...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 - making...
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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 bring him...
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...with a pool and a garden filled with flowers that looks out into the glistening blue ocean, accompanied by the sounds of waves splashing onto the shore. Now visualize being the only person living in that mansion, the quietness that roams the corridors, and the strong gusts of wind that blows in every night, slamming on doors and windows. The mansion represents the American Dream, a goal or hope for a better future. The loneliness of the mansion represents the result of someone who tries to escape reality in a never ending search for something greater. It has been common today to dismiss the life people currently live in and focus on the future that many believe will be better. At first glance, many might say the American Dream is beautiful. But on a closer inspection, depicted by Kimberly Hearne, The American Dream hides the truth of reality. Based on a Marxist view of “The Great Gatsby,¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream as a false hope that people seek to obtain in order to escape reality....
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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 is...
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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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...In general, the Great Migration and Dust Bowl are very different. They took place in different parts of the country at different times for different reasons. But they do have one big thing in common. During those both of those events, large masses of people migrated. People trying to escape the Dust Bowl migrated to suburban areas where they could continue farming, while people from the Great Migration migrated to northern cities to escape southern discrimination. As for the effect these events had on certain groups, I can’t decide whether or not higher class southerners were happy or sad regarding African-Americans migrating during the Great Migration. On one hand, they could be glad that lots of black people had left. But on the other hand,...
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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 openly...
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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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...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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...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 and...
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...Alcatraz is a prison that is based on an island in the San Francisco Bay in California. The prison was named an inescapable prison because it was surrounded by fifty to fifty four degree water. The island was first discovered by land in 1755 by Lt. don Juan Manuel de Ayala but had been seen by Sir Francis Drake when he docked in San Francisco bay. The prison is known for having some of the deadliest and most deceiving inmates out of any other prison. The prison has had many escape attempts but most have failed, except for one which was made by Frank Lee Morris and three fellow inmates. The island's history dates back a long time ago, but became a military institution in 1850, when president Millard Fillmore signed an order and fortified the island to protect the San Francisco Bay. The island first caught attention when Lt. don Juan Manuel de Ayala first discovered it and mapped it out in 1755. In the late 1850s the U.S. army began holding military prisoners on the island. They held the prisoners on the island because it is totally isolated and surrounded by water....
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