WHO ARE YOU is a character driven drama. The script offers two potentially complex and intriguing characters in Ethan and Holly. The idea of a famous photographer going blind and being forced to rely on a caring nurse has merit. The story is driven by the themes of second chances and healing. While the idea is intriguing‚ unfortunately‚ the script doesn’t deliver the promise of the premise. There are several areas that are worth discussing. First‚ there’s a solid and compelling inciting event when
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(Europe). Zheng He‚ a muslim eunuch‚ was captured at the age of ten and was given the task of grouping boys to be castrated. During the time of the voyages‚ China’s technology was used to help build these massive ships that set sail. Known as “treasure ships‚” these 400 feet long and 600 feet wide boats were equipped with nine sails‚ four decks‚ and armed with twelve cannons. There were also separate watertight compartments that had been recently invented. There were two major advantages of these
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who has more serious and realistic dreams‚ Tom has a somewhat boyish belief that he will become a pirate or a robber in the future‚ which fueled by his trip to Jackson’s island‚ or even his idea to make a robber gang‚ even after finding the buried treasure. Tom Sawyer is the type of character that likes to imagine himself playing the roles that are usually exciting or even romantic‚ starting with making colossal dreams; his list of silly aspirations are similar to those fantasies of boys who are
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longingly for the source that had drawn him here. It began with the fond recollection of the love of his life‚ long gone‚ and somewhere in these albums was a photo of her he hoped to rediscover. Silent as a mouse‚ he patiently opened the long buried treasures and soon was lost in a sea of memories. Although his world had not stopped spinning when his wife left it‚ the past was more alive in his heart than his present aloneness. Setting aside one of the dusty albums‚ he pulled from the box what
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In The Devil and Tom Walker‚ Tom Walker meets a Black Man in the forest and the man tells of buried treasure‚ and Tom can have it for a price. Tom agrees to swindle people for the Devil‚ and agrees to give the Devil his soul. While he quickly gained many riches of this world‚ he began to worry about the next and regretted making the deal with the Devil. Finally he tells one of his customers‚ "The devil take me if I have made a farthing!"‚ and so the devil took him. This short story is an American
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Reading and writing are two skills we learn early on in school‚ they are the basic tools teachers and parents instill in children‚ meaning that as someone who’s spent 14 years in school‚ I have had a lot of experience with reading and writing. Thinking back on my early school days in 1st and 2nd grade‚ I didn’t care for reading or writing. There were so many other things on the forefront of my mind like recess and lunch that learning just fell in the background. It wasn’t until 3rd grade that I
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The plot revolves around Scandinavian culture. Who composed Beowulf was a unknown Anglo-Saxon poet (around 700 a.d) What is the Setting? Denmark & Geatland (a region in what is now southern Sweden) What is the setting of Beowulf? Scandinavia‚ Geatland. Hygelac rules Geatland at the beginning of the poem. The first night that Grendel attacked the mead-hall‚ Heorot‚ he kill thirty (30) Scyldings (men). Beowulf’s father was Ecgtheow. four (4) men does it take to carry Grendel’s head back to
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to be taken if he has made money off of hopeless people‚ Walker is left with nothing‚ and his fortune is now worth mere pennies. (Irving 324). Irving also shows an interest in the historic past‚ the Devil is guarding a hidden treasure buried by Kidd the pirate‚ the treasure was never recovered because of the pirate being killed. (Irving 312). While Tom Walker was taking a short cut home he comes across old Indian land. “Nothing remained of the old Indian for but a few embankments‚ gradually sinking
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There are many different challenges that Stanley Yelnats (the main character) from the bestselling novel Holes written by Louis Sachar has to over come. Stanley was first seen in the movie when a tilted shot of shoes hit him in the head and he fell on the ground portraying he was weak and a bit stupid. Stanley’s personality was also displayed when his mum was so shocked when the police came around to their house telling them Stanley had stolens‚ this shows that Stanley had never commited a crime
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pyramids center. The purpose of the tunnel was to learn more about the techniques of the pyramid’s construction. Thirteen years after the first tunnel‚ another deep tunnel was cut into the pyramid‚ this time staring at the building’s west side. No treasures were found. It was built using a complex structure of stepped stone inner walls‚ most of the Pyramid of the Sun consists of compacted mud‚ reinforced with wooden poles and possibly built on an inward sloping firm base. Excavation at the Pyramid of
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