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    questions his life‚ searching for true happiness. The Truman Show is a fantasy film about a man named Truman who has been on a reality television show his whole life but doesn’t know it. He didn’t know that his whole life was fake‚ with actors pretending to be his friends and family. However‚ Truman did know that something wasn’t right in his life; he was unsatisfied and wanted to find out how he could fix that. I believe that both Montag and Truman are intelligent because they knew that something was

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    apparent in the 1998 film ‘The Truman Show.’ In which the main protagonist‚ Truman Burbank‚ has lived his entire life as the star of a reality television show. The show is displayed to a worldwide audience‚ twenty four hours and seven days a week. From the moment of his birth‚ he is unaware that his reality‚ the world around him‚ is merely an extravagant set; his coworkers‚ mother‚ wife and friends are all played by actors and his life is controlled by the director of the show ‘Christof.’ Plato’s “Allegory

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    The Truman show. The ideas of Plato’s Allegory of the cave and The Truman show describe different views of life. In the Plato’s allegory‚ every person is a prisoner. they live in a world of shadows. what they think is true is not real.the Prisoners believe that their lives in the cave are what is real.The prisoner who escaped first comes back to explain to the other prisoners about the real world. They cannot believe him because they have never seen anything but the cave. Truman and Plato’s work

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    ’How has your study of Attitudes and Experiences as well as 2 related texts helped you to better understand the Area of Study‚ ’Changing Lives?’ The Area of Study ‘Changing Lives’ has developed and enhanced my understanding as it shows that Change can bring about important lessons related to overcoming challenges and obstacles‚ the importance of maintaining will and determination through drastic changes and that a negative change can being about a positive outcome. This was shown through the

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    The two texts I’ve chosen are coach carter‚ the film and a quitline bus poster. Both of these texts explore change through the ideas that there is a reluctance to change and that change is essential for growth. For coach carter‚ to show a reluctance to change I’ve chosen to use scene 2. This scene shows reluctance to change through the attitudes of the players. |The lighting in this scene is dim‚ which immediately sets a somber mood within the gym. It starts off with the former coach talking

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    Related text for Tom Brennan Essay By the Grace of God by Katy Perry is a song of heart break and determination ‚ Katy herself is faced with the challenge of working though positive and negative experiences she has encountered through her divorce. These negative experiences that Katy faces are portrayed through a number of features some include the use of a depressing and Grey tones throughout the first two verses “ thought i wasn’t enough “ ‚ “ Couldn’t take it anymore”‚ “ Running on empty so out

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    learn how to control their powers‚ and also to get a standard education as they are not able to go to a normal school for fear of the prejudice they would experience. Some of the older mutants are recruited by Xavier as the ‘X-Men’; a group designed to show the world that mutants aren’t a threat to society and can even be heroes. However‚ there are a group of mutants who make creating this image a challenge as this group‚ led by ‘Magneto’ (a survivor of the holocaust)‚ use their powers to exact revenge

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    specifically‚ we will explore how disconnection can lead to heightened sense of acceptance. We will be exploring this aspect of belonging through three texts. The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ The Host by Stephenie Meyer‚ and the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton. You all know The Crucible fairly well. After all‚ it is a very classic text. However‚ you may not be as familiar with the others. The Host is a modern science fiction novel written by Stephenie Meyer‚ and is told from the

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    George Orwell’s essays – related text ‘Marrakech’ explores the notion of ethnocentricity through a Eurocentric perspective‚ in which one is isolated at the consequence of differing morels. Orwell succeeds in doing so through various anecdotes “What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange-grove or a job in government service.” In essence this displays the failure of a migrant to withhold a deeper connection to the land. Orwell emotively describes the crippled elderly women who “answered with

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    relation with these entities is formed from the perception of oneself and the perception of these entities as shaped by historical cultural‚ social‚ and personal context. Romulus my father as a text explores how relationships are affected by inside and outside influences such as changes of context. It also shows how barriers to belonging such as Romulus’s self perception and how others perceived him hindered his ability to feel a sense of belonging in Australia. Gaita does this by using literary techniques

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