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    #1 Hi! The song I will be talking about today is “Scars To Your Beautiful” by Alessia [Aless-sia] Cara and hopefully, you will learn something valuable from this presentation. #2 Alessia Cara is a twenty-year-old R&B Canadian singer and songwriter from Brampton, Ontario. She empowers young women and men as well today about self-acceptance and the obstacles that she has experienced in her youth, from the many songs she writes about. Growing up, Alessia enjoyed writing poetry and theater as a…

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    The movie Life is beautiful has drawn a lot of controversy over whether the Holocaust should be looked at as a comedy. The movie is about a jewish father and son being sent to a jewish concentration camp, where the father makes the whole thing look like a game to his son, and the grand prize is a real tank. Throughout the journey the Father makes it seem to be hilarious. This film is a powerful presentation of a Father's love for his child, and risking his life for his family. Many people…

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    La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) is a movie about a man named Guido who tries to shelter his son Giosue from the violence during the World War II. The story is jagged and rough to the audience because it shows the problem of the people during the world war. While the movie also shows gentle and happiness to the viewers because of Guido’s sense of humor. La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) is an Italian movie which is directed by Roberto Benigni. Roberto Benigni who was the director of the…

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    A Beautiful Mind is a dramatic and romantic film directed by John Howard about a man named John Nash who’s a mathematical genius and faces schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder characterized by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior. John starts experiencing patterns where there aren’t any because schizophrenia causes problems with thinking. He finds a job at Princeton, where he and his friend Charles actually went to college together, and gets a job as a math…

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    Money. Social status. Love affairs. These are three of the many important themes used by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel “The Beautiful And Damned.” Fitzgerald uses these themes to convey a message to his readers. This message is that no matter how high up in society someone is that doesn’t mean they will be satisfied in the end. Things such as money and status can all change in an instant, they are not permanent, instead materialistic. The materialist can prove to ruin one's relationship with…

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    Akiwa Goldzman, the writer of The Beautiful Mind, whose parents are famous psychologists in New York, has a good understanding of the causes of mental illness. In "The Beautiful Mind," he used his psychological knowledge to create the "Nash" image of a typical patient with schizophrenia. Today, this image has become one of the most classic images of mental patients. Of course, for the screen effect, the pathogenesis and pathology of Nash's image in Goldsman’s painting are all artistically…

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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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    Today’s topic focuses on the complexity of Nash’s schizophrenia, a mental illness that devolves and progresses accordingly to the narrative structure of Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind.” Did you know the prevalence rate for schizophrenia is approximately 1.1 % of the population over the age of 18? Within his film, Howard explores the development of this mental illness, highlighting the adversities Nash faces along his journey. These challenges offer insight into his sufferings, as he is…

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    It’s a Wonderful Life is a well-known uplifting holiday classic that is impactful both in its emotional depth and traditional cinema excellence. Filmed and released in 1946, it is a black and white film that has meaningful themes on the importance of life, and the impact one individual can have on the world. Directed by Frank Capra, it is a critically-acclaimed film that won five Academy Awards, and has often been regarded as one of the best films of all time. It’s a Wonderful Life follows…

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    won a Pulitzer prize and a National Book award; House (1985); Among Schoolchildren (1989), which was described by the New York Book Times Review as “full of the author’s genuine love, delight and celebration of the human condition.”; and Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003), which will be the main focus of this essay. Kidder graduated from Phillips Academy Preparatory School in 1963, Harvard University in 1967 with a BA in English, after an encounter in a creative writing course taught by Robert…

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