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    He inspired magicians such as David Copperfield and Criss Angel. David Copperfield and Criss Angel are both popular modern american magicians. He also represented freedom and escaping from boundaries with all his escape acts. Whether it is a financial situation or anything else, there is always a way to escape. But, more importantly…

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    if one or the other would lead people to a correct interpretation. Results showed that the both the alerting and orienting response were required for people to be able to accurately describe the mechanisms of the trick and the time it took place. Magicians may already be well-aware of this, as they seem to use people’s limited attentional capabilities to their advantage when performing illusions. This study was well-conducted, and furthered the understanding between how the attentional network…

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    remainder of this scene, the film classically cuts and contains a large number of sequence shots. As soon as their performance is over, the magicians flee the theater while being chased by a member of the FBI. As the member of the FBI is pursuing the crew, the film contains what seems to be a combination of sequence shots and thematic montages, switching between the magicians running, and the FBI member himself, who is a little behind. In the New Orleans show and chase scene of Now You See Me,…

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    Does The Brain Work

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    by a simple coin trick.” Neuroscientists Susan Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknick pair together to try to find out the answer to the question of how does the brain decide what to pay attention to, so they went to Apollo Robbins a magician. (Not only is Robbins a magician, but he is known for underhandedness). Neuroscientists know a lot about how the brain works and what it is constructed of, but they do not know how the brain decides what to pay attention…

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    The movie The Prestige follows an intricate and remarkable story about the rivalry between the two 20th century magicians, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden. Directed by Christopher Nolan, this movie’s story grows from simple acquaintances to taking drastic measures just to one-up each other, and be the better magician. The movie contains many plot twists, the largest of which was that Borden and his ingénieur Fallon were actually twins in disguise. This and some of the other plot twists were…

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    Imperialism The Tempest

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    Shakespeare wrote The Tempest to intrigue his audience and to draw them into a story about a magician who controlled a fairy who could wreak havoc upon unsuspecting humans. This story grabbed the audience’s attention right from the start. He pulled them into the land of the magician, he had them watch how the magician treated the inhabitants of the island to which he was banished and, in doing so, made his audience more aware of imperialism and colonialism. He forced them to struggle with the…

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    Imagine being seated in an auditorium, watching a magician perform seemingly impossible tricks of magic. Little does the audience know, the magic is real. Night Circus, written by Erin Morgenstern, is a fantasy novel revolving around two young magicians in a Victorian-era world where the existence of magic is highly doubted. However, not everything is just fun and games. With the magicians' mentors forcing a competition upon the two, both characters fight for their independence to be together.…

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    Innocent for being very generous to other people, the wife whose an outcast and also a greedy fool for all wanting money and lust, and finally a young monk, Don John, a Caregiver to the people, a Lover for the lust of the merchant’s wife, and a greedy Magician toward the merchant. The archetype can explain in theory of what type of character they really are in the Shipman’s tale and knowing their sins and virtues. The merchant is known to be generous and as the innocent. He is rich and loves to…

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    Iago's Ethos In Othello

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    of these works include Othello and Macbeth. Rather than the main characters from each work it is seem to be the true master rhetoricians stand out in these works; Iago and Lady Macbeth. The two prove themselves to be master rhetorician magicians, but every magician has there secrets. Iago takes his rhetoric style with his credible honesty and ethos giving him the title "Honest Iago". Whereas Lady Macbeth knows how to make the people in her life like putty in her hands through the pathos in her…

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    worth 1 and the faces cards are worth 5. With the totally unsystematic path through the thoroughly shuffled cards the magician is able to predict the last chosen card by the victim.…

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