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    movie The Evil Dead which came out in 1981‚ and its remake Evil Dead‚ which came out in 2013 have some things in common‚ such as the plot‚ the amount of blood and gore‚ and language but are also unique in their own ways. For example there’s more blood and language in the remake then the original. The comparison between this movie and its remake shows that what is defined as scary and bloody one generation is considered tame and silly by the next. The plot of the original The Evil Dead is that five

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    Book of the Dead: The Singer of Amun Nany’s Funerary Procession The Book of the Dead is a textual and visual piece of art that focuses on the funerary aspects of ancient Egypt. One of the parts I liked best in the Book of the Dead at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was the scene of Nany and her passage to the afterlife. I am going to break down this section‚ and address the different characters and symbols‚ both formally and contextually. I will describe not just what is seen on the surface‚ but

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    The Book of the Dead Spartacus was published in 1951 by Howard Fast. It’s about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus. The book inspired many people with their work leading to the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The significance in this book is that it’s a story about the great Spartacus’s life. Gilgamesh PanHellenic Games were where you pitted one Greek city or state against another they could be from religious events‚ athletic events for the talented Greeks. They would happen every

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    “Alive but dead” Ray Bradbury uses figurative language in Fahrenheit 451 by using the terms “alive yet not alive” and “dead but not dead.” By using these terms Bradbury is saying that things are alive when they are not‚ but in reality they are just machines. Bradbury also says things are dead‚ but really they are alive and human. Bradbury uses the term‚ “alive yet not alive‚” when talking about Mildred. He also uses the term‚ “dead but not dead‚” when talking about the snake that sucked all

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    The zombie apocalypse is coming‚ The Walking Dead series and Resident Evil movies have played into the public’s fear of turning into the living dead. Over the past 20 years the horror genre of movies and television has exceptionally rose in popularity. Movies like; Zombieland‚ 28 Days Later and Resident Evil have quite a following. “Television has started recently following this trend as well‚ by airing shows like The Walking Dead.”³ Television has filled a wide gap by filling the horror

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    Catherina Li 12/13/13 p.5 critical outline Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a work that focuses on how everything can mean nothing and how nothing can mean everything. Autobiography: Tom Stoppard is Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born playwright. He began his career in England in 1954 as a journalist‚ soon moving to London in 1960 to start work as a playwright A Walk on the Water Enter a Free Man Every Good Boy Deserves Favour CHARACTER LIST Rosencrantz: The

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    No‚ we’re not going with The Walking Dead “walkers”‚ we’re going with the quick‚ running‚ but still mindless ones like those from Left4Dead‚ 28 Days Later and World War

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    Dead Poet Society’ is really a movie about conformity. Conformity is a powerful and the most overwhelming theme in the movie ‘Dead Poet Society’. The school demands for conformity from the students‚ Mr Keating’s informal attitude in teaching challenges conformity and how the movie shows many consequences of conformity prove that conformity is the main theme in ‘Dead Poet Society’. At Welton Academy they demand conformity of its students. The camera zooms into a group of straight-faced

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    Critical Analysis of a Game: Red Dead Redemption Professor Shawn Graham Jad Slaibeh 100804020 Submitted: Thursday February 7th 2013 The game I have chosen for my critical analysis is Red Dead Redemption. Red Dead Redemption was made‚ published‚ and engineered by a company called Rockstar Games (Rockstar Website). The major distributor of the game is a company who happens to own Rockstar‚ Take-Two interactive. Being one of the most successful video game developers to date

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    plays Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead reflect the values of the contexts in which they were written. The plays Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard and Hamlet by William Shakespeare were composed in vastly different contexts and the nature of the plays greatly reflect the context in which they were composed. Hamlet is clearly a product of the times of the early 17th century as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is a product of the Swinging Sixties as it has very

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