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    The Mission Sparknotes

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    The Mission by Roland Joffé is a historical drama focused on the power of ones faith and defying the odds of humanity; these ideas coincide that of the philosopher Rousseau. The main characters consist of a mercenary and a missionary who unite to protect a South American tribe and anchor the film’s main conflict between Spanish Jesuit priests and Portuguese colonialists during the 18th century. Although the film reflected Luther’s and Machiavelli’s ideas as well‚ Rousseau’s beliefs are the most clearly

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    Chigurh Sparknotes

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    Money also drew a line between the rich and the poor. The rich due to their wealth determined the fate of the poor such as Chigurh. Chigurh was a hit man meaning that he made a living out of killing people. The rich people who hired him to carry out the killings sealed his fate as a ruthless murderer. This makes him kill almost anyone he comes across in his quest to recover the money from Moss. After getting into an accident as he was fleeing‚ Chigurh paid off the witness to remain silent and for

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    Kanyini Sparknotes

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    Kanyini is a story about how these generations of aboriginal Australians who had to go through these hard times of being treated worse than a criminal‚ locked up to be forgotten about. Bob Randall was one of the many aboriginal Australians to go through this. Bob Randall guides us through the story with every important detail and aspect of his and other aboriginals lives. This story opens up our eyes about how aboriginal Australians lost not only their land but their kanyini. Aboriginals had their

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    Disgraced Sparknotes

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    In Ayad Akhtar’s play Disgraced‚ the religious and cultural tensions that arise between family and coworkers allude to greater societal conflicts in America. The main character‚ Amir‚ attempts to navigate and balance his Muslim faith with his “Americanness.” At the beginning of the play‚ it seems as though Amir has struck a delicate balance‚ prospering in America as a Muslim man‚ albeit one who tries to obscure his cultural background. His eventual unraveling appears to be the product of repressive

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    Ah Q Sparknotes

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    “The story of Ah Q” by Lu Xun is a historical fiction written during the period of the Xin Hai Revolution. Sun Zhong Shan and other knowledgeable people trying to save China from corruption. The protagonist Ah Q is a peasant who possessed the lowest social status in Qing dynasty. The low social status deprived his name despite the fact that Ah Q is a “good worker”. Ah Q wants to be one of the revolutionaries to revenge the Chao’s family who had the greatest power in Weichuang village. However‚ the

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    Lolita Leaving Sparknotes

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    The novel begins as a foreword given by John Ray Jr. PHD‚ who explains about the events that will take place that will be talked about in psychiatric circles for a long time. He describes how he received the transcript from the lawyer of Humbert Humbert‚ the transcript’s author who died while awaiting trial. In the beginning of the story‚ Humbert describes his childhood at his father’s hotel. During this time‚ he met his first love Annabel‚ whose death left an imprint on Humbert. Humbert later describes

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    Ben-Hur Sparknotes

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    Book one: The beginning of the novel Ben-Hur‚ starts out with the three wise men meeting in the desert. The beginning of the movie Ben-Hur‚ starts out with the birth of Jesus. This doesn’t make very many differences in the rest of the story. Book two: Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince of Judaea. His best friend Messala comes back to Judaea after five years. In the book Messala leaves Judaea to get an education in Rome. Five years later he comes back and insults Ben-Hur’s religion and they

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    “When we reject the single story‚ when we realize that there is never a single story about anyone‚ we regain a kind of paradise.” This quotation from the author of Purple Hibiscus‚ Chimamanda Adichie‚ explains how only observing one side of a person’s life can lead to stereotyping and not being able to fully understand their actions and motives. In her novel‚ siblings Kambili and Jaja begin to understand the status of their crumbling country while also attempting to escape from their religious father’s

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    Sofia Petrovna Sparknotes

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    While analyzing the literally content these last couple of weeks‚ something that been present through them all is presence of social realism. Social realism is term that could be used in many ways specifically its applied to the state run or imported art that is produced in Russia‚ which generally displays the leader in an idealized situation. For example‚ an image of Stalin surrounded by happy children in an idealized fashion promoting a mass murderer. In the reading by Sofia Petrovna‚ we see this

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    Green Mile Sparknotes

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    The Green Mile‚ March 1999 Stephen King‚ 1947-? Summary: John Coffey is brought to Cold Mountain accused of rape and murder. It becomes known that he has a healing touch. Paul Edgecombe‚ the superintendent‚ has sympathy for Coffey and later finds out that Coffey is indeed innocent‚ but can find no way to stop the execution. Coffey proclaimed that he “wanted to go” and thus allowed Paul to accept Coffey’s fate as he must‚ and go on with his life. Central Characters: Paul

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