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    In this essay I will be going over the basic theories of tourism and travel. Hot topics of this essay range from tourist behaviors to my love for trains. As you read through the text, you will find me reflecting myself on the theories every now and then. Take everything I say with a grain of salt though, I have been studying this field for merely 2 months. 2. Tourist Types When it comes to specifying different kinds of tourists, there are few widely used models that make the identification process

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    many ways. The first reason that supports this theme is that Grandma Dowdel feeds Aunt Puss Chapman and the drifters even though she could have gotten arrested for catching the food illegally. The author states that the trap used to catch the fish was “a fish trap.” Fish traps were illegal to use but Grandma used the catfish she caught to feed Aunt Puss Chapman for supper and the drifters. She expressed her kindness through stealing. The second reason that supports this theme is that Grandma helped

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    Change Bruce Dawe

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    This confrontation of change, resistance and final acceptance of change can be seen in the texts, " Drifters", " And a good Friday was held by all" by Bruce Dawe and 10 Things I hate about you" by Gil Junger. All three of these texts examine the process of change and the attitudes towards change. These texts all share simular audiences of ambitious individuals striving for a better future. "Drifters" and " A Good Friday was held by all" both use the techniques of imagery, Diction, Metaphors, Juxtaposition

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    such as ¡°Sky-High¡±, ¡°Drifters¡±, ¡°No More Boomerang¡± as well as movie, Patch Adam. These texts emphasize changes in their lives through the use of various

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    individually in their life. All of these have been explored in some of Bruce Dawe’s meaningful poems ‘migrants’ and ‘drifters’ and a related text ‘Still Life’ which is a short film by Martin Sharpe. The poem ‘migrants’ was about group of European migrants seeking permanent home in a completely different country to escape from war and have better standard of life but the poem ‘drifters’ was about a family journeying in the same country. In comparison, the short film, ‘Still Life’ is about a man who

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    The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Introduction On the surface of it, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost presents a narrator who is remembering a journey through the woods, and the person making this journey came into a position where two roads were diverging. So the challenge presented in the poem is, which road should the narrator take, and why? Frost claimed that his poem was a parody of a poem by his friend, poet Edward Thomas, but others have had very different explanations for "The Road Not

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    The newly released Hyper Light Drifter(Heart Machine) inspired by the trials that the developer Alex Preston has undergone with heart disease and a myriad of other medical issues. Hyper Light Drifter is about a drifter the explorers in this universe that navigate the ruins of a forgotten society in hopes of finding forgotten treasures and artifacts the drifter that you play as is searching in hopes of finding a cure for a mysterious disease that

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    Physical Journeys

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    is also evident in Michael James Rowland 2007 film “Lucky Miles”, where a group of men’s inner journey of friendship despite differences goes through obstacles which they overcome. Another impact upon a traveler is also shown in Bruce Dawe poem “Drifters” which a frustrated mother’s journey of disappointment, which has impacted her when suddenly faced with picking up her belongings and being, forced to move. A

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    There are two primary classifications of lives one can live: conventionalists and drifters. Most Americans fall into the conventional way of living. In Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping, Robinson uses the different character development to contrast differences in living a conventional lifestyle versus living an eccentric lifestyle as a “drifter”, such as events like when the sisters first meet Sylvie and when Lucille leaves to go live with Miss Royce. Soon after Ruth and Lucille were born,

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    Cynthia Gardner Richard Courtney ENG 1110 December 22, 2016 An Unsatisfied Life John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” is a short story about a woman named Elisa and her unhappiness with her life. She is a woman living in a man’s world in the late 1930’s. Elisa and her husband, Henry, are childless. She is confined to a lonely life where she cares for her husband, their farm house, and her precious chrysanthemums. Throughout the story Steinbeck indicates Elisa’s struggle as a woman who wants more

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