...movie makers of Australia. The movie is about an old man who just out of jail “Dan” and his relationship with his long-term girlfriend “Leanne”. Actually through the movie, we have seen that effort of Dan to be integrated into his normal life.I think the characters in the movie are very realistic because Amiel Courtin-Wilson used non – actor Daniel P. Jones as his leading man and the story also based on the real life of Daniel P. Jones, in other words, Daniel sort of plays himself in the movie. In addition to Daniel, Leanne Letch also non-actor and plays herself, indeed I think “Hail” is a love story because in the real life they are also lovers and in the movie even though there are items such as murder, drugs and revenge, characters made many things because of love that they feel against each other. The film passes through the state of Melbourne and starts with scene of get out of jail of Dan. After leaving prison, in the second scene, Dan goes to his longtime girlfriend’s house and we see that they hugging to each other and talking to each other in a romantic manner. In these scenes, their conversations it seems to me like improvisation because their gestures and forms of longing each other were very natural. In the later scenes, we see that Dan is trying to find a job in order to go back his normal life. Firstly, he makes job interview with car wash and repair company and the conversation which Dan made with boss of the that company also impressive because that scene ideally...
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...A Mercy opens with Florens, a black slave, about sixteen years old, on a journey to visit the lover to whom she is addressing her thoughts and feelings. Florens is a literate slave, taught by a priest in defiance of the law. Florens recalls how she was given to her present master, Jacob Vaark, in partial settlement of a debt her prior master, a slave owner from the brutal Portuguese slave colony of Angola, owes to Vaark. Vaark is offered Florens and her mother, but her mother encourages Vaark to take only Florens because her mother is still nursing a baby boy. Florens, about eight years old when she is taken, recounts her shock, pain, and bitterness at this abandonment by her minha mae, “my mother” in Portuguese. The second chapter, told by a third-person narrator who reveals Jacob’s thoughts and feelings, recounts Vaark’s journey to meet with D’Ortega and something of his story as an orphan and beneficiary of 120 acres in the New World. Vaark, a trader and businessman, has a soft spot for “orphans and strays.” He owns Lina (a Native American slave acquired after Lina’s tribe is nearly decimated by an epidemic of measles) and has taken in Sorrow (a half-drowned foundling girl) in another business deal. The reader gets some sense of the politics and prejudice of the period, learning of Vaark’s attitude toward the “popishness” of Catholic Maryland and its luxuries, built upon the free labor of slaves, in contrast to his simple life as a northern trader. Vaark comes away from...
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...The Lover-Duras The Lover (French title: L'Amant) is an autobiographical novel by Marguerite Duras, published in 1984 by Les Éditions de Minuit. It has been translated to 43 languages. It was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt. The Lover is also a 1992 movie based on this novel, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Jane March and Tony Leung Ka Fai. The cast also included Lisa Faulkner. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Summary of the movie Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl (Jane March), from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese man (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). The story is narrated by Jeanne Moreau, portraying a writer looking back on her youth. In 1929, a 15 year old nameless girl is traveling by ferry across the Mekong Delta, returning from a holiday at her family home in the village of Sadec, to her boarding school in Saigon. She attracts the attention of a 32 year old son of a Chinese business magnate, a young man of wealth and heir to a tidy fortune. He strikes up a conversation with the girl; she accepts a ride back to town in his chauffeured limousine. Compelled by the circumstances of her upbringing, this girl, the daughter of a bankrupt, manic-depressive widow, is newly awakened to the impending and all-too-real task of making her way alone in the world. Thus, she becomes his lover, until...
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...Booker Lee and the County Fair (Booker Lee, for short) is a local Gettysburg, Pennsylvania band that plays music described as alternative country. The band consists of two sets of siblings. Josh is the lead singer and also plays guitar, while his brother Dan plays the bass guitar. Kirsten plays the keyboard and also sings backup vocals, while her brother Jack plays the drums. Dan is the lead guitarist, while oddly enough, his sister Anne is tending the bar. The venue, The Garryowen Irish Pub (The GO, for short), is popular amongst locals and tourists alike. They serve authentic Irish food and beverages, and the atmosphere makes it feel as if you are experiencing a little slice of Ireland, right here in Pennsylvania. Ilsa, who has been a good friend of mine since Middle School, has been a patron of The Garryowen since she turned 21 in 2006. She now helps the bar's owner Kevin with his paperwork as well as waitressing and bar tending. Ilsa says the band's guitarist Dan often joins his friend Ali playing cover songs upstairs, at what they call “The GO too”. The atmosphere upstairs at the Garryowen is more relaxed and homely. Couches, benches and coffee tables occupy the space next to the small bar. Dan and Ali sit in old arm chairs next to one another, while patrons make themselves comfortable in any available space, including the floor. Josh explained that Booker Lee & the county fair has a very strong local following. The band stopped playing shows when one of the members...
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...understanding, trust and respect for each other. Thus, before getting married one should give importance to the degree of friendship a couple holds. As said by Nicolas Sparks in the novel “The Notebook”- “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” Many songs and stories have been written on the importance of friendship. It breaks the ice between two unknown people, if the other person is friendlier then a person feels more comfortable and easily opens up. Even a small drop of friendship can do wonders in any such relationship as the relationship of a couple, parents and their child, boss and employee, members of an organization etc. Heaven will fall on earth if we can remove personality, selfishness and hate and grow love and friendship for each other in the hearts of people. I am sure that every single one her can’t live without the best thing in the world FRIENDSHIP! Beaucoup de chants et de contes ont été écrits sur l'importance de l'amitié. , Si l'autre personne est plus favorable alors qu'une personne se sent plus à l'aise et s'ouvre facilement en place. Même une petite goutte d'amitié peut faire des merveilles dans une telle relation que la relation d'un couple, les parents et leur enfant, patron et employé,...
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...Also another comparison in storyline , is when Everett and brothers meet Big Dan who ironically has an eye patch covering one eye giving the audience the impression of the Cyclops seen in Odessyus. Both Cyclops (realistically and symbolically) confront the main characters through meal. Both characters attempted to be rational with the antagonist when hostilities broke out, but only ended in violence. One major difference is Odysseus’ story ended better with him and his men blinding Polyphemus with a giant stake then moving the boulder this creating the escape of the men under rams but unfortunately in OBWAT Big Dan knocked the two brothers unconscious with a tree branch and killed the toad “Pete” showing a big difference. Odysseus risked everything for his men and even after their loss and twenty years of wearily traveling and finally arriving in Ithaca, instead of getting a hero’s welcome, he returned to his kingdom razed by his own people and had to lay in wait in disguise for a further extended time until the perfect moment to reveal himself...
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...ainsi que la matière. Je trône dans l'azur comme un sphinx incompris; J'unis un coeur de neige à la blancheur des cygnes; Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes, Et jamais je ne pleure et jamais je ne ris. Les poètes, devant mes grandes attitudes, Que j'ai l'air d'emprunter aux plus fiers monuments, Consumeront leurs jours en d'austères études; Car j'ai, pour fasciner ces dociles amants, De purs miroirs qui font toutes choses plus belles: Mes yeux, mes larges yeux aux clartés éternelles! — Charles Baudelaire Beauty I am fair, O mortals! like a dream carved in stone, And my breast where each one in turn has bruised himself Is made to inspire in the poet a love As eternal and silent as matter. On a throne in the sky, a mysterious sphinx, I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh. Poets, before my grandiose poses, Which I seem to assume from the proudest statues, Will consume their lives in austere study; For I have, to enchant those submissive lovers, Pure mirrors that make all things more beautiful: My eyes, my large, wide eyes of eternal brightness! J'écris - Les Gars Dans L'Coin J'écris des mots en l'air | | Qui fond de l'atmosphère | | J'écris comme l'on se parle | | A tort et à travers | | J'écris sur le béton | | Le ciment et le fer | | J'écris en gros "boucherie" | | Dans les bases militaires | | ...
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...summary Gatsby was born on a North Dakota farm, and though he attended college at St. Olaf’s in Minnesota. One day, he saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody, a wealthy copper mogul, who gave his name as Jay Gatsby, on board his yacht as his personal assistant. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man. he is alarmed to find Tom Buchanan there. The following Saturday night, Tom and Daisy go to a party at Gatsby’s house. Gatsby seeks out Nick after Tom and Daisy leave the party. he is unhappy because Daisy has had such an unpleasant time. Gatsby wants things to be exactly the same as they were before he left Louisville, he wants Daisy to leave Tom so that he can be with her. Daisy seems almost uninterested in her child. During the awkward afternoon, Gatsby and Daisy cannot hide their love for one another. Daisy asks Gatsby if he wants to go into the city. Tom asks Gatsby about his intentions for Daisy, and Gatsby replies that Daisy loves him, not Tom. Tom claims that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could not possibly understand. Tom accuses Gatsby of running a bootlegging operation. Daisy, in love with Gatsby earlier in the afternoon, Tom sends Daisy back to Long Island with Gatsby to prove Gatsby’s inability to hurt him. As the row quiets down, Nick realizes that it is his thirtieth birthday. Driving back to Long Island, Nick, Tom, and Jordan discover a frightening scene on the border of the valley of ashes. Michaelis...
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...J. Prevert. „Sables mouvants“ The image of the quicksand is very symbolic. One has to analyse it first, in order to understand J. Prevert‘s poem. Quicksand consists of granular matter (silt, sand), clay and water. It may appear quite solid if it is undisturbed. However, when there is a change in pressure, the surface loses its strength, sand and water separate, causing buildings to fall over. Someone stepping on quicksand would start to sink. I am inclined to believe that the usage of this image was chosen not at random. The title gives us a clue that the poem is going to be about the duality of love. Like everything else in the world, love has both positive and negative faces. What appears to be solid and stable might collapse, when one comes closer. The poem „ Sables mouvants“ also examines the themes of the transience of time and sexuality. The repetition of “Demons et merveilles / vents et marees ” expresses the duality of love. One imagines demons as something magical, evil, dark, dangerous, and insidious. Because of our knowledge of mythology and religion, demons remind us of seduction (for example, Eve and the Serpent, The Bible) and sin. On the other hand, merveilles create the impression of something enchanting and delightful. The contrast between demons and merveilles shows us that what appears pure and fascinating, might allure into danger and darkness. What is more, vents et marees can be regarded as a hint of sensuality and sexuality. It impersonates force...
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...Fitzgerald, revolves around the narrator, Nick Buchanan, who depicts the life of the separation of once old lovers and their relationships with varieties of characters, feelings, and ambitions that prevents them from being back together. Speaking of ambition, the characters in The Great Gatsby are never authentically happy with what they possess. They keep on dreaming about acquiring further materialistic replenishments. They are unhappy with not only the amount of money they own, but also their relationships, Identity, and their own homes. No matter how much money, luxury, or women/men you have in your life, It will never sincerely satisfy your own true unreachable aspirations. In the time of the roaring twenties, women were always somehow intimate...
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...To lose someone you love is a fear we all try to hide deep down in our minds. What would you do if you lost someone you loved and had known in years? It is for most people quite a task to get back on track after losing a lover. Some people can get back to their normal life easily, where others can be stuck with their loss and will need some extra help to continue their lives. Especially for Annie, in the short story “Half-mown Lawn” by Dan Powell, where she has a hard time getting back on track, after her husband passed away. In the opening lines, you get the feeling of emptiness and loneliness. It appears that the grandma, Annie, is in deep mourning after losing her husband. It is a major loss for her and she keeps thinking about him, Annie will not let him go even though it has already happened, she still tries to regret the accident (p.62, l.9-19 and p.65, l.21-26). Not only has she lost her husband, but the half of herself. Life has already become more of a struggle for her. (p.63, l.4-12) Here Annie forgets her purse, which suggests that she struggles with simple things in life. When Annie tells the checkout girl: “I don’t know what to do either” (p.63, l.11), Annie is actually talking about her whole life, and she really does not know what to do with her...
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...The Great Gatsby Summary How It All Goes Down Our narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the book by giving us some advice of his father’s about not criticizing others. Through Nick’s eyes, we meet his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan, her large and aggressive husband, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker, who quickly becomes a romantic interest for our narrator (probably because she’s the only girl around who isn’t his cousin). While the Buchanans live on the fashionable East Egg (we’re talkingLong Island, NY in the 1920’s, by the way), Nick lives on the less-elite but not-too-shabby West Egg, which sits across the bay from its twin town. We are soon fascinated by a certain Mr. Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who owns a huge mansion next door to Nick and spends a good chunk of his evenings standing on his lawn and looking at an equally mysterious green light across the bay. Tom takes Nick to the city to show off his mistress, a woman named Myrtle Wilson who is, of course, married. (Fidelity is a rare bird in this novel.) Myrtle’s husband, George, is a passive, working class man who owns an auto garage and is oblivious to his wife’s extramarital activities. Nick is none too impressed by Tom. Back on West Egg, this Gatsby fellow has been throwing absolutely killer parties, where everyone and his mother can come and get wasted and try to figure out how Gatsby got so rich. Nick meets and warily befriends the mystery man at one of his huge Saturday night affairs. He also begins...
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...A Rocket to the Moon A boy band that inspired a lot of music lovers and a boy band that sings from the heart. A boy band that is remembered in every lyrics and a boy band that wrote songs, songs that touches the soul. A band that was once united, and now disbanded. A rocket to the moon, the band you’ll love the most. If you don’t want to be hunted by 3am thoughts, make sure you’ll never know this band. With their Alternative rock songs, pop rock song, indie rock songs, and pop punk songs, you’ll surely rape the repeat button of your music player. Lead by the vocalist Nick Santino, a handsome lad with spiky blonde hair, tattooed arms, killer smile and a to-die-for voice. Together with his band mates Justin Richards and Andrew Cook both playing drums, and Eric Halvorsen, their bass guitar player, A rocket to the moon received notoriety from many people, even from celebrities. The band is famous for their songs Baby Blue Eyes, Like We Used To, and Ever Enough. Their singles "Dakota" and "If Only They Knew" reached the record No. 21 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. They also record acoustic versions of their songs which made people love them more. They appear on mall shows, they toured around the world, and they release albums that was idolized by netizens, and of course their very own fans. Sadly they were disband in the year 2013 right after the release of their full album “Wild and Free”. The announcement turned down a lot of their followers since they...
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...Dan Stasson Mosaic 1 Professor Sigman 5 December 2012 The Roles and Influence of Women in Gilgamesh and Joseph’s Story In many societies, women play various functions like mothers, sisters, and leaders. Historical literatures like the Bible, Gilgamesh or even the Koran has had many women play diverse functions in the society or in the religious sector. By comparing the different roles that women played in both literatures like the Bible and Gilgamesh, we can be able to comprehend the role of women in both societies (Mitchell 80). Furthermore, these roles will be an eye opener to the type of society that these women lived in. These women managed to expand themselves to fit into the various circumstances that they found themselves in as well as become important in their society. Through Potiphar’s wife in Joseph’s story and the women of Gilgamesh, this essay seeks to understand how literature represents women in the society. Women in Gilgamesh are represented by employing various characters. For instance, the character Ishtar has been depicted to take the role of a lover. In the novel, she is the goddess who desires to win the heart of Gilgamesh at all cost. When her mission fails, she endeavors to murder him. This destroyer-goddess known as Ishtar asks Gilgamesh to marry her when he returned victorious over Humbaba. Ishtar descends to Uruk talks to the king Gilgamesh saying “Marry me, give me your luscious fruits, be my husband, be my sweet man. I will give you abundance...
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...Throughout Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby, Dexter and Gatsby made life decisions to be put into a high social class in order to impress girls that didn’t end up amounting to very much. First off as shown in The Great Gatsby, Gatsby strived to live of life of luxury after meeting Dan Cody. Gatsby got involved into many unknown business deals in order to make a living. Gatsby decorated his house with many luxuries and made sure that every part of his mansion impressed his life long love, Daisy Buchannan. Gatsby threw wild parties every weekend in order to interest Daisy because she was very blind to everything but a person’s wealth. In the novel, Gatsby proved that he would do anything in order to have a future with Daisy; however, in the...
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