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    Freedom Thinking Stedman Graham once said: “Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.” It’s safe to say that Frederick Douglass would agree with this statement, due to the accounts he lived. Douglass was born a slave in Maryland

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    In the poignant novel The Light Between Oceans, author M.L. Stedman successfully communicates central ideas through the use of literary techniques. Through the careful use of letters, particularly written by Tom, the growing guilt of his character due to his actions was successfully portrayed by Steadman. The grief endured by Hannah and Isabel is effectively depicted through the use of imagery. Tom and Isabel’s families. Toms moral dilemmas are portrayed through the symbolism of the lighthouse and

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    Clarice Starling

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    When discussing feminist characters, it’s easy to get caught up on the more overtly feminine personalities, such as Elle Woods from “Legally Blond” or perhaps Dorothy Gale from “The Wizard of Oz”. However, the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs”, an “...intense, gritty crime odyssey,”(Grow, 2016) supplies a strong, feminist character who isn’t afraid to get down to business. Throughout the film, Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster, silently breaks gender roles in order to compete with the male

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    The series is about the FBI consultant Will Graham, who together with Jack Crawford and his team hunts down serial killers, especially the Chesapeake ripper. Will Graham have a special ability to have pure empathy and a vivid imagination, which gives him the ability to think and act as any kind of murderer. The downside with these abilities is that he slowly begins to go mad. Throughout season one, Will creates a strong bond with the psychologist Hannibal Lecter. Worrying about Will’s mental health

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    Jack Crawford, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, is the head of the FBI Behavioural Science Unit. He is married, but childless. Crawford is a clear alpha male who demands respects. He views himself as the top authority and he wants people to know this. His dominant side is shown in his initial meeting with Will where he demands eye contact, despite Will avoiding it. As Jack goes to see Hannibal he tries the dominant act again, but Hannibal challenges him by making him wait. As soon as Jack shows respect

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    Dominance and Self-control of a Psychopathic Cannibal In a world of war, a TV series may hold the perfect example of why humans demonstrate the need to fight, win, and constantly change power. In a comparison of Nietzsche’s theory of Will and NBC’s new series Hannibal, we begin to discover that the prominence of self-importance and dominance are at fault for our destructive nature. According to Nietzsche, humans are ingrained with the sense of domination as a result of being a conscious being. This

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    really tell how much effort and sacrifice he made for the job he has. Because of all of Crawford's effort, it really built Clarice's character. Clarice in the story is seen as a second chance for Crawford because of his mistakes he made with Will Graham. Both stories really mirror each other and fit into each other. In the film, however, it is hard to fit so much tiny detail into a two-hour film, so the movie wasn't able to show the small details about Clarice. The book nevertheless, was able to

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    reminiscent to that of Picasso on the modern visual arts, Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture, and Stravinsky on music. The name of this girl who went from heights to heights and established the modern dancing and choreography in the world was Martha Graham. Martha Graham was an American dancer and choreographer, born in the city of Allegheny, which would later become part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, when Martha turned fourteen years old, her family moved to Santa Barbara, California. Her father was

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    Just as he wants to help his daughter, he also helps a child in need who's mother is sick. As a result, the priest ends up missing his boat, preventing him from escaping from the law who is chasing him. In the novel, The Power and the Glory, author Graham Greene portrays the protagonist, The Whiskey Priest as both a good man and a bad man. The Whiskey Priest is full of flaws and is aware he is not always a good man. He has sexual relations with a woman, he lies, and drinks throughout the entire novel

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    Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, essentially wrote the show about nothing. After not having a job for years, Sherman had writer’s block. On television, everything she saw seemed the same, identical characters and paralleling plots, she desired to create something different. Once, she had visited the small town of Washington, Connecticut and loved the “everyone knows everything” idea. So she thought, “Why not make a show about it?” After tweaks by the production company, Gilmore

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