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    Slightly different from the romantic novel‚ the movie adds drama and thriller that stars Julianne Hough‚ Josh Duhamel‚ and Cobie Smulders. The movie opens up with a fight that results in a bloody knife and fallen body. Erin‚ who is now known as Katie‚ runs away to make a new life for herself. She lands in Southport‚ North Carolina and finds herself a nice place to stay and a job as a waitress at Ivan’s Fish Shack. During Katie’s couple of nights in Southport‚ she begins to have nightmares of what

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    No. Kathleen isn’t a name that fits a Taco Bell-loving 16-year-old girl. It belongs to a granny with arthritis. And it’s true‚ one day I will wake up and truly epitomise a 50 something that everyone calls Kathy. But‚ unfortunately for people that think that is my name‚ today is not that day. For now‚ I’m going to stick with Katie. Further into

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    With his belly full he put on the grandmothers cloths and got into bed‚ awaiting little black hijab. After an unanswered knock little black hijab entered‚ placing the curry in the kitchen and walking over to her grandmother. “Are you awake? Granny? You look awfully bloated‚” she said sounding quite concerned. Little black hijab leant closer to see that she was still breathing and then in a matter of moments the Bloated Sunni stretched his stomach to dangerous proportions as he slowly devoured

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    parallel stories running side by side. The flashbacks are about his life in Liberia and the present story is about his new life in America. There is a flashback every time something he sees on his way or something there is talked about is reminding him on something that happened in Liberia. In the present time we hear about him working at a cabinet in Tiffany’s house. But in the meantime we also hear about his childhood and his sister. In the last flashback he is thinking about the murder of his father

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    afterlife‚ because the author made up a different perspective of the afterlife for people to read. A flashback is something an author uses to bring the reader back in time to help them understand an event happening in the present. Usually‚ a writer uses it to let the reader know something that happened previously in the character’s life without starting at that point in the book. A character can have a flashback in a dream or

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    Analyse how visual techniques are used to develop deeper ideas in a visual text you have studied. India is a country in central Asia with a population of over 1.22 billion people making it the second most populous country in the world. Its high population is one of the factors that results in India having such a high poverty rate. In India today over 37% of the population live below the poverty line. The reality of such a statistic means that these people live in conditions unimaginable to people

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    With all that Ethel Waters has contributed to music and film‚ it is surprising that she is often forgotten. She was a talented blues singer whose unique style distinguished her from other blues singers and she was a jazz vocalist as well. Her talent extended beyond singing‚ when she became a dramatic actress who earned award nominations for her performances. What was most remarkable about Waters ’ performances was how she reconstructed the mammy character into one that challenged stereotypes. Career

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    Eudora Welty‚ in her character Phoenix Jackson‚ creates humanity’s counterpart of the phoenix firebird from oriental tradition. Although Phoenix Jackson can not lay claim to the immortality manifested by consuming fiery rebirths (as does the mythological bird)‚ she possesses a fiery spirit and is consumed by love for her grandchild. Ana4rzing the character of Phoenix is pleasurable because the characteristics of her "roundness" are primarily positive‚ static traits. She is tenacious‚ confident‚ wise

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    story is easy to understand‚ but doesn’t contains many descriptions of the environment so in that case we have to guess a bit. But it contains a lot of flashbacks to Baluta’s life in Liberia. All these flashbacks appear because something from Baluta’s life in the new country reminds him of something and someone from his life in Liberia. The first flashback appears when he is taking a cold bath in the morning. “Cold like Kpatawee Falls back home in Liberia‚ Baluta thought”. And at that point he knows that

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    “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur uses many types of sound patterns‚ figurative language‚ and tone to create the theme of the poem as well as connect with the reader. The Speaker is a father who is having a flashback in relation to the clicks of his daughter’s typewriter clicks. The typewriter clicks are being compared to the Starling bird trying to fly‚ sporadically batting it’s wings. The sound patterns in this poem are slightly difficult to understand‚ but they make all the difference. The sound

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