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    There are a lot of things similar and different in Fahrenheit 451 and The 5th Wave. One of the things similar is that the people do not know what was happening in other places of the world. They are only concerned about their own lives. One thing that is different is that The 5th Wave is taking place in a post-apocalypse world while Fahrenheit 451 is taking place in a world in the future where technology is very advanced. Another thing that is similar is that the government did not tell the people

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    The Three Big Waves of Feminism First-Wave Feminism: Women’s Right to Vote In 1776, the then First Lady of the United States was the first to raise her about women’s rights, telling her husband to “remember the ladies” in his drafting of new laws, yet it took more than 100 years for men like John Adams to actually do so. With the help of half a dozen determined, and in this case white upper-middle-class, women the first-wave feminism, which spans from the 19th century to the early 20th century

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    Third Wave Feminism

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    down into three waves, first, second, and third. First wave feminism had a focus on legal reform, these women were known as the suffragettes, they fought against legal, political, and structural discrimination toward women (Hewitt). Second wave feminism is defined as starting in the 1960’s, with its focus on white, middle class, housewives (Hewitt), and third wave feminism is seen as the bridge of the second wave and intersectinality (Hewitt). There is discussion on if the third wave is still continuing

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    Korean wave (Hallyu in Korean) is term coined by Chinese media to describe the popularity of the Korean cultural products in China. It is said that the first wave of Hallyu is brought by Korean TV series that became a huge hit in China and Japan in mid 1990s. Two dramas, What Is Love About (1997) and Stars in My Heart (1999), are usually credited with kickstarting the Korean wave (Huat, 2012). In the early to mid-2000s, two more dramas, Winter Sonata (2002) and Dae Jang Geum (2003), catalyzed the

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    New Wave Cinema

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    literary adaption, which caused French films to become increasingly verbal and theatrical. It was against this tendency- identified as ‘the tradition of quality’ by Francois Truffaut and the other critics writing in Cashiers du Cinema, that the New Wave reacted in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.” Camera-stylo, which would permit the cinema “to become a means of expression as supple and sbutle as that of written language and would therefore accord filmmakers the status of authors. Astruc’s notion

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    Amélie: The New Wave

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    During the French New Wave, many critics became the moviemakers. One of the main qualities of the New Wave were the casual looks of the films. In addition, the New Wave also used a large amount of camera movements. The film Amélie is inspired by the French New Wave and uses its distinct characteristics throughout the movie. In the film Amélie, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet uses skillful directing, lighting, editing, and form to achieve themes such as innocence and happiness. Jean-Pierre Jeunet is

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    The Great Wave

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    depending on the person perspective, but the one that stands out the most is poetry and painting. A prime example would be a the painting The Starry night and its conjoining poem, but not allowed to use that one so the next best one is The Great Wave by Hokusai. Most people when reading something they image it in the mind to help them to get a better understanding of the poem, and what is going on allowing them to enjoy it more or to dislike the scene that could be being portrayed. For example

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    Abstract Under study learning of sound waves can benefit from outside assistance through the making of gathering learning classroom materials whose advancement and outline depend on unequivocal examinations concerning understudy understanding. We portray thinking as far as sets of assets, i.e. assembled building squares of feeling that are normally utilized as a part of a wide range of settings. Understudies in our college material science classes frequently utilized arrangements of assets that were

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    release of energy, causing seismic waves that make the ground shake. This occurs when two tectonic plates push against each other until the force of friction is overcome releasing the built-up energy and allowing a small amount of movement of the plates. This movement of the tectonic plates produces the 4 types of seismic waves we feel in earthquakes, P waves, S waves, Love waves and Rayleigh waves. • P waves (or pressure waves) have a motion similar to sound waves in that the particle of the rock

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    Walker was influential in coining the term ‘third-wave feminism’ in her 1992 essay, “Becoming the Third Wave.” In her landmark piece, Walker wrote to her fellow women: I am ready to decide, as my mother decided before me, to devote much of my energy to the history, health, and healing of women. Each of my choices will have to hold

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