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    fairy tale emphasizes conflict of the doctor against some supernatural entity, Godfather Death. A poor man has another child and cannot provide for him so he seeks the suitable godfather. Godfather Death guides him to success but on his own terms. The doctor, the godson, defies him and deals with consequences. Grimm’s portrayal of death and consequences relies on symbolism, theme, and plot. The short story Godfather Death is very unique and interesting fairy tale. The poor man is in trouble…

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    The clip The Baptism Murder-The Godfather (1972), show that there is some editing like when at the begging of the scene the main character was thinking in all of the murders, and at the same time he was talking with the priest of the church. Then the scene cuts to seem that all the murders were happening at the same time. Also, the background music gives the feel to the viewers that the main character is thinking in all of the bad things that has in his consciousness. In one scene, the viewers…

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    Leader-Member Exchange theory as seen in the text is described as a type of leadership where the leader focuses on a dyadic, that is ,the relationship between a leader and each team member considered independently, rather than on the relationship between leader and the group. usually, a team member can be an In-group if team members prove themselves loyal and trustworthy or an out-group if team members betray and does not agree with the leader. Working with the In-group members allows the…

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    I shall be writing about two other ingredients of literature found within the stories “Godfather Death” by The Brothers Grimm and “A&P” by John Updike, the ingredients of literature recognized as protagonist and antagonist. Primarily, I will be identifying and analyzing the protagonists and antagonists of both stories according to Kennedy’s and Gioia’s definition of the terms. In the first story, “Godfather Death”, the protagonist is the doctor. Even though the doctor is the…

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    of that age, Michael Angelo, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Galileo. An expression of ideas that will shutter the medieval world and resonate for centuries with a single word, renaissance –rebirth-. Behind it, there is still The Medici, the godfathers of the Renaissance. In a side street of the main plaza in…

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    apart. Our vision is drawn to what is going on rather than the sound or other effects. By paying attention to the visual aspect of a cinema a person can interpret the message. Though they have contrasting elements, The Great Train Robbery and The Godfather Part I share similarities that contribute to the visual effects. While watching The Great Train Robbery we view the whole cinema in black and white. Some of the film can be seen as grey due to the different shades of black that occur…

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    In the mafia movie Godfather Part 3, the crime boss Michael Corleone, when confronted with the difficulties of trying to take his crime family legitimate, frustratingly states, “It took me to go legitimate to find out where the real criminals are.” Is Statesmanship still possible in today’s political context? Interestingly, one of Susan B. Anthony’s biggest hurdles in women suffrage movement existed, subsequently, because it stood linked with temperance, “ensuring its defeat by men who feared…

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    Did you know, that most of stories will have a protagonist and an antagonist. Their purpose is to express the goals of the main characters in a particular story. Based on, in “Godfather Death” by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, and “A & P” by John Updike, both stories have protagonists and antagonists. In the case of Godfather Death, there were two main characters, the Doctor, and the Death both played big roles in the story as protagonists. The Doctor had to follow Death’s conditions. By the same…

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    My father ends up telling my godfather where is the rest of the money that he is missing, about two hundred dollars, because that is not the full amount. I had expected my godfather to tell him he’ll get the rest another day, but no he did not. Instead my godfather was telling my father that that those are all the hours he worked and is getting paid for. Of course this caused my father to get mad and so was my godfather. There was a big argument on why my godfather is not paying the full amount…

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    than one. The Godfather was the ultimate ruler. The mall that they lived in, resembled the towns of a feudal dynasty. The Godfather was surrounded first and foremost by his closest allies. As the power branched out, so too did the land. Nothing was given for free, if you wanted land you must earn it. If you want a favor, you must do something in return for that favor. If you were loyal, you were rewarded, but if you practiced deceit you got the ultimate punishment, death.…

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