English pd. 7/8 November 1‚ 2012 What do you do when you read a book then watch the movie on it? Do you watch it to get the picture of the story or do you watch it to compare the two? When reading a story then watching a movie you need to watch out for the similarities and differences between the two. The book Beowulf and the movie Beowulf have a few similarities and a good bit of differences. Some similarities are they both have the same characters‚ Beowulf cuts off Grendel’s arm‚ the people celebrate
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Cross cultural negotiation is one of many specialized areas within the wider field of cross cultural communications. By taking cross cultural negotiation training‚ negotiators and sales personnel give themselves an advantage over competitors. There is an argument that proposes that culture is inconsequential to cross cultural negotiation. It maintains that as long as a proposal is financially attractive it will succeed. However‚ this is a naïve way of approaching international business. Let us
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Finally‚ the long-awaited movie adaptation of the Giver is here. However‚ no movie adaptation stays completely true to its source material‚ and the Giver is no different. The Giver movie sustained some massive changes to its characters and plot‚ not all of which were good. The movie changed the characters’ ages. In the movie‚ the characters were aged to the average dystopian-fiction age. While Lily only aged a year‚ Jonas and his friends aged a lot more‚ jumping from twelve to eighteen. This
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Vossische Zeitung‚ and then later published‚ in book form‚ in 1929. An American movie was later made in 1930‚ of the same name. It had won best picture and best director in 1930‚ as well as being nominated for best Cinematography and best Writing Achievement. Both movie and book have made huge impacts on society‚ however when viewing the two together one can see that they are similar and different.
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Jon Krakauer’s book Into The Wild shares many discrepancies with Sean Penn’s film Into The Wild. But among all the people I’ve heard out on whether Into The Wild is a great film or a terrible one‚ a fairly common pattern has emerged: An awful lot of the people who absolutely hated the film had previously read–and in many cases loved–the book. And I suspect that the difference between Krakauer’s approach and Penn’s is a large part of what sparks all the vehemence. I think it comes down to this
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German submarines arrived in the middle of the night” The movie never had this line in it. The movie starts on the boat and in the book it starts on the island where this line is. That’s why I like the book better than the movie in The Cay by Theodore Taylor. When on the raft for the movie it skips a part of the story which makes Phillip and Timothy closer the part of the book when Phillip falls into the water and gets chased by sharks. The movie has much less detail. As well as this also‚ it doesn’t
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The book The Outsiders was written by S. E. Hinton‚ and published in 1967. The Outsiders movie was then released in 1983 and was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story is about a group of 7 greasers set in the 1960’s. Basically the greasers are in constant rival with the socs‚ the upper class kids from the west side. Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade are the youngest in the group. They go threw some very difficult times after Johnny kills a soc‚ then dies. Ponyboy must learn how to cope with all
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of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book‚ you have an image in your head of what the character looks like‚ what their voices sound like‚ and what the scene looks like‚ and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie‚ all those images get shattered. When you read a book‚ there may be parts of the book that you really like that you would like at see on the TV screen. But then‚ when the movie finally comes out‚ the part you like isn’t
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challenge he or she overcomes. During the school year we read books about the Holocaust‚ which are Maus‚ Diary of Anne Frank‚ and a book we got to pick which I chose Call Me Hope. During these 3 books I got to learn different situations people went through during the holocaust time. After reading about all of this is made me realize how thankful I am not be living during War World time‚ or any type of battles. Call Me Hope was a book about a girl named Hope Marie Elliott. She was an 11 year old
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Skellig Book vs. Film Skellig by David Almond was made into a film and into a book‚ although they are based on the same story by the same author but with a different director‚ they are very different and they are not similar to each other in the plot and in the ideas. The book is a simple story about a boy named Michael and is jealous and worried about his baby sister who has been sick since the day she was born. There is slight fantasy and magic to the story that adds a twist
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