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There are many iterations of the Hamlet story that have been filmed dating from 1907 up until the year 2009 yet only five of those many movies portray a good feeling and meaning for the“To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy. The five movies in mention are the Branagh, Gibson, Blockbuster, Olivier, and Doran’s versions. In the five movies the camera angle, actions of Hamlet, and the music do well at producing emotion in the viewer. But only one is superior to all. The Branagh version is the most…

Fiction is important to the curriculum and removing it would be very disappointing and devastating. Looking For Alaska portrays how fiction novels educate readers about different topics and life lessons. The story starts off giving background about the main character, Miles Halter and how he doesn’t have any friends at school to invite to his going away party. When he arrives to Culver Creek he meets his roommate named Colonel who introduces Miles to his friends. Miles ends up becoming friends…

Anne Hathaway is known for her break out role in ‘Princess Diaries’. She is also famous for her portrayal as a Parkinsons’ patient in ‘Love & Other Drugs.’ While she is clearly a talented actress, able to move from one spectrum to another, not a lot of people know that she had her share of higher education. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Anne Hathaway was inspired to pursue acting because of her mother. Her mother, Kathleen, appeared in ‘Les Miserables’ - during the first U.S. tour. But she was…

Crash is Paul Haggis’s famous follow up to his first critically acclaimed film Million Dollar Baby, and with his reputation on the line, Haggis has rolled up his sleeves to create a film that in many eyes is a rarity. Crash is a hackneyed masterpiece. The film portrays the lives of many characters over thirty six hours as they encounter taut situations of racial discrimination. Among the mass of characters that plague the film, several others stand out and prove to be more than their one…

In the fictional book, Looking for Alaska by John Green, John writes an adult novel of 221 pages speaking of a young boy who learns a lot about love, depression, regret, and adventure. This book was published by Penguins Young Reading Group in on August 14, 2008. It is a good book for teenagers ages 14-18. Miles Halter is regular boy who is tired of being predictable. He is very smart and his talent is memorizing last words of memorable people. He has little to no friends and he is always…

“Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is about Miles Halter, who moves to Birmingham Alabama. Miles joins a boarding school when he gets caught up in the intriguing, sexy, intelligent, and confusing world of Alaska Young. When Miles meets Alaska his whole world was turned upside down. Alaska makes him question everything, from birth, to death. The main question in Miles’ head at the end is “how will I ever escape this labyrinth?” Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or…

Beautiful Mistake was oh so sexy and addicting. Once I started reading I couldn’t stop. Caine and Rachel were electrifying. The first time they met when Rachel confused Caine for her best friends lying ex-boyfriend, was hilarious. She told off Caine and treated him like the lowest scum on earth, but he took it all with a stride and a smile on his lips. Even when Rachel was walking away after her realization that she told off the wrong guy, Caine still watched her with a smile on his lips and…

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is written very uniquely. For starters, the narrator is death. Normally in books the messages are straight forward but in this book several people can read it and each person can get something different out of it. It should continue to be taught today because it emphasizes the power of words, how to have hope in the darkest times and how to remain loyal. If your eyes could speak, what would they say? Humans often do not realize the power we have with using our…

Million Dollar Baby is an inspirational film. Directed and filmed by Clint Eastwood in 2004, Million Dollar Baby is a motivational film featuring a young women living in the lower class who follows her passion for boxing. Part of the reason I believe it was a good film was since it was a comeback movie. It started with a thirty-one year old waitress named Maggie Fitzgerald who comes from a lower class family in which they do not all get along well. Maggie Fitzgerald has a passion to one day…

In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel, the main character, depicts an event on her eleventh birthday that strongly affected her. The story begins by explaining Rachel’s perspective and her feelings on birthdays. It’s her eleventh birthday, but she feels as if she’s still ten years old. She expected to wake up and feel eleven years old, but everything was just like the day before and nothing had really changed. Rachel says that when we all do or say something unintelligent, that’s the…