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    government‚ country or community‚ throughout history individuals have also been rejected by them‚ and forced to be outcast. The concept that government and communities are amongst the greatest sources of belonging AND rejection is explored in the three texts I have chosen‚ which are‚ As you like it by Shakespeare‚ Refugee Blues by W.H. Auden‚ and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s “sorry speech”. As you like it involves the concepts of: rejection from government creating a sense of not belonging that is extrinsically

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    Connected text Study For my connected text study I have chosen to compare and contrast Cinderella and Cinderella story. There are many versions Of Cinderella and the one I have chosen seems to be the most common‚ it has been edited by Andrew Lang and published by David McKay 1948. "Cinderella" is a classic story‚ told and retold for generations. There are variations of the story in nearly every culture‚ and many modern adaptations. One of the most recent and spotlighted offspring of "Cinderella"

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    was painted in 1656 and many questions were raised about reality and illusion and the film “Strictly Ballroom” was filmed in 1992 and directed by Baz Lurhmman. Framing is what is deliberately included in the frame and what is excluded. The painting shows a “moment in time” during the everyday life of the royal family. The king and queen are only seen in the mirror; it is only when we realise this that we understand we are looking at the painting from the perspective of the royal couple. Velasquez

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    TEEL An individual’s sense of belonging is determined not only by their own choices but also by the attitudes of others. Essay draft: Belonging brings to our attention the potential that all individuals are affected by not only their choices but the attitudes of others. The Notion of time allows for an individual’s perception to change and in-turn‚ form different attitudes towards people as we see through the characters in Rainbows End by Jane Harrison and Othello by William Shakespeare. An individual’s

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    Animal Farm and Truman Show are both very different from each other yet the explore very similar themes. The Truman Show is about a little boy that was adopted by a television network and used in a television show that he didn’t know he was in‚ as the main star. He eventually finds out about this after one of the actors who he discovered he loved told him. He then tries to escape. Animal Farm on the other hand was about a group of farm animals that wanted to escape the rule of the humans and make

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    Introduction: The Sims is one of the most popular video games series for players and it is developed by Maxis and is published by Electronic Arts. Electronic Arts is the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue after Nintendo and Activision Blizzard. It is an American developer‚ marketer‚ publisher and distributor of video games and it has been founded on May‚ 1982 by Trip Hawkins. [1] As of May 2011‚ the franchise has sold more than 150 million copies worldwide and it is also the best-selling

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    Truman Show vs. Logan’s Run In the last two weeks‚ we have watched two movies that are alike and different in some very interesting ways. We first watched the Truman Show and then Logan’s Run and saw two very different views on faith‚ or religion‚ in film. In the Truman Show‚ the main character‚ Truman‚ is adopted at birth by a company that wants to make a documentary of his entire life. Everything that happens to Truman is a result of decisions made by those in the company‚ especially the

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    Point of View and Verisimilitude‚ within the texts The Truman show (Peter Weir) and Relativity (Escher). These concepts were used to effectively portray the key differences‚ and deeper meanings of Appearance and Reality. The way in which we view an object‚ situation or concept‚ greatly affects how we interpret its reality. This concept is explored by using Point of view to change the viewer’s ideas about the True reality of within the Truman show. The whole idea and notion of our reality is based

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    Critical Analysis of "The Truman Show" and Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" When "The Truman Show" was released in 1998‚ it was just another popular Hollywood flick‚ but its story is closely related to Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave." The plot line for the movie follows this classic tale in many ways‚ some more obvious then others. As with most cinematic treachery‚ the movie’s similarities are no coincidence. The writers drew from Plato’s classic because it is such a universal story and is something

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    recently this concept has been revisited in the movie “The Truman Show.” It’s incredible that an idea from two thousand years ago can still have mankind interested. Prisoners chained at the neck‚ unable to move their heads. They have been there their entire lives‚ reality consists of darkness‚ shadows and sounds from the fire at the end of the cave. One day a man comes in and takes a prisoner from the cave to show him the outside world‚ which

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