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    Garment sweatshops in the San Francisco area were packed to the rim with Asian immigrant women in the last few decades of the 20th century. Miriam Ching Louie starts off her journal with a primary source of Helen Wong speaking on how she followed all the other immigrant women to the garment shops and found work there. These garment shops had bad conditions with dust flying around and the immigrants working there usually worked very long hours with extremely low pay. The garment industry in the Bay

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    Today I chose to watch “Titanic” for the very first time. I chose to watch “Titanic, because I wanted to know what the movie was really about, maybe I might like the movie. Actually watching the movie gives you another perspective than just knowing what the setting and theme is about. Many people looked at me like I was crazy, when I said “I had never watched “Titanic”, and wanted to finally watch it, and see if I actually would like, so I gave it a chance. My one regret is coming into the movie

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    Joel George George 1 Mrs.Sorensen Period 1 23 February, 2016 Where the Red Fern Grows: Compare and Contrast In Hollywood, there have been over forty-two movies made that were based on books, but many times the movies do not live up to their high expectations. The movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, was a movie which did not live up to the high expectations set by the

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    Rwoell Mikko Q. Cabailo 3IS-A REACTION PAPER BIG HERO 6 Walt Disney Animation Studios is known for creating animated movies that are motivating, heart-warming, and inspiring to many people especially the youth of our generation. From bringing the classics to life like Cinderella, Snow White, The Little Mermaid, etc., to the big movies like Lion King, Pocahontas, the Toy Story Series, Cars, Mulan, Wreck-it Ralph, Frozen etc., and now their latest movie hit, Big Hero 6, the movie that brought the characters

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    The films Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and The Last Laugh, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, both feature protagonists going through change, for better or for worse. Rear Window features L.B. ‘Jeff’ Jefferies, a professional photographer who is stuck in his wheelchair, in his apartment, because of an accident he had while on the job. The Last Laugh features a hotel doorman that gets demoted to a lesser job, who then undergoes a psychological change. Both films use elements of mise-en-scene

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    Robin Williams legacy years later, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle which is set to release in December; four high school students are pulled into the game and are set as their avatars to find their way out. The trailer for the upcoming action/comedy film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is successful in engrossing the viewers by the use of music to bring the comedical sense of the movie together and uses different camera angles with fast paced cuts to show how environment plays a crucial role in the

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    Kendrick Lamar even went on to mention how the city of Houston had showed him much love over the years and truly appreciated the support he had received in order to earn the position that he is in today. This immediately gave off the feeling of being united and trying to understand another man’s struggle. To close out the show in fashion we were repaid with tracks such as “ADHD” a throwback for

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    seconds in movies to show the audience that the character is inebriated. The second type of subjective camera is even more uncomfortable because it attempts to bring the audience into the film. This doesn’t work because it immediately makes the audience feel uncomfortable and actually takes them out of the film which is the opposite of its intention. There are a couple of old Alfred Hitchcock movies that attempted to use subjective camera, I would think if anyone could make it work it would be Alfred

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    The outside is a novel about neigh hood gang that do not like each other. The Outsiders is a novel that portrays two groups of boys, The Socs and The Greasers. They seldom get along and end up fighting a great deal. In the end, both groups realize that they are all just humans, boys facing the same life situations. They are The Social also known as The Socs and The Greasers. The Socs that gang there are broke gang but the all have long hair they like to smoke and drink. The boy name is pony boy

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    Arthur Miller’s “A Death of a Salesman” transcribes about the flashbacks and struggles that Willy Loman is going through in his life. Willy, sees himself as a superior salesman, whose life is falling apart all around him and does not know how to cope with the changes he is enduring. Not only is he affected by it, but others around him as his wife and sons are too. Having high expectations for yourself is good, but to much can be a troublesome matter for you and for others in your life. As a salesman

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