The Fellowship of the Ring‚ an exciting and passionate novel written by J.R.R. Tolkien‚ captures the heroic conscience that lives within us all. In this remarkable novel‚ Tolkien displays how greed and envy have the power to destroy important promises made by partners‚ but how friendship and courage can fight them. This story displays a rare example of how one person can make a difference in the world. As one once said‚ "The world cannot be changed by a single person‚" however through the challenging
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‘Lord of the flies’ a novel by William Golding explores the fragility of civilisation and charts the deterioration order on the island. The novel is based on a group of abandoned school boys who are left on a deserted island. They have to establish a sense of democracy but the democratic approach deteriorates and chaos breaks out. The main theme is the struggle between savagery and civilisation. The boys lose the hope of getting rescued and everyday activities slip away into oblivion. In the beginning
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Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring creates a vision of a twenty-first century Toronto suffering political and economical crises‚ which has been barricaded by the suburbs. The main character of the novel is Ti-Jeanne‚ a young girl who loses everything in the story. Her story starts as a young troubled girl‚ fearful‚ surrounded by bad luck and scared of her grandmother‚ Mami. Throughout the story she interacts only to few people with whom her relationships are well established and interesting
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Film Noir‚ meaning “black film’ in French‚ was the trending style and genre in American culture between the 1940s and the 1950s. It is a combination of European cynicism and the American landscape. Film Noir has its origins from German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism. Nino Frank‚ who was a French film critic‚ was the first to introduce this black and white genre to Hollywood in 1946. Many of the directors who introduced Film Noir where refugees from Nazi‚ Germany. From that moment in time
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A bora ring is a sacred site for indigenous Australians where initiation ceremonies for indigenous males were held. In her poem "Bora Ring"‚ Judith Wright mourns the loss in contemporary Australian society of the culture and traditions of indigenous Australians. She begins with descriptions of Aboriginal culture that has vanished as a result of European settlement. At the end of the poem‚ Wright recognizes the destruction wreaked upon indigenous Australians by their white brothers and shows remorse
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Major themes War and human nature At the beginning of the novel‚ the boys are being evacuated from England by plane‚ presumably to keep them safe from the Cold War‚ which is in the future. The term "Reds" is mentioned (possibly giving the notion that the war was against the Soviets). However‚ there was quite a large amount of tension between the Soviet Union and the UK‚ or more particularly‚ Stalin and Churchill‚ during World War II‚ so "Reds" could simply show the British boys’ scorn for the Soviets
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his downfall. In The Fellowship of the Ring‚ Bromir plays the role of the tragic hero. Bromir’s greatest fear is his pride and recklessness that make him vulnerable to the Ring’s power which ends up being the cause of his tragic downfall. Boromir disliked the idea of destroying the One Ring‚ he believed that it could be used to defeat Sauron once and for all‚ to save Gondor‚ and return it to its former glory; he tried to convince Frodo to give him the ring. When Frodo refused‚ Boromir tried to
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Token ring [pic] Token ring local area network (LAN) technology is a local area network protocol which resides at the data link layer (DLL) of the OSI model. It uses a special three-byte frame called a token that travels around the ring. Token-possession grants the possessor permission to transmit on the medium. Token ring frames travel completely around the loop. Initially used only in IBM computers‚ it was eventually standardized with protocol IEEE 802.5. Stations on a token ring LAN are logically
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Communication through the language of ‘silence’ in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s ‘Yugant Trilogy Since the pre-colonial times to the present era of logo-centrism it is ‘communication’ that defines our existence. According to Michel Foucalt‚ in the universal structure of existence‚ formation and domination of various power groups are decided through communication and the language used in it. The various power groups constitute the field of truth‚ by imposing specific knowledge‚ disciplines and values upon
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Recording 101: Film Scores! Did you notice that background music playing when you are watching Harry Potter? How about the songs they sing in the Lion King? Nobody could ever miss the Star Wars theme at the beginning of each movie! The music you hear in the background is the film score and multiple scores create the soundtrack. This music is incredibly important in the movie as it adds mood‚ setting and drama. According to Steven Spielberg‚ films without music are “dry and lifeless.” Have you ever
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