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    Archetypes In The Road

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    archetype has become more common in books‚ films and TV shows because it develops interest in the audience. Thus‚ apocalyptic fiction always includes a character archetype of the "good guy who needs to be bad". One depiction of this archetype is The Road‚ which is written by Cormac McCarthy. In the beginning of the novel‚ the Man and the Boy are introduced as the "good guys". The good guys are the ones that never do anything bad;

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    Paradise Road

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    Those who experience conflict are truly tested and the core of their characters brought into sharp focus as they make sense of their experiences and those of the people around them. For the woman incarcerated at the end of Bruce Bereford’s ‘Paradise Road’ it is the conflict of enduring a war and all that this encompasses‚ including cultural prejudice and misunderstanding‚ violence and torture. For others in our world’s recent history such as Nelson Mandela‚ it was the conflict of enduring persistent

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    The End of the Road

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    The End of the Road “Hell‚ And How I Got Here” by Brenda Medina and “Puzzle Pieces” by Barbara Parsons Lane are two short stories from the book Couldn’t Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb. Medina and Lane are two women who are serving time in a maximum security prison. Brenda Lane is serving time for homicide and Barbara Parsons Lane is serving time for manslaughter. Brenda was involved in a gang-related killing while Barbara was convicted of killing her abusive husband. Each of these women lived

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    Road Rage

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    In this situation of road rage many laws were broken. The situation states that an old man and his wife pass the suspect’s car on the highway while blowing his horn. The suspect become angry and starts tailing the couple‚ calling them derogatory names and pointing a handgun at them till they reach the couples house. The wife continuously tells the suspects that her husband has a heart problem. This did not matter to the suspects and continued trying to fight the old man. The wife calls the

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    road to revolution

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    Road to Revolution Effects after the French and Indian War After the war Britain was in debt. (Wars are expensive) The Proclamation of 1763 was written so that settlers were not aloud to pass the Appalachian Mountains. (The British didn’t allow it; The Colonists ignored this rule and moved west) The Currency Act was created (by the British) and so the Colonists had to pay for British goods with gold and silver. Indirect Tax was made meaning tax was included in the price Colonists paid to buy

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    reflection

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    Diana Thompson Final Reflection Transfer Seminar March 14‚ 2014             Before transferring to Georgian Court University‚ I had already attended two other colleges. I lived in a dorm my freshmen year at Ramapo and decided that was not for me. After leaving Ramapo‚ I decided to take a few semesters at Brookdale Community College in order to fulfill some requirements while deciding where exactly was the right place for myself to continue with my education. After searching through many brochures

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    The Road: McCarthy

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    Filming Literature McCarthy’s The Road Tells us of another world‚ the world elsewhere of McCarthy is not the alternative world of promise that Coriolanus almost commits to but fails‚ foiled by women. Like Coriolanus it is a world of the margins‚ a world of poverty‚ a world without spectacle‚ without media. but here the world elsewhere has become the only world and it does not offer alternative. (the first staggering difference) This is all there is‚ there is no longer the possibility of imagining

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    The Road Analysis

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    A Father’s Unconditional Love and Absent Limits of Protection Throughout The Road the story boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains‚ but in which the father and his son‚ “each the other’s world entire‚” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision‚ it is an firm meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness‚ desperate tenacity‚ and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. The father’s

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    Glory Road

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    Glory Road: Ethics and Morals Glory Road: Ethics and Morals Many different movies that we watch throughout our lives stir some type of emotional response. This could include sadness‚ grief‚ joy‚ or even respect for a certain fictional character. The movie Glory Road depicts a time when African American players where not welcome on the basketball court. In 1965 a few college teams included black players. However‚ they would only play them when “needed”‚ or when they were

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    The Road Monologue

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    to tell Cassie‚ stacey‚ and christopher-John to go faster‚ but I was tryin’ to be nice so I kept my mouth shut. We be coming to the crossroads and I remember seeing Cassie‚ stacey‚ christopher-John‚ and Tj was getin’ off the road. Cassie was yellin’ at me to get off the road‚ and I told her I would get my clothes dirty. Then Cassie said ‘’you better get up here little man or your clothes will get dirtier‚ LOOK!” Once I turned my head I saw something come so I ran to the bank. When I got down from

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