sometimes we have to make decisions that mean a lot more‚ that have consequences no matter what you choose and that can effect the people around you. In this text I am going to present two films where the characters have hard decisions to make. Billy Elliot is a film about Billy‚ an 11-year-old boy who lives with his father‚ brother and Nan (grandmother). The film takes place in “Everington” in the UK‚ from 1984 to 1985 which was in the middle of the UK miners strike. The main conflict of the film is
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In the article “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae‚ he writes about basic problems that writers have and that when they are in the process of writing they need to use the written or spoken communication associated with the community they are addressing in their writing. For the writer to properly engage in this they must fully understand the discourse of their intended audience and respected community. He continues on to say that there are two distinct approaches that a writer can take
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EUH 5934 Dr. Harland-Jacobs 30 January 2012 Sir John Huxtable Elliott His Writings and Contributions In many ways‚ it is impossible to do justice to the impressive life and career of Sir John Huxtable Elliott in a short essay such as this one. Simply listing his countless awards‚ publications‚ and honorary titles and degrees would take up most of the space allotted for this short paper (as the pages attached to the end of the essay can attest). Instead of writing a traditional‚ chronologically-organized
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Billy Elliot: Discussion or Writing topics. 1. When Billy describes his dancing and the feeling that he gets from it he says that he forgets everything and feels as if there’s a fire in his body and that he feels he disappears. I believe that Billy is describing his feeling of freedom in a world were for him‚ freedom is almost unattainable in many circumstances. I got this feeling earlier today‚ driving through the country-side‚ through open paddocks and fields with rolling slopes and the mountains
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Billy Elliot the Musical On November 2‚ 2010 I attended the Broadway show “Billy Elliot the Musical” at the Durham Performing Arts Center. I must say this show was definitely one of the most emotional Broadway shows I have ever seen. I do not think there was a single dry eye throughout the whole show. The shows controversial plot about a young boy‚ who wants to dance and all the people in his town who won’t let him‚ makes for an exciting and heart racing show. One of the amazing things about
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How Many Miles to Babylon Answer structure – Theme and issue Theme and Issues The texts I have studied for my comparative course are “How Many Miles to Babylon” (HMMB) by Jennifer Johnston‚ “Billy Elliot” (BE) by Stephen Daldry and “Lies of Silence” (LOS) by Brian Moore. One theme that is common to the three texts that I have studied is the theme of relationships. Keys moments from the texts help to heighten the importance and develop our awareness of those themes. In (HMMB) we witness the destructive
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Even though Billy’s life was extremely difficult‚ Billy succeeded and ended up as a winner by playing the lead role in one of the most famous play called "swan lake". The main reasons for Billy’s success were his independence‚ talent‚ being open-minded and especially his ballet teacher. If Billy didn’t have any of them he would have never succeeded. There were many harsh circumstances that Billy had to face during his journey to become a professional ballet dancer. One of them was the death of
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General vision and viewpoint Subject matter that reveals a bright or dark outlook In the texts on my comparative course we find subject matter that is either largely depressing or optimistic‚ and thus suggests to us authors and texts whose outlook on life is largely pessimistic or optimistic. Lies Of Silence: The subject matter of LS reveals a dark outlook. The central point of the text is on the dominance of the IRA in Northern Ireland‚ as they attempt to use the influence of a hotel manager
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Many of us can relate to feeling regularly frustrated‚ thinking‚ “Why is it so hard for us to admit our mistakes?” Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson’s book‚ Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)‚ focuses on why people justify bad decisions‚ beliefs‚ and actions. It also offers suggestions about how we might be able to challenge ourselves to honestly reflect on our choices and take responsibility for our actions. In the beginning of the book‚ the authors introduce the theory of cognitive dissonance and
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‘Mistakes we made’ is one of the best books ever written on psychology. The book was written by two famous psychologist by the names Carol and Elliot. Imagine if one of the prominent leader like a politician or a religious leader announces to the whole world that the world is ending on a certain day. All the people who receive the message especially the true followers of the reader take the message with a lot of seriousness where they consumes all their possession and they sell all their properties
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