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    Like many noir films created out of the legendary works of crime fiction novelists such as James M. Cain and Cornell Woolrich, Who Framed Roger Rabbit too was based on the 1981 mystery novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The novel, written by Gary K. Wolf, shares only minimal similarities with its film adaptation as the plot is entirely rewritten and characters are redefined (Winter). The novel makes the recurring theme of discrimination of “toons” by humans more obvious, specifically illustrating

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    In the film adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara book “Follow the rabbit proof fence”, Mr Neville is a significant character thru out the movie Mr Neville is shown as the antagonist, because of his actions against the aboriginal people and his thoughts being that the aboriginal blood line should be non existent. The movie helps communicate this by its use of various camera angles to give us a negative opinion on Mr Neville. In the scene where Mr Neville is first introduced to us there is a part

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    Rabbit proof fence directed by Phillip Noyce is a film about a true story involving three half-cast Aboriginal young girls from a school they were obliged to attend, far away from their hometown under the laws made by A.O.Neville - a government official. In 1931, they were taken away from their mothers and were forcibly moved to the Moore River Settlement School in Perth, Western Australia. They were educated in the British ways eventually to become servants and compulsorily had to adapt to a new

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    Rabbit-Proof Fence is the name of the film directed by Philip Noyce. This movie is about three girls, Molly, Daisy and Gracie, who are taken away from their families to a camp in Moore River where they bring up the Aboriginal kids as white kids. The girls then go on a nine week journey back home and this movie showcases the journey and the obstacles the girls had to face before coming back home. A particular scene from this movie, ‘Stolen’, is about the three girls enjoying their day when a white

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    World War I was the first major war in history, conflicts between the Europe itself and of course US. The war lasted four years, from the summer of 1914 to fall of 1918, there are a few causes that led to the war, and there is the immediate and the underlying cause of the war. The immediate cause would be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sort of like a spark for the war, the underlying cause is the long term effect of the war that it would consist, would be the military power, imperialism

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    I was waddling around in my playpen like any happy four-year-old would. Picking up and grabbing random toys and hurling them as hard my my chubby arm could. I looked at my brother with the biggest grin I could muster, as we heard my mother’s off-pitch voice, singing our favorite Disney songs to us, currently one from Sleeping Beauty, much to my brother’s dismay. It was the best day I can remember. My mother finished up with the song, and I thought it was the best thing I had ever heard. I didn’t

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    The Treaty of Versailles was first and foremost the end to World War 1, the Great War. The Great War was a war of slaughter on a new scale as all countries involved had suffered massive loss of life; 1.8 million Germans, 1.7 million Russian, 1.4 million French, 1.3 million Austro-Hungarians and 750 thousand British soldiers. As a result, the victors were bitter and were uninterested in Woodrow Wilson’s promise of a gentle peace agreement. They wanted to receive money and territory as compensation

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    1. The relationship between Czar Nicholas and Kaiser Wilhelm was tense, but friendly. Through their letters, you can tell that these two men had a friendship that neither wished to end. They talked about being saddened that their friendship may come to an end due to this was. 2. The tone taken in these letters are friendly, but urgent. Both leaders required an immediate response due to possibility of a war being so immediate. Towards the end of the document, Kaiser Wilhelm without much resistance

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    There were four main leaders during the Versailles Conference and they were: Woodrow Wilson, George Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, and Vittorio Orlando. Each of them had major goals that would benefit them since the war was on their land. Vittorio Orlando, the Prime Minister of Italy, worked to get the extra land for Italy. Originally,

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    Maya Stepansky Mr. Meyer Progressive Era DBQ Toward the latter part of the 19th century, bustling America, in response to the trends of industrialization and urbanization that characterized its Gilded Age, began its new century by entering into a new historical/political epoch that came to be known as the Progressive Era. This distinctive period in history (spanning from the 1890s through 1920) found progressives seeking to use the American federal government as a means of change through social

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