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    Introduction The aim of this essay is to analyze and comment on the selection practices based on the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Scott (2005) states that “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was filmed in 2005 based on children’s book by Roald Dahl. The movie reveals a story about poor young boy – Charlie‚ who lives in town‚ where located chocolate factory owned by famous confectioner - Willy Wonka. Soon‚ Willy Wonka decides to allow 5 children to visit his factory and distributes five Golden

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    ROTAIRO‚ Sam Rian S. Hum10 / A4 Ms. Bantay Part 1 : 1. What is Ahimsa? Why did Gandhi say that it is always equated to truth? Explain briefly your point. Ahimsa is an act of achieving things without violence involved. Violence is an act of hurting or harming people. And I think ahimsa can be achieved by always telling the truth. Lying is one of the factors that can start a violent situation among people and I think being honest to other people is the key for a peaceful surrounding. Do you think

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    at the Cologne Hochschule fur Musik. In 1933 at the age of twenty-one Dahl fled to Switzerland in order to escape Nazi Germany and continued his musical studies at the University of Zürich with Volkmar Andreae and Walter Frey. During his time in Zürich‚ Dahl was an in demand piano soloist and opera coach for the Zürich Stadttheater. It is here that Dahl met Etta Gordon Linick‚ and the two later married. In 1939‚ Dahl immigrated to the United States and moved to Los Angeles. This was a special

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    Telephone conversation by Wole Soyinka is about‚ as the title suggests‚ a conversation over the telephone between two people – a West African man and a British landlady. The former was looking for a place to live in London. He felt that the ‘price seemed reasonable’ and the ‘location indifferent’ in the sense that it was impartial. The landlady claimed that she ‘lived off premises’ possibly indicating that it was a source of income for her. The poem is in free verse and appears like a conversation‚

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    Imagine going for a job in Africa on a ship in very hot days. When you arrive there you lose your job because you have to go to war forced and with no experience. In the book "Going Solo" Roald talks about his friends he met on his travels. David Coke is a concern person because Roald did something wrong because on paragraph 108 it states‚ " never do that agin" because he almost crashed. He is also a cooperative person because on paragraph 64 it states‚ " Then David Coke said‚ ’As you don’t seem

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    Constitution By Robert A. Dahl Context The American Constitution‚ seen by Americans as guiding light and bedrock of civil rights and democracy is as Robert A. Dahl argues not so democratic and does not guard the rights of individuals. P.18 Dahl places his work asking fundamental questions as to the use and application of the constitution in the modern world‚ not as an attack as Gordon S. Wood from New York Review of Books clearly states on the front cover. Dahl merely and humbly is asks Americans

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    SUMMARY Telephone conversation is about an African man who wishes to rent an apartment and so has phoned the landlady to inquire. Once the landlady answers the man decides he must confess‚ as if he has committed a crime‚ about his nationality as the persona in the poem is well aware of the wide spread prejudice against people of African descent and feels he must get the fact out of the way. However‚ unaware of the extent of the landlady’s ignorance‚ he is shocked and annoyed by her cold‚ impersonal

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    Univ 102 . 10 May 2011 Cultural Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood The story of “Little Red Riding Hood” began as a fairy tale passed down through the centuries‚ especially by peasant women to their daughters since folklorists often belonged to the peasant culture (Tatar 3). The peasants who were farmworkers and domestic laborers needed something to do while working tediously‚ so they told each other tales. That’s why the Little Red Riding Hood story’s original plot had a peasant

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    Born in Burbank California in 1958‚ director Tim Burton grew up with a fascination for Roald Dahl and Edgar Allen Poe works. He enjoyed how these authors were able to blend humor and horror to create a work of art that viewers were both disgusted‚ and intrigued by. The effect of these influences were eventually reflected in his remarkable films. From Edward Scissorhands‚ where the main character has scissors for hands instead of real hands‚ to Alice in Wonderland‚ where the main character is thrown

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    encountered firsthand such parochial attitude‚ and had learnt to take it in his stride‚ the poem is thus influenced by his personal experience. The poem is about a telephone conversation in England between the poet‚ seeking to rent a house and an English landlady who completely changes her attitude towards him after he reveals his identity as a black African. The motif of a microcosmic telephone conversation‚ therefore‚ is employed by the poet to apply to a much broader‚ macrocosmic level where racial bigotry

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