Would You Have Quit? If I was a soldier in the American Continental Army during the Valley Forge time period‚ I would probably have quit the war. The reason that I would want to quit is i wouldn’t want to fight in a war‚ at all. I don’t think that fighting and killing is the answer to a country’s problems. However‚ if i was in the war then I would have quit because times were hard for the soldiers and for the people who were supporting the war‚ the Americans were losing the war‚ and they were
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Find a review for a film‚ preferably one that you have seen. Movie: Mission Impossible III Source: Rotten Tomatoes Critic: Joe Morgenstern Publication: The Wall Street Journal According to the distinctions made in Chapter Ten‚ how is the reviewer approaching the film. Joe Morgenstern presents his review in a formalist manner. A formalist film analysis is concerned with elements such as plot structure‚ mise en scene‚ camera techniques‚ editing‚ and sound. A formalist film analysis that
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She Just Kept Swimming We look for role models everyday in our lives‚ but what if one day you turned on your tv and found a new role model‚ right there on the screen. Everyday between 3 and 5 PM The Ellen Show airs all around the United States‚ and at all different times around the world. By talking to celebrities‚ prodigies‚ and playing games with her guests‚ she inspires people all over the world to strive for greatness and to be positive. However‚ the greatness defined within the prodigies‚ celebrities
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Why should you be Moral? Why should we be moral? We should be moral‚ because it is a way of how to behave towards each other‚ with focusing on being mostly concerned with situations of humans living with other humans. Questions like how should we behave towards each other? What are the rules and how do we learn them‚ also why do we have to have them? Let’s say there were no laws. How would we treat strangers or people that we know? Would the society be safe to live in? Without laws‚ there would
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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12. Why do television programmes have theme tunes? (That is‚ the music conventionally played over the opening credits of a television programme.) Choose a television theme tune and discuss: • its expressive qualities (e.g. happy‚ sad‚ fast-paced‚ slow) • The cultural associations that it inspires. For example‚ what other kinds of music does it refer to? Is the theme tune what you would expect in relation to the genre of the programme? Theme music in general can be anything from the recognisable
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statement “you should believe everything you hear and see in the media”. Not everything in the media is real because people create hoaxes‚ which are stories that seem real but they are just a lie. Reasons people create hoaxes can be to get money or to get fame by doing something‚ but there haven’t been any hoaxes in a few years. Some people believe that everything in the media is not real. People may think this because some articles in newspapers use persuasive language to persuade you that what
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I believe in choices By Haidn Fleming A homeless man may appear less than you or I‚ who are at the peak of society with high hopes for a grand life and wealth‚ but this man once had these hopes or dreams for his unforeseeable future. But to you and me all we see is a bum‚ an addict‚ and a waste of space. Even if that is not what you think‚ that is how this man is represented in the eyes of society. Because of this man’s choices others judge him‚ which lead to his life being
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many people all over the world spent most of their time watching television; but since its appearance‚ television has brought to man many advantage as well as disadvantage. Firstly for many of us the television is our first or only source of news and current events. These news shows keep people up to date on the outside world it is possible to know everything that happened in a day without even going outside. Second‚ television helps us enrich our spiritual live. Our knowledge is broadened in
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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