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...First and foremost, Elizabeth Moreno will need to research the French culture a little more. It is important for Elizabeth to not do anything that may disrespect or belittle any of the management staff as her kinesic behavior can put her in this position. As per this case, French managers are suspicious of most technical communication and would rather “face-to-face meetings and on-site consultations”. Chances are they will be paying close attention to Elizabeth’s non-verbal language during her visit with them. For example, something as simple as posture can be misinterpreted. To Europeans, “a relaxed posture in business meetings may be taken as bad manners or the result in poor upbringing” (Deresky, pg 133). Americans such as Elizabeth wouldn’t think twice of a relaxed posture in a business meeting. It would also be wise of Elizabeth to obtain an English/French translator. Even though the universal language in her highly technical field is English, using the right words at the right time in the right manner is essential to making this assignment a success. In Exhibit 4-2 (Deresky, pg128), we see a classic example of how words can be perceived differently even though the same language is being spoken. The American boss is looking for his Greek employee to be accountable for his role within the company and make sound decisions based on American culture whereas the Greek employee is looking for orders to be given from his American boss based on Greek culture. Also note in this...
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...Around 1981, Francis Ford Coppola received a letter from a librarian at Lone Star middle school. The text stated, “ We are all so impressed with the book, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, that a petition has been circulated asking that it be made into a movie. We have chosen you to send it to. In hopes that you might also see the possibilities of a movie, we have enclosed a copy of the book.” The written document was signed by 110 little signatures who were eager for Coppola to make a film. Since he couldn’t resist it, he decided to make one. Two years later, on March 25 The Outsiders was released. As any film director should, he tried to keep the movie close to the original novel by S.E Hinton. However, movies and books are two different ways...
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...The Outsiders book and movie are about the same storyline with the same characters and the same themes, although they also have many differences. The book is has many things going on, like Darry, Soda, and Ponyboy. Three brothers living together on their own after their parents died in a car accident. The book emphasizes on Soda’s horse Mickey. Pony talks about how he wishes he could buy Soda a new horse. I wouldn’t have known this if I had only watched the movie because Pony was thinking this in his head. In movies you can’t know exactly what the character is thinking unless it’s narrereated. The outsiders movie was not nerrerated but the book was. The movie is a shortened version of the book so many details form the book are left out...
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...The book of Beowulf and the movie have a lot differences and also has its similarities. Most of the time the movie is very different from the book movies always want to give things drama and more excitement. also movies make us understand more of the book if you are not a reader. but books have those tasteful words and always a lot more detail and Beowulf was one of those. it was so much different from the book. In Beowulf the epic poem Hrothgar was not the father of Grendel. In the poem there is never any mention of either Hrothgar and Beowulf ever being involved or enticed to become the fathers of Grendel or the dragon which the major points in the movie. Hrothgar was also a good person in the poem rather than being an old drunken like...
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...in the book. We read the book The Outsiders. S.E Hinton was the author. I liked the book very much and we eventually watched the movie. As I was reading the book I did not picture the movie the way it was. I am comparing the movie and book and also making some differences. Some of the main characters in the book are Dally, Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-Bit, Darry, and there is other characters that aren't as important. The narrator in the book is pointing at Ponyboy's point of view. To start off, the characters are very different in the book then they are in the movie. Sodapop was in the book more than he was in the movie. There was blonde kids, (Soda and Dally) in the book but there wasn’t in the movie. Sandy wasn’t even mentioned or in the movie and she took a big part in the book. In the book's point of view the narrator is Ponyboy, and in the movie there isn’t really a narrator it is in every one perspective. In the book two-bit was 6 foot tall...
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...“The Book Thief” Movie Reflection People always say 'the book is so much better than the movie'. In The Book Thief’s case, I agree with this statement. In my opinion, I think the original novel that Markus Zusak wrote was more captivating and told the story in a more fascinating way, including narration by Death and many other important details that were not included in the movie. For this reason, the movie did not do the book justice. Unlike the book, it felt like it was rushing through events in the beginning and the ending of the movie, but in the middle it felt slow and a little dull. The movie was still good, but I don't think it was as good as it could have been. As I mentioned before, many events from the original story were not in the movie. Some events that were in the movie got altered, which, to me, changed some effects of the story. An example of this would be when Hans stood up for the Jewish store owner getting beat by a Nazi, where in the book Hans courageously gave a Jewish man a piece of bread. The way it was written in the book seemed like more of a risk because it put his whole family in jeopardy, whereas in the movie it didn't seem as heroic. Also Alex Steiner and Hans should have left for the service at the same time, like in the book, because then Liesel and Rudy could have made a connection over their missing fathers. Although the movie made many changes, in some ways it also modified the book in a good way. One scene not in book was where Rudy and......
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...To compare The Crucible book and movie, you first need to understand the what it's about. It's a story that relates to the salem witch trial where people were killed because they were accused of witchcraft, where a lot of innocent people were killed.The book goes into more detail about it so you can imagine it whereas the movie does not. There were a few differences in scenes which will be explained. At the beginning, the book goes straight to Betty being sick in bed with everyone around her, but in the film the beginning started in the woods with the girls dancing around the fire. We witness the dancing and Abigail drank the chicken blood and whispered to Tituba. In the book we. Find out about the dancing through parris who says he wittinessed...
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...The Giver the book and The Giver the movie is the changes that were made in the plot of the film adaptation. More specifically, a large change that was made in the plot was Jonas’s relationship with Fiona. The scriptwriters added multiple different events between Jonas and Fiona that developed their affinity and transformed the movie into a love story, most likely to attract more viewers. One event that was significant in the movie was when Jonas kissed Fiona and she was taken by surprise. In the book, if Jonas kissed Fiona she would be confused and would be thrown off guard because she was unable to have feelings, and therefore would not share the same feelings as Jonas. The scriptwriters included their kiss to accentuate Jonas’s feelings for Fiona, and to foreshadow the sacrifices that Fiona would later make to develop the love story such as skipping injections and aiding Jonas in his escape....
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...When they make novels into movies every movie has to make changes to make fit into the plot better, but are those changes are having a positive impact on the movie or having a negative effect on the movie.The Giver book and the movie have some major changes but both had positive and negative effects. The changes from the book to the movie that had a positive effect and enriched the story. The first change would be Asher job in the book was the Director of Recreation of 6’s and in the movie, his job as a drone pilot.This job enhanced the story by him finding Jonas in elsewhere and moving talks to him and helping him get to the boundary.The second change was when Jonas of the sled the Giver explained it, but in the movie, the Giver just gave...
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...Eng 152 Professor Snyder The Book of Eli With December 21st 2012 (speculated date at which the world ends) coming closer, and the amount of post-apocalyptic films coming out, some avid movie viewers might already be jaded with these types of films by now. This movie directed by the Hughes Brothers, shows a clear and accurate depiction of the power of the Bible in broken times. The Book of Eli is not your average post-apocalyptic film. From the melodic soundtrack, to the astonishing performance delivered by Denzel Washington, “The Book of Eli” is certainly a must watch! The Plot of the movie is carefully crafted, and it is easy to tell that the directors and producers all took their time before putting together this intricate plot. “The Book of Eli” takes place several years after a nuclear holocaust. The lone man named Eli (played by Denzel Washington) wanders the desert nuclear wasteland, living on what he can find and disposing of any marauders who give him any problems. After traveling west for a few years Eli arrives in a small town. Eli comes to the attention of the town’s leader named Carnegie after killing several attackers in the local bar. Carnegie sends the attractive Solara (Played by Mila Kunis) to seduce Eli and to try to convince him to stay, seeing that Eli has an enormous amount of combat skills. Carnegie later learns that Eli has one of the last known copies of the Bible; which determines Carnegie to obtain this book at all costs. Eli survives......
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...Sixteen years after a sixteen-year-old wrote this book, Francis Ford Coppola turned this novel into a movie. The book is a coming-of-age novel, but the movie focuses on the characters' loss of innocence. The movie follows the story line very closely. The reader is only told that this story takes place in the southwest, but the movie places it in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the year 1966. It also changes the conflict from the East Side versus the West side to the northside versus the southside. This minor directional change was probably made due to the relative time proximity to the musical West Side Story, which won the best picture Academy Award in l961. However, as with all movies, character insight that is critical to understanding the story is lost when the format goes from the written word to the screen. Ponyboy is telling us the story, the same as in the book, but the 91-minute film only glosses over many character relationships. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="" /></a> With the exception of Ponyboy, the viewer misses out on knowing most of the novel's characters. Darry and......
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...Have you ever been attacked by hundreds of birds that have gone savage? In the novella, The Birds, that happens frequently, as well as the movie. Although, the novella didn’t interest me as much as the movie did. I could visualize what was happening better in the movie. I also understood the movie better than the novella. The movie also had different characters which went better with the storyline in my opinion. I liked the movie better because I visualized what was happening, understood what was happening better, and I liked the different characters. The first reason why I liked the movie better was because I could visualize it better. I could see how the birds started coming together. I could also see the facial expressions the characters...
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...”The Outsiders” looked as if it was an amazing book and movie. While reading and watching they minorly relate to each other. However they do have major differences. There are also have inconsequential similarities. Both book and the movie include a rumble.They both have creative people and actors. The book and movie have all the characters doing Acro-Batics Right before the rumble. The setting of the movie and the book are both in Tulsa Oklahoma. Johnny was afraid of the Socs in the book and the movie. In the movie Johnny’s scar was a lot smaller than in the book. In the movie Ponyboy didn’t ask if Cherry could see the sunset really good from the South side until later in the movie. In the book Pony and Darry didn’t chase after Soda. Ponyboy was cooking eggs and dropped one in the movie...
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...ompar Comparison between 'The reader' – Book/Movie Usually when it comes to books and movies books are a lot more detailed and descriptive towards characters and their feelings. Movies usually cut out important parts or aren't as deep as a book. In this case i felt that the movie was very much alike to the book and included all emotions and important scenes, what i really liked also was that the story line wasn't changed in the movie. They emphasized really well Hanna and Michaels relationship in a way i thought wouldn't be possible. They managed to portray their relationship exactly how it was explained in the book, every detail came across to the viewers and also made it a lot easier to understand the book itself in ways one couldn't before seeing the movie. I thought they wouldn't emphasize the fact that Hanna was illiterate but they really made that come across well therefore the whole movie had better understanding as did the book. I do feel that the book was much slower with the reading between Michael and Hanna but in a way that was well done because then the movie would have become too slow and gotten a bit boring. It's different in the book because you expect that slowness but it was good that in the film they put together most of that in a few minutes, still emphasizing it. The book made some scenes more intimate of course because its hard to get that across in a film. They portray feelings very well for example when Hanna dies that gets across very well......
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...should read. If you like reading realistic fiction books, this one will ruin it for you. Wouldn’t you rather watch the movie than read the worst book of all? Others would rather hear otherwise of how it is an amazing book. If you like books that have a climax, don’t read this book. One reason to not like this book is that there is no climax. Normally, you would expect your average book to have a climax, such as a huge fight that determines the ruler of Earth. This book, however, doesn’t have the climax you would expect to see. It’s just a smooth ride through the Plot Diagram of rising and falling actions, and climax. In real life, this is normal for some orphans....
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