West Side Story transfers Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to present-day New York. The love story of Romeo and Juliet becomes that of Maria and Tony. The feud between the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues is re-created in one involving two teen-age gangs‚ the Jets and the Sharks. The famous balcony scene of the Shakespeare drama transpires on a fire-escape of an ugly New York tenement. The curtain rises on a bleak scene representing a warehouse. For the next five minutes not a word is spoken
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Across the world people struggle with friendship one example of this is in the story The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson. The Other Side takes place in a old world where being friends with another race is looked down on. In the story two girls Annie and Clover one white one African American live next door to each other and after a while they become friends. A theme from this story is friendship is important in life. I have 3 parts of the story where it was important or happened‚ in the beginning
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The Other Side of Immigration Anyone who is wondering what is the reason behind why so many Mexicans cross the border illegally into the United States should watch this documentary by Roy Germano called‚ “The Other Side of Immigration.” This film addresses the root cause on why this mass migration is taking place and how current policies are affecting the Mexican economy. Although the policies that were passed were to benefit the nations involved‚ Mexico was shown to have experienced more negative
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The Other Side Of The Bridge Essay By:Brontë Forster-Tan Loss is the process of losing something or someone that is important to you. Many characters in the book The Other Side Of The Bridge by Mary Lawson are effected mentally and emotionally by the loss of a loved one. We see throughout the book how Arthur Dunn‚ Dr.Christopherson and Laura Dunn cope and deal with loss during their everyday lives. Arthur Dunn suffered the most throughout the book with the loss of his friends and
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Side effects of SNS In 2011‚ a story of a young man who burned himself to death had provoked a democratic movement in Tunisia called the ‘Jasmine Revolution’. It surprised the world that twenty-three years of dictatorship had collapsed in a flash. Social networking services played an important role in the movement of that as soon as the young man killed himself‚ people were sharing and tweeting how he died. As far as that moment‚ SNS seemed to have represented political power in a positive way
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Taking Sides Essay Fonseca‚ Ricardo English Period 5 October 3‚ 2012 In the story "Taking Sides" by Gary Soto‚ Lincoln Mendoza‚ the main character‚ faces many conflicts that you may think that they won’t affect him but when these problems become a major role‚ the result of them cause him to act differently. Lincoln deals with these problems in different ways. He tries to resolve them by talking to the people he has problems with. Another thing he does is that he tries
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covered in this case. The baby boomer generation should especially be remembered due to the fact they make up the largest segment of population. If the theaters began to offer a day where that 17 percent could go and enjoy classic favourites such as West Side Story and To Kill a Mockingbird it might bring a whole generation back to the movies and increase revenue.
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The world is a complete mess. Since I decided to stop hanging with my droogs and "growing up"‚ things have gotten much worse. I’m on "the other side" now. The adult side. And I simply don’t understand youth nowadays. They are more violent than ever. In my days‚ we used to be pretty bad‚ but not as much as them. They’ll kill you if they can. Their main aim is to hurt‚ it’s not even to get things from you anymore. They enjoy seeing people suffer. What’s incredible is that they start younger now. I
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The Dark Side of Chocolate is a documentary that was produced in 2010 by a journalist named Miki Mistrati. Who investigates the use of trafficked children to be used for child labor in the harvesting of cocoa beans for the production of chocolate. According to the documentary 3 million tons of chocolate are consumed every year‚ half in Europe. But the success of chocolate is partly due to the fact that child labor is used to harvest cocoa beans on cocoa plantations in Africa. The filming started
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In the film The Blind Side Michael has to overcome many challenges to achieve his goal of playing NFL football. Discuss the obstacles he faced throughout his life to fulfil his dream. How does he overcome these? The Blind Side‚ a film released in November 20‚ 2009‚ produced by Gil Netter‚ Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Demonstrates what Michael Oher has to overcome in order to achieve his goal of playing American football at a national level Michael is a homeless boy who has run away
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