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    reveals “my main objective in life at the moment is to get on my grandmother’s nerves”. As the novel progresses‚ Josie’s learns about her Nonna’s affair with Marcus Stanford. She realizes Nonna “hadn’t lived life the way she thought‚ she hadn’t played by all the rules”. By the conclusion of the novel‚ Josie sees Nonna with a new found respect as she realizes “I’m loved by the two strongest women I’d ever meet in a life time”. The end of the novel uses the technique of recapitulation as readers return

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    the novel because as an Italian family they are very close‚ sharing just about every little detail with each other. Josephine’s father‚ Michael ran out on his family whilst Josie was still fairly young. This left her mother in distraught and left ‘nonna’ with a burning hatred for the man. As time went on‚ Josie’s mother felt a constant need to find someone to replace her husband; she has numerous partners‚ none of which were accepted by Josephine. It is not until later in the novel that Josephine

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    dreams on studying law‚ alongside with John Barton (Matthew Newton) who she has a crush on. She is an illegitimate wog of Christina (Greta Scacchi) and senses that her birth is the reason why her family is cursed. She has to deal with her grandmother‚ Nonna Katia’s(Elena Cotta) strict customs‚ and to make matters even worse‚ Michael Andretti‚ (Anthony LaPaglia) Josie’s father who she longed for reappears after 17 years of absence. It’s a very tough time for a teenage girl. In the end Josie finds out the

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    Have you ever wonder how it will be like to be a 13 year old girl during the twin towers? All the stories that you have heard have been lies so I am going to tell you the true story of the twin towers people told the right thing but they left one other factor in the story and this factor is really important. It was hot and sunny in New York. My brother and I were walking to our bus stop. He was talking to his friends about his new Jordan’s. He was wearing a red shirt with black shorts and his black

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    go to the beach. There is a close up of the p-plate which emphasises the youth and ignorance of the girls. As Josie leaves her nonna is upset and gets angry with Josie’s mother Katrina and Katrina defends her daughter. Katrina is comfortable with her Italian identity and doesn’t understand why Josie can’t conform and accept her heritage and most importantly make her nonna happy. This is a parallel experience to that of Peter‚ as he refers to seeing his father in his element as being “happy as I’ve

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    OWNER BACKGROUND The owner‚ Katia Reguss‚ has previous experience as an entrepreneur. She has managed a small consulting company in Brazil‚ with two partners‚ for over 8 years‚ and only sold the company when decided to move to Canada two years ago. In the past year (2016)‚ she worked for 10 months‚ as assistant manager‚ in a toy store in Downtown Toronto. Now‚ she is studying Business Management Diploma at Humber College and will conclude the course on May 2017. THE OPPORTUNITY Due to the intense

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    Before the film even starts it is made abundantly clear that City of God is a transnational film via the use of its opening credit sequence. Not only are there are a multitude of production companies and distributors attached to the film‚ but probably more pertinent is the fact that the first to be highlighted is that of Miramax Films – a ‘North’ American founded company. This association with ‘North’ America early on is an obvious allusion to the fact that the film is transnational. However for

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    the mean delay is +1........ O.lms around the sample mean (assume that the sample standard deviation wont change appreciably!) Za packet ’--_..... ~ 2/3 Slow processor -mean delay 3ms Fast processor- constant delay For the standard nonna! distribution note that: ZO.005 ­ 2.525‚ Z0025 1.96‚ 1.645‚ ZOI’" 1.285 Ims = 1 (-‚‚) ~ i 0 Po(IC)" J[f e-~] f -I ~---+----’"""lI> 1/ Ft;l’-t) 1"’$ bJ"(X_I) E(1)). -01) J ~r;)J7( = J’"X +00

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    is culturally diverse and is accepting of others cultures. Many people that live in Australia have cultural backgrounds other than Australian. In looking for alibrandi‚ Josephine alibrandi is of Australian-Italian descent. In the novel Josephine’s nonna states “a different Australia emerged in the 1950’s. A multicultural one. She also states “one day we couldn’t find him‚ everybody started looking. Italian‚ Australian‚ Spanish…everybody.” This

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    the flaw with me but it also could mean that my mother and I have a lot in common‚ so this could be referred as a virtue. But I’m not a kid anymore‚ I’m 17 years old and I’m growing up‚ I found out more information about my family‚ especially‚ Nona Katia‚ I don’t want to talk about it‚ I just want all of you to know that I am a woman now. I don’t really want to make this speech but I have to. I just want to say that I really love my mother.

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