Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an shy 11-year-old living with his proud miner father (Gary Lewis) and older brother Tony (Jamie Draven) during the political and social unrest of the 1984 miner’s strike. Times are hard - the men of the house spend their days on the picket lines clashing with the police‚ while Billy navigates the minefield of adolescence and takes care of his increasingly senile grandmother (Jean Heywood). Determined to forge his son in his own image‚ Billy’s father sends him for
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issues affect society There are various representations within the text that challenges the individual to experiences familiar and new horizons. Through the texts Billy Elliot and The short story "The Story of X" have helped to convey various new horizons and familiar experiences. Firstly‚ New horizons can be explored through both Billy Elliot and the story of ’x’ with the challenging of gender expectations and the effort in which the characters display in order to breakthrough the dominant discourses
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Billy Elliot: Discussion or Writing topics. 1. When Billy describes his dancing and the feeling that he gets from it he says that he forgets everything and feels as if there’s a fire in his body and that he feels he disappears. I believe that Billy is describing his feeling of freedom in a world were for him‚ freedom is almost unattainable in many circumstances. I got this feeling earlier today‚ driving through the country-side‚ through open paddocks and fields with rolling slopes and the mountains
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Moving into the world is a notion which encompasses transition and change. The concept explores how both choices and consequences can alter an individual both physically and emotionally. Billy Elliot‚ a film directed by Stephen Daldry (2000)‚ is a film with a powerful message about venturing into a new world. It explores the themes of maturity and growth as well as gender conflicts. The choices and consequences endured by the characters of the film are used to highlight the positive and negative
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The book The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot is a astrological twist to the original tale of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. In this story‚ three aliens named Bork‚ Gork‚ and Nklxwcyz leave their family home planet due to the population and venture out to live on their own. Before they leave‚ their mother warns them of the big bad robot that may try to eat them if they don’t stick together. However‚ then searching for new planets‚ Bork and Gork are too stubborn to find a place
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The Minds of Billy Milligan Out of all the classes that I have taken here at Westfield State College‚ I can honestly say that Abnormal Psychology has been by far the most interesting. Since this course has had such a major influence on me this semester‚ I am strongly considering continuing my education in this field of psychology. Throughout the semester‚ we studied a number of intriguing disorders. The disorder that really seemed to catch my attention was the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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assumptions and integrity. By not communicating with the predecessor auditor‚ the successor auditor is blindly trusting management’s integrity and accounting policies. The engagement team never assessed whether the newly acquired assets of Little Drummer Boy Inc. were reasonable to actuality. The auditors could have compared these useful lives to the useful lives used by competitors or inquired a specialists to determine the whether they believe the 30 yr. and 15 yr. useful life of were reasonable
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expectations. Especially expectations! The story shows how the broad society using net dating have transformed into these cocoon-people‚ who only show their outside and wont let anyone in unless they live up to their requirements. But it’s not only bad‚ it’s also a funny story with a lot of irony‚ perhaps even with a good message – Give each other a chance to show who you really are. This example is how the entire article is‚ irony with a twisted humour‚ “if a woman invites me to her place
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Billy Elliot – Into the World There are a variety of pathways and elements‚ which enables individual transition into a New World. ‘Into the World’ is about people choosing the next pathway into their life by their own determination‚ experiences and support which enables them to go beyond their original location and narrow view of the world. ‘Billy Elliot’ relates to the elective ‘Into the World’ as the film is about new possibilities opening up‚ determination‚ family support and individual growth
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Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini‚ an olympian who has to join to join the army and fight in world war 2. Louie later gets captured by the Japanese and gets abused in the POW camps for two and a half years. This book is broken into five parts and the part one is about Louie early childhood. “At five‚ he started smoking‚ picking up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten.” Louie childhood was rough‚ he was know for making trouble and always getting in fights with his bullies. Louie was the middle
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