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    Peer and family relationships help to change and shape both the identity of Josie and Amal from the novels Looking for Alibrandi and Does my head look big in this? Identity is who someone is and their characteristics. Everyone has an identity though finding that identity can be a challenge but something that has to be done. Identity often changes for the good and is necessary in life. Positive and negative relationships are a key to changing someones identity. Learning from negative relationship

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    as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" in United State of America). Another term is ’talking cure’ where the reality is reveals and the problems are being solved. Everything comes to the light and there is cease of the Defense Mechanism. The analysis Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is a famous fantasy novel by the author J.K. Rowling among the children around the world. It could be a study for psychoanalyst. The story begins with the murder of the wizard boy’s parent by the Dark Lord

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    Limitless variations of reality brought by different perspectives challenge the concept of normality.  Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird uses imagery pertaining to black birds in order to examine the alternate versions of reality. Scrutinizing the many possible interpretations of ordinary blackbirds challenges the concept of normality. Associating these overlooked creatures with great power‚ such as being able to move a river‚ certainly brings a shift of perspective. Furthermore‚ the acknowledgement

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    are for belonging‚ hence forcing them to reevaluate their own identity and their ability to experience a sense of belonging. This notion can be seen in both‚ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Looking For Alibrandi directed by Kate Wood. In the namesake‚ the character Gogol’s abnormal name forces

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    DiffDifferent Ways of Looking at Food The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ by Michael Pollan‚ attempts to figure out how such a simple question as‚ “What should we have for dinner?” (Pollan 1)‚ turned out to be so complicated such that we need investigative journalists to tell us what is in our food. To do so‚ he went on a journey to follow all three food chains that sustain us today: the industrial‚ the organic‚ and the hunter-gatherer back to their origins. Although these journeys may have led to very different

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    The film "Looking for Alibrandi" begins light-heartedly‚ and the viewer gets a very quick understanding of Josie’s character through her interactions with her friends and family. As the film progresses‚ the glamour that is initially associated with Josie begins to fade as we watch her struggle to cope with her final year of school (especially the racist attitude of one girl in particular‚ Carly Bishop (Leeanna Walsman)‚ the suicide of her crush‚ John Barton (Matthew Newton)‚ and meeting with Michael

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    Looking Up “We all take different paths in life‚ but no matter where we go‚ we take a little bit of each other everywhere”-Unknown. Growing up as a child was never really a tough thing for me. I came from a solid family with nothing but the normal issues that would come between us. My 2 brothers were always there to nag me about everything‚ then of course tell on me when I did something wrong. When I would get told on they would always run to my Dad‚ who always made the punishment a lot worse‚

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    Hopefully Looking into the Future “Hope is the thing with feathers /That perches in the soul /And sings the tune without the words /And never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson In Edwidge Danticat’s anthology‚ The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States‚ different voices of the Haitian dyasporas tell their stories on how they have hope. Whether it be a young child looking for motherly love‚ seeking to win a soccer game or on an even bigger scale‚ or getting

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    We are gathered here today to celebrate Alaska Ann Eaton’s beautiful and extraordinary life. She had a tragic death. Going scuba driving for your 3rd year wedding anniversary and getting attacked by a shark…well that’s extremely tragic. She was an animal person and maybe that’s why she had dolphins surrounding her trying to help rescue her and stop the shark. But that’s the thing about pain‚ it demands to be felt. She always mentioned this one quote‚ “The only to way escape the labyrinth of suffering

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    In the novel Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta‚ there are many representations of how fathers are portrayed in this novel. Question. Marchetta’s believes that a positive fatherhood figure is essential within a Childs life such as Michael Andretti helping his daughter‚ Joesphine Alibrandi achieve her emancipation. Marchetta contrasts Michael against negatively representations of fatherhood figures such as Senator Barton and Francesco Alibrandi. In the beginning of the novel‚ Marchetta represents

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