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    “But sir, I really need this job without it I won’t have anything.” cried Lauren, a single mother. “I realize but, we are having pay cuts and we just can’t afford to have this many workers it just cost too much.” explained her ex-boss, Jonathan. Lauren started to walk to her car which was parked right outside the coffee shop. While shedding a tear she opened the icy door handle and proceeded to put her key in the ignition. Once she got to her house she just sat in the car thinking about what she

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    Marian Anderson

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    Marian Anderson is remembered as one of the best American contraltos of all time. She was the first African American singer to perform at the White House and also the first African American to sing with New York's Metropolitan Opera. Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia on Feb. 17, 1902. She never had much money, but she was happy. All of them, her mother, dad, and younger sisters Alyce and Ethel just liked to be together. One thing that may have been different from other childhood is that she

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    My New York Story Nothing ever happens in Flushing. Every day, I see cars zip by from my living room window, while the occasional airplane flies overhead to LaGuardia Airport, 20 minutes from my house. The most action my neighborhood has ever seen was during Hurricane Sandy, when a giant tree collapsed onto the house across the street. However, the Upper West Side, specifically 72nd to 81st street, is my escape. Unlike Flushing, there is diversity and action on every block. Small cars, bright yellow

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    Analytical Paper on Moonrise Kingdom From the moment you turn on a Wes Anderson movie, you can easily recognize it’s his due to the unique style. Moonrise Kingdom is one of his most popular and stylized films to date. One scene in particular I want to look into is the scene when Scout Master Ward and the other scouts are introduced. (5:31- 8:39) This scene is important to setting up the rest of the movie. It introduces us to the antagonists for the first part of the film as well as showing that

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    Butler uses traditional religion in the novel to demonstrate the ways in which it can be a destructive or constructive force in society. Butler demonstrates the dangers of dogmatic, authoritarian religion when it is used as an excuse to ignore the needs of others and the changes in society. Religion is not inherently a destructive force; it becomes a destructive force in Lauren’s community when it is used to control and limit thinking because of deference to church leaders such as Lauren’s father

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    “Are we there yet, Mom?” Annabelle asked impatiently in the car. “Annabelle, sweetie, you know that to go to Vermont it takes almost 12 hours. We just left home a hour ago, and you are already complaining. Besides, we haven’t passed that pit stop that we always stop at. You know, the one with the big playground.” her mom said. “I know,” she said over exaggerating, “but I can’t wait to see Lauren and Kyle. The last time I saw them was when we went on vacation together in Hawaii.” “Didn’t you video

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    The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson is an adventure animated crime film that makes its audience to become charmed for its incredible animation of stop motion. In this film Anderson plays and explores with the main character named Mr. Fox played by Jorge Clooney in overcoming his self-center ambitions and turning him into a more concern individual for the better of those who are closed to him. Recognized by his exceptional work of humorous films, Wes Anderson a creative, passionate, and outstanding

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    failure. Other films for various reasons decide to deliberately either break the viewers’ immersion or never immerse them in the first place. A good example of one of these deliberately false films is The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou, directed by Wes Anderson in 2004. Without giving much detail it is the story of Steve Zizzou (portrayed by Bill Murray,) a documentarist and oceanographer who vows to avenge a comrade who was allegedly killed by a jaguar shark. However though the course of the film it is

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    An Auteurist Critique of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Wes Anderson is a world-renowned filmmaker known for creating vividly colorful films that are consistent with his auteur signature. Though he has only directed 7 films (not including his upcoming film and two short films), he is a perfect example of how even a small body of work can demonstrate auteur theory. Anderson’s films have frequent themes, visual and methodological style and he even uses a lot of the same actors in most of

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    that Peta has published about Pamela Anderson in a bikini with a body diagram of her body parts. The company Peta promoted there go meat diet for non-vegetarians to go vegetarian. The advisement shows the women as if she is an animal with labels of different cuts of meat on her body parts. The advisement is unacceptable because of the labeling on her body like she an animal, the statement Peta made saying ” All animals have the same parts”, and Pamela Anderson is being a sex symbol to males to promote

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