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    Billy Elliot

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    Billy Elliot is a movie about a young boy who has I tough with his family‚ he wants to do ballet instead o doing boxing. Billy’s dad is really sexist when it comes to boys doing ballet and he says to Billy “boys do boxing or football or wrestling not firkin ballet!” Jackie (Billy’s father) gave Billy fifty pence each day for him to go to his boxing classes‚ but Billy would be using the fifty pence to do ballet classes behind Jackie’s back. Because Billy hates boxing‚ and to be honest he’s really

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    Skin Lab- Joel and Angela

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    staphylococcal infection‚ necessitating a switch to a different antibiotic. Angela began a long‚ slow recovery. Her position in bed had to be changed every 2 hours to prevent the formation of decubitus ulcers (i.e. bedsores). She lost 9 pounds over the next 3 weeks‚ despite nasogastric tube feeding of 5000 calories ("Kcals") per day. After 9 weeks‚ sheets of cultured epidermal cells were grafted to her regenerating dermal layer. By the 15th week of her hospitalization‚ her epidermal graft was

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    Billy Elliot

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    the new world. Scene 10 in Billy Elliot is a scene that demonstrates the protagonist‚ Billy Elliot‚ confronting his father and family and dancing on the table. Daldry uses close up shots and editing between Billyhis family and Mrs Wilkinson‚ his teacher to show the tension between them and to emphasise the panic they are all in as Billy continues to confront his family’s comfort zone. The use of editing shots shows that Billy is caught between two worlds – the world of his ordinary life and tradition

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    Concert Report

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    October 30‚ 2011 On Sunday‚ October 30‚ 2011‚ I attended an orchestral music concert presented by WLU at Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. This concert features the WLU Symphony Orchestra‚ Paul Pulford as the conductor‚ Samantha Lee as the guest pianist‚ and a special guest‚ soprano Jane Archibald. A total of 6 pieces were played during the concert‚ with one being a Concerto and the rest being Operas. Out of all the pieces played‚ I liked the third piece Carmen:

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    process of individuals adapting from one world of experience into another. ‘Billy Elliot’‚ a film directed by Stephen Daldry is a text which sends a message to the responder about venturing and transforming into new experiences. The film ‘Billy Elliot’ can challenge individuals’ attitudes and beliefs through the ideas of family values‚ gender stereotypes and determination as he leaves his monotonous life and discovers his passion and love for Ballet. These themes are conveyed through a number of film

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    Billy Elliot Context: • Margaret Thatcher --- Thatcherism • 1979 – 1990 • Harsh policies – free trade‚ no government intervention in business‚ increase in rate of tax for lower income‚ decrease in rate of tax for higher income • Set in 1984‚ Durran‚ Coalfield mining town in England Film: • Strong family images (still images) vs. strike of miners = rich family life vs. violence (contrast) • Scab = industrial relations talk – people who go to work even when union is on strike • Cultural –

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    established well-known cities and cultural centers. Islam religion which was accepted as a lifestyle by the Turks‚ not only resulted in rooted changes in understanding of the social-cultural life‚ ideological philosophies‚ and the language‚ but also set the stage for a new trend of shaping the literary works and musical pieces which are important reflections of culture. I have to mention Ottoman music in our culture. Ottoman classical music developed in Istanbul and major Ottoman towns from Skopje

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    Concert Paper

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    Natalie Concepcion Prof. Gwen D’Amico MSC 1003 PR13 December 7‚ 2010 Concert Paper On November 18‚ 2010 in the Engelman Recital Hall‚ the Baruch Performing Arts Center presented Alexander String Quartet and the Music of Mozart‚ Kodály‚ and Dvořák. The Alexander String Quartet had four male performers; two of the performers played violins‚ the third performer played the viola‚ and the fourth performer played the cello. They performed only one song‚ which was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s String

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    must dance. Also‚ he believes that the only reason every person is not on the track of achieving Self-Actualization is due to obstacles placed by society in their way. Due to the difficulty of materializing what you want to become‚ it gives a high degree of inspiration to witness somebody else’s successful story. Stephan Daldry‚ the director of Billy Elliot‚ exploits Maslow’s theory to depict a coal miner’s son from Northern England who desires to be a ballet dancer. Billy Elliot is a musical

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    Billy Collins

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    Billy Collins once said‚ “Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.” Collins truly sends his readers to new places with his poems. Billy Collins writes with childhood‚ and memories as his main themes. By writing about childhood‚ and memories from the past Collins brings his reader into the poem. Everyone reading his poems has had a childhood‚ and has memories of that childhood

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