on the movie “Bend it like Beckham” -------From the perspective of Cross-cultural communication 专业：英语语言文学 姓名：胡金庆 学号：201120327 日期：2011年10月11日 A feedback on the movie “Bend it like Beckham” -------From the perspective of Cross-cultural communication Abstract： Based on the English movie “Bend It like Beckham”‚ this paper is
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it Like Beckham we the audience are introduced to the main characters‚ the storyline‚ the settings and themes of film through the use of some well-chosen film techniques that the director used. The main character Jesminder is portrayed to us as a tom boy through costuming we can see that she is deliberately dressed in boy clothes in particular a soccer Jersey and shorts. This is to communicate to us the audience that she loves soccer. We also can see that she isn’t into girly things like weddings
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to Be an All-American Girl starts out with Elizabeth Wong describing a school. She tells about both her brother and her dreaded going to her Chinese school and the different atmospheres of the two schools. The Chinese school was like a dusty old chest and the other was like the box that a new pair of shoes came in. Both held treasures but she was far more interested in the new than what she felt to be old. While the Chinese school focused mainly on language‚ she points out that every day started with
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power in the most effective way. He claims that "the essence of successful government is force and craft" (Gettell 1951‚ 140). Machiavelli illustrates his thought saying that a power broker can become successful if he is both cunning like a fox and ferocious like a lion (Wootton 1996‚ 45). However‚ in the course of this paper‚ I will demonstrate that craftiness and ferocity lead to the opposite results anticipated by the author: first‚ ferocity leads to a distrust of the leader; then‚ this cruelty
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Quotation Assignment 1. “We must strive to be like the moon.” An old man in Kabati said on page 16. This quote means that the moon reminds Beah of what kind of life he had back then when there was no war to run away from and he was still enjoying his child hood days with his family. I could connect the moon to my life and the world in a way that the moon is like light in the darkness during the night time. The night sometimes brings fear to people but the moon break that fear and turns it to
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Belonging is a fundamental human need in As You Like It‚ which Shakespeare deals with through the central aspects of belonging to place and relationships. In As You Like It people’s connection to the court and nature are contrasted‚ as the court is a place of corruption and the forest a place of harmony. The characters experience exclusion and a disconnection from the court‚ so come to find happiness and acceptance in the forest. Shakespeare explores the relationships to friends‚ family and love
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adherent of the other group. 3. Miley was admonished by her mother. 4. Haley was agaped into happiness. 5. Their credits were aggregated up to P50‚ 000.00 6. Don’t allude her. 7. He likes to run amuck. 8. Do you live in an alley? 9. Their enmity is getting worse. 10. What happened in Australia is appalling. 11. Don’t you know what apropos to him? 12. You shouldn’t give arbitrary laws. 13. What is the cause of your aridity? 14. You’re like asinine in your doings. 15. He always assert that he
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Mary Matsuda Gruenewald‚ Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps 1. Why are interned Japanese Americans referred to as the “silent generation” (p.x)? They were referred to as the silent generation because many of them did not speak about their experiences to anyone‚ not even their children after their times in imprisonment. They were a silent generation. 2. What were the specific challenges Gruenewald and other interned Japanese Americans
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The 2002 film Bend it like Beckham represents one of the most most refined and nuanced narrative of sport‚ race‚ and gender of any recent mainstream film that has been advertised. This makes the film especially alluring from an ideological point of view since it captivates us and invites us to share its vision of a better society. Because of this reason‚ it is an incumbent upon more critical viewers of the film to question what lessons the film puts in front of you‚ since the film demands questions
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A Town Like Alice‚ By Nevil Shute The story begins right before the start of world war two. The main character‚ Jean‚ is a secretary in a shoe factory. She was recently informed a large inheritance from her great uncle whom has recently passed away. Her trustee informs her that her uncle said in his will she was not to use the money until a certain age‚ which was still several years away. Strachan’s firm wants him to help her control the money and advise her‚ while Jean on
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