English 1102 26 July 2010 Gattaca The movie Gattaca displays a world that is focused on perfection. Vincent lives in a world where being perfect means everything. He is discriminated against because he was born the natural way and not the “valid” way. The “valid” way is being created in a biotechnology lab. The genetic code of a person is altered‚ and they are created to be perfect specimens of society. Vincent’s parents trusted in God with his birth‚ an act that was considered abnormal in
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instantly tell how different it is from the movie. Nonetheless‚ Luhrmann’s style and idea to take on the story from a new angle is fascinating and indubitably caught the attention of the nation when it came into theatres. Luhrmann’s reworking of this story was as extravagant as Gatsby himself; with today’s music in every scene‚ alcohol‚ drugs‚ the dramatic settings‚ and even just the way the character’s communicated with each other. As seen in the movie though‚ extravagance is not always the best
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Jennifer’s Body‚ written by Diablo Cody‚ has an acceptable balance of dark comedy and horror‚ but what really makes the movie worth watching is the comically terrible acting of the main characters. Jennifer‚ a popular high school student is best friends with a shy high school girl‚ Needy. Wanting to do everything Jennifer does‚ Needy goes with Jennifer to a club to see Low Shoulder‚ an indie band‚ play. Jennifer having a crush on the lead singer‚ Nikolai‚ flirts and talks with him all night. Things
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Corina Termini. My favorite movie: “The Notebook” Movies give you inspiration to do or change many things in Life. This is a huge benefit on watching movies because they often give you something to learn from‚ you can see probably how a bad decision can change you life forever‚ how people influence can sometimes be bad for you‚ how everyone is capable of good thing in life‚ how by working hard you can achieve you goals‚ etc. So‚ trough movies you can get motivated and look forward in your life
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The integration of the prophecies by the director was‚ in my opinion‚ genius. Obviously‚ Macduff would kill Macbeth and in true form‚ he found him alone in a wine cellar in Macbeths home and stabbed him‚ again‚ old school‚ face to face‚ man to man‚ instead of with a gun. But what I was most curious about was how the director would represent the “Great Birnam Wood coming to high Dunsinaine Hill”. Seeing the mobsters with shield made
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story “Soldier Home‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character‚ Harold Krebs is introduced as a young‚ religious‚ college frat boy who joins the Army along with some of his fellow peers. He spent 2 years in the Rhine and even took a photo with 2 unattractive German Ladies. When Krebs returns home to an almost unnatural world he feels unfit and unwelcome due to the lack of compassion and notoriety from his home town of Oklahoma. Hemingway says‚ this may be due to Krebs returning home “much too late”
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AN EXTREMELY LONG ESSAY ABOUT NOTHING (ALSO THIS WAS NEVER PROOFREAD) by brooksmendenhall I struggle with conviction. I rarely feel something so strongly to be true that it consumes my identity. Because of this I have developed a false self confidence of sorts. A voice in my head that tells me I am justified and correct when I finally do reach some level of conviction. I think the logic at work here is that if I am not easily convicted then I must only be convicted by something extraordinarily
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shaking all I could do was pace around the hospital floor countless times and wait for the doctor. For the first time in my life I felt useless that I could not help her or take back the accident. I couldn’t believe that falling in such a safe nursing home could lead to such detrimental head trauma. All I knew was that my grandma needed to come out of the hospital alive and without hydrocephalus . Her alarming accident happened only four months prior to me starting high school in a completely new
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“Soldier’s Home” In Ernest Hemingway’s short story‚ “Soldier’s Home”‚ a young man named Krebs is unable to relate to his mother and home life after he returned from the First World War. After Krebs saw death and destruction in the wars most bloody battles‚ he returns home where his parents try to get him back to his normal routines. His view of the world has changed drastically since the war. He no longer feels love in his heart and cannot lie to his mother when she asks if he loves her. One
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her beauty and creates a "tender light." Not a light like the daytime‚ since he describes that as gaudy (showy in a vulgar way)‚ but a light that "heaven" doesn’t even honor the daytime with. Byron¡¯s diction in this poem is quite metaphorical. "She walks in beauty‚ like the night / Of cloudless climes and starry skies" (lines 1-2 ). His use of imagery has allowed us to visualize an atmosphere that surrounds this woman. The imagery he uses also brings together two opposing forces‚ darkness and light
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