The theme for our exam project was Force. In the beginning‚ I wanted to look at force on the body‚ but my work developed through to looking at subjects posing for their portraits. Throughout the project‚ and in fact the entire course‚ my main subject matter has been people‚ particularly portraiture. Overall‚ I looked at 6 artists‚ all of whom were photographers. I think I did enough artist research‚ but it would have been best to diverge from the photographers and look at different media‚ such as
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The Oscar winning British actor Michael Caine was born in 1933 at Bermondsey in London. He did not come from a theatrical family. His father was a porter at the Billingsgate fish market. His mother was a charlady (cleaning lady). His real name was Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Young Maurice was evacuated from his home during the German World war II Blitz. He was placed in a home for 6 weeks where he was badly mistreated. He was beaten and poorly fed. At times he was locked in a cupboard. Finally his
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Gareth Farr 1. Brief Biography of His Life: a. Gareth Farr was born on the 29th of February 1968 in Wellington. As a child he was extremely responsive to pitched noises (indicating his musicality). He used to spend hours at a time sitting in front of the washing machine listening to the noises it made. The “agitator” in particular fascinated him because of the whirring noise it produced with a variance in pitch. From a very young age he used to walk over to people’s houses and say “can
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different in looks as they are in personality‚ are forced together by fate and to allie with one another for survival .Through the harsh experiences‚ that they battle through‚ an indestructible bond is formed. The friendship continuously develops from the reliance of Piggy upon Ralph at the beginning of the story‚ then to the alliance of both Piggy and Ralph as more tragedy struck‚ to their unbreakable bond which is formed‚ after the whole group falls apart. Both Piggy and Ralph’s
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OSCAR WILDE - Biography Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish playwright‚ novelist‚ poet‚ and critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest playwrights of the Victorian Era. In his lifetime he wrote nine plays‚ one novel‚ a number of poems‚ short stories‚ and essays. He was born on October the 16th‚ 1894 in Dublin to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Oscar ’s mother‚ Lady Jane Francesca Wilde was a successful poet and journalist also (Gregory Brdnik 2012). Oscar had an elder brother‚ Willie‚ and a
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Throughout the novel Life of Pi the author Yann Martel uses the colour orange to symbolize the major themes of both‚ hope and survival. Reference to the colour orange is made in the description of both the zoo animals that are apart of Pi’s world and the inert objects that are used by Pi in his struggle to survive. It is no coincidence that the colour orange was chosen‚ this essay will outline some of these examples and how they relate to the themes of hope and survival. Firstly‚ Yann Martel uses
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book The Life of Pi you come across a ton of themes. There is not just one theme to pick from and the entire book is not just black and white. The Life of Pi is an amazing story about how a young man went against all the odds and survived something that most would see as certain death. The theme that I picked out for this book is the boundaries between humans and animals. Humans and animals are two different things; however‚ they can be the same. We consider ourselves different from animals
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The Secret Life of Bees is a novel written by Sue Monk Kidd that was published in 2001. It is about a girl named Lily who runs away from home with her maid Rosaleen. They wanted to get away from danger and racism. In the house‚ Lily finds out secrets about her dead mother and tries to learn more about her. The story shows a lot of cruelty. When an author uses their writing to represent cruelty in a story‚ it can be helpful in contributing to the overall theme or message. The cruelty that occurs
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based on World War II‚ and the novel All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein is about her amazing story and the knowledge and experience she picked up through her journey. In the novel‚ she uses herself as the main character to emphasize what she has been through. She grew up in Germany where she lived a happy‚care-free life‚ but when the war started she then understood the more important‚ deeper things. Through the story‚ she develops two important themes‚ to keep the faith and never give up and that
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“If you stumble about believability‚ what are you living for? Love is hard to believe‚ ask any lover. Life is hard to believe‚ ask any scientist. God is hard to believe‚ ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?” -Yann Martel‚ Life of Pi. In the movie adaptation of Yann Martel’s book‚ belief is an overarching theme. The film seamlessly goes from discussing the protagonist’s religious belief to his belief in his tiger companion to other’s belief in his story of survival‚ leaving
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