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    Institution can be defined as an organisation that is established for a particular purpose. In this case Scott Monk novel “Raw” encounters from a range of good and bad features on protest‚ enforcement and compliance. Another text that clearly states the personal experiences of the characters with the institution is the film “shawshank redemption” One of the major themes discussed in “Raw” is protest. This is represented through Brett the main character‚ who gets set to the farm. A facility runs

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    Educating Rita by Willy Russell explores the relationship between the two characters involved in the play‚ Frank and Rita over a time span‚ of several months. A variety of themes are explored as Rita‚ a working class Liverpudlian‚ aspires to a higher social and academic level so that she may have choices‚ with Frank‚ a disillusioned and failed poet as her teacher. As Rita progresses‚ Russell uses a range of dramatic techniques and tensions between the two characters to explore themes of the personal

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    removed from society never to return. This realization has a profound impact on the inmates and strips them of their sanity‚ however occasionally there is a person who is able to buck that trend and restore hope. Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption‚ by Rita Hayworth‚ is one of the few Christ figures that was able to restore hope to an entire nation. Andy arrived at Shawshank Penitentiary as a thirty-year-old man who had allegedly murder his wife‚ Linda Collins Dufresne‚ and her

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    Review A story of hope is just about the last thing you’d expect to find in a prison movie. But in The Shawshank Redemption‚ that’s exactly what you get. Shawshank is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ a man convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and shipped to a maximum-security prison in Shawshank‚ Maine‚ for two consecutive life sentences. Over the next years (two hours‚ movie time)‚ he finds his way to inner peace and self-reliance in the midst of the terror and inequity of

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    Shawshank’s bible thumping warden by doing his financial consulting and eventually helping him embezzle money from the prison. During his thirty year incarceration Andy slowly burrowed his way out of his cell‚ hiding the hole in the wall with a poster of Rita Hayworth. One stormy night he finally dug his way through the cell wall and escaped through five hundred yards of sewage pipe. Andy withdrew all of the money from the warden’s accounts and anonymously alerted the press of the corruption at Shawshank

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    In 1994 Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman teamed together in Frank Darabont ’s The Shawshank Redemption making one of the best duos since Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Based on Stephen King ’s short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption the film‚ although not popular in the box office‚ made its profits when released on VHS and DVD (Haviland). It is now listed as second in the top 250 films according to the Internet Movie Database. In this paper‚ I am

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    sentence at Shawshank State Penitentiary. He befriends ‘Red’ a smuggler of contraband who gives Andy a rock hammer which Andy claims he will use to create chess pieces. Later Red also gets him numerous large posters of prominent celebrities such as Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Monroe. After showing skills with accounting Andy is made the Warden’s financial assistant to assist the corrupt use of prison labour to make personal profits‚ to do this Andy creates and alias to cover up the crime. A new member

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    The speech that I chose was given by Rita F. Pierson and is titled “Every Kid Needs a Champion.” In all‚ the presentation she gives is about ways to help students succeed and not give up. She starts her speech by explaining that she has had a lot of experience dealing with education. From having parents and grandparents that worked as teachers to working as a teacher for around 40 years herself‚ she assures the audience that she knows very well the topic of her speech. She then makes a connection

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    REBELLION VS. CONFORMITY If one believed only in laws or rules that applied to evil‚ selfish‚ violent and mala in se crimes and followed only the laws that were for the protection of others‚ he would still be a criminal. Because he did not conform to some laws that were unjust‚ even if he hadn’t ever hurt a soul‚ he might be called a non-conformist at best‚ as well as a criminal. If one believed that some of the laws were unjust but mostly that the system itself acted unjustly and unfairly‚

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    4 PERSONALITY PROFILES – Owl‚ Dove‚ Eagle & Peacock The Analytical The Analytical is polite but reserved‚ logical‚ fact- and task-oriented. This person’s focus is on precision and perfection. Other strengths include persistence‚ diligence‚ caution‚ and a systematic approach. Weaknesses involve being withdrawn‚ boring‚ quiet‚ reclusive‚ and even sullen at times. If he or she seems indecisive‚ it’s because of a need to assess all the data. Perfectionism can be a fault if the Analytical

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