English Review Simile: a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar. Example: “She ’s as fierce as a tiger” is a simile‚ but “She ’s a tiger when she ’s angry” is a metaphor. Metaphor: a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar. Theme: A topic of discourse or discussion. Example: Italy‚ dark mansion‚ etc. Irony: The use
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Iliad Excerpt versus Troy movie clip The Iliad excerpt and the Troy movie clip are the same in many ways. Achilles will have vengeance; his cousin is now dead all because Hector believed Patroclus was Achilles. The two battle it out‚ and Hector asks that his body is not manipulated if he is defeated and he will not manipulate Achilles. The deal was quickly denied. After Hector is killed during the battle‚ Achilles drags him behind his chariot. There are many differences between the Iliad excerpt
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TROY VS HOMERS ILIAD (A comparison between the two with a mix of movie reviewing) by Amber Shepherd When comparing the movie Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Petterson‚ and The Iliad‚ written by Greek poet Homer we can clearly see that although Petterson has made an excellent film he has clearly left out certain aspects of the Iliad which really define the story. Both versions portray the Trojan War between Greece and Troy‚ Achilles killing Hector and King Priam visiting Achilles to ask for the body
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Rabbit Proof Fence (2002) “Three little girls. Snatched from their mothers’ arms. Spirited 1‚500 miles away. Denied their very identity. Forced to adapt to a strange new world. They will attempt the impossible. A daring escape. A run from the authorities. An epic journey across an unforgiving landscape that will test their very will to survive. Their only resources‚ tenacity‚ determination‚ ingenuity and each other. Their one hope‚ find the rabbit-proof fence that might just guide them home. A
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Mean and hateful‚ Troy Maxson may shock most from his affectionate ways. Troy can appear to be a very stubborn man who doesn’t listen to a thing that anyone says. He is this person. Troy is also someone who does have some feelings in his heart. He doesn’t want to show his caring feelings towards anyone for fear to lose his masculinity. Despite how Troy treats all of the people he cares about‚ he shows how he is both a sympathetic and non-sympathetic character. He does this by showing what is really
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Troy was a 53 year old African American man with no education; whom aspiration to become a professional baseball player was disintegrated by life itself and the time period that he was living. Troy was raised mainly by his authoritarian and abusive father. Troy’s upbringing was rough and difficult; he was the oldest of 11 children. When Troy was 7 years old his mother left him and his siblings in the hand of his abusive father and never return to save them‚ making Troy to become the protector of
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TITLE: INDIVIDUAL ASSINGMENT SUBJECT AND CODE: JCS2143 MEDIA RELATIONS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT PREPARED FOR : MADAM. NORAZIAN BINTI ABDUL AZIZ PREPARED BY : AIN NADIRA BINTI SHAHARIN (4111001521) SUBMISSION DATE : 24TH OCTOBER 2013 LIST OF OFFICIAL INSTAGRAM (INTERNATIONAL AND LOCAL) According from Wikipedia‚ Instagram is define as an online photo-sharing‚ video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos‚ apply digital filters to
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recaptured and sent back to camp. The other girls keep walking along the rabbit-proof fence until it runs out‚ but they don’t lose hope‚ they keep walking until it continues and they can feel their home. They are then reunited with their mother and grandmother after 9 weeks of walking to get home. This is when the epilogue begins to give us details after. Symbolism: RABBIT-PROOF FENCE – the fence is referring to the actual fence but is very symbolic because it is built by whites and it gives the feeling
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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: The Role Of Masculinity In Death Of A Salesman And August Wilson’s Fences In both plays‚ a Salesman and Fences‚ the masculinity concept undergoes a hard rethinking. The key characters show before us the men‚ who are not doing well with their feelings about “provide-family-with-everything-needed” as well about their true role in the lives of the close ones. Because of changed masculinity for the wrong‚ the family relations appeared to be mixed from down to up. Willie
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Helen of Troy Poem Analysis In Greek Mythology‚ Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and was infamously known as the most beautiful woman on earth. Her beauty is claimed to be utterly amazing to those who behold her‚ but this beauty also causes various problems‚ such as causing the Trojan War when Paris takes Helen for himself from the Spartan king Menelaus. Thus‚ various questions arise about her beauty‚ most specifically regarding the worth or harm of such a beauty. In fact‚ in Edgar
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