The Lead is based on a true story‚ Antonio Banderas portrays Pierre DuLaine‚ a New York City dance instructor who gets the concept of teaching the beauty of ballroom dancing to a group of detention students in a troublesome inner-city Manhattan high school. Pierre Dulaine rides the streets dressed immaculate on his bicycle. One day‚ he observes a student named Rock (Rob Brown) striking a car with a golf club. Rock has his logics‚ but rather than calling the cops‚ Mr. Dulaine voluntarily takes leadership
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Zoos are sometimes seen as necessary but poor alternative to a natural environment. Is it necessary to keep animals in zoos? Zoo is the place where different kinds of animals are kept‚ displayed to public‚ and in which they may also be bred. In today’s fast paced world‚ people are pressurized everyday working at a stressful job from nine to five; leisure in the form of going to zoo can be truly welcoming. There are many debates on whether zoos should be prohibited since the issue of animal conservation
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In A Heartbeat is an animated short film produced at Ringling College of Art & Design. The short follows the protagonist‚ Sherwin‚ a middle school boy who is struggling to come to terms with his crush on Jonathan‚ one of the most popular boys in his grade. As Selena Gomez once said “The Heart Wants What It Wants‚” but I think Sherwin’s heart took it a bit too seriously as it literally leaped out of his chest chasing down the ‘boy of his dreams’ thus forcing him to chase after it in order to prevent
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continent. The story focuses exclusively on a group of North African soldiers who are fighting to liberate France from the German occupation during World War Two‚ but the nature of their patrimony is excruciatingly ambiguous. The characters’ internal agency and external pressures are exposed to the viewers by strategically moving in and out of the melodramatic mode to achieve a variety of effects. One such effect is the emotional engagement of the audience. Indigènes does not only tell the story of these
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The landlady is a short story about a Mr.Weaver needing a place to live in. First he thought that the Pub are the only place‚ but he found a place called Bed & Breakfast. He found it close to the pub. But as soon as he rings the bell‚ the landlady welcomed him to her hotel. But he doesn’t know the landlady is a killer! Well I know this because she is giving free tea to her victims. Mr.Weaver said it tasted like bitter almonds as the texts says. And scientist said if something taste bitter almonds
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makes a deal with a pilot to take her away and they are married‚ while Leah stays in Africa with the teacher. Adah and Orleanna make it back to Georgia safely. "Song of the Three Children"‚ this chapter talks about the lives of everyone after the story. Orleanna retires and Georgia while Adah becomes a doctor and begins to study African viruses. Rachel marries multiple times and is left with her dead husbands resort in Africa‚ living a wealthy African lifestyle that is where she remains. Leah stays
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In life we find friends to go along the journey with us. As humans we naturally fear the unknown‚ yet we fear it less if there is someone with us to experience the rewards or consequences. The audience members for Laura Wade’s play Posh‚ are the middle-class who are unaware of the comforts provided to the upper-class. As a part of the middle class we are unaware of traditional dinner etiquette‚ we work for everything we obtain‚ and are strangers to an extravagant lifestyle. Laura Wade uses themes
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The Satyrica‚ by Petronius‚ helps the modern historian visualize what activities may have occurred in a house like the House of the Vettii. Although Petronius’ work is a satire criticizing the copious decorations and other displays of wealth at fictional Trimalchio’s home‚ it provides the modern historian with a glimpse of how a home of a wealthy person may have been decorated and how invited guests may have reacted. After all‚ satire is a hyperbole of the truth that makes fun of certain customs
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Through out the story‚ the loons and their cries symbolize the aboriginal people and their attitudes towards the white settlers and their treatment not only towards native culture but‚ the stereotypical mentality pressed upon them. These feelings of ‘“despair‚ the unprootedness‚ the loss of the land”’ (Stovel 219) where caused by many generations of mistreatment‚ stereotypical‚ and racist mentality. The ethnocentric attitudes of the time‚ are none better portrayed than by the character of Vanessa
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A girl named Steph‚ who lives in Weeksboro‚ Maine‚ is getting help from her friend to get a boyfriend. Alexandra‚ one of Steph’s best friends‚ thinks she needs to have a boyfriend‚ like everyone else in the eighth grade. They find a whirligig they believe has magical properties and try to wish for a boyfriend on it. Brent’s whirligig impacted the girls because it gave them hope that there was some magic out there working to help their "wishes" or desires come true. The girls believe the whirligig
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