scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a "one-man industry".[7][8] Bachchan has won many major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards as Best Actor (a record he shares withKamal Hassan and Mammootty), a number of awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies and fourteen Filmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall. In addition to acting, Bachchan
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Dr. Malcolm Sayer is a compassionate and dedicated physician at a Bronx hospital in New York. Sayer worked with catatonic patients who survived the epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. After working with these patients, Sayer discovered that specific stimuli could reach beyond a patients' catatonic state. Leonard Lowe showed to be elusive, but Dr. Sayer quickly realized that Leonard could communicate using an Ouija board. After attending a conference on the success of Parkinson’s Disease patients
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and on to his position as one of the most highly popular prospects in college football. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film itself also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. For 17 years, Michael Oher) has been in foster care with different families. Every time he is sent to a new
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Thesis This poem at first glance is a simple depiction of someone on a beautiful winter journey and is often taken for granted. When studied closely it offers many interpretations using lovely and inviting descriptions of a beautiful picture but through dark elements of a cold, wintry scene lends a vast inventory of possible meanings. This poem reminds us of wanting to enjoy pleasures in life but concludes with the responsibilities and obligations of reality that awaits us. Setting The first
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The standards of success and prosperity for the protagonists of Death of a Salesman and Wall Street are inflated by the media, celebrities, and their family lives. In the face of his brother’s triumph in Alaska, Willy struggles to achieve the same level of unrealistic, exaggerated success as a mere salesman in Death of a Salesman. Similarly, by working under the exaggeratedly cutthroat Gordon Gekko, Bud Fox seeks a hollow life of luxury, stolen through cheating. Both Willy and Bud try to succeed
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was accepted. He was spotted in a rehearsal and was given his first big part in a Broadway production of "Lysistrata," for which he got excellent reviews. Mr. Poitier’s courage has positioned him to be the first black actor to receive the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1963, the recipient of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other
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Objectives •To determine how much Life’s Alert’s services have improved their customers’ quality of life. •To determine how Life Alert’s services play a role in the customers’ decision to keep living at home, rather than going to a retirement home. •To determine what Life Alert’s customers perceive to be the main benefits of the services offered. Research Design •Methodology:Direct mail survey: 3,000 postcards were sent by mail to Life Alert customers, in order to get a minimum of 800 replies
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High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life Fight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time Hold still right before we crash 'cause we both know how this ends A clock ticks 'til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again 'Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn't need Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don't know why If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity? (Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay. Hey-ay, hey-ay-ay
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and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in the romantic drama Monster's Ball (2001), becoming the first and, as of 2014, the only woman of African-American descent to win an Oscar for a leading role. She was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood during the 2000s a.spokes model. (Born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance
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Rain man Rain man is a story about two brothers who came to know each other after the death of their father. The movie introduces Charlie Babbitt a character played by Tom Cruise mid-twenty something year old car sales man living in California. On a trip with his girlfriend who worked for him, he learns that his estranged father died and he had to settle the estate. While during the process of settling the case, Charlie discoverers that his estranged father did not leave him his substantial inheritance
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