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    you how. There have been many book and movies that surround the events of World War II. But none are as engaging and thought provoking as Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief. His book was made into a movie in 2013 and has received praise from fans and critics alike and many believe the movie is superior to the book. Today i’m going to be telling you why the book is superior to the movie. The book had a more involved and interesting death‚ There was much more detail in the book‚ And the characters progression

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    The Book Thief is an encouraging tale of a fictional girl named Liesel. Liesel was raised during a time of great pain and suffering: Nazi Germany. Many Jews‚ Gypsies‚ mentally and physically disabled‚ and others were killed over a ten year timespan. Scope magazine adapted the book and the movie to create a play. One of the characters‚ named Death‚ states‚ “I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty‚ and I wonder how the same thing can be both.” True‚ we’re

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    The focus of the short story “Dancer” by Vickie Sears is the positive progression of the main character‚ Clarissa‚ a foster child who gains a sense of her cultural identity as a Native. In the beginning of the story‚ she is introduced as a child with next to nothing and is portrayed to have psychopathic traits. Towards the end of the story‚ there are positive changes in her character. The main factor that led to Clarissa’s progression was her developing a strong interest in the powwow that led

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    militiamen. [84][85] That May‚ tens of thousands of communists and their sympathisers were killed by nationalists‚ with the CPC losing approximately 15‚000 of its 25‚000 members. [85] The CPC continued supporting the Wuhan KMT government‚ a position Mao initially supported‚ [85] but he had changed his mind by the time of the CPC’s Fifth Congress‚ deciding to stake all hope on the peasant militia. [87] The question was rendered moot when the Wuhan government expelled all communists from the KMT on 15

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    Humanities Exam Essay Structure Amza 10E QUESTION 1 INTRODUCTION Contention Gandhi was mostly effective in achieving independence for India Terms Evaluate – finding how valuable Gandhi was as a leader through his ideas about passive resistance that he introduced to his follower and how he used it to achieve independence Effective Leader – is someone who doesn’t always successful‚ but able to bring change and new ideas to the society. An effective leader should have support from his follower

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    Comparison of Book and Movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a book written by Ken Kesey to accomplish a certain mood within it’s chapters. The feelings and moods given in the book differ greatly from those in the movie because of multiple changes in character development. Each and every time a movie is produced from a book‚ the producers are forced to change parts of the story in order to suit the audiences needs for a faster paced plot. It is impossible

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    Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward‚ Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China is today. Most of Mao’s major successes have been in the CCP’s rise to power‚ while Mao’s failures have come at a time when the CCP was in power. <br><br>Mao Zedong was born on December 26‚ 1893 is Shaoshan

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    the Chinese people. One of these individuals was Mao Zedong‚ leader of the Communist Party. The beliefs and achievements of Mao Zedong portrayed him as both a hero and a villain. He influenced Chinese society dramatically. When Mao Zedong faced the Nationalists with his new ideas of communism‚ he was a hero to the peasants during the 1930s. Mao won the support of the majority by promising the peasants land from warlords and economic equality. When Mao pledged to give social equality‚ peasants were

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    The Book Thief Essay Mark Zusak’s novel‚ The Book Thief‚ was better than the film‚ as it dives deeper into the various perspectives and personalities of the characters. It builds up the character of Max‚ and the minor characters (such as the Holtzapfel family) build up the story. By reading this story‚ you learn about the themes of mortality and the power of words which aren’t as present in the film. Max‚ in the film‚ appears to be nothing more than another helpless and weak Jew. He is in hiding

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    Perseus Story Comparison There are many similarities and differences between the original Clash of the Titans movie and the book. One similarity is that he slayed medusa‚ however in the story medusa is sleeping when he killed her and in the movie she is awake. Also‚ in both the movie and the book Perseus goes to Jappa although in the story Hermes helped him and in the movie a man named Amon helped him. In the book Cassiopeia compares Andromeda to the Nereids‚ but in the movie she is compared to

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