“At the end of Look Both Ways‚ the film-maker convinces viewers that the characters are capable of looking at their lives in different ways.” Do you agree? In the film Look Both Ways‚ director Sarah Watt explores the theme that perspective can determine experience in life. The film demonstrates that life is an unscripted event where no one knows the final outcome and we can often become overwhelmed by how seemingly little control we exert over the navigation of our lives By using main characters
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Title: Looking for Alaska Author: John Green Text type: Young adult; Fiction “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth‚ thinking about how you’ll escape it one day‚ and how awesome it will be‚ and imagining that future keeps you going‚ but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’‚ tells a story about self-discovery‚ first experiences and the deep impact someone can have on a life. Miles Halter is fascinated by last words
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In this novel (Looking for Alibrandi) Josephine Alibrandi is seen as an illegitimate 17-year-old girl who is self-centred‚ ignorant and sensitive about her illegitimacy and her reputation and what people say about her behind her back. She is also described as confused because she isn’t sure where she stands in life‚ whether she is an Australian or and Italian‚ and is paranoid in thinking because she is of Italian background she is constantly being victimised and society wouldn’t see her for who she
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Is it possible for people to make comments about me for who I am as a person and not my outer appearance? This is the question I constantly asked myself everyday because most of the time I am bombarded with criticisms on how I looked. To put it bluntly‚ I‚ myself‚ have not met the body figure standard of what a Vietnamese woman should be. My family and relatives have always been saying that a Vietnamese girl should have a slim figure. Since I was small‚ I was that chubby girl‚ who loved to eat delicious
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In the book “Looking for Alaska” it showed the developments and growth of a characters which changes throughout the story. This book showed how a role of a character changes in just a matter of time. Influences throughout the story changes the person personality and makes him a completely different person. Sometimes when you don’t expected it‚ it turn out to be a big twist in life. This booked showed how people can change in a matter of time. The developments and growth of the character name Miles
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Looking for Alaska is about a boy named Miles Halter who is trying to find his Great Perhaps in a boarding school in Alabama. Miles met new friends in boarding school and a girl named Alaska Young who he then began to like/love her. The most important part of the story has to do when Alaska dies and Miles finds himself in the middle of trying to figure out if Alaska ever liked him like he did. Miles also is caught in figuring out his Great Perhaps after Alaska’s death. Alaska Young is a character
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Looking Out for Number One: Conflicting Cultural Values in Early Seventeenth-Century Virginia By: T.H Breen The main focus of Breen’s essay the focus is on the fact that colonists in Virginia were driven and motivated to come to the New World‚ predominantly for monetary reasons. Virginia’s soil was found to be unusually well suited for growing tobacco‚ which is why it drove such a variety of people to migrate there. The colonists‚ though
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Brand Proposal Submitted by: Razel C. Belleza C27 Submitted to: Mr. Erl Pilla Looking for soda? Try "Mr.Fizzy" ’It refreshes body and mind’ A brief history of soda The term "soft drink" is derived from "soda water"‚ dating as far back as 1798. Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water in 1767‚ when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide (CO2) by suspending a bowl of water over a vat of fermenting beer in a brewery in
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short story‚ “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”‚ Virginia Woolf writes of the sad self portrait of a woman who‚ examined from both outside and in‚ finds herself unsatisfactory. By implementing modern features of theme and style‚ Woolf creates a character to reflect on herself and she employs modern ideas of narration and character to illustrate a fuller‚ more complete image of the character. The title and subtitle of the story‚ “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection” indicates
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perspectives never stay permanent and is always changing. The main reason is most probably due to new experiences encountered in our life‚ knowledge or our level of maturity. This is shown in prose fiction text "Sky High" by Hannah Roberts‚ the film "Looking for Alibrandi" directed by Kate Woods and the poem "My Father Began As A God" by Ian Mudie. In the prose fiction text "Sky High" by Hannah Roberts. This text reflects on a youth persona who turns a simple washing line that is located in a normal back yard
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