belonging or alienation in one way or another. Strictly Ballroom‚ directed by Baz Luhrmann and the ‘Ugly Duckling’‚ a short story by Hans Christian Anderson‚ both represent the concept of acceptance and rejection through the use of many film and language techniques. Strictly Ballroom represents belonging using a variety of techniques to distinguish between the world of artifice and the more realistic world. The image of the artificial world‚ shown as the ballroom world‚ is glitzy and colourful. Luhrmann
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Strictly Ballroom‚ Do Experiences Limit or Enriches Ones Choices? “An individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can enrich of limit their experience of belonging.” It is a fundamental human need to achieve a sense of belonging through interactions with other individuals and the world. It is through such interactions in with which our experience of belonging is limited and yet can also be enriched. In Baz Luhrmann’s’ film‚ ‘Strictly Ballroom’ these limitations and interactions
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indefinitely leady to belonging. Expression of ones true self enables an individual to inherit freedom. However this freedom is readily available an individuals face barriers of social and cultural expectations. Baz Lurhmann’s satirical film ‘Strictly Ballroom’ (1992) and Tohby Riddle’s whimsical picture book ‘No body owns the moon” embrace freedom of expression as a tool to fund a sense of place and ultimately belong to the wider world. Self-expression is a fundamental characteristic of sense
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Title: Strictly Ballroom Character: Scott Hastings Director: Baz Lurhmann The film strictly ballroom directed by Baz Lurmann is a drama/comedy about peoples attitudes towards dance and other cultures. A character that makes a dramatic change is Scott Hastings. He changes from being smug and self centred to being accepting of other cultures and that other people can be successful with the help of family and friends. Scott is a very arrogant‚ self centred person before he properly meets Fran. His
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Ballroom Dance Ballroom dance is an international partner dance. The dance is a combination of different steps making up the Foxtrot‚ Waltz‚ and Tango. Ballroom is a social dance and a style of competition dance. This dance tradition began in the 1700s and today the young and old find enjoyment in this dance style (New World Encyclopedia‚ 2009). Traditionally‚ the couples dress in formal wear of the period. The graceful music and a large dance floor can turn a couple’s dance into a
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In Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies‚ a world ruled by beauty finds their world shaken when a group of young uglies challenge the status quo. All Tally Youngblood has ever wanted is to be pretty; unfortunately for her‚ when her friend Shay runs away‚ Tally is the only one who can find Shay. If Tally does not locate and betray her friend‚ she must face the ultimate consequence: to never be pretty. Westerfeld incorporates personal appearance into Uglies in an attempt to force the reader into acknowledging
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Karan Sitaram 7th period 8-30-13 Uglies In the novel Uglies‚ Tally Youngblood (ugly) feels she is ugly because society put that label on her. This book helped me in many ways one of them was not judging people just because they don’t compare to my standards. Before I had read this book whenever I saw what I thought was an unbalanced couple where the guy or girl was too pretty for the other. I would tell my brother that they don’t belong together because she’s too pretty for him‚ how did he
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the concepts of identity‚ place‚ relationships‚ acceptance and understanding to oneself and other people. These aspects of belonging are demonstrated through the free verse novel‚ ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick‚ and the fairy tale of ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by Hans Christian Anderson. In the very early stages of ’The simple gift’‚ Herrick displays sixteen year old‚ Billy Luckett’s‚ sense of alienation by using his first person character to highlight social issues such as hostility within his family
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PressReleasePing Los Angeles based start-up launches new Hair Color Brand for Salons Los Angeles based start-up Ugly Duckling announced today that it has just launched a new hair color line enriched with Argan oil. The new line is aimed at hair stylists and will be available directly to them on line. Los Angeles‚ CA‚ September 19‚ 2015 /PressReleasePing/ – Los Angeles based start-up Ugly Duckling announced today that it has just launched a new hair color line enriched with Argan oil. The new line is aimed
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THE UGLY DUCKLING Casts: Alif Auzy Yoana Khalisha Desti Kumalasari Fina Salsabila Gita Permata Aryati Nur Atmi Pertiwi Rani Nuraini The Ugly Duckling Cast : * Alif as Father Duck / Hunter * Auzy Yoana Khalisha as Child 3 / “Beautiful” Ugly Duckling * Desti Kumalasari as Mother Duck / Old Lady * Fina Salsabila as Animal 2 / Child 2 / Swan 1 * Gita Permata Aryati as Narrator * Nur Atmi Pertiwi as Animal 1 / Child 1 / Swan 2 * Rani Nuraini
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