...talented makeup artist to make me a mask. I will then go to a Mexican restaurant. I’ll have my own mariachi band playing songs with me. I’ll have my best sombrero and a guitar in my hand. My final stop will be Honolulu, Hawaii. To get there, I will dress up as a business man and ride in 1st class on the airplane. I will have cool shades and a suit and tie. When I arrive in Honolulu, I will go into a public restroom and change into my hula girl outfit. I will go around with a grass skirt, lei, and a wig on. My plan for this Thanksgiving will hopefully work. I think I won’t get caught. Looking ahead, I need to make plans for Christmas. I am nervous that my real identity will be discovered, but I have confidence in myself. In my great turkey escape, I will go to New York City, Mexico, and...
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...Chicken Run is a British stop-motion animated comedy film. The plot centers on a band of chickens who see a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pies. The story of that movie is much more complicated than it may seem at the first sight. It was loosely based on the 1963 World War 2 film "The Great Escape", which, in its turn, based on the true escape story of the war prisoners from German concentration camp "Stalag". Despite the film directors didn't have the aim to make an animated remake or an absolute parody, the inspiration was not the only thing they took from the original movie. "Chicken Run" inherited all the features from classic escape films, but the most obvious resemblance it had, of course, with "The Great Escape". There are a lot of apparent similarities between these two movies - chicken farm itself is a concentration camp, and hens is manufacturers, who live only as long as they are useful. Mrs. Tweedy is a kommandant Lindeiner - the "head" of the authorities, when her husband is based on camp sergeant Glemitz and Corporal Griese, who's lack of morale and silent obedience made them perfect executors. As the war prisoners in "The Great Escape", chickens from the farm were constantly attempting to run to the freedom and failing every single time. Almost completely discouraged, they all united in the last race against time -......
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...born. Frederick was raised in a house on the plantation with all the other slave children. At the age of seven, like many other slaves, Frederick was put to work in the fields. As a young child he would wonder why he was a slave, and why everyone can't be equal. His thoughts frequently came back to him, leaving him with a great hatred for slavery. In 1836, Frederick had finally had enough of his imprisonment, and attempted an escape with many other slaves. The escape was not successful, Frederick and the other slaves were sent to work in a shipyard hauling crates. Frederick worked the shipyard for two years until he had another great escape idea, this one would work though. The sailing papers of a sailor had been borrowed, and disguised as a sailor, Frederick Douglass made his escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts. Upon his arrival, Frederick took up his new assumed last name Douglass, to escape being captured. In 1841, Frederick attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket Massachusetts. Here, his impromptu speech he gave showed him to be a great speaker. The opponents of Frederick believed that he was never a slave, because of his great speaking skills and knowledge. In response to this, Frederick wrote his life story in his book _Life and Times of Frederick Douglass_. Frederick made a fatal mistake though, he had used the name of his old master on the slave plantation. Upon learning of this, his old master sent slave catchers to New England to......
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...Thesis Statement Emily Dickinson’s poem “There is no Frigate like a Book” is a great example of the use of metaphor in poetry. The poem utilizes the theme of escape in describing how a book can carry a person away from reality. In using these metaphors, Dickinson is able to describe in only eight lines the power of literature and poetry on a person’s life. Outline 1. Introduction a. Thesis Statement 2. Theme a. Theme of the poem b. Poem’s setting c. Significance of the title to the poem’s content or meaning d. Mood of the poem e. Narrator of the poem 3. Conclusion Emily Dickinson’s poem “There is no Frigate like a Book” is a great example of the use of metaphor in poetry. The poem utilizes the theme of escape in describing how a book can carry a person away from reality. In using these metaphors, Dickinson is able to describe in only eight lines the power of literature and poetry on a person’s life. The main theme of the poem seems to be that of escape. Escape from reality may be what the author is trying to demonstrate. Books do have a way of transporting the human mind to other places and realities. As such, it makes sense that a book, poem, or other form of literature would be an escape from a person’s present reality. The poem could be literal, but it is situational in style. It is showing the situation of escape through books. “There is no Frigate like a Book / To take us Lands away” is the opening line in Dickinson’s poem. A frigate......
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...people. Not only escaping and helping was his strong point, but he was smart. But he later did get executed for what he did even though they feared. But though during his execution, he wasn’t a bad man he actually had a small family that he loved dearly, that contained, a wife and a child, he also had many siblings. These are just some of the reasons Nat Turner has taken a stand in history. Nat Turner was a great leader that did rebel against slavery. He showed that slavery wasn’t right to him by helping people escape. Nearly one hundred seventy years ago, he helped one hundred slaves break free from cruel masters. “He pleaded not guilty, saying to his counsel that he didn’t feel guilty” from the book The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation . Nat Turner believed that what he did was right and he thought that he wasn’t guilty for doing his actions because he helped people escape from cruel masters and he thought they didn’t deserve to be slaves. Slavery...
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...Throughout the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer translated by Robert Fitzgerald, Odysseus reveals his identity as king and hero, demonstrates his leadership on behalf of his crew, and shows hubris. During his journey home to Ithaka, Odysseus and his crew face and overcome many kinds of obstacles. One of the obstacles is the Kyklopes, a one-eyed beast who lives on an island. Because of the threat of the Kyklopes, Odysseus must use his leadership to help his men escape so they can go back to Ithaka. Although Odysseus’ leadership is substantial, his hubris and his identity make the Kyklopes more of an obstacle than he needs it to be. Odysseus demonstrates his leadership by providing a course of plan to escape the island of Kyklopes. During Odysseus’...
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...wrong cell, but later they corrected and I left.” The Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin Guzman Loera aka “El Chapo” or “Shorty” told investigators of his second successful escape according to the Mexican magazine Proceso. Joaquin Guzman Loera was born into a poor family in the rural Mexican town of Badiraguato , Sinaloa Mexico. Sources and other media outlets disagree on the date of his birth, it is believed to be on April 4th 1957, while others report he was born on...
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...play, “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, is set during the great depression of the 1930s’. The play is based around a family that lives in an apartment during the great depression. The characters include Tom, the son of the family wishing to escape from his dull world and tries as an aspiring poet. The sister Laura, the oldest sister to tom who has a limp and is extremely shy and has withdrawn from the world around her. And the mother Amanda, a woman who live in remembrance of her old life as a southern bell. The biggest theme that the play plays out throughout the play is the need to escape, every character in the play wishes to escape from something one way or another. The play has multiple elements of history and literary...
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...]Money Can’t Buy Everything, But it Comes Pretty Dang Close! F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays a high class society with a powerful grasp on money, and how they use affluence to their advantage to avoid responsibility for their actions. Tom and Daisy Buchanan have a seemingly flawless marriage: a well-disciplined daughter, an enormous mansion in Long Island, New York, and one of the largest inherited fortunes in America. However, the couple would not have achieved a perfect image if they did not use money to hide their problems. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald shows how the power of wealth helps the rich escape consequences of immoral behavior. Daisy consistently suffers emotional abuse from Tom’s affairs, yet she chooses not to face the results of confronting him and is still a loyal wife due to her fear of losing the protection that his money provides. Because Daisy’s inseparability from to wealth makes her unable to call out her husband, Tom evades the consequences of his cheating. Even though she is perfectly aware of her husband’s adultery, she does little to prevent him from seeing his mistresses in order to remain in a “distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belong” (22). That is to say, Daisy's decision to......
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...“finding themselves” or trying to go back and imagine their independence more or less by finding ways of escaping the “trapped” feeling of marriage. Both of the stories are portraits of the struggle that men and women face during a marriage. “The Story of an Hour” tells of a woman with a very weak heart condition that has been told that her husband has been killed in a railroad accident. While most people would have expressed great sadness (she did for a brief moment) in learning such horrible news, Mrs. Mallard felt more like she had received a whole new life, only later did she learn that she had been misinformed and that her husband was still very much alive. The same could be said in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”. This story tells of the restrictiveness of some marriages by giving great details of the constant daydreaming of a married man, who feels like he is being held prisoner by his own lack of self-esteem and also by his wife’s overbearing nature and constant nagging. If one truly thinks about it the life experiences of an author has a great influence over what types of subject matters that they chose as their main theme of the story that is being written. It is crucial to recognize and understand the certain circumstances that...
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...Level 3 BTEC National Business Unit 1 The Business Environment Business in Two Economic Environments A recession is the period when the economy is in decline for two consecutive quarters(six months) which means there has been a double dip of GDP in the economic cycle. Many if not all businesses are affected by a recession and the impact of it varies depending on how a business deals with it and the strategies put in place to make sure the negative impact is kept minimal. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/recession.html#ixzz3m1jzJiCk In a recession, the inflation levels begin to decrease as there is a lack on spending in the economy. Inflation usually rises as more people spend more and when the demand for products and services is high, however as people stop spending due to a recession, the inflation is bound to go down. Employment is scarce in a recession and therefore it is extremely difficult to find a job which means that Unemployment levels will be high. The reason for large Unemployment levels in a recession is that employers do not need to employee a large number of staff as the demand for their services is low and therefore in order to make a larger profit, organisations tend to employ less staff. Disposable income is the income left over to spend and save after the deduction of income taxes. Therefore it is the disposable income that is usually used to work out the state of the economy. During a recession, income usually decreases as businesses......
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...The Magical Stress Cure The best place to escape your worries and responsibilities is at the ice rink. The feeling you get from being on the ice is unmatched. The enclosed arena keeps all your worries outside and allows total focus on one thing: playing hockey. There is nothing else that matters when I’m in the rink. The next big exam that is just around the corner that has been stressing me out for the last week is completely forgotten about when I am at the rink. The ice arena is like a giant wall that is impenetrable by stressful thoughts. Whenever I am feeling stressed I know that it can easily be cured by going to the rink and playing hockey. The cold atmosphere has a therapeutic effect on the mind. The sound the ice makes when the...
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...where we can contemplate their amazing properties. The mysteries of the black hole exemplify the beginning and the end of everything science has discovered out in our vast universe. Beginning with Newton's law of gravitation, Einstein's law of relativity and expanding to supermassive black holes with infinite density and infinite gravity. A supermassive black hole has the mass of 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 of our Suns. There are smaller black holes but the smallest has to have a mass of at least 10 of our Suns. It is this mass that creates the immense gravitational tides that compress a giant star into an incredibly small entity that has such a tremendous gravity that not even light can escape. How is this possible? How are they created? How do we know they are there if no light escapes from them? Is there more than one universe? Is there such things as wormholes that can connect vast distance of space and time? These just a few of the provocative questions black holes inspire. What are Black Holes and what do they mean? Science has made many fascinating discoveries in their quest to understand the phenomenon known as the Black Hole. Many questions have been answered but there are many more yet to be unraveled. The first most obvious question is...what is a Black Hole? A Black Hole is created when a star at least 10 times as large as our sun runs out of the fuel. Nuclear fusion sustains the life of the Sun and creates the heat and light...
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...are highlighted throughout and the legacy she left. From when she was born in Maryland around 1820, up to when she was referred to as a powerful spirit on her deathbed. So many events are highlighted in Harriet’s life such as her escape from slavery, helping others escape, and helping her family out as well. Throughout Harriet Tubman’s life, she showed her heart to help others and showed great strength and bravery during the time she worked on the Underground Railroad. In the biography, Tubman’s life showed her heart for others in need throughout her life. One example of her heart for others is when she went back for her family...
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...As Harriet Tubman once said, “ Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world”. Tubman was born into slavery, and at the age of five was hired to do childcare. When Tubman got older, she decided to try and escape slavery and although it was very challenging, Harriet escaped and made it her life's work to help others escape slavery to. Harriet Tubman was a nurse, the creator of the Underground railroad, a spy, and a caregiver. Although all of the things Harriet did in her life were good things, there was one that was the greatest, meaning the riskiest, the most time consuming, and helped the most people and that was the Underground...
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