...“You remember how to use a sniper.” “Yea, remember you used to call me Deadshot” “Oh yeah, I forgot that you are a magician with guns.” The sniper I grabbed was called Venom Tactical Taipan. It was my favorite especially when I was killing from a distance. It’s also the gun I used on my second assassination. After that assassination, I assassinated 5 more people. Sometimes I had to go in guns blazing and sometimes I didn’t. “You ready” “Yea” My dad threw a bag at me and told me to put the big guns in there. “Oh, yea and don’t forget the hand.” “Ok” “You remember the plan.” Said, my dad, while walking out of the room with his bag on him. “Yea” Three hours later We are in the Mercedes-Benz going to our first destination which is the hotel. “Dex, why you bring those chemicals with you,” said, my dad I said “I had...
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...early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...married women’s lives ought to revolve around their husbands’. 2) The transformation Mrs. Mallard experiences upon receiving the news of her husband’s death’: grief realization of her freedom fear if her monstrous joy reconciliation with her genuine feelings towards her husband’s ‘death’ and her new-found freedom embracement of her new life in a celebratory manner Mrs. Mallard’s crying and her eyes are the motifs through which Mrs. Mallard’s transformation is illustrated 3) Other points to note: the similes in paragraphs 7 (a child who has cried itself to sleep) and 18 (a goddness of victory) illustrates the empowerment of Mrs. Mallard and that she regains her femininity after the death of her husband (the patriarch) Narrative point of view: Limited omniscient narrator, from Louise Mallard’s point of view Theme: The story is about the stifling nature of marriage, women’s repression of their own desires to search for and assert their identities, and the oppression of women in patriarchal society. The story is also about empowerment of women and the unlikelihood of women’s status and femininity being celebrated the ways they deserve. Conflict: 1) Louise Mallard’s genuine feeling (wanting to embrace her husband’s death in a celebratory manner) VS. proper response/manners a woman is expected to show after her husband’s passing 2) Louise Mallard following own wills VS obeying her husband’s wills. Setting: 1) It is foreshadowed in paragraph...
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...The Structure of The Sniper The story The Sniper takes place in Dublin, Ireland and it talks about a time in which snipers roamed the city and Republicans are waging a civil war. The story is very specific in what happens within the story and describes everything that happens in great detail. Even though this story has a straightforward approach, many of the key elemental structures that hold this story together are hard to perceive from the story itself. The exposition of the story starts off with an overview of Dublin and what has happened to it. It explains that it was nighttime and the city Dublin was quiet until gunshots from machine guns and rifles roared through the city. The author uses this as the narrative hook to grab the...
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...Book review of American Sniper The book American Sniper, written by chris kyle, is a autobiography based on chris kyle's experiences as a navy seal and what he experienced during his deployment to iraq. Within his book, he describes the many heroic accomplishments during his deployment, including having the highest confirmed kill count of any U.S military sniper in history. While he has achieved such a thing, he continues he modest and almost quiet tone about it, showing his character as a person. Also included in the book are the viewpoints of his wife taya, showing the necessary second viewpoint in order to get a full grasp on what life was like for him and his wife. A personal favorite narrative of mine was the amount of humor within the...
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...Garett Reppenhagen the writer of the essay titled, “I was an American sniper and Chris Kyle’s war was not my war,” is trying to make a point to his audience. Garett’s purpose is to ensure that no one makes the mistake of thinking the hit movie The American Sniper depicts what Iraq and the war are all about. This article was first published on Salon, a website that has an audience favoring liberals more than conservatives. This article also has an audience of a younger generation that follows hit movies. Garett Reppenhagen served as a Cavalry Scout Sniper with the 1st Infantry Division in the US Army, and is also a veteran advocate and social justice organizer. Garett’s background has a lot of relevance to this topic. I would say he is credible towards this whole subject. He is qualified to make judgment and criticize the way this movie is trying to depict Iraq. Garett’s extrinsic ethos is that he has served in the military. He has made a profession of being a real life sniper so he knows most of the scenarios that go on in the movie. He could also describe what goes on as you enter a war zone and how each and every person reacts. Garett states, "But viewing the war only through his eyes gives us too narrow frame." I believe this quote shows he cares about the audience because he wants to share that the frame of Iraq is not narrow, in fact it is on the contrary. Iraq is full of hospitality, proud history, and old-soul wisdom. This quote also shows virtue and goodness because he...
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...Playground, 2009 is a short film about a group of young children playing a game of soccer on the streets in a war-torn country. When their ball is kicked over a fence, Ana is faced to risk her life in a challenge to retrieve the soccer ball whilst a sniper is shooting at her. Violence is the main thematic value within Ana’s Playground as it is present throughout the whole film.The film gives us an insight of how children live and experience the violence that occurs within war-torn countries. The four children seen within this film is Ana, what appears to be her little sister, and two other boys. When Ana is chosen through the use of coin flipping, to retrieve the ball from over the fence, the audience would expect one of the boys to replace this life risking duty as this is a gender expectation from the audience. This shows that the female gender is represented as being obedient but also very vulnerable. From the very moment Ana is chosen to retrieve the ball, is a representation of her innocence and naivety being lost. The Cabin in the Woods, 2011 is a recent Hollywood comedy horror film about five friends that go on a holiday to a remote cabin in the woods and unknowingly are being observed and become victims for a ritual. The narrative codes within these films make the stories easily comprehensible to the audience. The title Ana’s Playground suggests to the audience that this...
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...Critical evaluation of “Leon” I have decided to do my critical evaluation on “Leon”. Leon is directed by Luc Besson and stars Jean Reno and a very young Natalie Portman. Leon is a hit man or “Cleaner” as her refers to himself and lives a solitary life where his only love is for a plant that he carries with him. One day his neighbours, a dysfunctional family, are attacked by a DEA agent named “Stansfield” played by Gary Oldman, and his gang, due to the father stealing drugs from Stansfield. The only survivor of the attack is Matilda who happens upon the scene as she returns from shopping. Her only option is to knock on the door of the stranger she talks to in passing, Leon. After saving her life Leon teaches Matilda to “Clean” and begins to track down her family’s killers at the cost of her teaching him to read and washing his place. As the film unfolds a relationship blossoms between the two characters as they learn to depend on each other. I wish to evaluate the showdown scene near the end of the movie. After Leon has killed nearly every member of Stansfield’s team, Stansfield decides to hunt down this hit man as well as the girl. Bringing all his might with the police he storms the building where Leon and Matilda live with hundreds of SWAT and police members. Matilda yet again, is returning from shopping, a mirror scene of when her family is killed. As Matilda returns the initial framing is a tight long shot of the hallway where she enters. This gives the audience a restrictive...
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...Gabriella Hatzopoulos War & Society Uniting Tactics, Divisive Consequences Rape, torture and murder against innocent civilians- what could cause someone to do such a thing? The My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War was a result of a war tactic that continues to be utilized today: racism and dehumanization of the enemy. This strategy, employed by the Armed Forces and facilitated by the media back on American soil has proven to be dangerous in that it causes both soldiers and civilians to treat an entire group as subhuman and unworthy of empathy. We can see this in the My Lai Massacre and through the persistent hare crimes against Muslims during the United States’ current “war on terror.” On March 16 1968, 140 men of the American Charlie Company entered the village of My Lai and were ordered to kill whoever they saw. There was the belief that the province of Quang Ngai where My Lai was located was a stronghold for Vietcong guerillas. After increasing frustration with losing their soldiers and not progressing in the war as much as they’d like, the group took their anger out on what was thought was a village of Vietcong enemies. It was the first chance they had to meet the enemy face to face instead of through grenades and booby traps and finally get even. Lieutenant William L. Calley ordered a search and destroy mission and urged that anyone in My Lai was to be considered connected to the Vietcong in some way, and should be killed. Though no guerillas were found when...
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...Short Story Friday Instead of Narrative Friday, we are going to participate in Short Story Friday for the next quarter (at least!). Everyone in the class will pick a short story that they want to read, research, then re-write. There can be no more than three people per story. These three people will then read the story, research it, and re-write the story in a different context. Finally, they will present the story to the class in their chosen format. Group Members: 1)Camron 2)Hunter 3)Nick In order to be educated about story options, students must first research at least three short stories. To demonstrate understanding of these short stories, students must write an NVF for the short stories they research. You will type the three stories...
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...mohsinhamid.com home about novels essays stories interviews connect The Reluctant Fundamentalist Published in 2007 in these languages. Became an international bestseller with over a million copies in print. Was adapted for the cinema. Awards Won the Ambassador Book Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Asian American Literary Award, Premio Speciale Dal Testo Allo Schermo, and South Bank Show Award for Literature. Was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Arts Council England Decibel Award, Australia-Asia Literary Award, and Index on Censorship T R Fyvel Award. Was named a Book of the Decade by the Guardian and a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Reviews 'An artist of fantastic cunning... demonstrates what certain trumped-up laureates of post-modernity seem incapable of grasping: that it is possible to simultaneously address the byzantine monstrosity of contemporary existence and care about the destiny of one's characters... [a] resounding success... not unworthy of Nabokov.' -- The Village Voice (full review) 'Taut and accomplished... Changez's story, which seems to gush from him like blood from a wound, traces the self's shifting sense of itself against the rumblings of a rudely shaken world... Dostoyevskian.' -- San Francisco Chronicle (full review) 'Changez's voice is extraordinary. Cultivated, restrained, yet also barbed and...
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...Cultural Context The cultural context refers to the type of society in which a text is set-it’s structures, values and day-to-day rituals. Comparing the texts I have studied under Cultural Context mode involves entering the world of each text and comparing the ways in which the lives of the central characters are influenced by the worlds in which they live. The three texts I have studied are Lies of Silence (LS) by Brian Moore, Plough and the Stars (PS) playwrite by Sean O’Casey and Il Postino (IP) directed by Micheal Radford. These novelists, dramatists and film directors obviously employ their own distinctive narrative techniques. I was interested in studying a significant range of similarities in the way LS, PS and IP deliver their respective tales. The setting is easily comparable in all texts. IP was set in a small island off the coast of Italy around the 1950’s. Communism was the main political headline in this text, where a famous Italian poet, Pablo Neruda, was exiled from his own country and forced to live elsewhere for a short while due to the fact he was a communist. During this time also, Europe was struggling to cope from World War II. PS was set in Dublin, 1916. The Easter Rising was at stake. We receive an insight into the lives of the Irish people during The Troubles. There was also a feud between Socialism and Republicanism. LS is set in Belfast in the 1950’s when the Northern Troubles were at its climax. The setting in this text is dominated by the deep-rooted...
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...Editing Style - Storyboard - References Than Htike Aung 2 Student ID: 980511 Assignment 1 VID106 Video Production Fundamentals Synopsis A mysterious man living in a suburban home wakes up one morning and does his normal routine to get ready for work. As he walks out from the front door to his car on the driveway… Treatment Concept I have chosen “Hitman” as the title of this short film. The aim is to create a 2 to 3 minute story in the genre of mystery. Within this mystery genre, a middle age man will be introduced without any dialogue but with a voiceover narration, as he gets ready for work. As we explore the life about this man over the narrative track, the key conventions will lead the audience into a false sense of knowledge. The main concept of this film is to build up to the climax where the audience will be shocked by a twist to the plot. This supposed genre would allow the viewer to become caught up in the theme and make the wrong assumption until the twist is revealed in the end. Script Outline The short film begins with a close-up shot of an alarm clock ringing at 6am waking up the man in the bed. The camera shows a few shots around his room where everything is perfectly...
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...AS Media Studies Assignment AS Media Studies Assignment Week 2, Task, page 15 (Genre) Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Description of Law and order In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City, by a special unit of detectives of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. These crimes are then passed on to the courtroom for prosecution. Law and order is a crime-based drama, with a mixture of ‘court-room’ and ‘detective’, TV series, mainly shown on channel five. By reading the description of the show, I immediately realised that this is a show that is based around the world of crime and how the crime is dealt with within the city of New York. It starts from finding who the criminal is and then we follow the story up to the prosecution in the court room. Words such as ‘courtroom, ‘rape’, ‘victim’, ‘detective’ immediately grabs the reader’s attention, giving us the impression of the type of genre this TV series is. The picture that accompanies the description also shows that the genre of this series is crime as the main detective is pulling out her police badge and is what the...
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...The novel Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison defines the nature of war through brutal, dehumanizing, detailed text, and horrific experiences which are bestowed on the soldiers at war. This allows the mind of the readers to visualize the overwhelming impact the war had on the soldiers. Harrison exemplifies this when he talks about the trenches, the ammunition battles, and the psychological impact each stage of the war took on the soldiers. Transforming boys into men, the war forever changed the lives of the soldiers that fought for this country. Harrison’s book made it difficult for the war to be forgotten. Through the first-person narrative, Harrison exposes the reader to fear, allowing the reader to understand through the close views of the narrator, what a soldier actually experiences. Harrison builds opposition between the lives of boys, and their transformation into the nightmare of becoming a solider. The novel tests the reader and places his/her mind in the battlefields of war through metaphors, simile and imagery. This is such an important part in getting the point across and a huge reminder of how frightening war can be because Harrison gives attention to the five senses so the readers can understand the experience the narrator is going through. Harrison forces the reader to focus on the military aspects of what a solider really is, portraying how unavoidable the fear of dying and killing is, and just how easy it was for the innocence of a life to be taken...
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