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    movies. We often watch more than one movie on this special night. Last year‚ we decided to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚ and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. My siblings and I had read and loved the books‚ written by Rick Riordan‚ so we thought‚ “How bad could it be? It would be amazing to see these incredible stories onscreen!” We were wrong. Every member of my family who had read the books agreed that this movie destroyed the intent of the original

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    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein runs from all of his problems until he ends up with terrible consequences. James Whale‚ the film director for the movie phenomenon Frankenstein was not only an artist‚ but also a man who had a vision. The movie Frankenstein is based off Mary Shelley’s work of art‚ Frankenstein. After 85 years‚ the movie Frankenstein is still greatly appreciated‚ it implies a society we know nothing about and have a strange curiosity towards. James Whale is truly a genius for

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    The 1977 version of “A Christmas Carol” by BBC is a very accurate rendition of the book it was based on by Charles Dickens written in 1843. This movie comes with its strengths and weaknesses‚ most of its weaknesses coming from the quality of the film production and the movie’s strengths coming from it’s striking resemblance to the earlier made novel. The short movie mirrored the book in so many ways that only really small details were left out such as Scrooge going to the tavern to get his dinner

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    bondage between the Byron and the person he is writing about‚ however it is unclear who exactly Byron is writing about because of the ambiguity surrounding his sexuality. Both poems both do focus on a sense of love and human relationships‚ Path’s focuses on a maternal love and Byron’s on a couple’s love‚ the sense and presence‚ however‚ of love within each poem differs greatly. Although maternal love is a strong theme within Path’s poem it is not clearly present in the relationship between mother

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    Of Mice and Men: Book vs Movie -Movie starts off with a woman running away frightened‚ and then the scene changes to George and Lennie running away from men on horses‚ most likely police. They both jump in the water and avoid the men on horses. This did not happen in the book‚ but foreshadows what George tells Slim later on. -They both jump on a train‚ and then exhaustingly crawl to where they sit down. This doesn’t happen in the book. -The next scene‚ they’re in town near an employment agency

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    feasts‚ jubilant celebrations‚ all of which are acts that demonstrate the reverence of humans for the supernatural gods; a common motif in both the ancient Mesopotamia depicted in Gilgamesh‚ and the ancient Greece of The Odyssey. What seems to be a perfectly harmonious relationship between men seeking protection and Providence from their guardian gods is actually quite complicated and can potentially turn tumultuous. In the aforementioned two epics‚ the earthly interests of men often clash with the wishes

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    Comcast’s traffic. Comcast also was spinning up a movie streaming service. What was suspected and Comcast eventually admitted to was slowing down the Netflix traffic on their infrastructure to unusable rates. This was a huge win for Comcast at first. The consumer sees most of their Internet traffic running normally but Netflix is slow.(Key‚ 2010) So the Comcast customer calls Netflix and complains and starts to look for other options. Comcasts’s movie streaming works very well when the customer tries

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    THE STRANGER AND METAMORPHOSIS: A COMPARISON By WEI YUDAN School of Government‚ 1000016939 [Abstract] Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis and Camus’ The Stranger both lie an essential absurdity‚ and they both feature situations out of which come to light existentialist values. While The Metamorphosis highlights that one must interact with society in order to have a meaning in life. As for the differences‚ each novel has its individual narrative point of view and typical writing style. [Key Words] The

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    The movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby maintained true to the original book by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Although mostly everything seems to stay the same‚ some movie scenes differ. Nick’s character is tweaked and Gatsby’s parties are not the same. The movie also creates more false hope than the novel does. Nick Carraway is the first character introduced into the book and movie‚ but in a different aspect. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Nick right away as the narrator. He is giving a monologue about

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    Differences of the book and the movie THE HUNGER GAMES In the novel‚ Katniss receives mokingjay Undersee Madge‚ the mayor’s daughter. In the film‚ as she sells what hunt‚ see the mockingjay and takes it to Prim‚ who returns after harvest. Madge never seen in the film. In the novel‚ Prim has blue eyes‚ like Peeta. In the film both have brown eyes. In the book Katniss is short for being malnourished‚ whereas in the movie she is a bit high. In the book‚ Katniss is visited by Peeta’s father after her

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