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Taking Sides Clashing Sides Clashing Views
1,966 wordsMany of us are use to hearing about the War on Drugs or Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), but not every day we hear about groups trying to stop mothers from killing their unborn child. The method that these mothers are using to kill or permanently hurt their unborn child is by using drugs during their pregnancy. Should these women go to jail for murdering or should they get help and pretend that nothing happened? Like every situation in our life, we must do what is right, and we must fight f...
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Veronica Cartwright Suzanne Pleshette Birds
1,063 wordsThe plot of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 "The Birds, " taken from a Daphne Du Married (who wrote the novel "Rebecca") short story, seems ludicrous. Birds attacking a small town, actually killing people. But in the competent hands of the master of suspense, the movie is frighteningly, well, suspenseful. Evan Hunter (who also writes under the name Ed McBain) wrote the screenplay, and while not all of the characters are well enough developed for the viewer to understand their occasionally awkward behavi...
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Young Girl 3 Years
980 wordsPhotos bring memories back to life. Each photo tells a different story, sometimes things you dont always like to remember. The photo that I have chosen is of a young girl in a pretty formal dress. She is holding a packet of Minutes, her favourite lollies. Her grandma gave them to her right after she performed in a concert for her dancing school. Athol Williby School of dance, a place shed been going to for 3 years, since she was 7 years old. Every Monday her mother would drop her off out the fro...
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Civil War Love Hate
488 wordsThe book, Gone with the Wind, is the most historical and greatest love story of all time. It is the epic story of Scarlett OHara and Rhett Butlers struggles through the Civil War and its aftermath. Reconstruction of the South and the no slaves law is hard on the community in witch Scarlett lives. Scarlett losses everything from her best friend to her parents and their land. Dealing with friendship, love, hate, and family makes you want to not stop reading until you are done. First there is Scarl...
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Alfred Hitchcock Short Story
584 wordsThe short story "The Birds" was written by Daphne du Married and was filmed and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It has a very interesting and suspenseful plot. The short story was well written and the film was well played, both are very similar. Although, they have a few differences the film and short story have the same mood and theme. Would the differences in the film and the short story affect the suspenseful and frightening plot? Alfred Hitchcock did an outstanding job filming the movie matchi...
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Blair Witch Short Story
2,051 words... so 6 - Conclusion Culminating Activity Overview - Students will read "The Lottery" and respond to the themes of the story through small group discussion, and personal questions. Outcomes - -- Students will have practise in responding to themes in a short story. -- Students will be able to use prior knowledge of elements of short stories to discuss the use of suspense and drama in writing. Procedures - 1. As a class read Jackson's "The Lottery." 2. At the end of the story ask students to writ...
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Year Olds Hard Time
1,419 wordsDo you have a brother or sister, who is a pest? I am one of the pest controllers for my twin sisters, who will stop at nothing to satisfy their endless list of needs. After eleven years of being an only child, I wasnt exactly thrilled about having twin sisters appear in my life. Between the stories I had heard of the constant crying and the out-of-control tantrums that babies have, I wasnt about ready to go into this willingly. I would have to put up with double the trouble, which would deprive ...
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Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem
1,194 wordsLanguages, colors, cultures and also the way one behaves may differ from one nation to another. Yet, each and every one of us living on the surface of this planet have several things in common. One of these similarities is that we all have a way of regarding our own self. It is believed that a large amount of individuals feel very good about themselves. Nevertheless, from time to time even the best of us get a dose of negative emotions. Very heartbreaking stories about self dislike were told by ...
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Alfred Hitchcock Horror Films
1,606 words... looks cheap not only by the plot but also by price. However, it doesnt look like other attempts to imitate the film. Alfred Hitchcock brings into the film a light vein of black humor. Moreover, the slightest gradations of the black humor are discovered when you re-view the film. No doubt, it is the film made by maestro, the incredibly talented producer. Alfred Hitchcock made this film with the purpose of technical joke: he wanted to know what will be the reaction of the public, if he kills t...
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Point Of View Personality
1,695 wordsGone with the wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming This is a film about contrast. In the film clip, large amount of contrast can be found between characters, lighting, the way of how colour is presented, the way of how camera being placed, and the way of how shots being taken. Misc-en-Scene From the film clip (and the whole film), the colour image is strong on contrast, not only the colour of the settings, the furnitures, and the costumes, also the colour contrast of indoor and outdoor. In the film c...
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Fell In Love Rhett Butler
1,048 wordsThe novel being summarized is titled Gone with the Wind, written by Margaret Mitchell. It was published in 1936, after it took her seven years to write, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind was the only book Ms. Mitchell wrote and is an American Classic. Gone with the Wind was a story of men and women living in the south during the war between the states and of the south? s transformation after the was. The novel began in about 1861 at Tara and Twelve Oaks, two southern plantatio...
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Rhett Butler Ashley Wilkes
628 wordsOn December 15, 1939 a movie was released in Atlanta, GA that would forever change how people saw the Old South. This movie quickly became a smash hit and went on to become the # 1 movie of all time and still holds the title. The movie was Gone With The Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming, this movie is the beloved epic of the South. The movies main character is Scarlett OHara. Opposite her is the dashing and debonair e Rhett Butler. The movie is basically the love story of Scarlett and Rhett with ...
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End Of The Book Beginning Of The Book
2,976 wordsThe time is 1861, and the action is centered around Atlanta Georgia, and the surrounding area. It begins at Tara, the O? Hara plantation. Scarlett quickly moves to Atlanta, soon after her late husband? s death. she returns to Tara, though, during the burning of Atlanta by the Yankees. Once she has made Tara successful again, and she needs money for the house, she gets Frank Kennedy to marry her. So she moves back to Atlanta. Once Frank is killed, Scarlett marries Rhett, and the two of them build...
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Rhett Butler Ashley Wilkes
2,577 wordsGone With the Wind is an amazing story about life down south during the Civil War and a few years after it. It was written in 1936 by author Margaret Mitchell. The movie was later released in 1939, and seen by countless amounts of people. I enjoyed the movie because it gave me an interesting perspective to the civil war. I always viewed the confederates to be these evil slave owners. The movie showed me that they were not evil, and this was just the way their culture was, and it? s hard to chang...
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Hitchcock Birds Language Film
426 wordsThe Birds by Alfred Hitchcock is a stunning is a drama where the majority of the film is taken up by panoramic shots of the birds flying over Bodega Bay. When the birds are gathering planning to attack there is no music; there is also very little conversation, save the screams of the victims. These anguished howls and the caw of the birds seem to blend harmoniously to create a paralyzing cacophony of sounds that express terror far better than mere words could have. In the final scene there is th...
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Makes Me Feel Feature Film
1,003 wordsBoth Butch Hayes and Samuel Levine both committed the same crimes against a young person, yet the viewer is positioned to feel differently to both of them-more sympathetic towards Hayes rather than Levine. This is because of the manner both their characters were portrayed, using, among other things, techniques specific to the genre (feature film and novel). One of the main factors, which manipulate how we feel about Butch and Samuel, are the way they are both characterised. Hayes is intelligent ...
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Mitch And His Family Sounds And Silence Birds
532 wordsThere are many aspects of a movie that relate the feeling and emotion to the viewer. Music, or lack there of, is one of the more prominent. In the film The Birds, different bird sounds and silence are used to illustrate the action, suspense, and anxiety of the scenes. This rare technique allows the viewer to be drawn into the intensity of the birds and their attacks. The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, uses a sequence of silence and bird clamor to create an extravagant feeling of uncertaint...
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Abuse Or Neglect Controlled Substance
1,820 wordsSHOULD PREGNANT DRUG USERS BE PROSECUTED? Many of us are use to hearing about the War on Drugs or Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD), but not every day we hear about groups trying to stop mothers from killing their unborn child. The method that these mothers are using to kill or permanently hurt their unborn child is by using drugs during their pregnancy. Should these women go to jail for murdering or should they get help and pretend that nothing happened? Like every situation in our life, we ...
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Kate Adie Alan Titchmarsh Publishers
783 wordsThe Bookseller&# 183; Fans of celebrity memoirs will have an unprecedented range to choose from this autumn, provided they do not insist that the stars come only from the A list. Indeed, the alphabet may not be long enough to classify some of the memoirist's on offer. This genre enjoyed an extraordinary and somewhat alarming boom last year. Its alarming because the books cost a lot of money: advances in excess of &# 163; 500, 000 are usual. Nevertheless, a surprisingly high percentage of them di...
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