Reflection Paper 《wall Street 2》 Amy Yu The movie Money Never Sleeps‚ also known as the Wall Street 2‚ is an American drama directed by Oliver Stone in 2010. It is a very successful business movie of the century on‚ is the classic film‚ and I think it is a really good. The film contains a profound economic knowledge‚ When saying that Money Never Sleeps‚ we can feel that money is really like a super man‚ they do work much faster than us‚ the humans
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Children and childhood across the world‚ have been called ‘golden age’ that is synonymous with innocence‚ freedom‚ joy and play. It is the time when‚ one hardly shoulders any kind of responsibility or obligations. But‚ The fact that children are vulnerable‚ they need to be cared for and protected from ‘the harshness of the world outside’ and around. Every nation whether developed or developing links its future with the status of the child.If the children are deprived of their childhood-socially‚
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On the eve of the narrator and his family ’s departure for the United States after twelve years of residence in Paris‚ the narrator is being chided by his wife and visiting sister about his nightmares. He is worried about his return to the racist United States after such a long absence and what effect it will have on his multiracial family and his career. “This Morning‚ This Evening‚ So Soon‚” concerns a black American expatriate living in Paris during the late 1950s. He has lived there for many
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CHAPTER 3 The Female Divine THE GREAT GODDESS Was There a Great Goddess? During the last century and a half‚ numerous and seemingly related prehistoric artifacts depicting female figures have been found in a wide range from France to Siberia and as far south as Greece. Among these ancient objects are engravings‚ statuettes‚ and relief carvings‚ dating anywhere from 30‚000 to 5‚000 bce‚ some of which are adorned with designs such as crescents‚ spirals‚ triangles‚ meanders‚ egg shapes‚ and
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The United States in the mid-1960s was a period of revolution. Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe is set in this era‚ in the midst of the Vietnam War‚ the black civil rights movement‚ gay liberation‚ and the LSD movement. It was a time of radical change‚ chaos‚ as well as social and political instability. In three significant scenes‚ through the use of angles and lighting‚ Taymor illustrates the burdens of the Vietnam war‚ and how these burdens cause necessary transitions in Lucy‚ Jude‚ and Max
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novella The House on Mango Street based on the narrator‚ Esperanza’s‚ first year living on Mango Street. A young Latino girl‚ by the name of Esperanza‚ is growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and is determined to leave her life on Mango Street in her past. In this novella Cisneros explores the effect of loss of innocence on Mango Street. The roles of women and how they treat each other is highly prominent in The House on Mango Street. Throughout Esperanza’s year on Mango Street she begins to realize that
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Across the Nightingale Floor. Written by Lian Hearn. Lian Hearn was born in England and immigrated to Australia in 1973. Lian Hearn is a pseudonym which means that she used a different name to publish her book. She chose the name Lian Hearn because Lian has been a family nickname for her and Hearn because it is Japanese for Heron which is a key symbol in her books. She is a rather famous author and the books that made her famous where the “Tales of Otori series. Lians Hearns novel “Across
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According to the text‚ Business across cultures by Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams‚ cultures can be observed as being three-layered. The first layer consists of explicit features that can be easily identified: Clothes‚ food‚ language and similar tangible attributes. The second layer is more difficult to observe but is still relatively easy to get familiar with: it consists of values and norms within a culture. In a way‚ values define norms because once a core value is established‚ behaving according
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Maggie; A girl of the Streets Pertaining to Gender Inequality Stephen Crane’s Maggie; A Girl of the Streets depicts the shockingly harsh and destitute lives that many people had to sustain in turn of the 20th century New York City. It reveals a disturbing realism of slum life and poor living conditions‚ and addresses several social forces that occurred during this time. Prominently‚ this story tackles the idea of gender inequality and discrimination. Maggie‚ the main character of this novella‚
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Poetry Across Time Section A: ‘Relationships’ You must hit each of the following assessment objectives; failure to do so will result in a significantly reduced mark: 1 insightful exploratory response to text (your ideas about aspects of the poems) 2 close analysis of detail to support interpretation (analysis of key quotations) 3 evaluation of writers’ uses of language and/or structure and/or form and effects on readers ( analysis of techniques and effects) 4 convincing/imaginative interpretation
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