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    The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is about a prisoner McMurphy, a disobedient free spirit crash into a mental institution and try to escape hard labour work in work farm. The character of McMurphy highly conflicted with the institution system and reveal the characteristics of total institution, including do everything in the same place, total control of inmate’s live and surveillance. Besides, his difference within the inmates and his impact on them allow us to picture the moral career…

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    The story begins with Matt, a clone of a powerful drug lord called El Patron, living in isolation in Opium with the mother figure of the story, Celia. Since clones are disliked he is found and taken to the “Big House” as a prisoner and where he continues to live even once freed until he realizes El Patron wants Matt to harvest his heart. He flees to Aztlan but is forced into slavery as a plankton factory worker until he can escape with three other boys and makes it back to Opium where he lives…

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    The Kid: A Short Story

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    James was an island in a sea of humanity. His face, shoulders and entire mid-section drooped as far as physically possible. A number of heavy breaths emanated from his lungs. A succession of sighs escaped from his lips. Clearly, “the Kid” as he was known in the Fight One locker room needed some cheering up. He wasn’t going to get it. Edwards had begged, borrowed and dealt for the cross promotional matchup against 4CW invader, Lord Raab. Not many of his colleagues thought he had a fighting…

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    Based on the Stephen King novel, “The Shawshank Redemption” tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a successful banker wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Once in Shawshank prison, his world is turned upside down as he learns the new dynamics of life on the inside. Set in the 1940’s, the film shows the graphic and harsh world that exists inside prison walls and when viewed through a leadership aspect, provides insight into the ways in which corruption, power, and struggle can…

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    Losing something that you have had for a long time can have an enormous impact on a person. In The Shawshank Redemption, Samuel Norton experiences the loss of his dream, his freedom, and ultimately his actual death. The movie tells the story of a man named Andy Dufresne who is sentenced for two consecutive life terms in a severe prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However, only Andy knows he did not commit the crime. The Warden deals with the loss by desiring a lot of money, his…

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    One of the all-time great movies Shawshank Redemption based on Stephen King’s book has some of the most thought provoking and poignant quotes, one of which I think is “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free”. This sentence has nuances that deserve careful inspection. However, before diving into the quote, let’s pause to define what fear and hope are. Fear is one of the basic and strongest emotions known and can redefine who you are. It has the power to make us curl up in a corner,…

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    The Shawshank Redemption- Angus Dally Show how the director of The Shawshank Redemption uses recurring symbols as a device to reinforce ideas. In the film The Shawshank Redemption, the director Frank Darabont uses a number of recurring symbols to reinforce ideas. The frequent shots of elements of the prison, the pin up girls in Andy’s cell, and the symbolic use of water all serve to build on the ideas on freedom, change, and deception presented in the film. In the film there are very regular…

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    "The Shawshank Redemption" starts off with the familiar brutality of a prison movie. Convicted in the late 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, banker Tim Robbins is thrown into the slammer (the Shawshank penitentiary in Maine) for two consecutive life sentences. Seasoned inmate Morgan Freeman—the narrator in this story—watches as the soft-spoken, vulnerable prisoner undergoes the inevitable gang rape. Prison, Freeman tells the audience in that inimitably authoritative voice, "is no…

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    The movie Shawshank Redemption is a film that was about a banker named Andy Dufresne who was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for murdering his beloved wife and her lover. He knows that he did not commit the crimes, he was being accused of something he did not do. While his stay at prison, he made some friends and lives through the harsh life in prison. This movie has shown what he went through. It shows his difficulties and experiences throughout his many years of confinement in…

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    Most people recognize the law as reliable and responsible yet what we observe in Shawshank prison is actually the guards and also Warden carrying out far more harmful things compared to many of the prisoners that stay in the prison. The guards would normally attack the inmates and the Warden was basically fine with the guards villainy. The figures that these were developed ended up being the opposite of one might assume. Good and evil characteristics had been presented as contradictory…

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