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    Synopsis: After a mysterious re-appearance of World War II era fighters resurface in Mexico‚ cableman Roy Neary has a strange encounter with a glowing light during a routine service call. He chases the light‚ almost causing him to hit a small child with his car. The boy’s mother‚ Jillian Guiler‚ found the boy’s room empty and came to find him. After the incident‚ Roy is sunburned from the mysterious light‚ and is plagued by images of a mountain and the sound of the same 5 notes. Roy’s town is cleared

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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind Close Encounters of the Third Kind was written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The story first starts off with a group of scientist that discover a bunch of perfect condition fighter planes in the desert that went missing in 1945. After that‚ a couple of commercial flights reported seeing a strange bright light‚ that they could not describe to ATC in Indiana. Widespread power outage hits Indiana and an electrical lineman‚ Roy Neary had an encounter with a UFO

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    Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a narrative (science fictional) film that tells the story of a group of people who made an attempt to contact alien intelligence. This group of individuals is led by main character Richard Dreyfuss who played Roy Neary‚ an electrician. The plot progresses chronologically through the events surrounding the main character life. The storyline kick started when Roy Neary was sent out on an emergency repair; he witnessed an Unidentified Foreign Object (UFO) that left

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    Within the movie “Close encounters of a third kind”‚ a common theme of trust plays a role throughout the movie. We see this theme expressed through the connection of the two main characters in the movie while they venture to devil’s tower‚ as well as towards the end of the movie‚ when humans finally come into contact with the UFO’s for the first time. As Roy and Jillian venture together to devil’s tower in hopes of finding information about what is going on‚ and also find Jillian’s son‚ the two characters

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    In her article entitled “Close Encounters of the Prehistoric Kind”‚ Science Magazine correspondent Ann Gibbons explains that due to interbreeding between Neanderthals and early modern humans‚ modern humans still contain traces of prehistoric Neanderthal DNA. According to researchers‚ Asians and Europeans most likely possess a higher frequency of Neanderthal genomes than Africans because the two species “occupied the [same regions] intermittently” in Europe‚ the Midwest‚ the Near East‚ and Russia

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    Close Encounters of the Amphibious Kind” by Tammy D. Lee and Jane L. Lubischer discusses a lesson that integrates physical science‚ focusing on the concept of sound‚ and life science‚ focusing on how sound is created in nature. This lesson concentrates on frogs‚ how they make sound‚ how the sounds they make are different‚ and the purposes of these different sounds. I will reflect on this article by summarizing it‚ discussing the standards accompanying it‚ and how I would implement this lesson in

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    “Have you recently had a close encounter?” quote from David Laughlin from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Well everyone who has ever seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind has had their own close encounter of some kind. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg and Produced by Colombia Pictures in association with EMI Films. Colombia Pictures the same year is credited with the production of four other films which include Bobby Deerfield staring Al Pacino‚ The Deadly Triangle staring

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    would become an Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film that doesn’t transports its audience into the startling terror of its characters‚ but instead it conveys the unrelentless force of dazzling awe. It’s worth repeating that Steven Spielberg is a genuinely captivating director‚ a filmmaker who manages to balance his films with moments of marvelous sensations and dramatic depth‚ cohesively held by his ability to evoke penetrating sentimentality. Close Encounters of the Third Kind takes that wonderful

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    Film Review: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Society & Entertainment Film Review What do you get when you combine aliens‚ a little bit of mystery‚ tasteful comedy‚ good acting‚ and award-winning direction? A wonderful film from one of the most celebrated directors of our time‚ Stephen Spielberg. "Close Encounters" places Richard Dreyfuss and Melinda Barro in roles of regular suburbanites who both believe to have seen a UFO. The plot thickens and the intrigue begins when these two

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    language to misguide the audience or it is a language “that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t”. It is a language used to communicate the bad news seemingly in a pleasant way. Doublespeak can be categorized in four kinds; first kind is euphemism‚ second kind is Jargon‚ third kind is gobbledygook‚ and the fourth type is inflated language. Throughout the essay William Lutz has given examples of how doublespeak has been misleading us in many ways like “there are no potholes in the street of Tuscan

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