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    Henry Selick uses many techniques to outline the loneliness in Coraline’s life. In the scene Coraline shows many signs of loneliness. Loneliness is the feeling of being alone. Henry Selick demonstrates this by using techniques such as high angle‚ medium shot‚ and Dolly. In the film Coraline Henry Selick uses a technique called high angle to show the loneliness feeling going on in the film. He used this technique to emphasize how alone she is in such a big surrounding by using high angle. I believe

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    Ayn Rand in the book review‚ Anthem‚ Rand portrays that Equality 7-2521 lived in the dark ages of the future. Rand supports her claims by telling us that equality 7-2521 lives in a city that is different the our’s. The author’s purpose is to show us how Equality 7-2521 had the courage to seek and find knowledge so that he could be an individual person and then he will no longer like the word “We”. The author writes in a formalistic tone for a science fiction audience. Equality 7-2521 lives in

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    My song‚ 1(800) by Logic is mainly about equality‚ but in the song is only talking about one person who is having a tough time. The person in the song is really sad and always thinking about bad things‚ until he finally found happiness. The singer made it really easy to tell that it was depressing because he used so many powerful words‚ and those words made it sound like the guy he was talking about in the song‚ was getting negative attention. The theme of the song is about equality and you

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    In this essay I will tell you three reasons why the faces on mars or not made by aliens. First why would we tell every one about it just to lie about it afterwords. Second we have photos with proof that there isn’t anything really there. Lastly why would we wast so much time trying to prove to you there is nothing there. Those are the three things I’m going to explain in this essay. Why would we lie? First of all why would we tell you half of a story that just doesn’t make any sense? We told the

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    The book I read this month is called "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. Anthem is a fiction book and was quite interesting. It was about a person called Equality 7-2521 and how his life led to a huge turning point. "Anthem" took place in a futuristic civilization. The book was about a society who were all equal and exactly the same until one brave person named Equality 7-2521 thought outside the box‚ something that has not been done in a while. It was very confusing to read at times but in the end everything

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    Down to a Sunless Sea by Neil Gaiman Down to a Sunless Sea is short story written by Neil Gaiman and published in the British newspaper The Guardian on March 22nd 2013. Taking place in London‚ this story describes a rainy encounter on the banks of the Thames which unlocks a tale of loss and grief. The setting is London. Presumeably 18th or early 19th century based on how the Thames is described as extremely filthy and filled with the bodies of cats and dogs. Also the mention of the so-called

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    Who was responsible for the death of Neil Perry “Dead Poets Society” is an American film made in 1989. It was directed by Peter Weir. In the movie‚ Welton Academy’s student Neil Perry commits suicide after not being allowed to pursue his dream of acting. The school blamed the death of Neil on Mr. Keating and fired him. However‚ most students blamed his death on Neil’s father. In this essay I am going to evaluate who was the most responsible for Neil’s death‚ and to what extent each character is

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    The overall theme in the poem ¨The Day the Saucers Came¨ by Neil Gaiman is that people (such as girls) seem to worry about some so little and meaningless‚ such as a phone call‚ when they should be worrying about what’s going on around them. The author choses sixteen different odd things that happen on one day such as ¨the sauser day‚¨ and ¨zombie day¨ he chose these different things for a reason. I think he choses these things because they aren’t small simple things that could happen. Also all these

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    It was designed by Neil Fleming and Colleen Mills to help students and the users to find out their individual learning style. The VARK four modalities help the students to examine their preferable learning styles‚ which can help improve study time as well as students grades

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    The Shape of Things by Neil Labute follows the story of a student working on their final Thesis to finish their MFA in Art. Her medium is a guy named Adam. They start dating and she uses passive manipulation to mold him into what society would see as an “improved” version of himself. Ultimately‚ asking him to give up his only friends‚ and displaying her piece of art to the world while simultaneously turning down his offer at marriage. Adam’s super objective is to love and feel loved so that he could

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