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    The Profit: Amazing Grapes

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    Summary Plot In this episode of The Profit, Marcus Lemonis visits Amazing Grapes in April 2014. Greg and Bill are wine connoisseurs in Orange Country that turned their passion of collecting fine wines into a business. However, their business Amazing Grapes has unfortunately never been profitable. The business is months away from closing down due to mismanaged inventory and absentee of owners. Marcus Lemonis comes in and convinces staff and the owners to take ownership of their business and stop…

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    others. In What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, it a powerful and meaningful story about a big family in a small town called Endora in Iowa. Throughout the story the family faces a lot of problems having A sibling with a disability and having to take care of them there whole life without any help of the parents after the father had passed away and a mother who suffered depression after the father passed away causing the mother to stay inside for 7 years and getting over weight. Gilbert grape is a young…

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    thought and feelings, but still allows for the protagonist to express themselves fully on the screen. Such is the case of the film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The majority of the music in this film, specifically the opening of the film, is the antithesis of what Gilbert is actually feeling personally. Background and Synopsis What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced by executive producers Alan C. Blomquist and Lasse Hallstrom. Produced by producers…

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    What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a very simple yet meaningful movie. There is no clear cut message that points out the faults of society and it may be hard to interpret a message because the movie is set around everyday life. However the one thing that is clear, is what Gilbert realizes throughout the movie. His life is going nowhere and he must break the everyday routine. Gilbert sees through the people he calls his friends, and notices their subtle influences and impacts within his decisions of…

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    Fried Green Tomatoes is about a woman named Ninny Threadgoode telling Evelyn Couch about the past.Evelyn is a woman who doesn’t have self confidence and she gets pushed around. Evelyn and her husband going to the retirement home.Ed goes and sees his relative, while Evelyn goes and sits on a couch. That is when Evelyn meets Ninny. Ninny tells a story about her friend Idgie's past. It starts with Idgie when she was a child refusing to go a wedding, her brother Buddy convinces her to go. After the…

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    Movie Analysis The movie Fried Green Tomatoes centers on an unhappy housewife in her forties named Evelyn Couch who meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode in a nursing home while visiting her husband’s sick aunt. Ninny, over several encounters with Evelyn, tells her the story of the young tomboy Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode, the youngest of the Threadgoode children. After Idgie's older sister’s wedding her older brother Buddy is hit by a train and killed. Devastated, Idgie recedes from her family and…

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    Persuasion is a novel by Jane Austen that portrays the Elliot family (which in this time is head by the Baronet Sir Walter Elliot), and their friends with a third-person omniscient narrator. The book takes place in early nineteenth century England during the Napoleonic Wars and also takes place in the same universe of one of Jane Austen’s earlier and most popular book Pride and Prejudice. Throughout the book, several characters such as Sir Walter and Anne Elliot are persuaded that their first…

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    Swami Vivekananda said “Every change is being forced upon us.” In Tally’s world no words could be more true. Pretties and Specials are the second and third books in the Uglies series. Within the trilogy the story follows Tally, a young girl who finds out what is truly happening in her society. In Tally’s futuristic city people undergo an operation on their sixteenth birthday to become a “Pretty” the operation alters their looks and their brains. During the operation a lesion is put in everyone’s…

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    The Martian

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    The film we studied was The Martian directed by Ridley Scott. The three main points I will be elaborating more on is the ‘positivity’ of Mark Watney, the ‘Responsible leader’ of Commander Lewis and the ‘Intelligence’ of Benjamin Vogel. These are the 3 important qualities which lead to the successful rescue of Mark Watney. I believe that these are the 3 most important qualities found throughout the film, and they will be the ones i will use to construct my essay. Using them to emphasise the the…

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    The opening introduced General Grant and his cunning and also very drastic war tactics to win. This chapter also uses detain to inform us of the Confederate enemy is the Union and its general Winfield Scott. General Scott was the man who informed President Lincoln of the plans of the south after he found the battle plans underneath a shady tree and President Lincoln at the time is trying to stop the spread of slavery a problem mostly in the south but tells…

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