...When looking at two different reviews of the same game, how do audiences know which review to read? What makes one review better than the other? On the surface, both reviews provide ample information about the plot and gameplay. To fully analyze and compare the two reviews, we must look deeper into the structure of each, and from there we can decide which is a better review. After looking at various aspects of each review—paying attention to sentence style, readability score, and literary devices—we will be able to see differences between the two reviews. In this essay, we will look at two reviews of the video game “The Walking Dead: The Video Game” by The Telltale Series. Each is an online review written for game review websites; one of them was published by IGN Entertainment and written by Greg Miller, and the other published by GamesRadar+ and written by...
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...de Guzman, Francesco Maria C. Humanities I – TFD2 2012-41947 Prof. Morales The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend, my kinsfolk, Through the Last Door, And left me standing bleakly, I died yet more; The Dead Man Walking They hail me as one living, But don't they know That I have died of late years, Untombed although? I am but a shape that stands here, A pulseless mould, A pale past picture, screening Ashes gone cold. Not at a minute's warning, Not in a loud hour, For me ceased Time's enchantments In hall and bower. There was no tragic transit, No catch of breath, When silent seasons inched me On to this death ... -- A Troubadour-youth I rambled With Life for lyre, The beats of being raging In me like fire. But when I practised eyeing The goal of men, It iced me, and I perished A little then. When passed my friend...
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...Review: “Dead Poets Society” by Peter Weir In 1990, Dead Poets Society won the 62nd Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Peter Weir as the director who succeed in narrating a story about youth and death, dream and despair. From my point of view, it is a profound movie that intended to inspire and provoke thoughts; at the same time, to bring a combination of humor and drama to the audience while pushing a non-conformist ideology at the core of the story. Besides, there are many brief quotations from Tennyson, Herrick, Whitman and even Vachel Lindsay, as well as a brave excursion into prose that takes us as far as Thoreau's Walden. The director Peter Weir can make good use of the poetry to transfer a spirit of personal freedom. In this movie, the Hollywood star Robin Williams as the mercurial John Keating, a teacher of English at the exclusive Welton Academy in Vermont -- the "best prep school in America" -- in the year of 1959. Actually, that was an age of “killing the individuality”，and perhaps we are still living in the same age. At the beginning of the plot, the director indicated two different ways of education. During the ceremony of Welton Academy, all the students were required to dress the uniforms and repeat the school motto togeher:“tradition, discipline，honor and excellence”. At that moment, the school hall immerged itself with silence. On the contrary, when the new teacher Mr.Keating was walking at a brisk pace towards the...
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...thing & my calves, and shoulders hurt lol but my ass cheeks wer feeling whooo lol soo ima do that thing more. ahh im soo sore but today i HAVE to do weights damn it lol Baby I jsut got back from PT and geez that fuckin PT sucks lol mainly cause im alll sore! lol ok mhmmmm really? mhmmmm do u like to do it slow or slow then pick up that speed? lol! NOW make me a video of THAT!! lol ok how about my 630 or 700 when ever You wake up baby Ima go take a shower ok mwah I Love You My Ella! :D bite bite btie btie!!! REVIEW TIME! (im also looking for air conditioning lol) http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g294260-d320933-Reviews-Tonglen_Beach_Resort-Boracay_Visayas.html Not bad kinda nice and plain since we arent gonna spend too much time in the room, well we will but not all the time lol we gotta have dates remeber! or if u want we can get somting to go and watch VD an walking dead it jsut the shower that kills me idk why i care about the shower well from the reviews cause somtimes theres no hot water and me that jsut pisses me off lol have u ever taken a dry shower? thats somthing lol...
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...Composition 1 1010.01 Professor J. Caviezel 16 October 2013 Zombies These Days “By any observable metric, zombies are totally hot right now” (Drezner para 1). “Look at movies like ‘Warm Bodies’ and the coming ‘World War Z,’ the ratings for AMC’s hit series ‘The Walking Dead’ and $2.5 billion in annual sales for zombie videogames” (Drezner para 1). As time progresses, zombies seem to become a more prominent aspect of the American culture. Many people, along with thousands of experts, actually think that there could be a zombie apocalypse at some point in their lifetime. The primary cause of the zombie apocalypse popularity is gained through the entertainment that the media presents to casual audiences. The zombie craze originally started with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” This song set stage for zombie entertainment for the future. Over time, zombies have proven to “thrive in popular culture during times of recession, epidemic and general unhappiness” (Drenzer para 4). Since the United States is currently attempting to recover from a recession, zombies in entertainment are flourishing within American’s everyday lives. “The reason zombies are so powerful is that they capture an atheistic fear of the dead” (Marche para 4). Many experts say that this is one of the many reasons why the people like the shows so greatly and also why they prepare themselves for the worst (Gross para 25). As time has passed, zombies have highly impacted the entertainment industry. “While vampires...
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...Book Title: Dead is the New Black Author: Marlene Perez PLOT-- Nightshade is a small town that is “chock full of the unknown, the unusual, and the unexpected.” The Giordano family is well known for their psychic abilities, except for Daisy who feels like an outcast because she is the “norm” among her sisters, Poppy and Rose, and her mother. When Daisy’s mom starts an investigation on a young girl’s unexplained death, she wants to help but wasn’t allowed. Daisy suspects that a vampire is the culprit, or a psionic vampire, who sucks souls instead of blood. When the most popular cheerleader, Samantha Devereaux, shows up looking like the living dead, Daisy can’t help but suspect her. In addition, several cheerleaders have been infected with a mysterious illness, which makes them get older and leaves them with one streak of white hair. Daisy decides to join the cheerleading squad to find out if Samantha is the vampire. While she is on the team, she finds proof that Samantha is not the psionic vamp. As Daisy further investigates, she notices that she does have physic powers of her own. While she was investigating with her best friend, (and the hottest guy in the school) Ryan Mendez, she becomes entangled in a romantic relationship with him. But only when Ryan finds an old photograph of their gym teacher and cheerleading coach, Miss Foster, from 1958 in the library, that Daisy gets suspicious of her and how she still looks the same way. The big homecoming dance was...
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...Water Diviner Movie Critique Water Diviner was a very captivating movie. It was the directorial debut for Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe played an Australian farmer who travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli in search of his three missing sons. Other main actors/actresses in the film were Olga Kurylenko, Cem Yilmaz, Jai Courtney, and Yilmaz Erdogan. The movie was produced in the United States and release on April 24, 2015. The farmer, Joshua Connor, embarked on a journey to find his sons, however only found one alive while finding the others dead. The movie had a mixture of mystery and action, but was very slow and felt longer than it actually was. The good story plot of courage and bravery saved it from being too dull through the excess of unneeded chatter and boredom. I would give the movie a three star rating because it really hit home with me, but was not astounding. After watching the film, I believe that it would not have been worth it to go watch the movie in the box office. The movie felt more like a moral story than actual entertainment. It showed the everlasting love of a father and the losses that he had to go through during the war. Russell Crowe did an incredible job of forming the story of his character and the story of the lonely Turkish widow and her son. The characters in the film matched the descriptions and dialect of the people that they were to portray. Characters such as the Turkish commanders and the British commander showed...
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...Academic Research and Communication Skills (ARCS) “What are the good effects of Piracy in the entertainment buisness?” Candidate Name: Sumeth Madan Candidate Number: 1156FAGD011 Session: 2012-2015 Subject: ARCS Word Count : 4538 Supervisor: Hans Kirkels Draft – Final 19th June 2013 | Abstract: Background - Piracy in the Internet is defined as the evil force that is destroying the entertainment industry. This blame has been put on since the invention of the Internet and its file sharing ability. It has recently been observed that a significant number of reasons can help in proving that piracy does have a good effect on the society. Result – Distributing the three major entertainment industries such as the music industry, gaming industry and the Movie production industry the research helps in proving the question about why is piracy good to the society. Piracy is not only the back bone of the entertainment business but is also the backbone of the internet as by doing critical analysis we find that it even protects us from the government. Conclusions - A theoretical analysis, backed up by observation and intense reading and understanding of how the Internet and the piracy works we can conclude that the piracy has had good effects on the entertainment industry. Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………… 2 ...
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...pieces share is presented differently in each inditing. Robert Frost designed “The Road Not Taken” with specific designs in the narrative that revealed for me as the reader that there was a forthcoming journey. Frost also utilized the word “I” many times, which sanctioned me to imagine him alone. Comparative to this example let us compare “A Worn Path” where Welty utilized the word “she” throughout the writing piece. The linguistic choice inspired my imagination to visualize a woman walking alone. This visualization was reinforced in other places of the writing when the character spoke to animals to get out of her way: “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, and beetles”. When Welty posed this conversation in the story, it gave me a sense of solitude. The submission that the woman also was walking a uphill path provided the symbolic comparison to a ‘hard life’. Walking uphill for any length of time is exhausting for anyone and when you add the notion of being elderly, it brings pity to this woman walking...
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...Dead man * Dead man (1995) * Genre: Drama fantasy western * Director : Jim Jarmusch * WritteR: Jim Jarmusch * Cinematography: robby muller * Editing : Jay rabinowitz * Music: Neil young * Starring : Johnny depp- Gary farmer PLOT Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told by the factory owner Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) that the job has already been filled.Jobless,hopeless and without money,blake meets a former prostitute called Thel Russell (Mili Avital), who sells flower papers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. the wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thel's gun before climbing bewilderedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen pinto. Company-owner Dickinson, the father of Charlie, hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson (Lance Henriksen), Conway Twill (Michael Wincott) , and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett (Eugene Byrd) to hunt Blake as the murderer of his son and Thel, although he seems to care most about recovering the stolen horse. Blake then finds himself below a big american indian guy (Gary farmer) who is attempting to remove the bullet from his chest. the Indian guy called himself Nobody reveals to him that the bullet is too close to...
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...BOOK REVIEW UNKNOWN * Didier Van Cauwelaert Previously known as OUT OF MY HEAD Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti This novel was made into a movie titled Unknown in 2011 (hence the re-publication of the book under that title), directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Liam Neeson, Frank Langella, and Bruno Ganz This is a suspense thriller full of suspense. Once you start reading the suspense goes on increasing. But still author has created too much of confusion in the novel like skipping from one scene to another directly. The story end was also very quick. Since this novel is translated from French it has increased the confusion. Otherwise everything is good. Those who want to read something good can choose this novel. The story revolves around the man named Martin Harris a well known botanist who meets in an accident when he comes to Parris with his wife Liz. After spending three days in coma when he returns home he finds that his wife does not recognize him and another man is living in his house using his name. He tries to prove himself but in vain as he has lost all his identity documents in the taxi accident and the fake Martin Harris is having all the documents with his photo on it. He has lost every thing except his memory. With his upset face he leaves the flat. While walking only one name comes to his mind i.e. Muriel the taxi driver who looked after him when he was in coma. She agrees to help him as she feels herself responsible for his present...
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...suffer to a point where profitability is not attainable and the bottom line suffers too greatly. As it seems, the management needed to insure their security as a company first, then worry about "giving back" or "public opinion". b: Pros: Giving to a charity is a great idea for a company. It puts the company in the face of the public with a positive light. Positive publicity is always paramount for a developing company. Cons: Starting businesses should chiefly be concerned with the bottom dollar. Profits are the fledgling company's mantra. If profits are too low, sustainability is unobtainable and growth is impossible. You are giving away hard earned revenue. 4. Nau's owner's think of their clothing as part Patagonia and part Prada. Review the websites of these two companies. What do you believe Nau's owners saw in Patagonia and Prada that was relevant to their idea for startup? Patagonia brings style, comfort, functionality, and durability together into one product. Prada is the pinnacle of high status-quo fashion. Nau saw their...
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...Reasonable force or police bruait In common with all citizens, the police may use reasonable force where necessary for self-defence, defence of another, defence of property, the prevention of a crime, or during a lawful arrest. Under Section 117 Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE), the police are also empowered to use ‘reasonable force’ if necessary when exercising the powers conferred to them under that act (except those which require someone other than a police officer’s consent). What constitutes ‘reasonable force’? There have been several cases involving a member of the public and the police in which the question has been raised as to what constitutes ‘reasonable force’ and what amounts to police brutality. Police brutality generally means that a member of the police force has intentionally used excessive force in order to carry out a lawful police purpose. The brutality is usually physical. PACE says that the police officer using force must honestly believe that it is justified and not excessive. In cases brought against the police involving the question of police brutality, Crown Prosecution Service guidance suggests that the following considerations should be taken into account in assessing the reasonableness of the force used: •whether the force was justified in the circumstances or whether it was excessive; •the nature and degree of the force used; •the seriousness of the offence which the police were trying to prevent, or for which an arrest...
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...Review of “This is England”, directed and written by Shane Meadows “This is England”, centers on the young skinheads in England, in the year 1983. Summary: It is a story about the 12-year-old boy Shaun who is getting bullied in school. He does not have any friends and his father is dead, so it is only his mother and himself. Walking home from school one day, he meets a group of young people under the bridge. They are all skinheads, wearing Doctor Marten boots, shaving their heads and with their Ben Sherman shirts. Woody, who is the leader of the group, sees how sad Shaun is and invites him to join the group, among them Milky is the obly black skinhead in the group. Everyone accepts Shaun as a member, except Tubb who feels that Shaun is taking his place. But soon after the problem is solved between them and Shaun feels better than ever between his new friends, also the older girl Smell he feels attracted to. Then the older skinhead named Combo, with racist views, returns to the group after a prison sentence, together with two friends. He tries to take the leadership of the group from Woody, which leads to a rift. Woody stays leader of the apolitical group, whilst Combo becomes leader of the new political group. Combo likes Shaun and identifies with him, who in turn sees Combo as a role model. They go to a White Nationalist meeting and on their way back, a member gets thrown out because of his doubt over the group’s racist and national politics. After being rejected by...
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...The raindrops were hitting the dead body as I walked away and calmly went to the place my dad told me to meet him at. The walk was ten minutes long and I had to go through alleys so I wouldn’t be seen. When I reached the diner I saw that it was made out of wood. When I open the door, it creaked for what seemed like an eternity. The waitress looks at me weirdly because I’m only a five year old and I walked into the diner without my parents. “Hey kid are you lost,” says the waitress as she crouches next to me. I say “No, my dad is right there” while pointing to a table in the back. “Oh, okay” I walk away first “Dad, I did it!” “Did you get seen?” “No” “Well good job. Anything you want” I look at the menu and see a picture of a good looking burger. I...
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