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    100 – 03 22 March 2016 MLA Braveheart Speech: In-depth Analysis Regarding Figurative Language Braveheart is a historical drama epic film from 1995. The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five. The film is non-fictional and depicts the events of William Wallace, a Scottish hero who led the Scots during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. However, despite the historical inaccuracies cited by critics, the film was intriguing and successful considering the box office

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    horror films are those that appropriate the aesthetic of observational documentary cinema’s handheld camerawork” (Raimondo, 2014, p. 66). This aesthetic of the camera playing a big part in the movie and the movie being shot by a character mimics how a video would be shot in a real situation, thus making the events of the movie more relatable and horrifying. It possesses many qualities that make the movies more engaging and frightening. Therefore, in this essay I will be analysing 2 films (The Blair

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    The decade of the 1980 's experienced a massive sorts of changes in economics and culture, this requires a certain analysis of the time and the way culture became intertwined with economics. The culture transformed and allowed the decade to be read as an experience of cultural products between culture and economy. Through the conspicuous consumption of the decade, the 1980s encouraged a cultural shift towards complete commodification (what is this) and interaction with the market. Ronald Reagan

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    ABSTRACT DNA is a biological double helix molecule that makes up the genetic component of a person. In the 21st century, there are several applications of DNA’s specific and unique characteristics, such as solving a crime, finding maternity/paternity cases or even research development of genetic diseases. This efficient and accurate system called DNA fingerprinting is a way of organizing the DNA to acquire a person’s identification much like the fingerprint of a person. Unlike the actual fingerprint

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    Compare/Contrast Paper “Tell me, o muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy”(11). This quote not only begins the novel The Odyssey by Homer, but also the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. This is only one of the many similarities between these two pieces. The Odyssey is about the great war hero Odysseus’ twenty year troublesome attempt to reach his home. His long, painful journey to reach home after the ten year Trojan War is endured through

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    Mythology and Heroes Greek mythology, as in past ways humans detailed lives, was used as a way to explain the environment in which everything around us happened and lived. The natural wonders they had seen in their lifetimes and the passing of time through were a way to explain things in myths. Myths were also in a way a bond to religion and gave an awareness of where they came from and what are the lives of the gods. The myths helped serve as a guideline to show were people came from and what

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    my second Iliad passage quiz, this was seen in my failure to identify the themes and the passage's impact in the epic poem which ultimately constricted my analysis of the passage, as well as many mechanics and grammar mistakes. In my response to the passage, '"Hector, you and I have come to the grief we were both born for, you in Priam's Troy and I in Thebes in the house of Eetion [...]Better to never have been born. And now you are going to Hades' dark world, underground, leaving me in sorrow, a

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    The Aneid tells the story of Aneas a Trojan soldier who after the fall of troy is told he is destined to bring his people to a new land that will one day be Rome. Virgil depics the indigenous Italians as innocent people who where misguided . They are figures of loss and destruction. As the reader this depiction makes one feel as though the founding of the Roman Empire and how it occurred was inevitable. Terrence Malik’s film The New World has a depiction of the Native Americans that coralates

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    resources, fossil fuels continue to be the leading source to facilitate these energy needs. The magnitude and effort needed to shift the world to alternative sources of energy is monumental and each has huge barriers when compared to fossil fuels (Troy 34). Traditional means of extracting oil, coal, and natural gas have historically faced scrutiny from environmentalists and lawmakers due to the various potential hazards these resources present. In truth their efforts have not been in vain; in many

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    Advertising Analysis Advertising is constant. Wherever you are and whatever you are doing, you will be bombarded with advertising; it's commonly accepted that the media (a collective term for film, radio. television, music, the printed press [ i.e. newspapers and magazines] and now, the Internet) is a key part of our modern day lives. The media is largely funded by advertising, because companies will pay large sums of money to reach the huge audiences of the media;

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