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    story of hundreds and thousands of women imprisoned by the Japanese in South East Asia. Misto features the play around the recounts and flashbacks of Bridie, an Australian army nurse, and Sheila, a young English girl both of whom were captured and sent to prisoner of war camps under the Japanese authority. The failure of the military and government authorities, as well as the will to survive, the

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    The Peabody Awards have a long history of finding and rewarding shows that exhibit excellence in television programming, and Avatar: The Last Airbender is no exception. The show was incredibly successful during its run and even though it ended almost a decade ago, still has a large fan base of all different ages and genders. The show has also inspired several graphic novels and print books as well as a spinoff series, Avatar: The Legend of Korra. Avatar is an excellent example of how mixing styles

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    visual dialogue spoken by Sheila. ‘For a while nothing happened. Just the roar of the sea – and us, ghostly white on deck.’ The dialogue encompasses the use of light to put emphasis on an idea or to create a mood. Misto uses spotlights to emphasize the drama of what is happening on stage. [Both of them are isolated in spotlights]. Where as Owen reinforces the negative tone of the poem by using words such as ‘not ours’ and ‘never’ this showing how their

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    Pathos Ads

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    All whiskey products need to have ads. Advertisements are like short little stories that persuade you to buy into the product’s illusions. Whether the ad is in a newspaper, magazine, or a television commercial, the producer’s intent is always the same. There are many ways to get people to buy what is in an advertisement. Producers can use multiple themes of pathos, like humor or empathy, which is what they usually use. Some, like the Jack Daniels ad I am using, only rely on their ethos. They assume

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    characterized by intensive research and exhaustive interviews, died on Sunday at his Manhattan apartment. He was 84. Mr. Lord, a onetime advertising executive, adeptly popularized the stories not only of the Titanic disaster of 1912 but also the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the World War II evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of Midway, the fall of the Alamo, the War of 1812 and the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the University of Mississippi. His usual approach to

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    He has still published his articles online and warned people to keep our sustainable environments. His life is stormy and full of drama because of his race and the World War II. He was one of the twins born to Setsu Nakamura and Kaoru Carr Suzuki on March 24th, 1936 in Vancouver, British Columbia (Suzuki, The Autobiography 6). He was born as a third-generation Japanese-Canadian. In 1942, during the World War II, his family was interred in a camp at Slocan in the British Columbian Interior, and his

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    enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events, the Massacre of the 21 Australian Nurses on Banka Island with only one Survivor. Conflict is the essence of drama. It can contrasts both inner e.g. when Sheila is deciding on whether to sell herself to the Jap’s. It can also be physical, an example

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    his then-girlfriend while eating this brand of candy. The line refers to his intention to do the same upon the release ofGodzilla(2014); per personal communications, it’s apparent he did so with the same woman (now his wife.) xviii Ishiro Honda, Japanese director who helmed several Godzilla films, including Gojira and Mekagojira no Gyakushū. xix The code names of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. xx Dense, hypertrophic scars best known from their appearance on burn victims of the

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    result, I became self-conscious of the way I act, not to also mention my overweight body. I didn’t know how to be myself while conforming to the stereotypes. That’s when I discovered Kpop, or Korean Pop Culture. I immersed myself into the music, the dramas, and even the food. I found a second home, even if it was through my computer. These korean stars were talented, funny, and most of all “cool.” They had an aura around them that I was not able to find in any American stars. Maybe it is because they

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    An article discussing family demands from the journal Neurocritical Care notes that along with some Christian denominations, "Japanese Shinto, Orthodox Jew, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American populations are prone to noting religious objections to [brain death]" (Lewis, et al., Prolonging). Furthermore, the researchers noted that "physicians may comply with these requests because

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