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    A Comparison Between the Sunnis and Shiites Have you ever wondered about other religions that are out there and why they are out there? I have and that is why I chose to write my paper on the Sunnis and Shiites. Read on to learn more about a brief history and then I will break each of them into separate religions. In books written on Islam the word "hadith" usually refers to the sayings or "traditions" which have been given from the Prophet. Muslims hold these to be the most important source of

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    was able to pass on the story in the novel Lone Survivor which was also later adapted into a movie. Although the book and movie both have the same story about a SEAL surviving against all odds‚ there are still some differences between the book and the movie. In the movie‚ Lone Survivor‚ there are a lot of similar things that also happened during the tragic real life mission. For example‚ the author of the book and main character‚ Marcus Luttrell‚ was saved by Afghan villagers that helped him and protected

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    The Book vs. the Movie The book‚ The House of the Spirits‚ by Isabel Allende is a fictional novel set in Chile in the 1930s through 1970s. The movie‚ “The House of the Spirits” was made in the 1990s from the book Allende wrote. Although the movie is similar to the book‚ many of the characters and event are different. Also‚ many of the important events that are in the book fail to exist in the movie. The beginning of the book and movie‚ it opened with Rosa. But‚ in the book‚ Rosa is a beautiful

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    of times as well. The book is a mysterious story about how a murderous man who invited nine other criminals (ten people in total) to an island and killed them all one by one according to a poem. In 1945‚ And Then There Were None was turned into a movie by René Clair who directed and produced it. It starred actors Barry Fitzgerald (Justice Wargrave)‚ Walter Huston (Doctor)‚ Louis Hayward (Philip/Charles)‚ and actress June Duprez (Vera Claythorne). Changes were made in the movie such as when the characters

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    is more powerful compared to the film. This is because it provides background detail to vital connotations and concepts compared with the film. The anagogical concepts of Newspeak‚ Double think and Oligarchical collectivism in Emmanuel Goldstein’s book are explored in greater in the novel. Furthermore‚ the scenes are more detailed‚ as evident in chestnut tree café. Because detail is lacked‚ the audience is left questioning scenes‚ leaving the cinema

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    Most people are familiar with Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” to some degree. There are those who have read the full text‚ those who have read excerpts‚ and those who have seen one of the various screen adaptations based on the work. At the very least people are familiar with the story of Mowgli‚ which is by far the most popular; it is also one that most people can recite with little to no thought: boy is found by wolves‚ boy is raised by wolves while hanging out with a panther and a bear‚

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    In the birds the book and movie are really different. To me i really preferred the movie over the book but the both seemed pretty pointless and pretty stupid because like in the movie the characters have different names. In the movie there was also a lot of really bad actors. Whereas in the book you didn’t have to worry about bad actors you just would read. In the movie in the beginning the girl started off in a bird shop pretending to work there and so when a man walked in pretending to buy some

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    Reading Beowulf before watching the movie allowed for an open‚ personal interpretation of what the author wanted us to create in our minds. We created our own thoughts about the setting‚ characters‚ and imagery that the author had envisioned and put into the book. There were multiple differences between what was read and what was watched. Multiple changes and additions were made to the storyline in the movie. The creators of the movie made the changes with the idea that the story line would be similar

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    Peter Jackson’s 2009 film‚ The Lovely Bones‚ is based off of the New York Times bestseller novel written by Alice Sebold. Both the book and the movie adaptation tell the story of a young‚ 14-year-old girl named Susie Salmon who is brutally murdered by her neighbor. In both versions‚ Susie narrates her story from the place between Heaven and Earth‚ the “in-between‚” showing the lives of her family and friends and how each of their lives have changed since her murder. However‚ the film adaptation

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    those type of characters‚ is named Beorn. Beorn is a character that appears in the novel named The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is a remake of the book in a movie version called The Hobbit and it is directed by Peter Jackson. The book was originally published during the year 1937. The movie of The Hobbit was released in the year 2012. In the movie‚ Gandalf‚ Bilbo‚ and the dwarves meet Beorn in a dramatic way in which Beorn chases them to his own home‚ while in the novel Gandalf tells the party

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