Short of climbing aboard a time capsule and peeling back eight and one-half decades, James Cameron's magnificent Titanic is the closest any of us will get to walking the decks of the doomed ocean liner. Meticulous in detail, yet vast in scope and intent, Titanic is the kind of epic motion picture event that has become a rarity. You don't just watch Titanic, you experience it -- from the launch to the sinking, then on a journey two and one-half miles below the surface, into the cold, watery grave
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The Awakening – Psychological Views Robert Ceneskie South University Online The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is a novel that takes place during the nineteenth century and focuses on the point of view of Edna Pontellier, the protagonist and wife elite to an affluent Creole. The story begins at the Grand Isle resort, which is a popular vacationing stop for the wealthy from New Orleans. While at Grand Isle, Edna comes to the realization that she is longing for self-actualization and empowerment
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1 Direct Mail Assignment 3.1 Jeff Swenson Cohort BBK BUSN304 Business Communications Professor G. Lindberg April 3, 2012 2 Direct Buy Persuasive Strategy With hundreds of junk emails making their way into my inbox it was hard to pick one to analyze. The “junk mail” ad that I found interesting was for Direct Buy, which is a warehouse club program in which club members receive discounts on thousands of products. I found this ad to be very similar to many others; it was
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The story “ The Yellow Wallpaper” is written in first person, and uses some dramatic irony throughout the story. The main character is a women who is mentally ill, her husband who is a physician moves her to a colonial mansion so that she can recover from her illness. She is given a room upstairs with yellow wallpaper, barred windows, and rings in the walls. She believes that the bars are because it use to be a nursery, and the bars were for the children's protection. This is irony because the
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Writing about Literature –Com 1102 September 28, 2011 “We Real Cool” “We Real Cool” is a very short poem that can have a different meaning and theme depending on the reader. I did some background information on Gwendolyn Brooks, the author of this poem, and I realized that knowing some of her background information really helps the reader. By knowing this information the reader can understand and appreciate her poem and its message. During a public reading Mrs. Brooks is known for saying
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disbelief at the 11 Academy Awards - even though I had never seen it. The director, James Cameron does a great job of creating an almost "you are there" type of atmosphere. One doesn’t just watch it, but one really feels it. The lead performances from Kate Winslet (as Rose) and Leonardo DiCaprio (as Jack) are excellent but both were first rate. They had their rich girl/poor boy characters perfectly. In my opinion, stealing the show was Frances Fisher as Rose's mother. She was perfect as the snobby aristocrat
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character. When reading, the reader portrays each of the characters as he/ she believes them to be, but then another reader could have a difference of opinion and change the whole attitude; this was the case if you consider the readers to be myself and Kate Winslet. Although Annette often appears to be conciliatory, her counterpart Nancy seems more invested in ending in the conflict. In the play Annette is trying to work out the situation going on between the boys with no conflict between the parents
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environment plays a major part in the theme of the novel. In order to fully grasp the environmental connection between what is usually determined as a “gender” novel, because of the character’s fight for an alternative path for women, it must be realized how Kate Chopin addresses nature as an alternative escape from “good or evil.” According to Glotfelty, ecocriticism “shares the fundamental premise that human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it” (Glotfelty). The first
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Feminism is the want of woman to have the same rights as men. The feminist movement occurred in the 1800’s which is also around the time the novel “the Awakening” was coming out. The novel was a huge contributor to the cause. That's all thanks to Kate Chopin. In the book “The Awakening” the main character is a woman named Edna Pontellier. She is a woman who goes against everything that a woman is supposed to do and what a woman shouldn’t do. Edna was a huge role model during feminist movement
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Shanika Spencer ENG 112 Short Story Analysis Grief and Relief “The Story of an Hour” authored by Kate Chopin doesn’t actually take an hour to read. From Mrs. Mallard’s diagnosis of heart trouble to her death, “The Story of an Hour” is a conversation between the narrator and the reader. The narrator tells us things about Mrs. Mallard that Mrs. Mallard herself is not aware of. The conversation that the narrator presents to us is so vividly and dramatically written, it makes the lesson of “The
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