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    Dead Poets Society: The Influence of Transcendental Thinking Transcendental thinking has an extremely empowering and influential effect upon whoever listens to its teachings. Transcendental thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau greatly influence three main characters from Dead Poets Society. The movie Dead Poets Society reveals the influence of transcendental thinking on the lives of Todd Anderson‚ Charlie Dalton and Neil Perry through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry

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    Critical Analysis #2 Carlos Eduardo S. Moliterno 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead” is one of the most influential zombie movies of all time. Despite its extremely low budget the movie was a great success. I actually believe that the limited budget is what made the movie successful. Due to the fact that it was shot in black-and-white‚ it gave the film an unique look contributing to its style. In various instances during the movie it the movie looks like a documentary‚ which adds to the realism

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    something. However‚ I manage my time so that I can have time for myself to gear down‚ rejuvenate and get ready to tackle the world head on. During one of these times‚ I have found one of the best TV shows that I have ever watched− The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead‚ set in a post-apocalyptic world‚ features sheriff deputy‚ Rick Grimes‚ the protagonist‚ waking up in a coma. Confused about what happened and his bullet wound‚ he sets out on foot and discovers a world full of zombies. He begins his trek

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    The Dead Zone Stephen King’s The Dead Zone has been a bestseller‚ but it has also been banned or challenged. The Dead Zone is about an average man named John Smith. Things were going great for him‚ until he was in a car accident‚ which caused him to go into a coma for five and a half years. After he came out of the coma‚ he gained the ability to see the future. Throughout the book‚ you see John trying to regain what he once had. All of Stephen King’s books have received outstanding critical

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    novel is divided into six sections‚ each have a separate protagonist‚ first a divorced researcher‚ a widowed photographer‚ a mute boy‚ a solitary missionary‚ a writer with a mouth ailment‚ and a mentally ill homeless man. The Brief History of the Dead: Is about

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    Dead Poets’ Society Essay In “Dead Poets’ Society‚” directed by Peter Weir‚ setting is one the fundamentalaspects of the film as it conveys and develop the main theme: conformity versuspersonal freedom and nonconformity. The importance of setting is revealed in the filmthrough the use of various visual techniques. It is through the choice andpresentation of the setting - single-sex boys’ school- that audiences are able to andfurther understand of the main ideas presented in the film.The general

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    geniuses have looked to share their thoughts on the zombie myth through video games‚ comic books and television shows. One of the newest television shows that depicts a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies is AMC’s The Walking Dead. The setting of The Walking Dead takes place in a world in which a massive‚ fatal‚ and gore filled disease has killed a majority of civilization on earth and has forsaken whomever that is left to fight to survive against the flesh eating‚ walking zombies and the other

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    Out of the Ordinary: On What Makes Yvette Tan’s Horror in “Waking the Dead and Other Horror Stories” Different from the Usual Since the dawn of time‚ horror has already been thriving on the Philippine mainstream (A. Paman‚ 2010). Men and women‚ old and young‚ alike‚ have been fond of being scared by the characters of the child-imitating tiyanak‚ the tree demon kapre‚ the vampire-like aswang‚ the horse-headed-human-bodied tikbalang‚ and the violent spirits‚ among others. When a typical Filipino

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    Dead Poet’s Society is a 1989 film written by Tom Schulman and directed by Peter Weir. It is set in 1959 in Vermont at an elite conservative boarding school Welton Academy. It tells the story of an English teacher‚ Mr. Keating‚ who inspires his students through poetry The movie Dead Poets Society explores the concept of individualism in great depth‚ particularly through the lessons of Mr. Keating. On the first day of class‚ Keating quotes Whitman’s “O Captain‚ My Captain‚” and tells the students

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    push each other to excel. Amidst these eccentric activities‚ the students‚ intrigued with their new teacher‚ learn that he was a member of the Dead Poets Society. When asked‚ Keating describes glorious moments of creating gods‚ but warns them to forget about the idea. Nevertheless‚ they repeatedly sneak off campus to convene their own version of the Dead Poets Society. Todd is allowed to attend as an exception: since he does not want to read aloud‚ he keeps minutes of the

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