...Meyer | |Country |United States | |Language |English | |Genre |Romance, fantasy, young-adult fiction | |Publisher |Little, Brown and Company | |Published |2005–2008 | |Media type |Print | Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, from Edward Cullen's point of view. The...
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...that if they do not have a perfect life, they could give hope to their next life. So they would not struggle too much and this is what the government using to manipulate people at ancient time. But a person can abandon everything including love, family, friends, but not food and water, otherwise this person is dead. which is saying that as a human being, eventually is depending on this world no matter what religions, what believes, so from this aspect, Buddhism is fundamentally unpractical. Taoism has a different theory of that the reason of everything exist is for its opposite, in certain condition it will alter. And the relationship between positive and negative, a general relationship of everything in the world. Another theory of Taoism is largely accepted by the manipulate level to the manipulated level, which is to fool people. At the dynasty of Ch'in, in order to rule the country easily, there was a policy of burn books and bury Confucian scholars alive, so people would had no knowledge and willing to be slaves. Sagas could be immortal is certainly a misunderstanding, since no one is immortal but few are sagas, thus the conclusion of sagas by " Pao-p'u Tzu" is that the reason why to call Confucius and Duke Chou sagas, is not because of their immortal life, but is the wisdom and contribution to the society and countries that they lived in. The...
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... Yoko Shimomura is the lone woman on this list, beating out the likes of talented lady composers like Michiko Naruke (Wild Arms)and Chikayo Fukuda (.hack//G.U.) for a top spot. It's a testament to her talent that she can hang with the guys. Her style can range from melancholy to intense, from soft piano to rocking guitar. Songs like "Dearly Beloved" and "Night of Fate" from Kingdom Hearts have become fan favorites in the JRPG world, and many still remember the riveting "Arise Within You" and "Under the Progress" from Parasite Eve. Her music is definitely worth checking out. 8. MASAHI HAMAUZU Representative Music: Final Fantasy X; Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII; Unlimited Saga; Saga Frontier II; Musashi: Samurai Legend; Sigma Harmonics The composer for Unlimited Saga, Dirge of Cerberus, Saga Frontier II, Final Fantasy X, Musashi and Sigma Harmonics is best known for his beautiful, enchanting, and occasionally haunting style. Some of his most beautiful pieces include...
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...Read 28 pages Vampire Academy (#1)- Richelle Mead – Read 39 pages Charlotte’s Web- E.B White- Read whole book 2. I choose this order because the easiest book I read was Charlotte’s Web so that goes at the bottom. The hardiest one goes at the top. This was in my opinion of how hard the books I read were. 3. My favorite book was The Host. This was my favorite because it was very interesting and I didn’t know what the author’s next move was going to be. This book made me keep flipping pages and reading. My second favorite book was Vampire Academy. I love books with mystery and romance. This book was exactly that. Also I’m in love with movies or books with vampires! 4. 878/10 = 87.8 pages per week I noticed that I read better at home than school. This is because I’m less distracted. B.) Personally I love reading. Especially when it’s something I’m interested in or about someone I look up too. I love reading romance books. I also like mystery because it’s just very interesting to me and you never know what’s going to happen next. I enjoyed reading in class because it gave us time to relax and not write as much. I learned about myself that I read better when I’m comfortable under my blanket at home than a hard chair at school. I could suggest that you should let the students read outside more because that was fun! C. 1. Yes, I meet my trimester personal goals. I finished two books and started two. My trimester goal was to finish at least one. I had succeeded...
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...Shaun C. O’Malley Sociology 310 M&F Novel Analysis East of Eden I must admit that I was not happy when I saw that I had to do a book report. When given the list of books to read, I thought to myself just clothes your eyes, point, and which ever one your finger is on you will read. that finger of mine landed on East of Eden, and wow did I luck out! This saga of two families the Trask family in Connecticut and the Hamilton family in California. This saga of two brothers, Charles and Adam Trask, then Cal and Aron Trask in the next generation. This saga of families and friends, Samuel Hamilton, his wife, his children Will, Olive, Tom and Dessie Hamilton, as well as Lee the Chinese American friend and caretaker of Adam Trask and his sons, did not disappoint. The oldest stories are retold in East of Eden, good versus evil and brother versus brother. There is racism, violence, blindness, betrayal, and deceit. There is love, father to son, brother to brother, man and woman, and friend to friend. The characters are complex no one is totally good or absolutely evil, even Cathy has a human layer. East of Eden is the biblical Cain and Abel story replayed. The conflict of brothers is powerful in both generations. The book begins by describing Samuel and his family living in Salinas Valley. After describing Samuel and his family, we are introduced to the Trask family namely the father of the family Cyrus Trask, who was an army veteran. His wife died after his first child named...
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...MILENGE MILENGE toh Zarur PITENGEY .. Yes you read it write & I am confident that the same line would come from the anguished audience who actually saw this so called saga of Love Story in the theatre. Such a SAGA with which any person suffering from insomnia can recover. Well there are many noticeable things other than shapeless Kareena’s & chocolaty Shahid’s bad styling. The movie gets self rated by the slapstick of repetitive scenes & dialogues of the lead pair to their friends. How can be the story writer so dumb for not finding the bank’s name on the shopping receipt. The movie has been plotted on the basis of Chewing gum mechanism with boredom. Though it’s a copy of a Hollywood flick but it stands very prominent & unique for its music. There is a black out in the movie for 3 years but no explanation what everybody did for 3 years. Suddenly the actors dad announces the surprise engagement party of “Immy” a very immiscible nick name of Shahid, with his alien friend played by Aarti chabbria, Alien because shahid acts as if they are meeting for the first time. The climax which makes you curious to gauge the height of stupidity ends with beating up the bushes of your expectations. In short the extrasensory game of destiny makes a facetious show which persists badly till the end. I would really appreciate the work of story writer & screenplay person for their brilliant efforts to post mortem & use the term “DESTINY” throughout the movie. Whereas the lead pair fails...
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...My Life as a Dog In the film, My Life as a Dog (1985) directed by Lasse Hallstrom, we meet twelve-year-old Ingemar. Ingemar exists within and is influenced by an array of complex relationships and interacting environments as he deals with lack of control and loss in his life. This paper will explore the internal world and social environment of Ingemar and attempt to understand his world from several perspectives. Ingemar Ingemar is an early adolescent twelve-year-old boy with expressive eyes framed by strong eyebrows and a hair cowlick that rules his forehead. Although physically small for his age, Ingmar is athletic, intelligent, and emotionally resilient. As Ingemar confronts the loss of family members, home, and a beloved dog, he reads stories and tries to gain a perspective. He demonstrates the ability to reason about the social world but sometimes has difficulties with role taking and communication. Despite the chaos in his life, Ingemar is working hard to make sense of the world and actively construct this knowledge. Micro Analysis of Nuclear Family At the beginning of the film, Ingemar is living with his mother and older brother Eric, in an urban community. His father is gone; his mother, sick with tuberculosis is raising the two boys alone. A disorganized family apartment lacks warmth and is a window into their chaotic life. As a single parent, Ingemar’s mother has trouble dealing with the everyday responsibility of the boys. Ingemar and his brother...
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...Feminism is a touchy subject now in days, but it’s seen everywhere. Feminism as defined on a Webster's online dictionary states that it is, “the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.” Many women are considered/want to be a feminist, because it something that advocates for gender equality. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga series has driven support that it’s a feminist piece. To some extent I agree that it’s a feminist piece. For example, Meyer’s focuses on the old fashioned traditional aspect of books like falling in love, marriage, having kids, and live happily ever after. Those are all decisions that Bella chooses as well therefore making her some type of feminist. However, Bella Swan doesn’t embrace the feminine qualities or the feminist ideology. Although it can be initially perceived that Bella Swan is a feminist that keeps her own agency in her daily life, she doesn’t in her romantic relationships because she allows for the men in her life to dictate her actions....
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...Twilight The Twilight Saga is a film series based on the novels and a series of four vampire-based fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. The main characters of Twilight are Bella Swan and Edward Cullen. Bella Swan is friendly, selfless and clumsy. She always fell and hurt herself accidentally or get into dangerous situations daily. Edward Cullen is frozen in his 17 years old body. He was changed into a vampire by Dr. Carlisle Cullen after Edward's mother, Elizabeth, begged him to save Edward as her dying wish. Edward has a special ability to read minds. Twilight is a story of Bella Swan and the vampire she falls in love with, Edward Cullen. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. First day of her school, she sees Edward Cullen in cafeteria. Edward is attractive and almost unhumanly beautiful. Edward and his family have lived in Forks for two years but they never be accepted by the townsfolk. He is so different to other peoples. Soon, Bella Swan in love with Edward Cullen. One day, Bella learns from family friend Jacob Black that Quileute legends say the Cullen family are vampires. Realizing Edward is vampire changes nothing for Bella, she knows that she still loves him even if he is not human. For Edward his love for Bella is both a delight. A delight because she is the first person he has loved since he was made a vampire. Bella wish to become a vampire but Edward is unwilling to change Bella...
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...The Many Discoveries of Beowulf Although this poem isn’t of love or lust, it is filled with epic fights that lead to a great amount of bloodshed and celebrations for the hero. Beowulf’s writer created a great deal of complications when writing this poem. He used many themes and symbols the portray his tragic poem. The characters are very unclear but each have their reasoning for being in the poem, one being revenge on something or someone. Kathryn Hume stated, “ If a good man and the abstraction “ troublemaking” are given heroic shapes and matched in contest, we expect the good man to win, for troublemaking is not a sin likely to overcome him” (10). “ The early history of every nation is full of legend and myth. In literature, people try to record and describe the early history and to honor their heros in poems, epics, and folklores” (Wang 52). Beowulf is the main character throughout the poem, however the author tells us nothing about Beowulf’s past life other than his father was a great warrior as well as Beowulf himself. However, a young age Beowulf was considered cowardly. “ Were the poem centered on Beowulf himself, we would expect to learn something about him as a person” (Hume 2). The little we do know about Beowulf is still a great amount on his courage. He fights three battles and with each one he portrays a little bit of heroism. “Though he was little-known when coming to the Danes, he is full of courage and energy. Though he decreases in his strength in his old...
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...Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him – and I didn’t know how dominant that part might be – that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him,” says Bella Swan in Twilight (Meyer 195). This sums up the major points of this book – vampires, love and self-control. Many parents feel that Twilight portrays unhealthy relationships and creates celebrity idol worship, both of which are believed to have a powerfully negative effect on society. These two people came together no differently than any normal human beings get together in high school, with mutual interests, like their knowledge of biology and their taste in music. Twilight encourages abstinence until marriage, and although the final novel, Breaking Dawn, has some underlying sexual themes, they purely pertain to the plot and are not described in scenes, only referenced to. Still, the books are far cleaner than what’s found in other books written for the same age range, television, movies, and magazines. The relationship between Bella and Edward is based on mostly compassion instead of the physical relationship that is portrayed on television. The media argues that all Twilight readers are infatuated with Edward Cullen, and buff hard body Jacob, yet most of the readers of the Twilight saga are not unhealthily obsessed with the characters or actors portraying them. Celebrity fixation has always been a part of teen culture, and hasn’t every generation had a teen heartthrob...
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...There is a new war happening all over the world, but it is not world war three. It is a war that is waging between the fans of two extremely popular book series that have also made their way to the big screen and in to our homes. The fans of the Harry potter series and the fans of The Twilight Saga are feuding over which one is better. I have seen words thrown back and forth on social media sites such as facebook and twitter that you would think would belong to people arguing over some important political issue or something along those lines. Harry Potter and Twilight are two of the biggest selling franchises and should both be treated equally by the fans of either. Harry Potter is a seven book series written by author J.K. Rowling that takes place in Europe, in a magical fantasy version of today’s reality. The series targets older children and young adults, but has grown into a phenomenal fad that has fans from one to one hundred. The story follows a young boy, Harry Potter, throughout his years at a school for witchcraft and wizardry. The story line has ups and downs, twists and turns and details that bring the world of Harry Potter to life right in front of your eyes. The Twilight Saga is a four book series written by author Stephanie Meyer that takes place in Forks, Washington. This series targets a little older audience than Harry Potter does, reaching out to teenage readers and older. While the fan base for this series might not reach as young of a crowd, it definitely...
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...The concept of the Purge, for as immoral as it appears to be on-screen, has turned out to be one of the most clever film ideas in recent memory. Without delving into the highly volatile politics of the matter – one in which a single day essentially defines a county, this is a franchise that, if nothing else, stand out as a significant alternative to some of the more generic horror-themed films on the market. While The Purge saga isn’t necessarily horror-centric by trait, it follows the same premise as Halloween, Friday the 13th or any slasher movie. You might even call it Saw with a license to kill. And, even though it’s agreeable that The Purge films, like nearly every horror franchise, has become repetitive – that doesn’t change the fact...
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...the 90’s when she would “Bring Out the Dancing Lobsters”, she has always made us laugh with her skit-type comedy show, “The Amanda Show”. As she grew up she still managed to keep us laughing with her hit T.V. show, “What a Girl Wants” (“Saga”). She then landed movie roles in “Hairspray” and “Easy A” (“Bynes”). Amanda has been a part of our lives for a long time, and who we know as a sweet and innocent girl has completely changed. We all know that our childhood actors and actresses usually fall in a spring of events. Amanda has lost that squeaky clean image because...
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...During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director (in collaboration with the cinematographer) are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup, and hairstyles. Choose a scene from movieclips.com. In a three to five page paper, (excluding the cover and reference pages) analyze the mise-en-scène. used this type of lighting because of the significant effects it would present in the scene (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). When the movie starts, Aro the leader of the Volturi is fascinated when he sees Bella is immune to all the vampire’s amazing powers the lighting looks hazy with smoky appearance. The lighting defines Aro making him stand out more; his eyes were noticeable blood shoot red while the appearance of Marcus and Caius were a bit blurred. I thought the lighting of the scene evokes fear, worry, and death of Bella and Edward. The use of back lighting made the focus on Belle clearer which gives me the impression that the director wanted to show the dissimilar of dead and living highlights to detail features of Bella’s rosy cheekbone. By using low-key lighting, this allows the film to have huge amounts of shadow which create a lot of intensity in the overall storyline of the film. The director’s choices of lighting create depth in the structure giving...
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