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    Bent It Like Beckham

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    Bend It Like Beckham Dir. Gurinder Chadha‚ UK/Germany 2002‚ Certificate 12A Introduction Bend It Like Beckham was one of the surprise hits of 2002‚ making over £11‚000‚000 at the UK Box Office and hitting a chord with a range of audiences at cinemas. A vibrant and colourful British comedy about a young girl from a Sikh family who desperately wants to play football against the wishes of her traditional parents‚ the film can be seen to follow the path of other recent British-Asian films such as

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    Bend It Like Bickham

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    Many films revolve around a challenge for the main character. The challenge Gurinder Chadha’s character‚ Jess Bhamra faces in ‘bend it like Beckham’ is to choose between her family and her love of football. This challenge is presented through the techniques of props‚ dialogue‚ and costumes. The director used props effectively to portray the challenge Jess is to face between the clash of football and Jess’s Indian heritage. This is shown effectively when Jess is practicing her football skills using

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    Black Like Me

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    Megan Ward Black Like Me Dialectical Journal Quotation From the Text Page Number Response “How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Though we lived side by side throughout the South communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist?” Pg. 1 Unless you become someone or maybe go through some of the same things they’ve experienced‚ you will never truly understand them. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my

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    Capitulo 1: Enero : Tortas de Navidad. Summary The book begins with some wisdom from one it’s focal settings; the kitchen. To avoid ters when chopping onions one must simply place a small piece of onion on one’s head. Onion induced weeping is what brings the protagonist Tita‚ into the world‚ as she is born in the kitchen crying‚ among the tears of her mother. Her mother‚ Mama Elena‚ after hearing the death of her husband‚ can not produce milk for Tita‚ so ME hands Tita to the house cook‚ Nacha

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    The Like-Me Theory

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    This idea that others are like ourselves and are therefore relatable is a driving force in human interaction and perception of other humans. The study goes on to assert that “work on human empathy shows that adults react differently to the injury of an entity as a function of the like-me-ness of that entity” (cite). AIDS struck mainly society’s most marginalized: gay people‚ drug users‚ poor people‚ and

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    A Town Like Alice

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    A Town Like Alice‚ By Nevil Shute The story begins right before the start of world war two. The main character‚ Jean‚ is a secretary in a shoe factory. She was recently informed a large inheritance from her great uncle whom has recently passed away. Her trustee informs her that her uncle said in his will she was not to use the money until a certain age‚ which was still several years away. Strachan’s firm wants him to help her control the money and advise her‚ while Jean on

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    Just Like Us

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    Cynthia Camacho Vindrola Steven Mayers English 1A 06/09/2013 Just Like Us The immigration problem in America has been dividing the document and undocumented people‚ in the book Just Like Us‚ by Helen Thorpe‚ she tells the story of four Mexican – American girls who live in Denver Colorado. Marisela and Yadira‚ were born in Mexico and are undocumented while Clara was born in Mexico too it is a permanent resident‚ and Elissa is a U.S citizen. They are best friend and their relationship it is not

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    Bend It Like Beckham

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    An important event near the end of the film “Bend it Like Beckham” directed by Gurinder Chadha was Jess’s final football match. It was important because it was the climax of the film. Jess’s dream was to be a professional football player. Jess’s culture and tradition were in the way of achieving her dream. In order to achieve her dream she had to use deception. Verbal and visual features such as camera work‚ symbols and music were used throughout the film to show that the event was important.

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    Looking at onion cells using a light microscope. Apparatus; - 1x Light Microscope. - 2x Pipettes. - 1x Beaker (100 ml). - 1x Small Onion. - 1x Knife. - 1x Forceps. - 1x Microscope Slide. - 1x Cover Slip/Glass. - Water. - Iodine Solution. - Marble Tile. - Plastic Gloves. - Window/Strong Light Source. Pre-Practical - Setting Up the Experiment; Place the onion onto a marble tile. Using a knife‚ chop the onion into pieces that are roughly 1.5-2 centimeters. Then discard the rest of the onion. Place

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    Black Like Me

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    Black Like Me is about a middle aged white man living in Texas in the late 50’s and early 60’s. He is deeply committed to the cause of racial injustice. He decides to temporarily become a black man and sets out to explore the racial injustice a African American deals with on a daily basis. After this experiment he realizes that racism is a result of social condition‚ and not any inherent quality within blacks or whites. He pleads for tolerance and understanding between the races. The author and

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