Christmas Carol is a short story‚ not very long at all as I read it today and found some interesting differences between the book by Dickens and the movie incantations. Most of the movies I have seen pretty much have the same screenplay‚ it seems‚ with some small differences in most and some have a scene or two the others don’t. The first and most important difference is that all of the movies make it quite plain that Ebenezer’s father send him to boarding school away from him is because his wife‚
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Rough Draft Mary Ann Cotton is known as a bad person. She had not only committed crimes but also had a hard life growing up which makes it realistic to how she became the person she is now. Her childhood and her having resentment towards men really tells why the way she is. There had been many family members that had died in her family as in her father while she was growing up. Soon later her mother had re-married which had led to bad conflicts with Mary. Mary Ann Cotton had such a big family. She
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awaits for scrooge in the future because of his greedy‚tight-fisted attitude. When Marley visits Scrooge as a ghost he is weighed down by series of chains representing sins done by Marley throughout his life. The novel starts of at Marley’s funeral describing Marley "as dead as a door nail". Marley was Scrooge’s one and only friend. He is described as Scrooge’s " his sole executor‚ his sole administrator‚ his sole assign‚ his sole residuary legatee‚ his sole friend and sole mourner". This demonstrates
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A Christmas Carol - Food and Shopping In the Victorian times‚ many working people suffered from malnutrition from not having certain foods and vitamins. Where money is scarce‚ many would have to survive on whatever they can get their hands on. Food was a central part of the Christmas celebrations in the Victorian ages‚ and was traditionally shared and enjoyed‚ even though it was scarce. Many of today’s Christmas traditions date back to the Victorian era‚ including having a turkey for Christmas dinner
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Ender’s Game is fulled with excited and suspence‚ but have you ever analyzed the relationship between the three siblings‚ Ender‚ Peter‚ and Valentine? If you think about it‚ they had a very complicated relationship because of their different personalities‚ roles in the story‚ and their relationships. Ender’s Game‚ by Orson Scott‚ science fiction shows evidence of how complicated it was. The first idea is the different personality traits that each sibling had. Second‚ the roles in the story that each
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Christmas Carol Assessment: Writing Assessment Everybody knows the classic Christmas story‚ “A Christmas Carol”‚ and are most likely familiar with The Three Ghosts of Christmas. The version I was assigned to read was a shorter version of the original and did not include all the same events. But of course‚ it included the ghosts. They tried to help Ebenezer Scrooge‚ a cold-hearted‚ wretched‚ old man to find the light before it was too late. They reminded him of his happy past‚ showed him his current
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The DVD version of A Christmas Carol is better than the novel. The DVD shows more detail and effects. The story does not add effects or music and just does not have the effect the movie does. People get to see what the characters actually look like in person instead of having to imagine them. This is why the DVD is better. The movie and the novel are alike in some ways. They both start out saying the same thing. The first two spirits come at the same time in the movie as in the story. All the spirits
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Everyone wants to be intelligent‚ and everyone wants to know the crucial technique to be intelligent. Carol Dweck‚ the psychologist in Stanford University suggests that intelligence depends on the different mindsets in her article “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn.” Also‚ I believe that one of the mindset is the key to develop intelligence and being successful. In Carol Dweck’s article “Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn‚” the author emphasizes that different
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In article “Brainology-Transforming students’ motivate to learn”‚ Carol Dweck describes two different types of mindset and how they affect student’s learning profoundly. These types of mindset are students’ belief about themselves or the way they use their basic abilities. Students with "fixed mindset" are stuck with what they know to keep their confidence; they are afraid of challenges and devastated by failures. In contrast‚ students with " growth mindset" believe their personality‚ intelligence
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“What connections have you found between the ways Duffy and Pugh explore the power and limitations of language? In your response you must include detailed critical discussion of at least two of Duffy’s poems.” Duffy explores the “power of words” in being able to translate as well as influence complex emotions and thoughts‚ thus reflecting on the possibilities of language. She addresses the elusive nature of meaning‚ which –although expressed uniformly through language-is also restricted in being
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