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    Penang Island

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    INTRODUCTION Penang Island was founded in 1786 by a multilingual maverick‚ Captain Francis Light of the British colonial firm‚ the East India Company. The Sir Francis Drake of his day‚ Captain Light envisaged his new town as a harbor for China-bound ships in pursuit of tea and opium. Under Captain Light‚ Penang was given duty-free status and new arrivals were allowed to claim as much land as they could clear. According to one story‚ he ended up bombarding it with silver dollars from cannons

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    Treasure Island

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    Log One- Treasure Island starts with a narrative of a young boy‚ Jim. Jim is the son of a tavern keeper. The story begins with a mysterious grumpy pirate named Billy Bones. Billy refuses to pay rent‚ and Jim’s father takes little to no action. Taking this into account‚ it can be deduced that there no law. Jim has been hired by Billy as a look out for a one legged man. Eventually‚ Jim finds someone‚ who‚ although is not the one-legged man of Jim’s nightmares‚ is searching for Billy Bones.

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    Island Of Despair

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    seen as an advocacy against political oppression and the violation of human rights. In Island of Despair‚ an Iranian refugee testified to the fact that there was no real difference between being detained at the detention centre and living freely as recognised refugees on Nauru. “We now understand that getting the refugee status does not give us any freedom‚ we have no idea how long we are in for

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    Small island

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    Small Island is structured around four competing narratives each claiming historical truth and experience through shifts in setting and time. Levy’s historical novel is told through a series of extended analepsis that move back and forth between 1924 and 1948 as well as across national borders and cultures. Written more than fifty years after the first Windrush arrival‚ it creates a common narrative of nation and identity in order to understand the experiences of Black people in Post-Colonial Britain

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    treasure island

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    Treasure Island In the very first sentence of the novel‚ Jim tells us that he is recounting the story of Treasure Island because Squire Trelawney‚ Dr. Livesey‚ and other gentlemen have asked him to write it down. Stevenson’s choice of Jim as a narrator is noteworthy and unexpected‚ since the adult men have greater life experience‚ education‚ and verbal skills than this young boy has‚ and would seem to be able to bring more perspective to the narrative

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    Lost on a Island

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    One day a man named Bill was stranded on an island. It all started when he was taking a cruise to get his mind off work. “Boy is I tired‚” said bill. One night Bill was watching the game with his friends and mistakenly got drunk. Bill fell out not knowing that he was at the edge of the boat‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and fell over. Bill knocked his self out on the safety boat that was located on the left hand side of‚ Madison’s Grand Transportation‚ and broke the rope that the safety boat

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    Shutter Island

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    Discuss the techniques that Scorsese uses in order to create and maintain suspense and mystery throughout. During the film ‘Shutter Island’ there is a vast array of different techniques used by Martin Scorsese to give the movie a deeper meaning. Many have been introduced to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Lighting techniques and sound were used during the movie to give it an atmosphere that would create confusion. The storyline is extremely manipulative of the audience and succeeds

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    Treasure Island

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    on a distant island. Trelawney immediately starts planning an expedition. Naïve in his negotiations to outfit his ship‚ the Hispaniola‚ Trelawney is tricked into hiring one of Flint’s former mates‚ Long John Silver‚ and many of Flint’s crew. Only the captain‚ Smollett‚ is trustworthy. The ship sets sail for Treasure Island with nothing amiss‚ until Jim overhears Silver’s plans for mutiny. Jim tells the captain about Silver and the rest of the rebellious crew. Landing at the island‚ Captain Smollett

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    Shutter Island

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    Martin Scorsese uses a variety of film techniques in his ever changing film Shutter Island‚ to reveal the truth about the protagonist Teddy Daniels. Dialog‚ symbolism‚ characterisation‚ music and setting help express the truth about Teddy’s investigation on the Island which is an intricate role playing experiment designed by Dr. Cawley and Dr. Sheehan. This helps reveal the truth and trauma regarding Teddy’s murder of his wife and children. The scenes that best help reveal the truth are the first

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    shutter island

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    extreme control‚ such institutions become abject spaces‚ abjection manifesting within both the mise-en-scène and cinematography. In relation to the asylum‚ abjection further emerges in the nature of mental illness. Referring to Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)‚ I correlate abjection with the loss of identity that the film’s protagonist experiences‚ considering how abjection visually manifests in the physical spaces of the asylum‚ and propels the narrative trajectory forward. Julia Kristeva’s 1982

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