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    Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen committed suicide in 2010 at the age of forty. [1] McQueen was known for his

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    J.K. Rowling once said, “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” This is a quote from a very famous author saying how people who don’t read should start reading because in your mind you can picture how the story goes and it will teach you something. People do need to start reading more often because sometimes the books you will read if their fiction or nonfiction it can help you in school. Some people don’t understand how reading is important. There are several

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    The Truman Show Analysis

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    AS90856 Close Viewing ( The Truman Show ) In The Film “ The Truman Show “ Directed By Peter Wier, The Main Protagonist Truman Is A Character That Is Portrayed As A Determined Yet Stubborn Character, Living Inside Of A Fake Utopia Created By The Creator Of “ The Truman Show ” Christof. Throughout This Entire Scene, We As The Viewer Can See That The Director Peter Wier Utilises This Scene To Emphasise On How Truman Is Portrayed, As He Is A Character Filled With Determined And A Desire For Freedom.

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    The Truman Show” in Philosophy In the movie “The Truman Show” Truman Burbank is the main character where he has lived all of his life in the small town of “Seahaven”. There Truman has lived all of his life believing that he is living a normal life, but his whole life he has been filmed and watched by the whole world. His reality was the town and the universal reality was apart of watching him in his daily life and his reality. “The Truman Show” is an example of the concept of Free Will because Truman

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    ‘The Truman Show’, directed by Peter Weir and ‘Animal Farm’, written by George Orwell both explore the ideas of the good life, how the main characters of both texts have a lack of the good life. Control, the animals and Truman being controlled without them knowing it. Freedom, and how the main characters do not have a great deal of it. These views have been displayed in both The Truman Show and Animal Farm. These ideas are presented through the characters and events throughout both texts, they are

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    In both the Truman Show and Genesis there is a main creator. Christof, in The Truman Show, is the director of a programme that stars a man called Truman Burbank. Christof controls majority of the things that happen inside of the television program and within his creations. God, in the bible, created the world and everything that it holds. God has power over two people he creates in the story of Genesis. The product of both creators are also extremely alike, Truman showing a lot of qualities that

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    To elaborate on that thought, the people who were in charge of the Truman bubble symbolized the government. I have thought about how the government hides important information from us the same way and the hid information from Truman. I feel as though Truman had it worse because he had his life broadcasted, had no privacy, and was secretly famous. I feel like the information the government hides from our society is also bad but it protects the millions of people spazzing out of control. I feel like

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    As Christof said “We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that” meaning no one really questions their life until something changes. In the novella The Metamorphosis by Kafka and The Truman Show, both main characters Gregor and Truman go through a major change. While Gregor’s was not for the good because he went from being the backbone of the family to being a burden, and Truman’s change was for the better since he went from being oblivious to what his life

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    Reality is the personal belief of individuals on the principles and statements that are portrayed by the hierachy who controls the imprisonment so called “the media”. Every single individual who does not take into consideration of the philosophical reasoning is mislead by their knowledge gained through their senses. In the Truman Show, the audience that were manipulated by Truman's life were by far the main group of people that had become impriosned. They focused more on the show than their lives

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    You would think that those closest to you would never lie to you. In fact, you would not even expect that from loved ones.You know what they say, “never say never”. How would you take it if you found out your whole life had been one big humiliation? Or that everything you knew and loved was one big fib? Truman Burbank’s whole life had been on camera and he never knew. All privacy was lost and Truman was manipulated in many ways one being the removal of his true love from the deceiving show. She wanted

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