Classic noir films reinforce the myth of the private eye; a hard-boiled detective, able to restore order, solve the crime, and ensure justice prevails. Chinatown challenges this myth, reversing genre and stylistic conventions through the protagonist Jake Gittes, a private eye unable to control the crimes his sleuthing unveils. Gittes dresses stylishly in crisp white suits, differing from the trademark trench coat and fedora of his stylistic predecessors, and enters the film with an air of confidence
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I recently finished reading a book, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which was published in 1985. This book is fictional, and it is set in a futuristic time in the United States where women become property of men once again, and have essentially lost all aspects of individual rights. Women are forced to change their names to government regulated, predetermined names, cannot have a career, cannot have their own family, or even speak their opinions. These women are forced to wear a certain
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Thea Sharrock brings an amazing, adrenaline-filled movie to the big screen, adapted from the bestselling novel by Jo Jo Moyes, “Me Before You”. It opens with Emilia Clarke (Lou Clark), a brown haired woman looking for a new job opportunity in a small English town. Her family has always struggled financially and they are needing more of an income after she was fired from her last job. Soon after looking for a new job, she decides to become a caregiver. Hesitant, Lou Clark takes the job and starts
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Emmy Dockery was always a well respected FBI analyst, until her twin sister died in a house fire. She visited the scene of the fire, and had a weird feeling in her stomach that something wasn’t right. She was set on the idea that it wasn’t an accident and that somebody had killed her sister. Nobody would believe her theory and just thought that she was doing this as some sort of coping mechanism to deal with her situation. Little did any of them know that she had been suspecting one of the worst
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Every Day, month after month, Josalie would run to her mailbox everyday after school. Every time she would feel the same wave of disappointment when she discovered there was not letter there to greet her. She wondered if maybe she had made Emilia so mad that she decided to never write back. But Josalie knew Emilia well enough to know that she was quick to forgive. Josalie and her parents feared that Emilia had been taken by the Green Police. After a year, Josalie finally accepted what she thought
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In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, sex and politics are interconnected and anguished to express the idea of a society she once took for granted transitioning into a dystopia. It is a logical fallacy to speak for the reader in which it must be known the position in which a handmaid stands during this time. A handmaid, given the name Offred, is a female servant used for the privilege of the Commander, which supplies children to the Republic of Gilead. Privilege is used to show the empowerment
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Helen Burns is a crucial part of the novel in influencing Jane’s perception on religion. Although Jane is only ten years old and the concept of turning the other cheek is hard to grasp, Helen Burns, her pious friend at Lowood, keeps Jane level-headed and discusses faith with Jane. Helen informs Jane that she should "read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts," (116). If a reader has any basic knowledge of the New Testament, it suddenly becomes very clear that Helen Burns
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Project 1: Chapter 1: The front page of the magazine relates to the book because on the front cover is a picture of a fish with a flat head. In the book, Neil Shubin talks about how in the Arctic he first saw the skeleton of a fish with a flat head, this led him to believe it would explain the early stages of the human skull, neck and potentially the limbs. This flat headed fish called the Tiktaalik was an important find because it showcased the transition between fish and land animals (specifically
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The way one behaves varies for several reasons, and where the individual in the situation can be a big factor. In Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred is forcefully placed in the Republic of Gilead where the development of her character changes. Additionally, in Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet behaves a certain way to get attention off his scheme of murdering his uncle, Claudius due to his ungrateful decision of killing his father, King Hamlet. In The Handmaid’s tale
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The Man Who Can Do it All John Green is a talented American author, but also a video blogger, writer, producer, actor, and editor. John Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis along with his brother and sister, Henry Green and Alice Green. After graduating Kenyon College John had double graduation degrees in English and Religious Studies and worked as a student chaplain at a children’s hospital. John Green’s first book “Looking for Alaska” made a record staying at New York Times best-seller
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