terracotta warriors. The terracotta warriors are located by Xian‚ China. The warriors are made of a very hard type of clay‚ terracotta. Creating with terracotta is very hard and time consuming. The terracotta warriors were a very elaborate archaeological find that was discovered by accident. Emperor Qin of China ordered that an army be built with many different figures out of terracotta for his burial chamber. Qin Shi Huang was born in 259 BC in a territory that would eventually become China. During
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FILM: Witness Directed by Peter Weir CLASH OF CULTURES Peter Weir’s film Witness explores the clash of cultures by contrasting the Amish culture with a modern Westernised society. Firstly‚ cultural clash is achieved through the contrast of setting. The panning shot of the countryside‚ depicting Amish farmhouses and barns‚ coupled with the free flowing soundtrack‚ depicts a peaceful agrarian community. This contrasts with the busy American city‚ with shops‚ modern style buildings and cars suggesting
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Essay Writing Witness Dynamic characters promise to take a story’s audience on a journey. The key issue to understand is that it is because characters in stories act out to resolution and fulfilment issues of human need that they engage the attention of an audience. Conflict with the plot‚ love/hate relationships‚ common human attributes clenched into a character which accounts for its distinguishing trait. Peter Weir’s Witness offers us with a range of distinctive characters but John Book’s character
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Beyond the archetypal exposé of the Amish culture by all‚ it seems that the Oscar-winning ‘Witness’ by Peter Weir has expunged the typical intuition of the Amish culture. In a nutshell‚ 1985 film ‘Witness’ focuses on a detective protecting a young Amish boy [Samuel] who becomes the target of a ruthless killer after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia train station. The Amish trace their religious heritage to the Swiss Anabaptist of sixteenth-century Europe‚ who emerged in the wake of the
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Summary In " Education Is Not Luxury"‚ Stephen Joel Trachtenberg discussed about that people should take school seriously and in his opinion‚ " Topics like these may be putting a squeeze on the time spent on literacy and numeracy." Years ago‚ most American worked in farming or in finishing agricultural crops. However‚ " Agrarian calendar continues to dominate one facet of American life--education."‚ even we are no longer agrarian. Schooling was a luxury and it is a long process of educating the
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Dumb Witness | INTRODUCTION Dumb Witness is a detective fiction novel written by the British witer Agatha Christie. This book was based in a shot story‚ “The Incident of the Dog’s Ball”. It was lost for some years and found by author’s daughter in 2004. SYNOPSIS The story is set in Littlegreenhouse and centers on Emily Arundell. She was a woman with a substancial amount of money‚ sorrounded by three young relatives‚ Bella‚ Theresa‚ and Charles‚ who wanted to take her fortune
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Such is the mystery of God. Accident is accident. There is no explanation for it. It is God’s monopoly. Accident may be minor or major. It may leave you with slight injury; it may take away your life; or it may hurt you grievously. The accident that I met: Once I happened to meet an accident. It was a street accident. I caused me serious fracture at my backbone. My skull was also greatly wounded at its right side. I was completely senseless just after the accident occurred. When I got back my
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I guess it was bound to happen one day‚ but I really never thought it would happen to me. No one wants it to happen‚ but it came at the moment where I least expected it. Was it a near death experience? No‚ it was my first car accident. “Be careful and pay attention when you’re driving.” Said my dad. He always worries about things. I said‚ “I will‚ don’t worry I have everything under control.” I sort of chuckled in my head‚ thinking what’s the worst thing that could happen? I was only going down
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car had slammed head on into a green van right in the middle of the large intersection. Shattered windscreen glass was strewn all over the junction and the passers-by crowded round the scene. I saw one girl rushing to the telephone to report the accident. For a minute or two‚ nothing happened. Then‚ a man got out of the green van. His van was completely smashed in on the side of the collision. He looked shaken and furious. He walked over to the yellow car only to find that the driver was unconscious
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FIRST 10 MINS OF WITNESS ESSAY Peter Weir’s film‚ “Witness” reveals that besides our contemporary world‚ there are other “worlds” with their own values that are unique. These worlds conflict with the Western world through their variation in lifestyle. The Amish are a community of people who live peacefully in the midst of a robust‚ crime - riddled contemporary world. Weir presents a film that fits two genres‚ one of a crime and the other of romance. Within the first ten minutes of the film these
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