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    Hole in the Ozone is a documentary film that educates its audience the relationship of ozone and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and its effects to our atmosphere. Hole in the Ozone also known as Ozone Depletion or Ozone Thinning had been an issue since the 70s and 80s. Even until now‚ this has become one of our major environmental issues. It is surprising to know that the ozone performs a major part in protecting us from dangerous radiation that the sun emits to our planet‚ even though it is also part

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    a huge range of colourful characters in difficult life situations; assault‚ murder drug abuse‚ robbery and a chain of discrimination that connects all of the stories. It becomes obvious rather quickly that the movie is dealing with themes of racism and discrimination when the opening sequence shows an Asian woman who has crashed into the back of a police car and the police officer starts to mock her accent; saying‚ “I blake too fast?” The film has the intention of

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    “ He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong they would always blame it on Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-great-great- grandfather.” In Louis Sachar’s book Holes‚ a boy named Stanley is falsely arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake accused of stealing a pair of sneakers.While at Camp‚ Stanley went through a lot of changes. Three of which caught my eye. Stanley has experienced lots of changes‚ but the most obvious one was his external strength. Text evidence from page7 says

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    Macbeth Theme Essay

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    There are 5 major themes in Macbeth : • the paradox ( we can think of ‘ fair is foul and foul is fair : which means bad is good and good is bad) • Manhood (being a man ‚ we see this theme clearly coming back on the night of the murder of the king‚ lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to just be a man and kill the king) • masks ("Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye‚ Your hand‚ your tongue: like th’ innocent flower‚ But be the serpent under ’t." --- lines 65 - 67. Or in other words‚ put on a

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    The opening of Holes is effective for many reasons. There are more than just a few techniques that authors use to entice readers and I am going to be looking at those that Holes author Louis Sachar used. The first sentence of the first chapter is very interesting as it is a contradictory phrase that confuses the reader and throws them off guard. A boy named Stanley Yelnats has been sent to a place named Camp Green Lake. However‚ confusingly‚ the first sentence simply states ‘there is no lake at

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    Holes From Louis Sachar

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    “If you take a amateurish boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun‚ it will turn him into a well-behaved boy” (Sachar 5). By making a bad boy and making them be in the blazing sun is that now they will learn how to never come back nor get in trouble. In the novel holes from‚ Louis Sachar. Stanley changes from poor and overweight to rich and strong because of how Sachar describes him in the beginning ‚ the middle‚ and the end. At the beginning of the novel‚ Stanley is poor‚ and

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    Theme Of Sacrifice Essay

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    Sacrifice In works of literature‚ Sometimes a character has a made a sacrifice for another character. An example of a character making a sacrifice for another is in the novel Ungifted by Gordon Korman. The main theme of the book was to not judge people based on first impressions and to look after one another. In this case‚ Abigail sacrificed her education in order for Donovan‚ who is the main character‚ to stay in her school. In order to understand as to why and how Abigail helped Donovan stay in

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    Oklahoma City centre Enes Kanter announced on Monday that he constantly get death threats due to picking holes in the Turkish government‚ and he is attempting to earn U.S. citizenship sooner than ever. Kanter was kept at an airport in Romania during the weekend; however‚ border police justified the practice as Turkish authorities rendered his passport invalid. Finally‚ Kanter was permitted to head to London and then New York to leave; officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and others

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    1984 Theme Essay

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    Absolute control over society is the central theme in the novel‚ 1984‚ by George Orwell. One method this power over society is exercised is use of language to manipulate and control people. The story features a society called Oceania‚ which is located in the European region. In Oceania‚ there is a form of totalitarian government called the Party which controls the entire society. The Party controls thoughts by making certain words or phrases illegal. In addition‚ any anti-party thoughts or motives

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    for his five children. It’s as if before he had everything‚ but nothing was really there. He had friends‚ he had co workers‚ but he the holes inside him were never filled. And now they are empty again. Now the sand pulled away from his toes again. Would his children come back like the sand? Or would they be pulled away from him forever?(Rhetorical Question) The holes that his children had filled had come back‚ however the loss was larger. He had been in a life full of happiness‚ never an empty day.

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