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    car‚ or a fun imaginative place like in Katy Perry’s music video California girls or the music video roar which is somewhat reminiscent of anaconda‚ in terms of location. While hip hop videos are usually filmed in the streets or a modern house. Looking at Anaconda we see the video first location site is in a rainforest‚ amazon type because you see the bright sunlight‚ the whistling in the trees and birds chirping.

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    Melina Marchetta’s 1993 novel‚ Looking for Alibrandi‚ is based on the story of an Italian teenage girl living in Australia during the early 1990’s in Sydney. Kate Woods’ motion picture interpretation of the book creates similarities and differences between the two texts. By comparing the characters of Josephine Alibrandi‚ Katia Alibrandi and Poison Ivy/ Carly in both texts‚ the audience are able to identify the likeness and contrasts among the film and novel. Firstly‚ one of the characters that

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    Essay: The film ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ traces Josephine’s Higher School Certificate year. Select four people and/or events from Josephine’s final year and discuss how these people or events changed Josephine’s perspective. Melina Marchetta’s "looking for Alibrandi" is a story which resembles change internally and externally. In her final school year‚ Josephine Alibrandi is confused and angry. She is continuously confronted by issues that question who she is as her true sense of identity is clouded

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    Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity though finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the good and is necessary in life. Positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationship

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    interprets it differently. In a way this person achieves some form of enlightenment from this revelation‚ and because of this they are more mature after the trial. An example of this was the death of Alaska Young from John Green’s award winning novel ‘Looking for Alaska’. In the novel‚ The title character‚ Alaska‚ died in a car crash. This severely affected the lives of the ones who loved‚ especially Miles Hartler‚ one of Alaska’s best friends. Following Alaska’s death‚ Miles‚ along with other friends

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    Limitless variations of reality brought by different perspectives challenge the concept of normality.  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird uses imagery pertaining to black birds in order to examine the alternate versions of reality. Scrutinizing the many possible interpretations of ordinary blackbirds challenges the concept of normality. Associating these overlooked creatures with great power‚ such as being able to move a river‚ certainly brings a shift of perspective. Furthermore‚ the acknowledgement

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    are for belonging‚ hence forcing them to reevaluate their own identity and their ability to experience a sense of belonging. This notion can be seen in both‚ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Looking For Alibrandi directed by Kate Wood. In the namesake‚ the character Gogol’s abnormal name forces

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    Marginalized New Australians Looking for Alibrandi is an Award-winning contemporary Australian teenage novel written by author Melina Marchetta‚ which highlights cultural‚ age and social boundaries that were evident in the earlier periods of Australian society. In this book a number of characters were discriminated and marginalised due to their culture‚ gender and social class. Marginalisation is when people are being separated

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    DiffDifferent Ways of Looking at Food The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ by Michael Pollan‚ attempts to figure out how such a simple question as‚ “What should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 1)‚ turned out to be so complicated such that we need investigative journalists to tell us what is in our food. To do so‚ he went on a journey to follow all three food chains that sustain us today: the industrial‚ the organic‚ and the hunter-gatherer back to their origins. Although these journeys may have led to very different

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    The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly‚ and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie’s character through her interactions with her friends and family. As the film progresses‚ the glamour that is initially associated with Josie begins to fade as we watch her struggle to cope with her final year of school (especially the racist attitude of one girl in particular‚ Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman)‚ the suicide of her crush‚ John Barton (Matthew Newton)‚ and meeting with Michael

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