly inaccurate. The effectiveness of a prison system relies on the rehabilitation process that is enacted by each prison; this process is usually overlooked in most movies. “The Shawshank Redemption” shows how movies misinterpret rehabilitation

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    Over 14.5% of Americans are in poverty and affected by what poverty causes. Throughout the novel‚ Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip coming of age and meeting people along his way of becoming a gentleman and learning life lessons. Charles Dickens looks at the effects of poverty negatively and during the novel it illustrates how many people of poverty struggled‚ but the rich got to live lavishly and didn’t care for the poor. Furthermore‚ poverty is a big issue of our modern day society and

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    The story of The Great Gatsby is a story filled with drama‚ romance‚ and layers upon layers of deceit. There are a few character’s that stood out from the crowd. These character’s are Daisy‚ Gatsby‚ and Tom. We will be Analyzing these character’s and display their deception and faults. The common American dream is to be rich famous and powerful‚ while this dream seems nice it can easily ruin a persons life while pursuing this dream. What can be said about the Roaring twenties and the American dream

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    The Theme of Love in Books VIII – XV of Augustine’s De Trinitate The structure of Augustine’s De Trinitate conforms to the rule that “authority takes precedence over reason.” Having expounded upon the scriptural revelation of God‚ in the latter half of his grand exposition on the Trinity the Church Father attempts to draw from things here knowable an analogy befitting of God. Yet in his pursuit for an analogy depictive of the true God both the precondition from which he begins and the conclusion

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    The Shawshank Redemption Essay The movie “The Shawshank Redemption” based on Steven King’s book “Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption” is a classic American film about a life-long honest friendship sprung up in one of the most unthinkable places‚ Jail. In this essay I will be describing and commenting on the scene where Andy Dufresne‚ after years of toil‚ escapes from the haunting wall of Shawshank Prison. The scene starts with a close up of the rope in Andy’s hand‚ the camera slowly

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