...read a book then watched the movie and wonder why they changed certain things? While reading a book gives you joy so can a movie. For example, both the movie and the book have the same characters. In the book and movie Percy sets out on a quest to get the Master Bolt for Zeusand to save his mother. They have very few things in common. While books and movies have similarities they also have differences. The movie and the book don’t have a lot in common but these things they do. They both have the same character’s, Percy, Luke, Annabeth, Grover, Sally, Mr.Brunner. Then of course the people they run into on their trip. People like Athena, Zeus, and etc. Both the book and the movie have the same kind of ending. They both have very few things in common. The book and the movie have a lot of differences. First, the plot’s are different, the movie plot is Percy and his friends Grover and Annabeth cross the United States to find three pearls which allow them to escape the underworld. The books plot is to take the reader on a magical trip across the United States where the three teenagers face off against different challenges. In the movie the age of the characters are way off in the book Percy is 12 in the movie he is 16. Therefore, the other characters are older too. The movie reveals Percy as a...
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...In 2009, Alfredo Zacarias directed a Maya Entertainment movie version of John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl, which was published in 1947. Both the book and the movie are set in La Paz, Mexico and tell the story of a young couple, Kino and Juana, who have a baby named Coyotito. The baby gets sick after getting stung by a scorpion, but the local doctor won’t treat him until he learns that Kino has found a great pearl. The doctor tries to steal the pearl, which forces Kino and Juana to flee their village to the capital to sell the great pearl. The Pearl book and movie have many differences such as the amount of dialogue, a key event, and the resolution. The novel The Pearl has less dialogue than the movie. Since the characters don't talk to each other as much in the book, the reader doesn't know how they feel. When Coyotito gets stung by the scorpion, I didn't know how Kino felt because he didn't say much (P. 5-6). In both versions of The Pearl, Kino screams in happiness (P. 20) after finding a great pearl. This proves that dialogue can tell you a character’s emotions. Therefore, I conclude that the The Pearl movie having more dialogue lets you know more clearly how the characters feel....
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...Compassion is what makes us human. It is a main theme in Ender’s Game and what separates Ender from his psychotic, power hungry brother Peter. Ender Wiggin’s purpose in life as determined by the controlling government is to become the ultimate military commander who will destroy the Buggers, an alien race that the humans have engaged in war with two times before. The movie Ender's Game excludes crucial details from the novel by Orson Scott Card making the book a more thrilling work of science fiction. The plot of Ender's Game keeps the reader interested with important details and subplots. One of the most crucial details in the book are the internet personas that Peter and Valentine take on to capture the eye of the world. “Demosthenes and Locke” write political articles from two different perspectives that are read worldwide by everyone from the Wiggin children’s father to the President of the United States. This angle is incredibly important to the story as Peter uses his global power gained through Locke to take over Earth at the end of the book. Just as important is the intentional isolation of Ender in Battle School by the controlling adults of the...
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...6th-grade students at GLMS tried to crack the case of… a good book. Sixth-graders recently read The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. When they read it they knew they would have to be cunning, brave, and quick to think if they wanted to solve The Westing Game and, if needed, get through seemingly long parts that tried to suck the life out of you. Yet the book captivated them, and so did the movie. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin contains many similarities and differences that are worth exploring. If someone is looking for a man with a horrible life, there is not one much worse than Sam Westing’s. Being born into...
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...Harry potter. A famously known book and movie series that made more than 450 million copies of the series and skyrocketed to over $7.7 billion in sales worldwide on screenplay. Yes, books are fascinating and we get emotionally involved with them, but once a great actor or actress is put into the film of a favorite book or the phenomenal directors and filmmakers are used, it’s game over. You can not put into words the emotional connection that is made when watching a film. While reading and watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the director Milos Forman brilliantly allows us to feel everything the patients are feeling by portraying them all differently while having one thing in common: insanity. The film is superior to the novel because...
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...Where the Red Fern Grows: Book vs Movie! If you are a fan of Where the Red Fern Grows, you might have wondered which one is better: the book or the movie. After reading this essay, you will be convinced that the book is the better choice. Not only does it offer a more enriching experience, but it also has superior character development and plot details. This essay explores the differences between Where the Red Fern Grows in its literature and cinematic forms, arguing that the book offers a more enriching experience due to its superior character development and plot details. If you are a fan of Where the Red Fern Grows, you might have wondered which one is better: the book or the movie. After reading this essay, you will be convinced that the book is the better choice. Not only does it offer a more enriching experience, but it also has superior character development and plot details....
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...In William Golding’s 1954 award winning novel, Lord of The Flies, Golding introduces religious allegory in many of the characters and many of the scenes within the novel. Not only does Golding depict religious allegory, but so does Harry Hook in his 1990 film, Lord of the Flies. In his film, Hook depicts his interpretation of the novel, and does a very good job at doing so. While the movie consists of a slightly different plot than the book, Harry Hook is also able to insert the ideology that Golding strived to do in his writing. They are both able to depict Simon and Piggy as Jesus-like characters in the sense of truth telling, and the reference of being a martyr. Jack is depicted as a devilish and totalitarian dictator character, and it is...
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...portion of the exam a number of terms, names, and concepts drawn from the following list. The student will pick ten (10) and answer in a short I.D./short answer format. Although your answers should be concise, they should be complete enough to convince the instructor that you thoroughly understand the course material. Where applicable, use examples or illustrations. Each student is permitted to have one 8” x 5” handwritten note card during the exam. Frank Boas scientific method “Creation Science” theory hypothesis Karl Marx Charles Darwin Frederick Engels Origin of the Species Jared Diamond “social Darwinism” Margaret Mead natural selection Yehudi Cohen zoological taxonomy Anthropology vs. Sociology taxon ethnographic methodologies Paleolithic genealogical method Mesolithic interviewing techniques Neolithic key cultural consultants agricultural revolution in Neolithic longitudinal research human zoological taxonomy annual cycle what primates have in common why anthropologists should spend more than one annual cycle primates “ivory tower” approach differences between humans and other primates “advocacy” approach Homininoids Homo sapiens American Anthropological Association Hominins Homo sapiens sapiens ethics for ethnographers Hominids “archaic” homo sapiens ethics for archeologists human zoological taxonomy ethics for Anthropology instructors...
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...Rowe Essay 3 Final Draft I am Legend:Book V. Movie Zombies have been around for ages now. In the fictional world of zombies, there have been many changes to their appearance, behavior and all around being from their origins way back in the day. Zombies are known as the living dead. Something that has died, and under strange circumstances, came back to life. Due to many entertainment outlets such as television, movies, books etc… there appearance, has been modified to keep the viewer/audience entertained. One story that I had taken particular interest in, was the movie I am Legend. The movie is based off of the novel, I am Legend, written by Richard Matheson. Although both the movie...
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...Example 1: subject by subject Books vs Movies (capitalize both words) There are different ways to get a story from different sources in modern times. Books have been good sources for stories, but movies are getting more popular and have the same story with wrong word the books. Why auxiliary verb needed people still reading books, and others are prefer watching should be an infinitive not a gerund the movies? Reading books and watching movies have a lot in common but there are some differences that makes the readers remain faithful to reading books. First, books keep a person’s mind going. A mind is filled with questionspunctuation and as the wheels in your head are turning, your brain is being put to more use rather than if you let it go numb during a movie. It is basically the same as watching television versus going outside and playing for a couple of hours. Movies are like a version of a television show, wrong punctuationthey are just longer. Everyone has heard that if you watch TV for too long it is not good for you, that you should pick up a good book instead.comma splice Should not the same rule apply when it comes to watching a movie? You are contrasting movies and books but you go off on another idea of television. Keep on topic and show how books contrast to movies. In this paragraph you are trying to show how the brain reacts differently to movies and books. (Give more examples of that.) Films can do a lot of different things. They can bring whole worlds...
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...9/5/2013 Real Life vs. Fantasy..... Looking back, I remember when I was in fourth or fifth grade and my teacher told us we were reading a book and doing a book report on it. I was always up for anything, but when she started reading the book each day I found myself not even listening to what she was saying. I would be thinking about all of the other things I’d rather be doing. Then, we were to write a book report on it. “What?” “...a book report?” No way was I going to write a paper on something that couldn’t keep my attention. I believe at that time I had probably read the first and last chapter and vaguely put together bits and pieces I heard the teacher read throughout the entire book. From that point on I knew I was going to have trouble reading books. Every time I heard a teacher say, “book report” I’d cringe! Needless to say, I probably didn’t get a very good grade on my book report. In middle school, one of the books we were assigned to read was Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I was unable to connect with the book just from reading the title and to make matters worse it takes place during the Great Depression. I’ve always visualized that being a very depressing, difficult time and because of that I don’t particularly like that time period. Day after day, we’d read this book and I specifically remember not looking forward going to class because it was ‘reading day’ and I hated it. We finally finished the book and my teacher said ‘book report.’ I felt...
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...James Thurber By Rahul Patel/10 [pic] Rahul Patel Mr. Hurdle Composition 11 May, 2012 James Thurber Part I: “Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends” (James Thurber). James Thurber was a cartoonist and an author. He was born on December 8th 1984 to his parents, Charles and Mary Thurber. Thurber’s father was a clerk and a minor politician, while his mother was a practical joker and very strong-minded. For example his mother would tell visiting guests that she was in love the post man and she had to be kept in the attic because of it. She would also tell people that she was a cripple and then she would suddenly stand up and tell everyone she had miraculously healed(James Thurber 1 of 5). James Thurber also had two brothers, William and Robert. When Thurber and William were little, they were playing with a bow and arrow, and William shot James in the eye. This led James to be partially blind and because of this injury he couldn’t participate in any sports or activities, but this injury developed a very creative imagination in Thurber’s mind. A neurologist at the time had a theory that he might have Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which is a condition that...
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...ever seen a movie and automatically thought after now I know their crime story? When people talk about crime, most people are just basing there story off of something they saw in a movie or something they saw on television. Most of the crimes in movies are; assault, bribe, armed robbery, manslaughter, or racketeering, just to name a few. For example the movie “Public Enemies” starring Johnny Depp, it portrays a rough outline of the infamous John Dillinger and his gang. When I first saw this movie I was amazed because the story that they showed wasn't at all what I expected, I expected to see all major crimes take place one after another and grueling shootouts the whole movie but they showed his kind and calm side and it actually turned out to be a great movie. Another example of crime and the movies but on the other side of the law would be any of the “X-Men” series. These people may be mutants but most of them use their gifts for good rather than break the law. A classic example would be “Robin Hood”, he broke the law only to help those in need. (rottentomatoes.com) There are other examples where crime and the movies coexist on both sides of the law, whether it would be cheering for the good guy or cringing when a killer kills their victim, movies cannot show you the whole story and cannot show you the real justice system. During my research I came across this essay called “Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?” (Dahl & DellaVigna, 2006) an excerpt from the essay caught my...
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...Film Theory and Approaches to Criticism, or, What did that movie mean? by Christopher P. Jacobs Movies are entertainment. Movies are documents of their time and place. Movies are artistic forms of self-expression. Movies we see at theatres, on television, or home video are typically narrative films. They tell stories about characters going through experiences. But what are they really about? What is the content of a film? DIGGING DEEPER: FOUR LEVELS OF MEANING Recounting the plot of a movie, telling what happens, is the simplest way to explain it to someone else. But this is neither a film review nor a film analysis. It’s merely a synopsis that anyone else who sees or has seen the movie will likely agree with. This level of content may be called the referential content, since it refers directly to things that happen in the plot and possibly to some aspects of the story that are merely implied by the plot. In John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972), four men from the city go on a weekend canoe trip that unexpectedly becomes a life or death struggle for survival of man against man and man against nature. Some characters survive, others don’t. Most films can be analyzed more thoroughly to reveal deeper levels of meaning. A review (perhaps 400-1200 words) typically includes personal impressions and evaluations of a movie’s content and techniques. A good review may be subjective, yet still touch superficially on topics that might be explored in more detail in a longer...
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...This essay will examine The Hunger Games trailer using the Storytelling Method and the Gender and Sexuality Method, as well as incorporate an outside source that helps further the discussion of Katniss’s character as a challenge to typical hegemonies and ideologies. (don’t use plural here) This is a fine preview. Can you add a sentence that indicates anything more about what you found in your evaluation? The Hunger Games trailer begins with Katniss Everdeen sneaking through the barbed-wire fences that gate in her town. She runs off to meet her handsome guy friend, Gale, (so he may be handsome and a “guy” but this is a bit informal. Handsome is subjective, right? So we would probably want to describe him as merely her “male” friend) where they go on to talk about running away from their confined homes to live in the woods together and no longer be under the power or their (?) “rulers”. The trailer then shows their town (District 12) gathering for the picking of the tributes who will be involved in the next annual Hunger Games. While there, Katniss assures her little sister, Primrose, that her name cannot be drawn because it is only in twice. Sure enough, Primrose’s name is called and Katniss comes to the rescue to volunteer as tribute in place of her sister. After Katniss is picked, a boy named Peeta Mellark is also chosen to be a tribute. They are then taken away on a train and the trailer shows their parts of their journey as they prepare to go into the arena and fight to...
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