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    he kept going on. Sydney went his way and there was a rift grew between them. Trying not to let himself get down Charlie kept going on and performed as a Paperboy in “Sherlock Holmes” at the the age of 12. At the end of the show he became fascinated by the acting career he had made, and decided to start his career officially as a comedian. This led him to move to the US in 1910. That was his early work and as we get closer to the 1920’s and the 1930’s he starts to do more and more famous shows such as [3] ‘A night in an English Music Hall,’ ‘The Fire Man,’ and ‘One A.M.’ These all happened around 1916. He also went to school during this time. They were named charitable schools. Two years later he married at the age of nineteen to Mildred Harris. Together they had a son, they named him Norman Spence Chaplin, Who unfortunately lived only three days. Heartbroken by this they divorced in 1920. He went to find love elsewhere, and found Lita Grey. They got married in the early 20’s and had two kids who they named Charles and Sydney, after Charlie and Sydney. They did not find gold and divorced in 1927. Later he married Paulette Goddard from 1936-1942, but did not have any children. [4] His significance in the early 20’s was he made his films and hired actors Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. The films they made together were as the following ‘The Kid,’ ‘The Gold Rush,’ ‘City Lights,’ and ‘Modern Times.’ All these films made him popular and the most successful movie star…

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    Charles “Charlie” Ng was born on December 24, 1960 in Hong Kong, China. In his early life, he was brutally abused by his father. He came from a wealthy family, but was described as a disturbed teenager. His first criminal offence was when he was arrested for shoplifting. This happened when he was fifteen and his father sent him to boarding school but, he was sent back to Hong Kong because he was caught stealing. When he was eighteen, he moved to America to attend Notre Dame de Namur University…

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    Charlie Chaplin as a child was fascinated with the characters of Charles Dickens and would often mimic them. It was like Chaplin’s life was one of Dickens's novels, the aspects being poverty, despair and loneliness. By beginning at a young age, Charlie Chaplin rose to fame with his extraordinary athleticism and endless inventiveness, Chaplin would still influence films to come through directing, producing and through the popularity of his own films. At the young age of 16, Chaplin was already…

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    Born on February 19, 2004, Millie Bobby Brown is a Spanish-born British actress. Her family relocated to Los Angeles, where she began earning parts on shows like Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and NCIS. Her big break came with the Netflix sleeper hit Stranger Things, on which she stars as the gifted Eleven. Brown's parents sacrificed everything — moving their family to Los Angeles — to see Brown's acting dreams come true.She was born in Marbella, Spain, but her family moved to Bournemouth…

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    Charlie Chaplin was a British actor and comedian, who was a distinguished star in the 20th century’s silent- film era. In fact, many stars in this area originated from a working-class background. He was raised in a poor neighborhood by river warehouses, located in Westminster. Therefore, Chaplin emerged creating films that pertained with the working class perspective. This enabled the audiences of the urban life to relate with the film (Ross 44). Both of his had been music hall entertainers,…

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    Nations for their cooperation. (Salomons, 2009) The people of the Stoney Point tribe were promised their land would be returned to them but even long after the war ended and the world moved forward, the land now known as “Camp Ipperwash” was occupied by the government. This is where the situation becomes violent and where I, as a resident of Ipperwash Beach, find myself unsettled and in disbelief. On September 4th 1995, approximately thirty members of the band, accompanied by children, stormed…

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    Peter Weir’s 1998 film, The Truman Show, explores a variety of themes, but the one that will be followed throughout the paper is simulation and simulacrum, which is seen through the filming techniques. This paper will also explore the Psychoanalytic theory through the character Truman Burbank and his day-to-day routine and lifestyle. Truman exemplifies the true qualities of the Psychoanalytic theory through his reactions towards the people around him. In the film The Truman Show, Truman Burbank…

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    Reply Reply All Forward Move Delete Close Previous Item Next Item Close Christian Laskie Plato's Cave Paper Christian Laskie [christian.laskie@apps.schoolcraft.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2017 4:06 PM To: Jesse Mileo Christian Laskie Professor Mileo Philosophy February 1, 2017 Plato’s Cave and The Truman Show Have you ever questioned your reality and if anything is beyond it? This is a question humans often struggle with because it questions whether or not we are actually free…

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    Dead Until Dark Today I will be doing my book chat on Dead Until Dark authored by Charlaine Harris. Dead Until Dark is the first book to The Southern Vampire Mysteries series. As the rest of the series, this book is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a fictional character living in a fictional life. Sookie is a 25 year old waitress at Merlotte’s Bar, living with her grandmother Adele and her older brother Jason in a small fictional town in Louisiana, Bon Temps. In this imaginary world, vampires and…

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    Truman is better off making the choice to leave the constructed reality because he deserves a life just like any other human being. Christof taking Truman when he was a baby and putting him in this constructed reality was cruel and out of his decision. At the end when Christof was trying to persuade Truman to stay at his constructed reality he made it seem as a utopia place when in reality it isn’t because his whole life was a lie. Christof would have done anything to keep Truman in that…

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