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    Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Brooklyn born self taught artist. His first attention attracted his graffiti in the city of New York. Basquiat’s artistic talents and inspiration came from his cultural heritage as his mother being Puerto Rican and father a Haitian American. After quitting high school a year before his graduation and years of struggling his work finally got him fame. Receiving fame for his words, stick figures, and animals, the public adored all of his hard work. Basquiat began street…

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    Have you ever had that moment in your life when the truth about something, ‘’set you free?’’ Well this book is all about that. The themes of ‘’Tangerine” by Edward Bloor is seeing and the truth. Paul faces many things in his life, which all revolves around those themes. The main character had a traumatic experience when he was young, so he completely blocked out the memory and forgot all about it. Little by little, Paul pieces his memory together. Ironically, Paul sees the truth about others,…

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    The shiny sun hit all of the students and teachers eyes as they went outside for an announcement. All the high school students sat on the cold metal bleachers waiting for something to happen. The principle walked out to the field looking down at the ground with a microphone in one hand. He slowly picked up his head looking at everyone, and it looked like our principle was going in slow motion, tapping the microphone, testing if it worked. The principle licked his lips, breathed in, and spoke,…

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    The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology: Edward Jenner Meika Johnston 101024738 BIOL1010 1.1 Introduction The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology should be awarded to a scientist who has helped the field in many regards. Edward Jenner has aided the Biotechnology not only during his time period, but also the rest of the foreseeable future. Edward Jenner was the father of vaccination, which allowed immunization for smallpox, and then give the footprints of the immunization…

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    Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism, 2011 Michael Parenti received his Ph. D. from Yale university. He is an internationally known award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer who addresses a wide variety of political and cultural subjects. He now serves on the advisory boards of Independent Progressive Politics, Education Without Borders, and the Jasenovic Foundation. He has currently written 23 books with topics on theocracy and other religious sins, democracy and economic power,…

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    Tim Burton Research Paper

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    burton makes sure that the main characters do not fit in with their enviroment. In Edward Scissorhands, Burton makes the choice that when Peggy enters the Inventor’s castle for the first time, despite it being extremely dark from a distance the outside of the castle is a sprawling garden with brilliantly made topiaries and brightly colored flowers. Burton did this on purpose, not only as a plot device to foretell Edward, but to show that this seemingly abandoned place that is very dark and scary…

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    Her opinions consist of how the Twilight series represents male dominance, female weakness, abuse in relationships, and racial inequality. Bella not being able to take care of herself, she does not get scared when Edward hurts her during sex, and the racial competition between Edward and Jacob are big social issues that happen regularly today. With these books being so popular, they could influence societies to accept male dominance over women, abuse in relationships, and the racial inequality…

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    Edward Scissorhands

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    Tim Burton really loves to use establishing shot in Charlie and the chocolate factory , Edward scissorhand, and the Big Fish Charlie and the chocolate factory, when entering the factory. Seeing the waterfall of milk chocolate, grass you can eat and other things delicious, surprised and amazed the characters. Setting the mood as happy, cool, and mysterious. Edward Scissorhands, when Peg was walking into Edward’s house. Seeing the mysterious and spooky things in the house, not being fully…

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    unique, that it would only appear in Burton’s mind. He is the only one that would be able to create it on-screen. In Tim Burton’s movie, Edward Scissorhands, Edward, who has scissors for hands, is brought into the colorful town. At first the neighbors and other citizens welcome him, but through gossip and multiple unfortunate events, they turn against him. Poor Edward flees back to his lonely mansion, realizing he could never belong there. Tim Burton uses the cinematic techniques of lighting,…

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    David Fincher’s cult classic film Fight Club (1999) is considered one of the best movies of all time by both critics and casual movie fans. The film follows an unnamed narrator suffering from insomnia. The narrator eventually becomes addicted to attending support groups for diseases he does not have as because they helps him sleep. Eventually however, the support groups are no longer help him sleep and it is at this point that the narrator encounters the charismatic Tyler Durden. Tyler and the…

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