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    The film I will be analyzing is an Alfred Hitchcock film: The Lady Vanishes. It’s about an old women Miss Froy‚ who befriends a wealthy young girl names Iris on the train‚ but later disappears on the way to their destination. The specific scene I will be talking about s where Iris and Gilbert‚ a person Iris seeks for help fight against the culprit‚ who kidnapped Miss Froy. In this 1938 film editing wasn’t the best because there wasn’t much technology and equipment to work with. But there are techniques

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    Whale Talk Sparknotes

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    The book Whale Talk is a really good book because it teaches about life and how some kids get treated and also how other kids grow up. One thing to remember is that the book is meant for the reader to put themselves in the character’s shoes to fully understand what they are going through. When Tj tries to get a swim team together it is hard but sense he has the heart of loving the sport he does it and it turns out to be the best team because they all love each other and would do anything for one

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    Speckled Band Sparknotes

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    Sherlock Holmes used his observance to come to the conclusion that occurred at the end of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In April 1883‚ Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson experienced an encounter with Helen Stoner. Holmes and Watson were recommended by Helen’s friend; that was Helen’s motive for reporting her sister’s death to them. Helen Stoner and Dr. Roylott lived in Stoke Moran. Dr. Roylott‚ Helen’s stepfather‚ was an aggressive man. After Helen Stoner’s mother

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    Monsieur Villefort works as a public prosecutor in Paris in 1815. At this time period‚ Bonapart is on the rise‚ Monsieur Villefort’s job consists mostly of incarcerating those with Bonapartist political views. As he is at a dinner party with his soon to be wife and family in law‚ he recieves news that he has to see a young sailor who is going to be tried for delievering a package to the Isle that Bonapart is located on. The young man comes in and pleads his innocence‚ explaining that he only visited

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    Hotel Rwanda Sparknotes

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    In both English and History class‚ we discussed different issues and compared our ideas with the movie Hotel Rwanda which revealed the genocide and the Western countries ignorance. They labeled the time of unrest as `an act of genocide´‚ therefore not allowing nations to come and aid the victims because their interest did not lie in helping politically as it was not beneficial. Paul Rusesabagina‚ the main protagonist‚ is a brave hotel manager who saved the lives of the Tutsis he housed in a hotel

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    The Dark Life Sparknotes

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    The Dark Life Review Kat Falls was inspired to write Dark Life because her son was reading about the ocean a lot. Dark Life is book written by Kat Falls. Ty lives in an underwater experimental homestead. Then a topsider named Gemma went subsea to look for her missing brother who is lost. Whenever Ty and Gemma meet they team up to find Gemma’s brother‚ but they also have the outlaws to deal with. Students should read this book because it has a nonfiction connection

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    Mankind Play Sparknotes

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    Mankind is a Medieval Morality play which is an allegory to the fall of Adam as it centres around its main character Mankind who is the representation of humankind and how he succumbs to the temptation and his repentance from this sin. The play distinctively plays around the theme of religion‚ good vs evil‚ hard-work vs idleness‚ body vs soul while dealing with its characters‚ their dialogues‚ and the word-play within it and by parodying Latin language and the beliefs associated with it. Mankind

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    Bradbury pays an extraordinary amount of attention to physical beauty‚ familial ties‚ and American History‚ in The Martian Chronicles. Many of its stories were written to stand alone. Through the span of the book‚ the readers are able to visualize a cause and effect theme and foresee a relative connection and bond with each individual section of the book‚ as the storyline progress. The book is a fictional account of the colonization of Mars‚ while pondering the question if humanity is ready to frontier

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    Marc Spector Sparknotes

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    Marc Spector was the son of a Jewish rabbi whose family had fled Europe in the 1930s to escape the Holocaust. Marc saw his father as a coward for refusing to fight When his people were persecuted. Refusing his father’s faith‚ Marc started out as a boxer before he eventually joined the U.S. Marines where he was trained as a commando. However‚ his skills in the field led to his recruitment into the Central Intelligence Agency where he worked with William Cross and his brother‚ Randall Spector. However

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    5th Wave Sparknotes

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    The 5th Wave is written by rick yancey its dystopian Aliens come to planet earth for the first wave the aliens emp that ruins all electronics on the earth‚ for the second wave all the coast lines are destroyed‚ the third wave is a disease called the red tsunami where people bleed from everything and 7 billion people are killed. In the 4th wave the main characters find out that the aliens have taken human form and no one can be trusted. The main characters are cassie sullivan and ben parish. Cassies

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