movie Matewan. It was directed by John Sayles and stars Chris Cooper‚ James Earl Jones‚ and Mary McDonnell. It takes place in the turbulent town of Matewan‚ West Virginia during the 1920’s as heads butt on whether creating a workers union is the right thing. The coal workers go on strike to fight against the hazardous working conditions and low pay‚ but are dismayed by the fact the coal company is replacing them with Italian immigrants and Blacks. As they prepare to start a gun war with the Coal Company
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for a summer. Then I took a break from the amusement and worked on my English a little bit and read different books to my taste and one of them‚ which is worth reading is “Arch of Triumph” of marvelous author Erich Maria Remark‚ watched English films and comical serials “Friends”. Then I spent fortnight on the sea with my relatives in Crimea where was really hard to go away from water as it was really dog days. In the second part of the July I went by train to my parents and while I got there I
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)‚ directed by Frank Darabont‚ is a film about Andy Dufresne‚ a lawyer sentenced to life in prison for supposedly murdering his wife. The main theme of the film is that Andy survives the brutality and corruption of prison through his enduring hope. The director expresses the theme in two scenes from the film. The first sympathises the audience with Andy. The second is about Andy escaping. The film particularly appeals to viewers going through personal hardships like
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* 12 Things Happy People Do Differently “I’d always believed that a life of quality‚ enjoyment‚ and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple‚ happy‚ uncomplicated life.” -Dan Millman (author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior) Happiness and science. Did you know that
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Do Hard Things‚ by Alex and Brett is a challenging book. It is written to teenagers to convince them of the need to overcome the stigma of low expectations. It goes through‚ in depth‚ the story of both Alex and Brett and all that they were able to accomplish by choosing to take risks beyond what people expect you to do. Many times‚ teenagers of today are expected to be rebellious and good-for-nothing until they are older. Alex and Brett set out to prove the world’s view of teenagers is wrong. They
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12 February 2011 101 Things to do before I die My journey will take approximately seventy years to complete‚ as I plan to kick the bucket at the age of eighty nine! I will of course need to go to rest as I plan to live a very full life. So many things to do and so little time! To write the story of your life before you lived it is somehow awkward. I have to close my eyes and dream of this‚ once a little girl who just turned eighteen! I dream of a beautiful life full of fun‚ joy‚ love and laughter
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simultaneously refusing to condone Amanda’s wish to find a job. Her third son (Marvin Augustin) writes illegal political exposes. The fourth (Danilo Barrios) fell victim to a corrupt police department‚ and her youngest (John W. Sace) is still a boy. The film was produced by Tess Fuentes and also features Christopher De Leon‚ Piolo Pascual‚ Carlos Agassi‚ and Dimples c . Reaction I liked the movie (but the book was better‚ as always) as I very well related to Jules in the same way that my mother related
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dual-protagonist film based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by world-famous author Stephen King. It certainly falls under the genre of Drama‚ as it is a story of hope and‚ namely‚ redemption. Andrew "Andy" Dufresne‚ a New England banker‚ is wrongly imprisoned after being convicted for the murders of his wife and her lover‚ based largely on evidence that doesn’t exist‚ and is sent to Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine for two life sentences‚ the inciting incident of the film. Shortly
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embellishments Mr. Parker has tacked onto the play like a reckless dressmaker tarting up a Chanel suit to resemble a Versace gown? Those additions include fantasy sequences‚ a ragtime band‚ a hot-air balloon and a horse-and-carriage traffic jam. An aggressively buoyant score (by Charlie Mole) washes through the movie‚ giving it a perky vo-dee-o-do flavor that feels more 1920’s than 1890’s. As much as possible‚ the play has been moved outdoors to intoxicate us with the rarefied air of an English country
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The lighting techniques used in Edwards’s film influence greatly the meaning of the shot. Tim Burton used a dreary light‚ an expression to display the mood of the movie. Lightening made the characters’ setting and several things look mysterious. The first appearance of Edward happens to be a dark corner of an empty room. In a mare look up‚ Edward is clothed in stiff black fabric encaging his upper body. The dark character of the room makes the Avon woman stare and want to come closely to examine
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