[pic] I consider The Fountain an epic because first‚ it has gods: Mayan and Christian; it’s got a hero‚ Hugh Jackman‚ other wise known as; Tommy‚ and the quested tree of life from the Garden of Eden. It is a life-altering journey also because Tommy finally sees all of the things in life that he has done wrong‚ like choosing work over his wife‚ and he also changes the way he treats people. This movie makes the way people think change because they can compare their cultures from today’s culture
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Through out the story‚ the loons and their cries symbolize the aboriginal people and their attitudes towards the white settlers and their treatment not only towards native culture but‚ the stereotypical mentality pressed upon them. These feelings of ‘“despair‚ the unprootedness‚ the loss of the land”’ (Stovel 219) where caused by many generations of mistreatment‚ stereotypical‚ and racist mentality. The ethnocentric attitudes of the time‚ are none better portrayed than by the character of Vanessa
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Teenagers sentenced to death all because of violence and murder. No Choirboy is all about teens that try to find the easy way out; and along the way their path went wrong causing them to murder and violence. This book change my point of view on life by that easy and fast is not always the best way. This book has inspired me to further my education‚ because even though it is not easy to always go past of high school the effort is still there its better than a life of crime. The teenagers in this
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Dan Chaon’s Ill Will One of the darkest books of the year‚ Ill Will is a story you will never forget; it’s dark subplots are intertwined to unveil difficulties all humans face. “People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It’s called apophenia. It’s the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.” -Dan Chaon. Examining something as intricate as the human brain takes great meaning and caution; but when handled right‚ can be a powerful message. Writing with the
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Indigènes‚ or the forgotten heroes: Perhaps‚ the movie that provides a deeper representation of North Africans in the French context is Rachid Bouchareb’s Indigènes. The movie explores the experience of soldiers from North Africa and other French colonies in the continent. The story focuses exclusively on a group of North African soldiers who are fighting to liberate France from the German occupation during World War Two‚ but the nature of their patrimony is excruciatingly ambiguous. The characters’
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In the third section of the book‚ Stephen King describes his love of writing and offers advice on how to succeed as a writer. King’s first point about writing is that constantly reading and writing will help someone become a better writer. Reading can provide a writer with an extended vocabulary‚ as well as a taste of many different writers’ styles. Writing often will help a writer practice‚ and the writer can experiment with what works. This is important because King explains that success as a writer
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The documentary “I AM” was directed by Tom Shadyac‚ who was a such successful Hollywood director until a bike accident in 2007 left him cripped‚ possibly for good. Despite the fact that he at last recovered‚ he raised a changed man. After an expanded fight against post-blackout disorder‚ he chose to figure out what life is truly about‚ since he says his 17‚000-square-foot manor as a case—hadn’t brought him joy. Shadyac travels around the world and starts off with a small camera crew to interview
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Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu‚ is a girl who travel from Nigeria to America for college. During her stay‚ she makes several accomplishments including a successful blog that talks about race relations and a prestigious award at Princeton. She has a few boyfriends during her time in America as well‚ each coming with their own good and bad times. While in America‚ she is not whole heartedly resistant to the American culture. The biggest issue for her is the void between people of different color. This
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The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He
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I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger
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