Good after noon fellow students and teachers I am here to talk to you about my choice of two texts that I have chosen that are related to adaptation. The two texts I have chosen are the novel looking for alibrandi by Melina Marchetta and the film Shawshank redemption by Frank Darabont. Adaptation is a movement from a previous state to a new state which will cause people to react differently depending on what the change is. Adaptation is expressed throughout life in many different aspects and formats
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the time she was thrown out of home at 17‚ Nonna has always blamed Christina for Josies birth. Up until Francessca’s death‚ Nonna was forbidden to have any contact with her daughter. this exemplifies the authority an Italian male can exert on the women in his family. Josie would have seen this and binded with her motivation from her australian identity could not stand for such a culture. It was not until Francessca’s death that Nonna could be reuinted with her daughter and grand daughter. Josie’s
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The speaker of the seminar was Scott Rouse‚ who is a body language expert. He spoke of how his knowledge not only helped with analyzing criminals‚ but it also helped with analyzing any type of targets related to the business world (S. Rouse‚ personal communication‚ October 17‚ 2015). There are many interesting facts that were discussed in the seminar. Three key facts presented were behavior of the hands‚ the type of lies‚ and the importance of listening. People’s hands can give up much more information
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In Scott Bransford article “Camping for Their Live”‚ Bransford writes about a newlywed couple Marie and Francisco Caro and many other homeless people in California’s Central Valley. The Caros didn’t have enough money to put a down payment on a home therefore they became homeless. Bransford uses a concerned tone when writing about the homeless in California. Bransford has some strengths and some weaknesses in his article. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of tent cities and
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Claimant Jose Villalobos worked fulltime for Mr. Marsh Sanders‚ owner and operator at Design Concepts Inc. The company is a landscape and construction company that has been in business for 30 years. The claimant unexpectedly stop working for Mr. Sanders in March 2015 for no apparent reason when he worked as a Lead Foreman for a 3 man crew that conducted landscape work with potted plant materials‚ such as potted plants‚ trees and shrubbery‚ and used a shovel‚ pick‚ chain saws and a rototiller to
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Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Scott Joplin‚ commonly known as the "King of Ragtime" music‚ was born on November 24‚ 1868‚ in Bowie County‚ Texas near Linden. Joplin came from a large musical family. His father‚ Giles Joplin was a musician who had fiddled dance music while serving as a slave at his master ’s parties. His mother‚ Florence Givens Joplin‚ born free and out of slavery‚ sang and played the banjo‚ and four of his brothers and sisters either sang or played strings. Joplin ’s
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Essay 1 – ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ ‘How are the differences between Australian and Italo-Australian culture displayed by Marchetta and what effects do they have on the protagonist Josie?” Melina Marchetta’s cult text ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ looks at many issues of growing up in Australia torn between two cultures. The main protagonist Josie Alibrandi was born in Australia into a family with strong Italian cultural links and her battle to ‘find’ herself and her ethnicity is one that I will explore
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‘Looking For Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta leads the reader towards the theme of lost identity and the pursuit to find it. The protagonist‚ Josephine Alibrandi‚ displays the importance of self-acceptance through a riveting odyssey of belonging. Marchetta highlights the significance of relationships and the effect that they have towards the outcome of emancipation. The novel journeys the idea of cultural acceptance through a series of events that displays the impact of family enigmas. Josephine
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Debt and the Class of 2014).” Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has a very audacious idea that could possibly fix this growing problem. Sander’s unique charisma‚ reminiscent of the sixties‚ is reinvigorating young voters who are very fond of his plan to pay collage tuition. His idea deals with economic concepts such as‚ the government’s fiscal policy and Keynesian economics ideology that plays a big role in the policies of democrats. Sanders idea sounds almost too good to be true; that is because
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Nancy Tran www.boredofstudies.org LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI – QUOTES (1992 Puffin edition) “My mother was born here so as far as the Italians were concerned we weren’t completely one of them. Yet because my grandparents were born in Italy we weren’t completely Australian.” (p. 7) “It makes me feel I will never be a part of their society and I hate that because I’m just as smart as they are.” (p. 8) “The room isn’t like the living rooms of my parents… but I like it. Because my mother and I are
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