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    comedy films, also known as “rom-coms” or “romedies”, are films with light-hearted, humorous plot lines, centred on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of both comedy and romance films. **************************************************************************************************************** 10 Things I Hate About You is one of Hollywood’s greatest Romantic Comedies. Directed by Gil Junger, the 1999 film is a retelling

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    Guarani Monologue

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    side, or not so bad one, haha!!!, would be that what the things that I have to tell you maybe are novelty for you as well as my English may keep you a bit busy and in this way, perhaps, you may forget a little bit about your problem for a moment. Come on, Ken, don't give up, please!!! Oh no, Ken! Guarani isn't my own language, in fact, no native language is my own language. Guarani is an indigenous dialect that is spoken by certain people who belongs to that indigenous nation located in the province

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    Argo Movie Essay

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    John Chambers and Lester Siegel together setup a production house named 6 Productions. They publicize their plans through a magazine and a were successful to establish a concept of developing Argo, as a science fiction film like Star Wars, to lend credibility to the cover story. Meanwhile, the escapees were getting frustrated in ambassador’s house for their security. On the other hand the Iranian revolutionaries were successful in reassembling the embassy photographs

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    Isolation seems to be a key and recurrent theme within Polanski’s films. It is a theme that is apparent in both “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The tenant”, as well as being evident in many of his other films such as Repulsion and The Pianist. As such Polanski has been defined by the way he explores isolation within in his films, described as a “director, writer and actor who deftly explores themes of isolation, desire and absurdity”1. According to J.P Tellotte Polanski choses to confront the problems associated

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    applying the feeling of being out of place through her characters which usually exemplified an unidentified female. As was shown at the very beginning of the book she employs the feeling of lostness by writing in French and then re-writing everything in English to not

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    he needs you." 5 The characters from film do different work for living: Mr. Brown is a risk analyst by profession, Mrs. Brown does paintings for children's books' illustrator, Millicent -a evil taxidermist who tries to catch Paddington , Mr. Gruber the owner of the antiques shop, the family children are both in school. Hallmarks of Paddington Bear are red hat, blue cloth jacket and his smile. Paddington is essentially prototype refugee, in the film are being found many references to immigrants

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    Marissa Rodriguez Mr. Ortiz English 12 2.27.17 Unit 3: Comparison Essay Throne of Blood is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa which is based on William Shakespeare’s play “The Tragedy of Macbeth”Macbeth. While Macbeth takes place in Scotland, Throne of Blood is set in Japan. Macbeth is a tragic play that is mainly revolving around Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The play and film are two productions that are very similar but differ in the aspects of the plot events. Macbeth and his friend Banquo

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    House On Mango Street

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    The House on Mango street is an amazing coming of age story about a young Mexican girl in a poor Chicago neighborhood. It was written by Author Sandra Cisneros (who will be explored further in the paper) in the early 1980’s. The main Protagonist is named Esperanza. When the story first starts she in 12 and has just moved into her new house on mango street. The house actually does not live to Esperanza expectations because it’s old and tiny. This creates motivation in Esperanza to move from Mango

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    Learning to skateboard was never easy for me. I’ve never been a real balanced or coordinated person so skateboarding was like trying to learn the meaning to the film “Inception”. Even though I was never delighted to hop back on a piece of wood on wheels called a “skateboard” I was determined to learn; time and time again I fell but getting back up is what mattered. Now I’m like a surfer hitting that wave he’s been

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    Class Reflection Paper

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    Miranda Lahi MLL 300 01 When I first picked this class I had in mind that I speak another language as well, I might be able to bring a different mindset to the class. I can say that the class was not what I picture or would have liked to be. I imagined more of setting where we discuss more languages and how they shape people and their culture. The first day as I look at the syllabus the work load seems reasonable. I got really excited about the movies listed on our homework days, and the guest

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