...experience. It captures the raw emotion of being vulnerable in your home. It also helped personalize the experience because everyone have a natural fear of being a victim in their own home. 3. The events that took place really capture their character and how they responded to one another. Their relationship was still in its beginning stages and both partners had a lot to learn from each other. From their experience they learned more about each other’s character flaws. 4. The protagonist in the film is the ghost. The ghost drives the movie by influencing the actions of Katie and Micah. The actions of Katie’s ghost sets the tone of what happens next in the film. 5. Micah’s recordings symbolize society’s fascination with real time events and the need to record them. Micah was so convinced that he would be able to share his experience that he did little to help and their home. 6. Paranormal activity is a metaphor of demonic possession. In ancient times the belief of someone being taking over by ghost was very popular. 7. The Macguffin of this film was the anticipation of what the ghost was going to do next. 8. The camcorder was a device for Micah to express their experience. Therefore the camcorder is personified as an actual character observing the horrible experience of Katie and Micah. 9. Micah’s filming did not make the events that took place any worse. When he attempted to communicate with the ghost it made things worse....
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...Erin Berkheimer Mrs. Wyllie English IV 21 February 2014 Research Outline I. Thesis: The changing settings in the novel Pride and Prejudice have various effects on the relationships between the characters, especially influencing their affection for one another, and this makes the novel eternally relatable, interesting, and important in understanding human nature and development. II. Body Paragraph #1: Relatability a. Quote #1: “From its immortal opening sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” Pride and Prejudice has enchanted readers around the world, in every language, for 200 years.” (Donahue 1) i. Commentary #1: proves my thesis by showing that a person’s situation is thought to affect their motives and wants, which is a very relatable topic even 200 years later ii. Commentary #2: helps in deeper understanding the novel by providing insight into a main theme/belief of the novel that we will see recur often in the novel, this insight is universal and widely relatable, especially in today’s culture b. Quote #2: “relationships, such as the one which eventually evolved between her character and Mr. Darcy, also sit well with contemporary women.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 1) iii. Commentary #1: supports primary quote by giving foreshadowing example of developing relationship, gives support to idea that the themes in the novel are...
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...reader is influence to respond to the ideas with sympathy, frustration and hope for the main character, “Fat Maz”. Through characterisation, the author is able to construct representations of disempowerment. One of the most important characters in the story is “Fat Maz” and her parents. In the story, the main character is portrayed as being fat, unmotivated to do anything and living a very bland life. For example, “she was not a sporty girl. She did not read. She had no boyfriend. She felt herself growing fatter every day”. From the story, we can also grasp how the parents are like. The father was depicted as an angry man and vigilant, prowling for thieves in his newsagency. However, the mum is the opposite, described as boring and always looking out at the shop window. In the early stages of the story, we as readers start to feel a sense of sympathy towards the main character because she is living such an isolated life and disempowered by her parents. For example, “she was relieved when her parents went home for lunch and left her to the shop”. As the story progresses we as readers start to gain some hope for the main character and she received some opportunities to empower herself to start changing her life. Good representation of this was “Once a day the big Greyhound rolled past going north to the city” and “Outside the Greyhound was pulling away empty”. However, the main character chooses to be inactive, always rejecting the opportunities to change her life, causing the...
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...‘Stranger than Fiction’ and Marion Halligan, the author of ‘Café Society’ both uses connections between setting and character to convey ideas. They do this by relating the setting to the character therefore moving the plot forward, using the setting to develop ideas about the characters and forming relations through characters via the settings and their living environment. The movie ‘Stranger than Fiction’, and the short story ‘Café Society’, both use the setting to give more information about a character. In the novel ‘Café Society’, the story is set in mostly a café. Café’s are normally quite quirky, artistic places where people go to relax or form ideas and just take a minute for them selves. The main character in the novel is Frances she is a creative, imaginative person herself and because she is a writer and can picture herself in different situations throughout her lifetime. In the novel she constantly changes the story from reality and illusion, and the reader as to get their head around which is which before continuing with the story. Marion Halligan, the author of ‘Café Society’, has written this novel so that the character’s personality and actions are similar to the setting and the place that the story is primarily based around connected with the character. The same sort of concept applies with the text, ‘Stranger than Fiction’. The main character, Harold Crick is a 40 something man, single and work is his first priority. He lives in an ordinary, plain apartment...
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...Hannah Kent make the landscape and weather an integral part of the novel? Amidst the journey of the last woman executed in Iceland is the ‘nature [that] is watchful of all of us.’ Kent parallels the protagonist Agnes’ story alongside the force of the harsh Icelandic climate and country that ‘is as awake as you and I’ and often determines key events in the novel. The ominous foreshadowing of death represented in elements of the landscape highlights how the country is an essential aspect of the novel, often adding to the dramatic effect. Agnes’ road to spiritual redemption, both religion based and personal, is greatly influenced by the natural occurrences of the country. Ultimately, the harsh Icelandic conditions impact the lives of many characters, regularly wielding its power that can determine their paths. Despite Kent’s fundamental notion of the force of the nature, it is also the individuals of higher status that have the ability to control and enforce their will on others. Kent highlights the integral nature of the landscape by using motifs to foreshadow impending events. With Agnes’ forthcoming ‘execution,’ death is regularly referred to in the novel often by the ‘ravens in the sky.’ As she arrives at Korsna, where Agnes awaits her death, she hears ‘the caw of ravens’ and as demonstrated by Kent’s simile, are ‘dark shapes like omens.’ Thus this may imply that the ‘omen’ cements the notion from the exposition that Agnes’ fate has been determined. Kent renders the final moments...
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...The handkerchief is critical within the plot of Othello, Influencing and effecting various characters inside the play. The cloth symbolizes many different things such as love, power, virginity, marriage, visual evidence, and race to name only a few of the numerous meanings. In Othello, the cloth has both physical and typical understandings. Never in the play does a character imply any meaning to the cloth. In fact anything could be put in place of the handkerchief, yet the handkerchief matters. Despite the fact that the handkerchief can be extremely pointless in a few eyes. The handkerchief in Othello assumes an essential part in the story. In light of the fact that the handkerchief is fundamentally typical of Desdemona's...
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...Character analysis The characters I have chosen for my character analysis are Vernon and Petunia Dursley. I know you only need to pick one character, but I didn’t feel right just picking one or the other. For that simple fact that they feed off each other’s fixed mindset’s. Which is one of the things I will talk about in my essay. However, before we get to that I will tell you a little about the characters individually. I will start by talking about the characteristics of each then to tie it all together I will talk about both together. I will do this while providing examples from not just Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone By: J.K. Roweling but Carol Dweck’s Mindset the New Psychology of Success. We will start off with Vernon, the first...
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...matter, subjects and method. For example; for matter, the melody, rhythm and language are the key considerations to be looked into. The subjects in Poetics usually bring out the character traits that are related to human characteristics. This is what brings out the difference between tragic events and comic events in a work of poetry. For tragic events, the character in most instances is usually considered to be more honest, serious and considered to be very important in society. While comic characters are usually considered to be less important in the society and not dignified. The method used could involve the use of direct speech, dialogue or quoted speech. These are the major poetic criteria used by Aristotle and applied in the work Apology by Plato. Plot structure and character are also an important part described Poetics. Plot structure is basically the plan of the work. For Apology, this can be considered into the action or the events that are taking place through this work. For example, there is recognition of the characters and an evidence of the suffering of the main character, Socrates. According to Aristotle, a good plot is one that is complex for the human understanding which can be seen in the Apology. There is the evidence of fear as well as pity for Socrates. For example, the main character in the Apology can be seen to be having a good fortune before he is accused but currently undergoing too much suffering. More so, Socrates is evidently an intelligent and important...
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...It took years for people to realize that the government was portraying him in a different light then what he actually was. He wasn’t a villain. He was a well-respected leader in the Cherokee territory. He was accused of murdering a U.S. Deputy Marshall, which is a pretty extreme crime. He fled the scene and was killed at his home. He fled because he didn’t believe in being charged by the U.S. government for a crime that was committed on Cherokee land. He stood up for what he believed in, and sadly the outcome wasn’t good. It’s good to see that he was finally justified in his character. I would classify Christie as a hero, due to the fact that many people have learned from his actions. We don’t know if we, as a nation, would have grown as much if it weren’t for Christie’s personal...
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...mental illnesses mentioned in the novel and the theme of ‘mental illnesses vs. tradition’ to inform the audience about mental illnesses. As the majority of the stories in the book are Susanna’s own personal experiences, they are very detailed, but appear to be bias as they are about her and are her side of the story. Susanna uses her own personal experiences to approach human health in a way that is very unique. By including detailed stories in her novel, the audience is persuaded into supporting however Susanna felt or what she believed in the situation, even if she was morally wrong, utterly influencing the audience’s opinion of mental illnesses. The amount of stories and personal experiences discussed in the novel opens up the younger audience to release that many young people today suffer from mental illnesses. She also connected this theme with the quote “Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.” (p. 6). The author used this quote to link her themes discussed in the book and to allow the readers to begin to think about their own personal scars....
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...INTRODUCTION: As we look into a comparative analysis between Animated advertisements and celebrity advertisement wherein first lets discuss about what actually both are .As we all know that celebrity endorsements are very popular and persuasive as per advertisers but now when graphics industry is on boom and where maximum movies and advertisements are adapting technology in order to persuade customers we will trying to find out that what actually changed after technological changes .Through this research paper we are trying to find out that weather animated advertisement are more influencing or its still the celebrity endorsement gaining the preference. Celebrity ,is a person who has distinct image in society it could be an actor ,actress, sportsmen politician etc.However its their skills ,attitude and attribute in order to convince prospects to buy the product .There are number of well known example of celebrity endorsement such as ,lux by sharukh khan,Suzuki hayate by Salman Khan ,bournvita by sachin tendulkar,revital,navratan ,horlicks ,airtel etc are few good examples of celebrity endorsements.Endorsements is a brand communication in which a celeb act as a spokesperson for a brand ,in such a competitive atmosphere celeb ads. Are considered to be distinct differentiation . Animated advertisement is not a new technique but it gradually affected the way and trend of selling a good earlier it was pretended that when a person goes low with the budget...
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...must follow this format sheet exactly to earn the best grade possible. I. Introduction [Brief opening statement…………Ex: This is a book about…..] A. Title and Author II. Summary of your novel. This is a detailed summary that includes the ending. This will be the largest portion of your book report. [5th Grade ->1 page / 6th Grade -> 1 ½ -2 pages] III. Setting A. Tell me about the setting of your story and how it contributes to the characters. [5th Grade - 1 paragraph / 6th Grade – 2 paragraphs] IV. Characters A. Tell me about the protagonist (the main character). Describe their physical appearance and their personality. B. Tell me about the antagonist (the bad person in the story). C. Tell me who the supporting characters are. [One or two paragraphs each] V. Climax A. What happens in the most intense part of the book? B. How do the characters react and/or if they change. [One or two paragraphs each] VI. Resolution A. How did the main character or characters change throughout the story? B. How does the story end? [One paragraph each] VII. Recommendation A. Would you recommend this book to someone else? Why or why not? BOOK REPORT FORM: BIOGRAPHY Instructions: Report on the last assigned short story from...
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...theories I have learnt in this term. The film is called “17 again”, which is directed by Burr Steers and written by Jason Filardi. This movie is took place in USA and released in 10 April 2009. The budget of this movie is $20000000 US and the final gross is $64149837 US which is a great success. This story is taking about the main character-Mike O’Donnell ( Zac Efron) whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life. The genre of this film is comedy romance, which is a hybrid genre as I can find lots of signs and conventions in the movie. For examples, the kissing scenes and some silly reactions of the characters can be found in the movie. What’s more, the lighting in this film is high-key lighting which connotes the meaning of happiness and serenity. Moreover, the mode of address in this film is indirect to the audience which was used the third person angle to encode the meaning to the audience. On the other hand, I choose this movie because of few reasons. Firstly, I love the main character- Zac Efron very much. He has acted in many teenage romance films before, for instance, High School Musical 1, 2 and3. After I watched the High School Musical, I admire his out-looking and his acting skills. Therefore, I choose this film. Besides, the narrative of this movie is very special, which is a non-linear structure and always include...
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...persevere and carry on their lives no matter what. Though Hardy’s Victorian countryside and Hosseini’s war ridden Afghanistan have very different plot lines, both novels develop the theme of inner strength of women through the protagonist’s characteristics, the conflicts in the plot and setting. In 1891 Hardy wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The novel received a public outcry and was criticized for its taboo topics and insight into a ruined woman’s private life. The passionate and intense Tess Durbeyfield, whom the novel is centralized around, faces more tragedy and injustice in her adolescent years than any women could bear and perseveres through out. Tess’s character, as well as the women around her, shows the true inner strength women possess. From the early days of Tess’s journey, the inner strength of her character is shown as she plays caretaker to her large family. Hardy presents Joan Durbeyfield, Tess’s mother: as superstitious, faintly childlike, and essentially harmless, and he had remarked that between her and Tess ‘there was a gap of two hundred years as ordinarily understood’...Hardy encourages us to be critical of Joan and to perceive her...
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...UbD Lesson Plan Template Client Organization: Telephone: Main Contact: Fax: _________________________________________________ Email Address: Date: |VITAL INFORMATION | |Author |Richard Chappell | |*Subject(s) |English reading class | |Topic or Unit of Study |reading | |*Grade/Level |9th | |*Summary |Teacher will introduce The Cask of Amontillado to the class | | |Teachers writes down some of the following questions from Blooms taxonomy levels: | | | ...
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