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    food with others. The importance of being a perfect host for their guests in order to honour them is seen in the namesake. « as usual his mother cooks for days beforehand, cramming the refrigerator with stacks of foil-covered trays. »1 Ashima puts her heart in her cookings. They honour guests with a lot of food and they are spending several days so that everyone is satisfied. In the movie, in the scene when Maxine comes at Gogol's

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    and light symbolism, and angle shots drive the films meaning of ultimate survival in the face wartime tragedy. The beginning scenes of this film, as well as those towards the end depict cranes flying overhead, reinforcing the film’s title and namesake while tipping a hat to Razul Gamzatov, whose poem about Zhuravli. His likening

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    had made (Fitzgerald 18). Essentially, Daisy is a person who hides in her money and has affection for someone solely based upon their outer image and wealth, aspects important to the dreams of Gatsby and Daisy. In the scene where Daisy observes the movie star and the director at one

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    89% of the Foreign Movie section in Netflix, is Bollywood movies. Netflix has about 33.1 million viewers in United States alone and yet the “Most Watched Movie “and “Foreign Movie” section consist of many Bollywood movies. This shows that Bollywood has influenced the domestic audience as well the industry itself. The influence of Bollywood element and the Indian culture can be seen quite evidently in the music, dance and visual representation in Hollywood movies. A Bollywood movie is incomplete without

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    grandmother is Celtic, that is Scottish and Norman French. I spent the summer, going from Iowa to Ohio, wearing a kilt, playing with stage swords, and a Scottish accent that sounded more like Irish. It was all right, my maternal grandfather, who was my namesake was Irish. Like the patchwork of my varied life, my heritage was just as eclectic. My father is part German, French, and Scottish, with a sliver of Algonquin. My mother is part German and Irish. What

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    Wufeng Yuan Patricia France English 1A 5 May 2015 Arranged Marriage: In the broadest sense, marriages have been divided into two general categories; arranged marriages and love marriages. As the name implies, an arranged marriage is defined as a marriage where the bride and groom are exclusively selected by a third party (usually their parents), while in a love marriage, people choose their marital partners based on their feelings or attraction for one another. In America and Western Europe, marriages

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    . The relationship between Moushumi and Gogol is driven by Moushumi’s desire which is greater even than Gogol’s own, to confirm to a certain image of a modern American. She and Gogol never seem to relax into the idea that they might find their identity in one another and visit to dinner parties with her friends in Brooklyn where Gogol feels awkward and uncomfortable. And this signal a division between them. Moushomi’s dissatisfaction with the marriage eventually leads to her unfaithfulness towards

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    Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is portrayed as a cruel puppet master, using his high order critical analysis and manipulative skills to exact on those he believe wronged him; as he weaves a web of deceit to ensnare the play’s protagonist (and namesake of the play) Othello. Various movie adaptations have portrayed the characters in different ways, often resulting in a fusion of the context of the age, artistic license and Shakespeare’s character. One such fusion is Stuart Burge’s 1965 filmic portrayal of Iago in

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    Trevor Raineri Pols 1 M/W 9:00am Professor Percival Mitt The Netflix documentary Mitt seeks to critically analyze what goes on behind the scenes of United States presidential campaigns. It takes a backstage look at 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his families experience throughout his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. This documentary also seeks to look beyond the mainstream media bias and scrutiny in order to adequately characterize Mitt Romney. It shows him as a warm-hearted

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    When looking at other paintings from the Renaissance of beautiful young ladies a familiar face appears very often. Venus’ model was named Simonetta Vespucci, she was very well known because she was the wife Marco Vespucci. He was the cousin of the namesake of America, Amerigo Vespucci. She was the ideal vision of beauty to many in Florence. Her beauty was not unnoticed by the Medicis. She was the admiration of Lorenzo de Medici’s brother, Giuliano. Simonetta was to many the modern recreation of the

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