...A Christmas Carole is about Ebenezer scrooge who’s a man who doesn’t understand the meaning of Christmas. He doesn’t care about other people, he just cares about money. The night before Christmas Eve, the ghost of his dead friend visits him, his friend was just like him, loved money and didn’t care about anyone but himself. But now he came to warn Ebenezer. He says that he will be haunted by three spirits: the spirit of Christmas past, the spirit of Christmas present and the spirit of Christmas yet to come. Every night one. The first night Ebenezer is visited by the ghost of the Christmas past. He takes him to Ebenezer’s childhood, from when he was a little boy and Ebenezer felt the hopes, joys and cares long, long forgotten but they also went to the time that Ebenezer was engaged, to Belle, she broke op with him because of his greediness for money. He was devastated....
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...188 | |The Dark Night |2008 |$533,184,219.00 | |Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope |2008 |$460,998,007.00 | |Shrek 2 |2004 |$437,212,000.00 | |E.T the Extra-Terrestrial |1982 |$434,974,579.00 | |Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom |1999 |$431,088,301.00 | |Menace | | | |Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's|2006 |$423,416,000.00 | |Chest | | | |Toy Story 3 |2010 |$413,638,013.00 | |Spider-Man |2002 |$407,681,000.00 | |Movie Ranking |Original Year Released |Adjusted Gross Income | |(adjusted) | |...
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...his former self. His eyes dilate, his face is melting. Literally melting. He collapses into a small dirty heap, his eyes shut and a final breath escapes his lips. A young boy walks by and asks for money, he too broke and dirty. Another shows up and prods his silent corpse. This is where our story begins. Set in Detroit, MI during the great recession, it’s a story based on the collapse of the withering economic catastrophe known as the Automotive Industry. I would like to ask for a possibility to build a film around the concept of the desolation felt in that town and of this place. But with only $500 in hand and an old VHS video recorder, there’s only so much I can create with these limited resources. It’ll be set in front of a Party Plus Market Off of Wyoming St, an area of town notorious for its high and violent crime rate. Its daring for sure, but I wish to capture the true feeling of a desperate environment in one of the most violent and crime riddled cities in America. If there’s a chance to negotiate an advance of at least $1000 to put towards filming expenses, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time. EXT. LIQUOR STORE: It’s dark outside. Street lights dimly glow on the entrance of a local liquor store. An old man in tattered clothes and a Walmart welcome vest is seen stumbling up the sidewalk. He’s bleeding out from his ears and nose. OLD MAN: brrrrggghhhmmmmuuuhhhh The old man falls to his knees unable to support his own weight...
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...Worksheet 3 Nadine Gordimer Biography Gordimer was born near Springs, Gauteng, an East Rand mining town outside Johannesburg, the daughter of Jewish immigrants. Her father, Isidore Gordimer, was a watchmaker from Lithuania near the Latvian border, and her mother Nan was from London. Gordimer's early interest in racial and economic inequality in South Africa was shaped in part by her parents. Her father's experience as a Jewish refugee in czarist Russia helped form Gordimer's political identity, but he was neither an activist nor particularly sympathetic toward the experiences of black people under apartheid. Conversely, Gordimer saw activism by her mother, whose concern about the poverty and discrimination faced by black people in South Africa ostensibly led her to found a crèche for black children. Gordimer also witnessed government repression firsthand when yet a teenager; the police raided her family home, confiscating letters and diaries from a servant's room. Gordimer was educated at a Catholic convent school, but was largely home-bound as a child because her mother, for "strange reasons of her own," did not put her into school (apparently, she feared that Gordimer had a weak heart). Home-bound and often isolated, she began writing at an early age, and published her first stories in 1937 at the age of fifteen. Her first published work was a short story for children, "The Quest for Seen Gold," which appeared in the Children's Sunday Express in 1937; "Come Again Tomorrow...
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...Revenge in Julius Caesar Revenge. Revenge causes one to act blindly without reason. It is based on the principle of an eye for an eye, however this principle is not always a justified one to follow. In Julius Caesar, Antony seeks to avenge the death of Caesar. Antony acts on emotion which leads to the demise of Brutus, who is a noble man that does not deserve to be killed. Revenge is a central theme within Julius Caesar. Revenge In Julius Caesar Revenge in Julius Caesar Revenge. Revenge causes one to act blindly without reason. It is based on the principle of an eye for an eye, however this principle is not ... This is demonstrated through Antony s desire to avenge Caesar s death, and also the return of Julius Caesar s ghost. Revenge is again exemplified through the violent course of action, which is taken by the Plebeians in an attempt to seek justice for the assassination of their Roman superior. The theme of revenge is evident when Antony demonstrates a desire to avenge Caesar s death. After Caesar s death, Antony swears to take revenge on those who Revenge In Julius Caesar Revenge in Julius Caesar Revenge. Revenge causes one to act blindly without reason. It is based on the principle of an eye for an eye, however this principle is not ... murdered Caesar, And Caesar s spirit, ranging for revenge, With ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch s voice Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth...
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...Colonel Herncastle, an unpleasant former soldier, brings the Moonstone back with him from India where he acquired it by theft and murder during the Siege of Seringapatam. Angry at his family, who shun him, he leaves it in his will as a birthday gift to his niece Rachel, thus exposing her to attack by the stone's hereditary guardians, who, legend says, will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Rachel wears the stone to her birthday party, but that night it disappears from her room. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been near the house; on Rosanna Spearman, a maidservant who begins to act oddly and who then drowns herself in a local quicksand; and on Rachel herself, who also behaves suspiciously and is suddenly furious with Franklin Blake, with whom she has previously appeared to be enamoured, when he directs attempts to find it. Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the house party ends with the mystery unsolved, and the protagonists disperse. During the ensuing year there are hints that the diamond was removed from the house and may be in a London bank vault, having been pledged as surety to a moneylender. The Indian jugglers are still nearby, watching and waiting. Rachel's grief and isolation increase, especially after her mother dies, and she first accepts and then rejects a marriage proposal from her cousin Godfrey Ablewhite, a philanthropist who was also present at the birthday dinner and whose father owns the bank near Rachel's old family...
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...Ive known about the Donner Party story since I was a little kid. My history teachers would tell us about how a big group of people traveled west for the gold rush in California because there was money to be made. Teachers told us how they got stuck in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, somewhere near Lake Tahoe California. They were trapped due to a big snowstorm, ran out of food so had to eat each other in order to survive. Such a horrific story when you hear it when your 8 but as I got older I began to wonder more about their journey so when I got the chance to read a book about it I took it. In this book the author Ethan Rarick discusses their journey, how the Donners, Reeds, and other parties ended up in this situation, what they did to survive, and how lucky they were for some of them to survive.. The book begins with a brief history of the families and why many of them were eager to head west. Like most, they were in search of a better life that would bring them better times. Starting off from Independence Missouri, Rarick details not only how boring this journey must have been, but how unbearably slow. He estimates that the families with all their buggies and oxen probably moved at...
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...Haden Geither 11/15/14 Dr. Blake History110 Something honor, or chivalry During the middle ages knights would live by a code of conduct known as chivalry. Chivalry is a code that upholds a man’s honor and ranking among his peers. If a knight’s honor was questioned he would not think twice about defending it at any cost, including laying down his life. Throughout history men have always had to defend their honor, whether it was with violence or words. Although the original code of chivalry has evolved and changed drastically over the years the main idea of honor still plays a key role in the life of a man. It is speculated today whether or not chivalry is dead and this paper will help take a look at this idea. In the article Honor,...
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...As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. His statements and actions throughout his memoir show the change in his character. His beliefs change from everything he sees, and hears through his long and horrid experience. For example “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those little children in the flames.” What causes him to lose his faith? What causes him to hate the God he loved so much? With this in mind, Elie focuses on studying the Cabbala. Elie says “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my study of the Cabbala.” His father responds “You’re too young for that. Maimonides said it was only at thirty that one had the right to venture into the perilous world of mysticism.” He prayed to God often. He with the...
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...Africa The National Party enforces apartheid by law in 1948. It separates whites from ‘natives’, ‘coloreds’ and ‘Asians’, in every area of life from the buses they travel to work on, to the benches where they may sit at the train stations. This segregation implies that the circumstances for the coloreds and blacks turn into worse circumstances than ever before. When people hear the word apartheid, most of them think about this separating of blacks and whites and the fighting between the blacks and whites. But that is just one of many detriments apartheid has caused. This text “The Waste Land” by Alan Paton deals with a different perspective of apartheids causes – the fights in the colored races. “Mercy was the unknown word” (p. 1, l. 13). This quotation clearly inform us about the blacks’ and coloreds’ conditions below the laws of the National Party which force the black and colored people to hurt each other, so they will have a chance to survive. The main theme in the text is about apartheid’s consequence. More specifically the theme is that you cannot trust anybody – not even your family during the apartheid time: “’Freddy.’ said one. ‘Your father’s got away’” (p. 2, l. 43). It is the man’s own son who tries to rub him. Nobody cares about you. One of the other themes is everything that used to be good turns to the worst. Even your belief neglects him: “…behind him was the high wall of the convent, and the barred door that would not open before a man was dead” (p. 1, ll. 17-19)...
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...Scranton Prep when he then transferred to Scranton High. At that point, he claimed that he had been expelled for violence, but he never was a fighter, just a coward who hid behind people with courage and fortitude of will. Neil’s father was a wealthy man, given his connections, there is no way that he would have been expelled for anything less than manslaughter, the funny thing is that was his undoing. I went to senior week with him, where once again he would start trouble but never settle it himself. The coward would hide behind his friends. People hung out with him though because he had a truly cunning ability to manipulate people, much like Richard III. I would see him at parties and he would continue to bullshit with people and act cocky as though God himself couldn’t touch him. One night I was at a party and left early because I had something better to do. I...
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...Summary Three young men are walking together to a wedding, when one of them is detained by a grizzled old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the Mariner let go of him, and the Mariner obeys. But the young man is transfixed by the ancient Mariner's "glittering eye" and can do nothing but sit on a stone and listen to his strange tale. The Mariner says that he sailed on a ship out of his native harbor--"below the kirk, below the hill, / Below the lighthouse top"--and into a sunny and cheerful sea. Hearing bassoon music drifting from the direction of the wedding, the Wedding-Guest imagines that the bride has entered the hall, but he is still helpless to tear himself from the Mariner's story. The Mariner recalls that the voyage quickly darkened, as a giant storm rose up in the sea and chased the ship southward. Quickly, the ship came to a frigid land "of mist and snow," where "ice, mast-high, came floating by"; the ship was hemmed inside this maze of ice. But then the sailors encountered an Albatross, a great sea bird. As it flew around the ship, the ice cracked and split, and a wind from the south propelled the ship out of the frigid regions, into a foggy stretch of water. The Albatross followed behind it, a symbol of good luck to the sailors. A pained look crosses the Mariner's face, and the Wedding-Guest asks him, "Why look'st thou so?" The Mariner confesses that he shot and killed the Albatross with his crossbow. At first, the other sailors were furious with...
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...Cognitive Dissonance Life is a timeline that begins at birth and ends with death. People are given choices that are followed by reactions and behaviors that occur in one’s life. Life includes growth, reproduction, and functional behavior. People consciously make decisions that may affect their life as well as others. A family is formed when a group of two, male and female reproduces to create a life. That life begins to develop and growth starts to begin in stages such as infancy, childhood, adulthood, and late adulthood. It is the obligation of the parents to love, care, teach, and protect the child. Love is natural and develops as parenthood begins. The caring for the child comes naturally through the instinct of the parent. A parent’s job is to teach their child love, respect, morals, values, and beliefs. It is a parent’s responsibility and instinct to provide and protect the life that is created. Attitudes, moods, and choices are developed by the child as personalities are formed. The child then begin to make choices in life of right and wrong and is faced to make adult like decisions of their own and are responsible to pass the knowledge down to their child. Parent and child share a rare relationship that includes life and death which begins and ends with a purpose and intentions. Scenario Remembering 4 years ago today while I stand here on the porch listening to night noises and the children playing...
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...Racism has for a long time been a worldwide problem and does still exist to this very day. Although several protagonists of rights has accomplished a lot of success throughout the time by defending blacks, some people still think that the color of a man’s skin is connected to his status as a human being. But what happens when a white man stands up to defend a black man, in a society which is based on prejudices against blacks? And does moral even interfere? That is some of the question the author, Harper Lee, is answering in his novel "To kill a Mockingbird", published in the year of 1960. The story is about the siblings Scout and Jem Finch living in a small town called Maycomb. They have lost their mother but as a replacement they have their nanny, Calpurnia, to look after them. Their father, Atticus, does also take care of them while being one of the only lawyers in the county. One summer, the siblings become fascinated by their neighbor, Boo Radley, who never seems to leave the house. Scout and Jem spend most of the summer, in company of their friend Dill, trying to get a glimpse of their mysterious neighbor. After several attempts of getting near the house they must conclude that Boo Radley remains a puzzle as Jem and Scout goes back to school. The subsequent summer Atticus is struggling with a case, in which he is defending the black man Tom Robinson. Tom has been accused of raping the white girl Mayella Ewell. Atticus, as well as Jem and Scout, is assured that...
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...The Republican Party Background The Republican party was formed from the Whig Party Wisconsin on March 20, 1854 ” . It was a party that was created to help free slaves in the western areas in 1834. The reason why the Whig Party was formed into the Republican party was because the Whig Party didn’t work out so well and they had a lot of arguments. .The Republicans gained a lot of supporters from the North to help increase their chances of presidency election. Because of their, John C. Fremont , from the Republican Party, won their first election for President in 1856. Later in November 1860, Abraham Lincoln, which was also from the Republican Party, won presidency over the Democratic Party to decrease the level of threats toward salves. In...
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