Plot Summary: Hagar Shipley is an older woman who lives in western Canada with her son and his wife‚ Marvin and Doris.She starts to recall her life in Manawaka where she spent her childhood with family and friends. While the plot returns to present‚ her son Marvin and his wife Doris are trying to persuade Hagar selling their house and buying a smaller one. The proposal has been intensely rejected by Hagar‚ because she believes that the house is hers.Then‚ plot moves to the interview with the minister
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daily life‚ is the way in which (person who/thing that/place where/event in which) people live. Some people prefer getting up early in the morning and starting the day’s work. Others‚ on the other hand‚ enjoy getting up later in the day and working until late at night. Just as the saying goes‚ “Every coin has its two sides”‚ both getting up early in the morning and getting up later in the day have advantages and disadvantages. As far as I am concerned‚ getting up early is more beneficial because you
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"I figure so‚" I said‚ and then my father said‚ in that way he has of saying something that cuts you down to half of your size or less: "Slow to start and quick to finish." So went the character Adam about his life‚ and so went the book‚ April Morning‚ by Howard Fast. Throughout the book‚ an underlying theme of starting a task slowly and finishing the task quickly. The character Adam is slow to start his chores‚ but quick to finish his responsibilities; Adam’s father‚ Moses Cooper is slow to begin
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conspiracy theory revolving around 4 AM (Rives). Before the TED Talk‚ while researching a Polish poet named Wislawa Szymborska‚ a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1996‚ Rives came across an eerily familiar poem entitled “Four in the Morning”. Because he was unsure why this poem‚ which he’d never read before‚ felt familiar‚ he became fixated on the concept of 4 AM‚ hearing references to the time over and over in his daily life‚ inspiring him to create the 2007 TED Talk conspiracy. During
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PLOT SUMMARY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Danny Boyle Jamal Malik‚ an 18-year old Mumbai slum kid‚ get right through to the last question on ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ and the chance to win 20 million rupees. But straight after the show breaks for the night‚ he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The show’s quizmaster Prem Kumar‚ himself a product of the slums‚ is unwilling to share the limelight with the young upstart. A night of mistreatment and torture fails to elicit a confession‚ so
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Dexter - Morning Routine - Analysis The title sequence for Dexter is a montage that depicts Dexter’s morning routine before he heads out to work. On our first watch‚ we instantly start to learn certain things about who Dexter is. He’s male‚ white‚ has brown hair and stubbly facial hair. By the tone and texture of his skin we can depict that he is around the 30 years old mark. The opening begins with a close-up on a mosquito sucking blood. We associate mosquitos with painful bites and we can relate
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Reisz’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning‚ the classic story of an angry young man‚ heralded a new kind of cinema for British audiences. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a classic social realist film of the British New Wave. Made in 1960‚ it was groundbreaking in both its portrayal of the industrial nightmare of working class factory life‚ and its unrepentant‚ cocky anti-hero Arthur Seaton. The British New Wave and La Nouvelle Vague Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) was Karel Reisz’s first
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Jake Suit The episode starts with Finn wearing Jake as the "Jakesuit‚" smashing around the Tree Fort and letting BMO attack him as hard as it can‚ not realizing that he is causing Jake pain. Finn then jumps off the roof and lands crotch first on a fence‚ causing Jake to spit out Finn. BMO comes outside and hits Jake one last time before the screen goes black and the scene goes to Finn playing BMO on the couch. Jake has a red lower body as he limps onto the couch to lie down. As Jake recovers‚ he
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Matilda Cook lives with her hardworking mother‚ grandfather‚ a veteran of the Revolutionary War‚ and Eliza‚ a freed slave who works as their cook‚ in the apartment on top of their family coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Matilda ("Mattie") Cook is 14 years old with big dreams for her family’s coffeehouse. When the yellow fever epidemic breaks out during the summer‚ people flee the city or die. Matilda realizes she has to fight for her own life and her loved ones. Her father died in a fall from a ladder
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Night and Sunday Morning focuses on Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) who would rather spend his time drinking and womanising than being “ground down” in a domestic lifestyle. It has been argued that British New Wave films are very focussed on this nature of the male identity. The film is regarded as a “kitchen sink drama” due to its blunt realist portrayal of England’s working class. Screenplay writer Arthur Sillitoe was regarded as an “angry young man” and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning clearly reflects
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