...NOTE: This review is the fair and unbiased opinion of someone with extremely little knowledge of the Twilight series. I watched the movie with a few die hard fans who I talked to after the movie, and I will work some of their thoughts into the review. Another much loved book series has been brought to life in the form of Twilight, which despite having nothing in common with the Harry Potter series, will undoubtedly draw comparisons because of the furor and craze surrounding it. The main difference between the two, however, is that the Harry Potter films are generally good and solid films. Twilight, despite having done a couple things right, is not. As a story, I will admit, Twilight is very catchy and interesting. Now I see what all the hype is about. If I was a young girl, I would go nuts over this stuff too. It's not just a vampire and a human falling in love with each other, but because of the two leads, it's one of the best on screen romances of the decade. This, however, is severely hurt by the fact that Twilight boasts easily some of the worst writing and editing I've ever seen. Let's not forget about the horrid VFX and pasty makeup, either. It's one of the cheesiest films of the year, and can definitely be put in the category of "so bad it's ALMOST good". Yes, I just invented that category. The 'allure' of the film appears to be the character played by Robert Pattinson, who ironically was previously known for his role in the Harry Potter series. Pattinson succeeded...
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...BOOK: TWILIGHT AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer TWILIGHT The book that I choose to write review is Twilight. The book twilight is about the life of 17 years old girl, Bella Swan thattransfers to forks to live with her father. She is very simple and falls in love with Edward who turns out to be a vampire those affections with a vegetarian vampire family. Everything goes nicelyuntil other vampires come to fork and want to eat Bella. It’s a combination of a great love story with great action and suspense. The main idea of this story thoughts that the author would like to convey is human falling in true love with each other, sacrifice, physical isolation and fear. http://www.fantasybooksandmovies.com/twilight-novel.html Firstly love is one of the main ideas of this book. As example, Isa Bella, who prefers to be known as Bella, is a 17 year old girl. She leaves Phoenix, Arizona, to go living with her father in Forks, Washington, in the ambition of giving her mother the chance to travel with her new husband. She feels attracted to Edward Cullen when she meets him in Forks High School. When she determines that he's a vampire, her attraction blooms into full-fledged first love. Originally, Edward just wanted to eat her, but insufficiently realizes eventually that in fact what he is feeling is true love, and after a few days they start dating. After two or three weeks, Bella is begging Edward to turn her into a vampire because of true love. http://www.shmoop.com/twilight/love-theme.html ...
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...Twilight The Twilight Saga is a film series based on the novels and a series of four vampire-based fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. The main characters of Twilight are Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Bella Swan is friendly, selfless and clumsy. She always fell and hurt herself accidentally or get into dangerous situations daily. Edward Cullen is frozen in his 17 years old body. He was changed into a vampire by Dr. Carlisle Cullen after Edward's mother, Elizabeth, begged him to save Edward as her dying wish. Edward has a special ability to read minds. Twilight is a story of Bella Swan and the vampire she falls in love with, Edward Cullen. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. First day of her school, she sees Edward Cullen in cafeteria. Edward is attractive and almost unhumanly beautiful. Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years but they never be accepted by the townsfolk. He is so different to other peoples. Soon, Bella Swan in love with Edward Cullen. One day, Bella learns from family friend Jacob Black that Quileute legends say the Cullen family are vampires. Realizing Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he is not human. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. Bella wish to become a vampire but Edward is unwilling to change Bella...
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...Catherine Rios 3-2-14 Asian Civilizations In the film, The Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yamada reconstructs an ancient Japanese village by the characters demonstration of the same values and customs of the samurai, two other factors that help pull off the illusion of the time period are the architecture and economy. Seibei is nicknamed ‘The Twilight Samurai’ because he is a samurai and every night he returns home from work at twilight he isn’t like the other people he works with who go out after work. The Twilight Samurai is the love story of a low ranked samurai, Seibei, who rises to defeat not only a traitor, but the person who Seibei may later become. Of the many themes in The Twilight Samurai is light. When Seibei is sent to a fight to the death with Tanaka you see Seibei in the light and Tanaka in the dark. Seibei is a good person he always puts his daughters needs before his own and is an honest man. Once Seibei’s wife dies he does all he can to make sure he is always there for his daughters by returning every night at twilight and this is how he acquires the name of ‘The Twilight Samurai.’ Tanaka is a man who has been running his whole life and this has literally driven him to insanity. After Seibei has entered the house Tanaka is hiding in they both sit down and drink tea and Tanaka tells Seibei about his life. He tells Seibei how he used to be just like Seibei and he tries to scare Seibei into letting him go by seeing what the people who give them their orders have made...
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...Twilight (series) |Twilight | |[pic] | |Complete set of the four books | |of the Twilight series and the spin-off novella, The Short Second Life of Bree| |Tanner. | |Twilight | |New Moon | |Eclipse | |Breaking Dawn | |Author |Stephenie Meyer | |Country |United States | |Language |English | |Genre |Romance, fantasy, young-adult fiction | |Publisher |Little, Brown and Company | |Published |2005–2008 | |Media type |Print | Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl...
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...Question To demonstrate competence in this unit you will need to show that you can design and develop a project plan. Your task is to select an idea, improvement or opportunity that could be applied in a business operation. Describe the business and the project you might initiate. You will need to describe and define the project in context. Explain why such a project would be beneficial. What procedures might you use to ensure that the project was sponsored and supported by the organisation? Define the project, write a project narrative and develop a project plan, including the processes that would be used to manage financial, technical, human and physical resources. In developing your project plan, consider: 1. Who are your project’s stakeholders? 2. What would your role be in planning and delivering the project? 3. How would you ensure that your project met organisational objectives? 4. What resources would you need and how would you source them? 5. Why should you and how would you consult with team members in the planning stage of the project and throughout the project’s implementation? 6. How would you monitor the quality of outcomes? 7. How would you ensure that you met project timelines? 8. What project management tools would you use and why would they be most useful? 9. How and why would you delegate roles and tasks? 10. How would you design and develop risk management and contingency plans and cater for any health and safety issues? 11. What methods would...
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...irrevocably in love with him,” says Bella Swan in Twilight (Meyer 195). This sums up the major points of this book – vampires, love and self-control. Many parents feel that Twilight portrays unhealthy relationships and creates celebrity idol worship, both of which are believed to have a powerfully negative effect on society. These two people came together no differently than any normal human beings get together in high school, with mutual interests, like their knowledge of biology and their taste in music. Twilight encourages abstinence until marriage, and although the final novel, Breaking Dawn, has some underlying sexual themes, they purely pertain to the plot and are not described in scenes, only referenced to. Still, the books are far cleaner than what’s found in other books written for the same age range, television, movies, and magazines. The relationship between Bella and Edward is based on mostly compassion instead of the physical relationship that is portrayed on television. The media argues that all Twilight readers are infatuated with Edward Cullen, and buff hard body Jacob, yet most of the readers of the Twilight saga are not unhealthily obsessed with the characters or actors portraying them. Celebrity fixation has always been a part of teen culture, and hasn’t every generation had a teen heartthrob, do we remember, Elvis, Shawn Cassidy, The Beetles, New Kids of the Block? The New York Times review stated, "The premise of Twilight is attractive and compelling — who hasn't...
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...Running Head: Popular Literature Popular Literature Ivan Posada Instructor, Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo University of Phoenix March 28, 2011 Water for Elephants This book is a historical novel written by Sara Gruen, The novel focus on the story of Jacob Jancowski and his experiences since he was a college student through his life experience travelling with The Benzini Brothers Circus. The story is told as a series of memories by Jacob Jankowski, a ninety or ninety-three year-old man who lives in a nursing home, where Jacob is told what to eat and what to do. The book of his memories began, when he was twenty-three years old. Jacob was studying veterinary at Cornell University when he received the horrible news that his parents were killed in a car accident. Days after his parents accident he found that was not money left and his parents were in a deeply debt because his father, who was a veterinary was treating animals for free, plus all the expenses that were generated by the veterinary school for Jacob (Wikipedia, 2011). One night Jacob was desperate and he jumped on a train, which ended up being a circus train, in where he starts working as an animal caregiver after the owner of the circus found that he was a veterinary student. And after this a multiple events are mentioned in the book about Jacobs’s life and all the things that he had to go through during his life at the circus (Wikipedia, 2011). Years after when Jacob turn ninety-three year old he sees himself...
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...that the comet broke apart causing a fragment to fall and destroyed the Mitsuha’s hometown 3 years ago. Taki manages to restart the body swap phenomenon and works to prevent the deaths of the townspeople and ends up meeting Mitsuha in person due to an event called the twilight. However...
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...television series. He wrote a number of episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", and several episodes of "The Twilight Zone" are based on his novels. "The Addams Family" was created after a failed attempt to unite Charles Addams and Ray Bradbury on a book together. Unable to make this collaboration work due to funding, Bradbury created The Elliott Family and Addams created The Addams Family, but both incorporated ideas from the other (Mittnacht). The most current TV series based off of Bradbury's novels is "The Whispers" which aired in 2015 and is loosely modeled on his short story Zero Hour. These television shows are some of the best known in history and have served as encouragement for future television entertainment. To this day, "The Twilight Zone" has sparked new versions of the terrifying sci-fi episodes along with a creative adaptation of the concept for Disney World's "Tower of Terror". Through movies, plays and seemingly unrelated television shows, Ray Bradbury has subtly influenced the world of television entertainment whether or not that was his original intention. Despite his outstanding achievements, Bradbury is still criticized by many and some believe his drastic concepts are hurtful to society. The New Yorker has only printed one of Ray Bradbury's stories, despite the fact that over the years he has sent them several hundred. The Paris Review even refused to publish an interview with Bradbury because they said he was "too enthusiastic" (Mittnacht). However...
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...is and was portrayed in a number of ways. In the early days when they were just folklore, vampires were blood sucking predators and feared pale stalkers. In Vampire God: the Allure of the Dead in the Western Culture (2009), discussing the popularity of vampires in society, Mary Y. Hallab says that the folklore vampire is constantly compared to the other supernatural beings like witches and werewolf’s, and today’s concept is also a confused being, a zombie? A lover? Hallab states that “vampires are only those figures—folkloric, mythical, or literary—who are dead humans who are still capable of behaving as though they are alive.” Today, vampires have become a culture of their own, and are a huge part of mainstream pop culture. The Twilight Cullen’s and Sesame Street’s Count Dracula have a whole new appeal on adults and children. The appeal is not always good. According to Vampire Gothic, which is about vampire gothic cultures in United States, Teresa A. Goddu discusses a teenage vampire clan that was discovered in Murray, Kentucky, that was found participating in role-playing games such as drinking each other’s blood and killing puppies. Goddu explains that it’s the raw supernatural aspect of vampires that drew the teenager’s attention. We will discuss the gothic culture and how it relates to vampires later on in the paper. Looking back, no matter how these creatures are portrayed they have proven to be remarkably adaptable...
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...“The Hunger Games” Film Review New York Times, John Green- “Brilliantly plotted and perfectly paced” Film Name: The Hunger Games Genre: Dystopian Fiction Director’s Name: Gary Ross Adapted From The Novel and Author: “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins Plot Summary The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic North America, known as the new country of “Panem”, with a government known as, “The Capitol”- a metropolis, that exercises political control over its society. The Capitol has an annual event, “The Hunger Games” to remind the citizens of Panem of the “Dark Days”, and to ensure that they never return. The story begins in a poor, coal-mining district, following a young 16-year old girl, Katniss Everdeen and her fellow tribute, Peetah Mellark. Critical Review In “The Hunger Games”, “Katniss Everdeen”, who was played by Jennifer Lawrence, was portrayed exceptional well. Not only does Jennifer’s appearance resemble all of those of Katniss, her attitude does as well. Instantly, you find yourself attached to Katniss and her family, as you feel sympathetic towards their poverty and situation. After you see Katniss volunteer as tribute for her sister at “The Reaping”, you automatically set your hopes high for her to win the games. Throughout the film, you feel all of the same emotions as Katniss, her fear at the beginning of the games, her miss-trust in everyone around her, and her relief when finally winning the games. “Peetah Mellark”, played by Josh Hutcherson...
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...The Final Chapter Deanna Schneider ENG 225 Instructor Danielle Day May 14, 2013 Breaking Dawn is the long awaited and highly anticipated end to the compelling tale of what seems to be an impossible romance between the immortal Edward Cullen and the irresistible human Bella Swan. Beginnings can be tricky, but Twilight got this series off to a fantastic start with its modern day fairy tale quality and heart stopping romance. Bella seems to be pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black She has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice, to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life, has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life – first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse – seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever? The setting of this book is in a rainy town in Washington called Forks, where Edward Cullen, a gorgeous “good” vampire, first dazzled Isabella Swan, an average human being. After facing many complications to their relationship, they realize that they want nothing more than to keep the...
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... this literary concept of a wolf-human hybrid is rooted in evil. They are graphically described as “bestial, blood-drinking, human-flesh-eating creatures, endowed with more than human agility and strength” (Rudin 115). Werewolves served as popular antagonists throughout media, including television and cinema; yet, in recent years, the media’s perception of werewolves has taken a noticeable shift in the opposite direction. Stephenie Meyer, the critically acclaimed author of the Young Adult series The Twilight Saga, embodies this shift to the “new” werewolf. Meyer made a drastic change to the very nature of what was once a ferocious beast by characterizing werewolves as more gentle and protective. People wonder, though, what caused this sudden switch of characteristics? Through texts such as Rick Bass’ The Ninemile Wolf, Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men, Valerie Fogleman’s piece “American Attitudes Towards Wolves: a History of Misperception,” Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, and more, this paper will argue that the “original” werewolf belief was founded on America’s misperception of wolves and that, through revelations in animal studies, particularly the Endangered Species Act of 1973, modern American culture has transitioned into a more animal sympathetic society, creating literary changes in the behavior of werewolves to occur with acceptance. There is a definitive transition between the “original” werewolf and the “new” werewolf. The question, though, is where does...
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...Budget Reduction Suggestions • bounce back provision to increase retirements • break up AMPS and offer “ala carte” AMPS • charge for permits to use buildings • clean buildings every other day • close buildings at 5 p.m. • close buildings for inservice/records day (teachers work from home) • close Spring Valley and move to KV • computerize time-keeping of classified • cut EPD from EHS • cut one team of 9th grade at EHS • cut/reduce Whitguard • don’t replace retiring administrators • eliminate assistant principals • eliminate band options—start in later grades • eliminate band transportation for practice • eliminate department chairs (planning or stipend) • eliminate Early College • eliminate guidance counselors • eliminate outside contractors for schedule and testing • eliminate overtime • eliminate retire/rehire • eliminate strings elementary • eliminate summer school • eliminate swimming • eliminate teaming in middle schools and high school • eliminate three PE teachers at EHS • eliminate varsity assistants in some sports • encourage open enrollment • ERIP • explore charter school options • four-day week • furlough administrators • have 6th, 7th, 8th grade building instead of middle schools • increase class size • institute substitute call in system • investigate central registration • investigate...
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