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    Most of you know her as the star character from the Hunger Games series. Katniss Everdeen aka Jennifer Lawrence. If I had the opportunity to be who ever I wanted for 24 hours I would be Jennifer Lawrence. She is well known for her acting abilities and I would give anything to be as talented her. Out of all the actresses in the world I believe she is the most down to earth carefree celebrity. Anyone who has watched her interviews knows that she is straightforward and does not read from a script.…

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    The Great Dictator Essay

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    story. Chaplin believed that the expression of an actor made dialogues useless. The Great Dictator contained the typical characteristics of Chaplin’s work: political satire and exaggerated performance. What differed The Great Dictator from other films of Chaplin was that he chose to have dialogues within this…

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    Rain Man Conflict

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    In their first film together, Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman made an unlikely pair work as brothers in the movie Rain Man. Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) owns a car business. The first scene shows that Charlie is vary talkative. He can speaks with such eloquence. He has a beautiful girlfriend called Susanna (Valeria Golina). The conflict all started when he heard about his father s death, who he hadn t spoken for many years. His father had left him a car and a few rose bushes. The rest of the three…

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    Rod Serling’s message to the readers of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” is that fear causes quick, snap judgements that can lead to bad decision-making. This theme begins to appear in the story after a “meteor”, or an alien spaceship, lands near a neighborhood called Maple Street, and intentionally causes a strange power-outage. But when Les Goodman’s car starts suddenly, with him being nowhere near it, the neighbors begin to accuse Les of having something to do with the meteor and the…

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    A reckless musician grieves over the unexpected death of his brother and travels to Japan to spread his ashes, where he becomes enamored by a young woman also dealing with her own grief. BRIEF SYNOPSIS SYD WHITE (30) is a reckless and irresponsible musician, who likes to party and drink. He’s in a band with his brother, ROGER WHITE, who warns him about his behavior. Roger announces that he’s quitting the band to travel to Japan and help those suffering from the tsunami. Syd is furious that…

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    In 1961, the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany’s hit cinemas across the nation. Loosely based on the Truman Capote novel of the same name, Tiffany’s starred Audrey Hepburn in what was widely considered to be her defining role, the unorthodox, free-spirited socialite Holly Golightly. Bud Fraker was hired to document the film via photography, during which he snapped a film portrait of Hepburn as Golightly, in her chignon updo, trademark little black dress, with an overlong cigarette holder in hand…

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    She’s a witch! The character from the book: Dealing with Dragons that I chose is named Morwen. I chose her because she plays a really big part of the story helping Cimorene and being a kind friend to everyone that is nice to her. Some things about Morwen that really stood out to me is that she is nice, very clean, and to top it all off she is a cat lady. In the book it states, “You’re the one Kazul has been borrowing dishes from aren’t you?” The way that Cimorene says that makes it sound…

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    The book “Jinx” by Sage Blackwood, was a very thrilling story with some humorous moments, some twisted and morbid moments, but definitely a lot of action and adventure. Particularly I found it especially intriguing reading about how Jinx had to adapt to his new way of living outside of the clearing and into the Urwald with Simon the Wizard. In the Urwald Jinx was too afraid to step off path because he did not want to get swept away by the witches or werewolves. However, toward the end of the…

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    There is a monster that roams the bridge by the church,and everyone knows about it. But Mr.Ross was the first to disappear. Dan Frank Ross had bright green eyes, had honey brown hair, and looked to be in his 20s . He was also 6’00” and was a muscular man. Mr.Ross normally wore any clothes that were clean, but he always wore a fedora hat to match his outfit. Normally he liked about any food or drink, depending on his mood. Mr.Ross also loved the colors black,blue, and green. Dan Ross had a…

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    The Stories “Old Ben” by Jesse Stuart and “Fox Hunt” by Lensey Namioka use the elements of Foreshadowing and Flashbacks to develop interesting plots. “Old Ben” is a story about a family who hates snakes, but eventually learns to like them from their new pet snake Ben who ends up dying. “Fox Hunt” is about a boy who has a PSAT coming up and nobody wants to study with him, so a fox comes and helps him study. The stories have many similarities and differences involving flashbacks and foreshadowing.…

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