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    Bend It Like Beckham

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    it Like Beckham we the audience are introduced to the main characters‚ the storyline‚ the settings and themes of film through the use of some well-chosen film techniques that the director used. The main character Jesminder is portrayed to us as a tom boy through costuming we can see that she is deliberately dressed in boy clothes in particular a soccer Jersey and shorts. This is to communicate to us the audience that she loves soccer. We also can see that she isn’t into girly things like weddings

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    Crazy like us

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    Crazy like Us Response The book Crazy like Us was written by Ethan Watters who has studied the trends in social psychology for the past twenty years. This book went into detail on how our ideas on psychology as a culture were pretty much forced upon the other areas of the world and as a result started a chain reaction of mental‚ and in some cases physical health issues. This book stressed how if we had taken the time to understand multicultural differences and there effects on psychology before

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    Like water for chocolate

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    Dylon Johnson English 101 Jim Hayley November 10‚ 2013 January and February Like Water For Chocolate January 1. Who is narrating the story? Tita’s great niece is narrating the story. 2. What happened to bring on Mama Elena’s early delivery of Tita? Tita was crying while Mama Elena was chopping onions one day and this caused the early delivery of Tita. 3. Where was Tita born? Tita was born in the kitchen. 4. How come it was not necessary to slap Tita on the bottom at birth? Tita didn’t

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    Bend It Like Beckham

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    In Bend It Like Beckham‚ director Gurinder Chadha uses the character Jess to develop the theme of inner conflict with displaying her inability to live two lives. During the whole movie she struggled to do this because she tired being a “true” Indian that her mother wanted her to be and the soccer player she wanted to be. This did not work because she got caught multiple times which was disobeying her mother’s orders to not play soccer. For example in the scene where she was supposed to be shopping

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    Earth-Like Planets

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    Running head: Earth-Like Planets Earth-Like Planets T. Nailor Miller-Motte College Online Critical Thinking – GS235 Dr. Marshall Lloyd Earth-Like Planets Introduction Do you believe that there is life on other planets? Better yet‚ do you believe that there is another planet that looks like earth? As far as I can remember‚ there has always been the question of “is there life in outer space? I remember being in grade school wondering if there were humans or aliens on other planets and if they were

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    Analysis of “A Pace Like That” by Yehuda Amichai In the poem “A Pace Like That” by Yehuda Amichai‚ it uses metaphors and similes about how he wishes that time were slower. Yehuda also makes references to his own life and how it relates to his wish. I believe Yehuda is trying to convey how and why he wants a slower pace. At the beginning of the poem Yehuda mentions his lemon tree. This lemon tree symbolizes the things he missed and wishes he could have experienced. He states how he wanted

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    Blue like Jazz

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    In chapter fourteen in “Blue like Jazz”‚ Miller writes “when a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone‚ because it isn’t good for a person to be alone”(Miller 158). Miller states that God created human kind to have communities and not to be alone. Throughout Millers lifetime‚ he lived alone for years and discovered the only thing that it led too was self-obsession. He soon learned how wrong this action was and how he needed to change his selfish ways in

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    A Girl Like Me

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    A Girl like Me The observation of the movie was clearly stated at first that the African American girls feel as if they are portrayed as something there not. Some similar general parts were when they speak of heritage and where they come from is not to vague for them so they feel people have only told them there only African American and the girls feel they might be from a different culture in Africa. They feel that since there black‚ no one notice’s them as easy as a white person is noticed

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    As You Like It/Alibrandi

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    text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing? Belonging is a sense of enlightenment felt when an individual gains an understanding of themselves in relation to others and the wider world. William Shakespeare’s pastoral play ‘As You Like It’ and the bildungsroman ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ written by Melina Marchetta examine not only how our perceptions of belonging are affected by the passage of time‚ but how our interactions with the world around us can shape us. Individuals seek connection

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    Marriage Is Like a Prison

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    Marriage Is Like A Prison Marriage is like a prison. It is a lifelong commitment that will hang on a persons shoulders forever. It can never be erased‚ and never be forgotten. Upon entering marriage‚ the crime is falling in love‚ the punishment is getting married‚ and the freedom is stripped from a person’s very being. Falling in love is never considered a crime‚ but it is. Love is a rush of emotions that are felt about a person‚ just like the rush of emotions one feels before a crime is committed

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