CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN TEACHERS’ NOTES This study guide is aimed primarily at students of English Literature‚ who are studying Louis de Bernières’s novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin in the second year of Advanced GCSE studies but will be useful for any students wishing to look at the way in which a novel is adapted for the screen. The guide focuses on the following areas: From novel to screen: Narrative adaptation Characters Representation of nationalities Representation of war Music Language
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Depending on how you look at Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride‚ Timson calls it an “upmarket melodrama” whereas Martin refers to it as a novel “confronting politically correct feminism”. The truth is it isn’t either of these. While some of the situations are greatly exaggerated‚ this book comments on the way that women interact with each other on a day-to-day basis. Atwood tells the story of three women‚ and how they are drawn together because they
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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Tom Hank’s new movie‚ Captain Phillips‚ can easily be summed up in one word‚ intense. Yet‚ the intensity of the film still couldn’t avoid shaky camera shots and extremely lengthy scenes. The true story of the 2009 hijacking of an American cargo ship is a story that most of us remember vividly. Tom Hanks‚ who was born to play Captain Phillips‚ brings this terrifying story to life. The movie starts out with an uptight Captain Phillips obsessing over emergency drills and making sure
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I am writing this letter to apply for the post of International ribbon (First Preference) or house ribbon. From my first day at ….. I made up my mind that I would apply for these posts as I saw it as a great opportunity to show my love for different cultures as well as my ability to organize and manage events. The current ribbons have been great at organizing and managing the school and I greatly commend their work. I’ve met a variety of people from different parts of the
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“O Captain! My Captain!” Critical Essay The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” written by Walt Whitman is a heart wrenching portrayal of a sailors loss at sea as he trembles in the sight of his dear fallen captain. One might ask; who is this captain? What has he accomplished? And why does the sailor feel so strongly for him? Whitman’s themes of masculinity and patriotism in this poem play well with these questions and show the authors true feelings behind his “Captain”. To properly analyze such a
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House Captain Well to start with I would request all of you to raise your right hand when I say raise. Raise Well….hands down….. Great…I have just proved one of my most important point….”They all listen to me”…. Well jokes apart coming to the point now. A heart full of respect and love to all my teachers‚ friends and other supporting staff. Also a very warm welcome to all those who are new to Ruby House. To all those who don’t know me I am Devangi Patodiya grade 9th student
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On Cop and Robber Games with a Tunneling Robber Abhishek Parthasarathy Gautham Srinivas Mithraa Varun S Sreevatsan Vaidyanthan Sri Raghavan Prof.Nagarajan Krishnamurthy Abstract Let G be a finite connected graph. Two players‚ called Cop C and Robber R‚ play a game on G according to the following rules.First C then R occupy some vertex of G. After that they move alternately along the edges of G. The cop C wins if he succeeds in putting himself on top of the robber R‚ otherwise R wins. Both C and
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O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman O captain My captain was an expiring poem for me. This poem filled my mind with great memories snd make think of my loved ones who are now Angels.I am still feeling the connection. In my opinion‚ I can say that peopleare physically dead be we can keep them in our mind alive as long as we want them to be part of our lives. Father and I had different character. We had the same interest such as reading‚ watching news‚ assisting on conference-debates
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"I will show you to the Baron." Guntlaf said‚ raising from the chair inside his small tent. "Thank you." The cavalryman‚ who wore the yellow and blue uniform of westergard’s hussars replied‚ following the cuirassier. He couldn’t help looking in disdain the long old-fashioned braids which shown below Guntlaf’s helmet. "The squadron seems to be in an unexpected good condition." The hussar said "My men try to put a brave face‚ but most of them are wounded." Guntlaf replied‚ silently cursing the unexpected
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America’s Great Potato Baron Eric Schlosser’s biography “Fast Food Nation: Why the Fries Taste Good” explains how this invention started out of a simple potato by a man named John R. Simplot who was raised on a farm‚ un-educated and by his own account‚ left home at a young age. According to Eric Schlosser’s claim‚ “John Richard Simplot‚ America’s great potato baron‚ whose seemingly inexhaustible energy and willingness to take risk built an empire base on French fries” (Schlosser par. 2). The
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