Laura I woke up on the couch with Sarah’s arm draped over my waist‚ carefully moving it‚ so as not to wake her‚ i got up off of the couch and surveyed the situation‚ tge Tv was still on displaying the menu of a movie‚ empty bags of lollies and chips were scattered on the floor in front of tge couch while two half full glasses sat on the coffee table‚ the bottle of wine sat open next to them. I picked up the glasses and took them into the kitchen where i got a garbage bag and went in to clean up what
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Queen Jocasta is one of Greek mythology’s most ill fated characters. In the beginning of the play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ she and her husband learn that their child is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. So‚in order to save avoid this catastrophe ‚they leave the child out in the wilderness to die. Little does Jocasta know that a kindly herdsman has rescued the child and Baby Oedipus has been adopted by a King and Queen from another state. Years later‚ when Oedipus finally hears the
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The movie Unbroken‚ by Laura Hillenbrand depicts a clear description of the experiences and struggles that those who fought in it had to endured. Timely‚ it also shows the effect of WWII on the relationships between different ethnicities and races as people found something in common with those they once considered as outcast of their social network. However it also created the opposite effect in which it divided people and placed them to fight against each other for a cause they themselves did not
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In 2010‚ Laura Hillenbrand released a brilliant tribute to a resilient national hero‚ Louis “Louie” Zamperini‚ whose story was not widely known at the time. Fast forward four years and this tribute‚ Unbroken‚ has been made into a major motion picture and the remarkable story of the Olympian-turned-soldier has reached the masses. In the book Unbroken‚ which I read shortly after it was released‚ Hillenbrand chronicles Zamperini’s epic and‚ at times‚ terrifying odyssey. Raised in California‚ he was
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LAURA (Preminger‚ 1944) TIME The narrative action in the film Laura occurs over a period of three days. It begins on a Sunday morning‚ two days after the murder takes place in Laura’s apartment. The narrative begins on this day because this is when Detective Mark McPherson begins his investigation of the case. Being the protagonist of the film‚ we follow him in his quest to solve the case and his pursuit of Laura. It is on Tuesday night that he succeeds in what he set out to do and therefore‚ the
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This is a true story about the life in Rwanda during the spring of 1994. It is about Paul Rusesabagina who saved a lot of lives. He was the hotel manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines where he housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees when the Hutus killed all the Tutsis on their way. Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s economic and political problems. The Tutsis were called cockroaches on the radio by the Interahamwe militia‚ that
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Male/female relationships are portrayed differently in the poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’‚ ‘Havisham’‚ ‘Cousin Kate’ and the play ‘Macbeth’. They all surround the themes of love‚ hate‚ jealousy‚ betrayal‚ guilt and obsession. However‚ the love versus hate theme is most dominant because all of the poems and the play have a melancholy mood‚ showing how the key characters have been hurt by love through their relationships and how afterwards‚ the way they feel has also been affected. Shakespeare’s characters
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first published. There are many reasons for why it is held at such a high standard. Reasons such as how the American Dream is represented in the story or the way each character develops throughout the story. The Roaring Twenties was an era full of money‚ crime‚ greed‚ ambition‚ rebellion‚ and excess. The story depicts this perfectly as each character holds some if not all of these qualities. As well as how the era is surrounded with wealthy people‚ big parties‚ drinking‚ music and dancing. Gatsby holds
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through the words of candy‚ this shows that she was looked down upon by the men of the ranch and was victimised. I feel that Steinbeck has presented Curley’s wife in this way to represent how woman in the 1930’s were victimised and treated. Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife as Cruel and Disrespectful. “They left all the weak ones here”. This is showing Curley’s wife as being disrespectful because she speaks to Crooks‚ Candy and Lennie as if she is superior to them. Curley’s wife thinks it is acceptable
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Othello has for Desdemona. During many aspects of the play‚ Othello’s love for his wife is contradictory and questionable. Throughout Shakespeare’s play‚ Othello displays that he does not truly love Desdemona through his relationship was based on pity and not true love‚ the lack of trust Othello had for Desdemona raised false suspicion and Shakespeare’s design to create a tragedy with miscommunication between Othello and Desdemona. First of all‚ the relationship between Othello and Desdemona is weak because
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