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    would have no choice but to be “Unthinkable” by Alicia Keys featuring Drake. It highlights how her romance with Romeo goes on a weird roller coaster that brings out her sentimental side. The artists in the song “Unthinkable”, Drake and Alicia Keys are both known for their romantic, heartbreaking songs. Drake is a hip-hop and R&B artist who is known for his soft melody and emotional lyrics that captures how his love life is going. On the other hand, Alicia Keys is a R&B, pop, and soul singing…

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    man and identify as a “good girl.” In Bell’s book, Alicia is coined a good girl who “enjoys flirting at work when she knew it was safe” (Bell, 41). Alicia is comfortable being a good girl in relationships, but feels unsafe in sexual interactions with men to whom she is close—a defense mechanism she uses because she was sexually abused as a child. Bell states, “The more distant a man, the safer he felt to her,” and thus vice versa. Because Alicia is so focused on being a “good girl” in order to…

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    (Mercedes Mason) makes another plea with Daniel to link up with the Clark family members, which she refers to as “good people.” “Good people are the first ones to die,” Daniel declares. Travis, Liza and also Chris get into the pickup truck as Madison, Alicia along with Nick pile into the automobile. Chinook helicopters travel…

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    In many stories, a character’s identity is influenced and shaped by the world around them to develop who they are. In the fictional narrative, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, readers sink into the depths of a significant period in a character’s life when she explores the real world and uncover its secrets. Esperanza has finally moved to a house on Mango Street, however, as she interacts with the people and things in her surroundings, she discovers that there are many hardships…

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    Pivotal to a film’s success is in its ability to engage the wider audience into differing perceptions of truly unique experiences. A film has the ability to subject the responder to unconventional mentalities, in the hope of a catalyst in the change of their narrow perceptions on undisclosed experiences. Ron Howard’s 2001 Roman A Clef film A Beautiful Mind, resonates with the viewer as it is a rare opportunity to experience firsthand the psychosis, debilitation and eventual redemption associated…

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    A beautiful mind is set in the late 1940’s, a movie based on a true story of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, Directed by Ron Howard in 2002. This story emphasizes Nash 's graduate years at Princeton University where he starts to develop a mental disorder. Later doctors diagnose Nash with paranoid schizophrenia which causes Nash to start hallucinating. Nash struggles through his life and with the help of friends and especially his wife is able to recover. A beautiful mind is about a…

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    For Jayanthi she was thrilled by rebelling against her culture and the way her parents wanted her to act. She toyed with men just as they once toyed with her emotions. For Alicia she advanced in society by learning from others’ mistakes. She knew how to keep herself out of trouble and even poverty because of what she saw in her neighborhood and how those around her suffered academically as well as socially. With advantages…

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    thinking that they were the only two, but they were wrong. Whenever the girls wanted to go out, or go on a date, they would make up a third twin named Alicia. Whenever they got in trouble Alicia did it. Soon after they dated a guy, he would be found dead, and the security footage of each crime showed one of the girls, but they were never there. Did Alicia do it, or is one of the twins hiding something? This book is a mysterious and serious type of work. There are many crimes and investigations…

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    "A Beautiful Mind" is a film by executive Ron Howard, which depends on the life story of a numerical virtuoso John Forbes Nash, Jr, played by Russell Crowe. Jennifer Connelly assumes the part of Alicia Larde, wife of John Nash. John is a schizophrenic. He got the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 for building up the "amusement hypothesis". This is a film about how schizophrenia influences the working of the individual and in addition their crew. Despite the fact that we will never realize what…

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    life because her family has very little money. The book explain the many hardships Esperanza has in her childhood. Both Alicia and Esperanza’s view on education and writing as a better way to life. Through these and other characters, Cisneros suggests that education offers a path of freedom. Esperanza looks up to people that surround her. Esperanza is talking about her friend Alicia, who works hard to achieve a better life. Cisneros write, “...because she doesn’t want to spend her whole life in…

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