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    Why Movies Are so Popular

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    Like most young guys I like movies very much. Movies in English are an effective tool for learning English. I remember when I went to New Oriental to study English I always worried about my poor listening skill. Then I accepted a teacher’s advice and started to watch some English movies. I can learn some useful words and expressions from them. Gradually I found that English is not so difficult to understand and it became more and more interesting to me. Now I can say movies not only improve my listening

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    Horror Fiction Horror is in many ways a unique genre. It has the ability to make us feel frightened‚ disgusted and fascinated at the same time. During an intense scene in a horror movie or book you often feel tempted to look away‚ but at the same time you’re “glued” to the screen or page – You can’t let go; you want to see what’s hiding in the dark. Another fascinating aspect of the horror genre is the fact that it remains controversial due to its extreme nature. A lot of critiques argue that horror

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    an important role in our lives. Nowadays people started arguing about the necessity for governments to have the right to place strict rules of banding or censoring movies or films that exposed are to their country. First of all‚ let me define the word censor‚ according to Merriam Webster (2014)‚ " a person who examines books‚ movies‚ letters‚ etc.‚ and removes things that are considered to be offensive‚ immoral‚ harmful to society‚ etc". In addition‚ the role of censorship is to block certain materials

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    interesting word to you all which is ”horror”. Most of the time we just simply say that “horror thing”‚ “horror movie”‚ “horror place”‚ but are we really know what is the meaning of horror‚ or define horror in a better way? In fact‚ horror can be defined as anything which causes intense feeling of shock‚ fear‚ terror‚ disgust or something frightening. Horror may caused by something ugly‚ bad or disagreeable‚ hence causing strong dislike or loath. Any definition of horror that asserts any form of fear‚

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    In our culture women are seen as smaller‚ weaker‚ and less intelligent that men. Thus creating the idea that men should dominate women. Horror movies such as the movie Scream‚ perpetuate these societal ideas by justifying violence against women by making it her fault‚ by using women as sex objects then afflict violence of them‚ and by having a “final girl” that has a one on one battle in the end. At the end of the movie Scream Billy tells Sidney that he was the one that killed her mother. His motive

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    our nation? Why We Are Who We Are Heritage is our history‚ our different knowledge‚ the values and traditions that we have developed with a combination of genes and culture over time. Heritage‚ whether it be cultural‚ national‚ or just in our families is an endowment of legacies; but foremost‚ heritage is our history. It is responsible for how we came to be‚ it is a very large part of who and what we are‚ and it can determine what we will become. As humans‚ we possess free agency; we can determine

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    it helps us relieve stress and makes us feel better about ourselves. Comedy movies play such an important role in helping us laugh. There are many forms of movies out there today. In spite of the recent incline in action and horror movies today‚ comedy movies has always been my number one choice because it gives people an opportunity to look at humor in life‚ it usually has a pointless‚ useless moral that we can relate to‚ and it allows you to look at things in a new light and possibly

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    terrified audience. This frightening combination is present in the wildly popular evil child genre of horror films. Because everyone has interacted with children‚ many people find evil children are inherently terrifying because they can imagine themselves as the adults in the movie. Critics of the genre often only identify evil children through the child themselves‚ but all evil children in horror films should be analysed through the lens of parental fears‚ because connecting all genres of evil children

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    more of a comedy part of the movie. Columbus had other things that he had written on his list that made me laugh and that were very comical in the entire movie. The horror part of the movie had to do with the character Tallahassee was the guy that no one wanted to mess with‚ his job was shooting and killing zombies he had more of the horror parts of this movie and his character clearly enjoyed killing these zombies. But in all of this violence all he really wanted was his twinkles. This film was a lot

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    Why We Laugh

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    an important part in the work of some of the greatest writers such as Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde. However‚ curiously‚ after thousands of years spent trying to understand humour‚ there is still a great deal of controversy about what humour is or why something is funny. There are some interesting theories‚ though‚ on this matter. For Aristotle‚ comedy is based on “an imitation of men worse than the average‚” of people who are “ridiculous”. Hobbes carried the same idea a bit further. He said‚

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