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    Sady Doyle wrote an article, November 19,2009, about twilight titled, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's most popular vampire-romance series.” The purpose of this work is to inform the reader on the unwarranted backlash on fans of the twilight series. Doyle go all over the place when it comes to her topics. She begins to talk about the weaknesses, next she goes on to the sales of the twilight series, then she goes to the fans of twilight, and…

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    Tim Burton Research Paper

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    Factory, Edward ScissorHands and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton uses color and lighting in order to project isolation and to communicate a theme of separation from society and the real world. Burton uses a whole arsenal of cinematic techniques that make us feel, and react in different ways. The most obvious would be color uses that he is so famous for. In all the movies he makes it clear that there is some sort of separation and isolation between one place and another. For example, in Edward…

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    There has been a lot of good photographers all over the history of photography, such as Ansel Adams, Yousuf Karsh, Robert Capa, Dorothea Lange, and many others. Many people have different favorite photographers, the most known is Ansel Adams, my favorite photographer is Ansel Adams, but now I am going to talk about Robert Capa. Robert Capa was a famous war photographer, and journalist photographer, born in October 22, 1913 and die in May 25, 1954 he was born in Budapest, Australia-Hungary.…

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    Tim Burton Research Paper

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    Timothy Walter Burton, more commonly known as Tim Burton, is a film director, producer, artist, writer, and animator. Throughout Tim Burton’s films, he uses many cinematic techniques that show his skills towards what he does. These three films where he uses these techniques are certainly some of the best he has done; Batman, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. There are numerous techniques used in these films. “Batman” was Tim Burton’s…

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    Burton’s movies is camera movements. For example, in the movie Charlie and the chocolate factory, when Charlie was running to his house the camera tilted to show Charlie's tilted house. Another example is in the movie Edward scissorhands, when the creator was walking up to Edward with the prosthetic hands. The camera movement used there was dolly/tracking. The last example is in the movie Big fish, when the funeral happened, the camera movement that was used was pan. From these examples you can…

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    History and Language: A Holistic View Humanity is such a simple word, yet is by simple nature excruciatingly complex. The variables and mechanisms that fuse themselves together are so broad and encompassing that it is not so surprising that looking at the whole is nigh on impossible for one person to achieve. Just as a single person is a blend of ideas, ideals, and circumstances, so too is the overall essence of what makes a human, human. Anthropologists have dedicated their lives to the attempt…

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    The Dovre Witch was a hunchbacked old woman who wore a silver belt, birch-bark shoes, and a leather jacket. Her pipe was filled with moss and she begged from the very poorest. Even though she begged, she was in fact a very wealthy witch. The Dovre Witch had the ultimate power and if she wanted, she could strike fear into any peasant who failed to satisfy her needs. On this particular afternoon, Dovre Witch was feeling very irritable after she was denied her prized ham by the Countess Marta.…

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    Few theoretical fields can compare with the amount of internal conflict that plagues postcolonial theory: a semmingly constant stream of debates centring on internal rather than external elements. One such debate can be located between the ‘first wave’ and ‘second wave’ critics of the theory, who are often engaged with one another in a rather antagonistic manner. A simple explanation of the stances of each wave can be stated as such: first wave criticism challenges the colonial status quo,…

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    Returning the “Gaze” Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John is an attempt at writing back to a hegemonic colonial discourse. The protagonist of this postcolonial bildungsroman, Annie, is struggling to form an identity while adhering to colonial ideologies forced upon her. However, her ability to write and speak back is limited to the colonial culture, specifically English literature and language. She uses the culture that is oppressing her as a means of liberation. Similarly, Homi Bhabha argues that a…

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    the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire has been widely analyzed and researched. For generations, historians have sought out the great flaw that led to the collapse of this once monumental civilization. One primary contributor to this effort was Edward Gibbon whose six volume discourse The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was pivotal in societies attempt to understand this great tragedy. Gibbon’s arguments on the flawed power system in the empire caused by unprecedented…

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