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    Identity

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    Laurie’s frustration and establishing that Laurie is an individual who works to achieve‚ she is self motivated and relies on herself to get things done. Overtime Laurie’s individuality is slowly getting taken away from her‚ in the making of The Wave when they were chanting the slogan: “Strength Through Discipline‚ Strength Through Community. A few students‚ including Laurie and Brad‚ did not join them......finally laurie rose‚” therefore indicates that Laurie is losing her individual identity and is

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    or not. He shows his internal struggles by being peer pressured into The Wave‚ by harming Laurie‚ and finally by realizing what a large mistake he had made in joining The Wave. In the beginning of the book‚ David is peer pressured into preventing Laurie from disbanding the wave. Strasser wrote‚ “Dave‚ listen. Robert is just a little over enthusiastic sometimes. But you have to admit he has a point. If Laurie keeps writing stuff like

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    Authors use many literary devices that enhance their writing in different ways. Two examples of literary devices are‚ indirect characterization and foreshadowing. When a writer uses a character’s thoughts and actions to represent their personality‚ they are using indirect characterization. Foreshadowing is when an author hints at an event to come. “Thank You‚ M’am” and “Charles” are two short stories which use these literary elements. In “Thank You‚ M’am” by Langston Hughes‚ indirect characterization

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    The Final Girl

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    NAME AND SURNAME: Ezachia Ngcobo STUDENT NUMBER: 0514961J COURSE NAME: Spectatorship in the cinema-horror COURSE NUMBER: DRAA 342 LECTURER: Catherine Duncan DUE DATE: 31 October 2007 ESSAY TOPIC: Carol Clover argues that‚ in particular the slasher film disturbs the traditional model of spectatorship and identification. "As the character who lives to tell the tale of horror‚ the final girl‚ Clover argues‚ must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason

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    progress and achievement. Dialogue is used present each characters own morals and beliefs. For example‚ Laurie blames an old club tradition for his failure to win a premiership. “You and your cronies wouldn’t let me buy any players” in return‚ Jock replies “We were up holding an old tradition‚ it was wrong but we believed in it” in this Laurie uses colloquial and slang language to lash out at jock. Laurie believes in Tradition and Loyalty first and he judges others harshly when they do not openly display

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    Depiction of Native Americans in American Film Stereotypes of different cultures have a large role in the opinions we hold. One culture which has endured stereotypes since America came to exist is the Native American. This analysis intends to look at the different stereotypes Native Americans have been branded with and how these stereotypes have been incorporated into American Film‚ in particular The Searchers. The current stereotypes we hold of the Native Americans stem from the first encounters

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    How often is the expression‚ "That’s ironic" used throughout the course of history? It rarely is mentioned when prince charming rescues the damsel in distress and spends happily ever after protecting her from advancing princes. Seldom is this phrase exclaimed when the loafing dog discovers an unattended bologna sandwich and helps itself. No‚ irony comes into play when the outcome of the story is mind blowing‚ horrific and earth shattering. When the prince charming swoops in with his "Shakespeare"

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    There Will Come Soft Rains

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    It involves a humorous story about a boy named Laurie starting kindergarten and getting into trouble at school‚ then deceiving his parents by telling them of a bad boy called Charles getting up to mischief‚ which is really himself. Jackson uses the language style of first person‚ from the mother’s point of view to develop the story from a one sided‚ biast perspective. In the opening paragraph‚ the mother narrates the image of Laurie as a “sweet-voiced nursery-school tot” and the audience

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    the wave

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    side to the wave movement‚ as the wave starts to take in more people and becomes unstable‚ people start to turn evil‚ the wave even brings out the darker side to David‚ who attacks Laurie over an argument about the wave. The rest of the school are over whelmed by the power of the wave unit and join the wave. All except Laurie‚ Alex and Carl who are the publishers of the grape vine which can be represented as the few people that still want democracy in the school but are being threatened and become paranoid

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    Appearance vs. Reality

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    Appearance vs. Reality In the novels‚ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ and Little Women by Louisa May Alcott‚ the characters experience appearance vs. reality in many different ways. The most predominant ways would be‚ trying to be someone different‚ lies‚ and Protection. Both Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye‚ and the girls from Little Women‚ experience that things are not always as they first seem to be. Firstly‚ Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye‚ and Marmee

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