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    Starry Night

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    Starry Night is a beautiful painting‚ representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ¼ in.‚ and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting‚ there is a group of black lines that curve in waves upward‚ coming to a point. To the lower right‚ there is a small town that leads up to hills and then mountains. The painting is set at night‚ and the sky is a wondrous swirl of bursting

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    Are You Afraid of the Dark

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    ARE YOU AFRAID OF DARK ? Prologue: In Berlin‚ Germany‚ Sonja Verbrugge receives an alarming instant message from her husband‚ Franz. He tells her to flee the house and go to the Artesemia Hotel‚ a hotel for women only. The message ends abruptly without explanation and the terrified Sonja heads for the Artesemia as Franz had instructed. At a street corner in mid-flight‚ she is pushed into the street. As if on cue‚ a double-parked limo leaves its space and heads right for her‚ knocking her to

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    The Dark Net Summary

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    The Dark Net‚ by Jamie Bartlett‚ introduces the complex relations between the the virtual world and our everyday lives. The internet provides the ability to construct a virtual identity. The construction of this virtual identity opens new sets of rules that function online. This virtual identify creates tension between “the real world” and the virtual world‚ blurring distinctions between right and wrong. In the virtual world‚ outside factors appear to be eliminated. However‚ similarities between

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    Night At The Museum

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    Night at the Museum is a fantasy/action film released in 2006 that was directed by Shawn Levy. The movie portrays a new night guard at the museum of natural history called Larry Daley who doesn’t realise that the exhibits come to life at night until he witnesses it firsthand. This movie consistently creates tension‚ fear and excitement throughout numerous scenes. A prime example of how the director Shawn Levy conveys the action and excitement in this movie is during the T-rex Chase scene. Methods

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    The Web's Dark Side

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    This article by Mannix‚ Locy‚ Clark‚ Smith‚ Perry‚ McCoy…Kaplan (2000) titled The Web’s Dark Side discusses the not-so-popular side of surfing the internet‚ referred to as cyberspace–a rather outdated nickname–and plays out a week online with examples various crimes and misdemeanors‚ swindles‚ thefts‚ perils and problems of the internet. The types of crimes and wrongdoings is vast‚ and many various types of crimes are detailed with accounts of individuals‚ what crimes were committed‚ how it came

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    Child of the Dark: Modernity and Its Discontents Following the Kubitschek regime in Brazil in 1955 through 1960 the problem with the model of modernization offers a historical context for understanding the life of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Kubitschek was consisted of just developing but it had its limits. There is a limit to the progress populism can have on the poor. The develop of the cities could not solve the problem of rural unskilled workers. His encouragement of foreign investment bought an

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    City at Night

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    city. I often sit in my window and watch the drama unfolding below‚ seeing as I overlook the slum areas of Creedville. It is always darker down there. From the things I have witnessed‚ I have developed a great fear of being out after 9:00 pm. Most nights I would rather spend sitting in my only window watching below. One evening I had just sat down to watch the darkened scene below‚ when I saw a young looking man walking quickly toward a running car‚ parked under one of the only two street lights

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    A Dark Future Ahead

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    Jason Zhou Pre-IB English Ms. Arnold Feb 5th 2013 “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” A Dark Future Ahead a Comparison and Contrast of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 When discussing the topic of censorship by government in the future‚ one would most likely reference the two novels 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury both portray a similar dystopian theme. Both of these novels center around the same idea of a grim

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    Silent Night

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    The night was silent. The half moon gazed down benevolently on the city‚ alone in a starless stretch of black sky. The streets were empty‚ and all that reached out into the shadowy darkness were the street lamps‚ placed so methodically and evenly it made them seem more significant than they really were. Near one of these lamps‚ on a bench‚ was an ancient man‚ his hair grey‚ his face was warped with deep wrinkles‚ a pair of round rimmed spectacles perched on his nose. His dull eyes‚ seeming to be

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    Down a Dark Hall

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    Down a Dark Hall written by Lois Duncan is a book about a girl named Kit Gordy‚ going to a boarding school miles away from the closest town‚ which is a small village Blackwood. She comes to her new home for the school year with her new step father Dan and her worrying mother‚ who are ready to go on their honeymoon. When they see the boarding school that Kit would be staying at‚ it looked surprisingly different from what they saw in the brochure they were given. The three of them could not at first

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