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    A Nightmare on Elm Street In 1984‚ when a nightmare on elm street was released. This movie was considered a fresh/new approach to horror films. It contained a character named Freddy Krueger who was the villain in the film. Freddy Krueger was burned to death by some parents in the neighborhood‚ and because of that Freddy Krueger went into teenager’s dreams and essentially murdered them. Freddy Kruger was a petrifying character in the film‚ who had metallic claw hand and a burned face. His image stirred

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    forever without remorse from the attacker themselves. Mothers‚ fathers‚ brothers‚ and sisters all lost to the Taliban but never forgotten to those who live through it. Now we look into the lives of characters in the historical fiction novel Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples. In the book Under the Persimmon Tree the overall treatment of people by the Taliban was just barely scratching the surface of what it is really like in real life. In the book Staples portrays the Taliban notorious

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love‚ its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane SCENE ONE The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but‚ unlike corresponding

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    In the novel‚ Under The Feet of Jesus‚ by Helena Maria Viramontes‚ the author conveys the harshness of being a migrant worker and how easily one can become stuck in the same job for their whole life. Viramontes‚ uses the main character‚ Estrella‚ a 13 year old migrant worker to display how this long-lasting cycle and precedent can be broken. Estrella is anything but a stereotypical young girl who has big dreams and plays with friends‚ instead‚ everyday she goes out into the fields and works extremely

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    I think A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is so popular because of its inventive antagonist; A villain that terrorizes victims in an inescapable world where the victim has little to no power. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was inspired by reportedly true events. Wes Craven read and clipped articles from the L.A. Times about a young man who died during a nightmare. The young man and his family had come out of a relocation camp in Southeast Asia and were living in California. He would have these severe nightmares

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    Stella is Blanches younger sister and is married to Stanley. She is confident‚ she pretty much worships Stanley and loves him alot. Also‚ Stella is argumentive‚ and a little controlling. Not to mention she is also pregnant in the movie‚ and the baby does come. Blanch on the other hand‚ is very different from Stella. Blanch is a nervous wreck who flirts‚ portrays herself as wealthy‚ and is also dangerous. She has also slept with a seventeen year old boy and she thinks she is better than everybody

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    One of the moments that caught my attention was when Nathan called Joey. The objective of this scene was that Nathan wanted Joey to allow him to use his place to hold his illegal crap game‚ so that he will not be caught by the police. Nathan was trying to convince‚ which was the action/tactic of this scene‚ by telling Joey that he betted Sky a thousand dollars that he cannot get the doll‚ Sarah‚ to go to Havana with him. Nathan was extremely confident that Sky had no chance of winning‚ since Sarah

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    A Nightmare on Elm Street A Nightmare on Elm Street is one of the better horror movies. There are quite a few Freddy Krueger movies out there‚ and this movie all started in 1984‚ with A Nightmare on Elm Street. In 2010‚ there came a remake of the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street movie. In these two movies there are comparisons and differences between these two‚ which include Freddy Krueger himself‚ music and sound effects‚ nightmares‚ and the graphics. Freddy Krueger is pretty much the same

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    In the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams portrayed Blanche to be an extremely complex character. She was depicted as a delicate‚ pure woman‚ and eventually a lonely alcoholic! She was neither completely good nor bad‚ because she was so torn by conflicting and contradictory desires and needs. It is evident that the tragedies that occurred in her life contribute to the complexity of her character. In the very first scene of the play Blanche appeared wearing a white suit. As Williams

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    Desire –theme question 5 “A streetcar named desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams “in 1947. Blanche Dubois is the central character who comes to New Orleans to live off her sister’s kindness after losing their family home because of her difficult past. Tennessee Williams develops the theme ‘desire’ with the help of characterization through Blanche‚ symbolism and other stylistic devices which foreshadow her fate. Desire is one of the most prominent themes in this play. Each character is

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