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    appears in a brief flashback sequence delivered from Marty’s point of view in a letter to Laurie. The scene portrays Marty’s quest with Ethan to find the Comanche Chief Scar who had kidnapped his adoptive sister Debbie years earlier. While attempting to purchase a blanket from a Comanche tribe with connections to Scar‚ Marty

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    The Seasons of the Year. My Favourite Season. It’s a universal truth that every season is beautiful in its own way. Isn’t it wonderful to tramp down the country lanes on a frosty winter day. Everything is white with snow and it crunches under your feet. The rime sparkles on the branches and the icicles like precious diamonds hang from the roofs of the houses. It’s a merry time for both children and grownups. They can go skating and skiing‚ sledging and having a fight with snowballs or making

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    My Future Plans

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    want to sleep all day. I want to live‚ I want to visit museums‚ go to the cinema‚ do things I’ve never done before just for the sake of doing it. I want to visit fungi the dolphin. I want to make friends with a random stranger‚ I want to chat up a granny and ask her to dance with me‚ who knows I may even get a kiss. I want to climb a mountain. I want to live. And when I die I want to see what a life I have lived. I want to live‚ but not only to live‚ I want to love. I want to have fun with a maiden

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    a hero

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    what him to stay spoiled for the rest of his life. But his relationship between him and his mother and his grandmother his much different. The relationship between him and his grandmother is really one of mild disrespect. “Please‚ Please shut up granny” this tells us that he finds his grandmother so nice that there is a lack of respect between him and her. And he doesn’t explain what is really going on “I might die” although his grandmother doesn’t necessarily understand what is going on. She is

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    Cortanooth: A Short Story

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    In Cortanooth‚ there is a native fruit that grows every spring. It is called manala and it’s skin is bright green‚ like a granny smith apple. When you take a knife to it’s thick skin to reveal a dark orange‚ soft flesh that tastes similar to a mango. This fruit was once very popular in Cortanooth‚ until a hurricane wiped out the small island‚ leaving few of the trees it grows on. One day in April 1974‚ Mystic came across a manala tree that stood isolated from the village he lives in. He took a new

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    Hypothesis The Purpose of this experiment was to evaluate how the various techniques a person can use to shoot a basketball at various distances and how it can affect the likely hood of making a basket. We predicted that a person was more likely to make it if they shot it over handed with some jump‚ so that the ball would have more force behind it. Procedure Step 1: Gather five willing participants and a good basketball. For this experiment we used five different people with average basketball skills

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    films to introduce the element of flashbacks. The film is entirely based on the concept of flashback with 3 witnesses; all giving their accounts on the murder that had taken place. All 3 take the blame upon them and confess to have been the culprits. There is a build up of confusion at this point and constant questions are raised as to who is the real culprit? And who has wronged whom? ‘Rashomon’ portrays flashbacks unlike any other‚ and explains how flashbacks are about both the truth and the

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    Susan Minot's Lust

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    Literary Analysis of Susan Minot’s “Lust” In Susan Minot’s short story “Lust” the reader is taken through the journey of one girl’s various relationships‚ some better than others‚ watching the love fade away. The narrator talks about her first boyfriends‚ the first one she saw nude‚ the fast illegal car driving one‚ etc. She talks about college and the various experiences she had with guys there. She is starting to feel “watered down.” There is no more emotion in her relationships. She ends with

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    Atonement Film Essay

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    Atonement : Film Study Question: Symbolism‚ narrative structure‚ and special effects are significant features of film. Focussing on one or more of these features‚ discuss the extent to which you agree with this view. Your response should include close reference to one or more films you have studied. When director Joe Wright began the task of recreating the Atonement‚ written by Ian McEwan one of the first decisions that Wright had to make was to follow as close as possible the complex and time

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    Citizen Kane Film Review

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    colored by a number of factors. The genre used is Film Noir in which it uses black and white projection so that it accentuates the shadows and also the suspense of the film. It also involves a strong atmosphere of dread or paranoia. The use of flashback story is also a characteristic of this genre to put people in a suspense mood and to show the story in a moment that the director wants too. In addition‚ there is a betrayal included in this genre like when Susan‚ the only person who gives Kane hope

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