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    Losing something or someone that is really dear to your heart can have a long term effect on a person. It can affect the way the feel, and act. In the movie Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne, experiences the death of his wife. The movie follows Andy Dufresne who is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover and is sentenced to a tough prison. However, only Andy knows he didn’t commit the crimes. Andy deals with death of freedom by him convincing…

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    Prison School Tropes

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    School Vs. Prison Genre Although some people may argue the fact that prison and school films are unrelated in every way, I am here to argue the fact that these two genres are similar in many ways that some might not be able to point out for themselves. I am going to use three different critical articles as well as three different movies to explain my reasoning. I feel as though the significance of comparing these two genres is very important because it gives additional meaning to some aspects of…

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    Tim Robbins plays a role in Frank Darabont’s ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ (1994) as a prominent banker named Andy Du Fresne who is unjustly convicted of murder and is then sentenced back to back life sentences at Shawshank prison. Tim’s character is befriended by a fellow inmate Red, excellently played by the world renowned one and only Morgan Freeman. These main characters greatly help to reveal the harsh realities of prison life. Much of the story is about survival – about surviving wherever…

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    The longevity of television shows almost always hinges on the pilot episode. The job of a pilot, or the first episode, is to build up an audience and a fanbase of a show. A pilot will tell you about simple things, like the who, what when, where and why. It can also delve into deeper aspects of the show, like character relationships, conflicts, backstories and so much more. This does bring up many questions, most of them being, how do these different aspects contribute to the pilot episode of any…

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    The text that I am going to analyze in this work has been extracted from the movie “The Shawshank Redemption”. This film tells the story about Andy Dufresne, a respectable accountant who is unfairly accused of murdering his wife and sentenced to imprisonment for life. He is sent to Shawshank prison, where he meets Red, an old man who has spent more than a half of his life living there. Despite they are two very different men, they become friends; sharing his time and thoughts. The text I have…

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    The glo that applies to Eliot Ness is number 3 complex thinker. The way that Eliot Ness was a complex thinker when he figured that the police force was being payed by Al Capone so how Ness solve this problem of not having the cop on his side was where created a team of his own called the Untouchables which consisted of Jimmy Malone, George Stone and Oscar Wallace. Another way Eliot was a complex thinker was generating this creative idea of basically going to Canada Where the next ] of liquor…

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    The Shawshank redemption is a film set in the 1940's where a young banker by the name of Andy Dufresne is sentenced to life in Portland, Oregon based Shawshank prison on a false accusation of murdering his wife and another man. The rest of the movie is based around his journey to find his identity as well as his freedom and hope in order to survive. In this maximum security prison of Shawshank, prison life is designed to be harsh and breakdown the inmate’s spirits. On the inside the inmates…

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    How To Be A Good Writer

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    Stephen King is a highly successful and popular author. He has written many stories and novels using what he calls “ 22 lessons on How to be a Good Writer”. There is strong evidence of Rule 8 “Avoid adverbs and long paragraphs with no flow”, Rule 10 “master the art of description”, and Rule 11 “Don’t give too much background information” in his stories “ The body” and “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. In these stories, it is clear that he takes his rules seriously. King…

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    In both “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” written by Stephen King and in The Shawshank Redemption written and directed by Frank Darabont, Red tells us early in the story that Andy did not commit the crime he was Jailed for. Injustice can be defined many ways the most relevant being “violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.” The theme of injustice is used throughout both works to further enhance and unfold the story. Andy Dufresne was one of the few…

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    The Shawshank Redemption is a movie directed by Frank Darabont and based off a novel by Stephen King called Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It follows a main character, Andy Dufresne, after he is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and he is sentenced to life in jail. While he is serving his sentence, he becomes friends with another inmate, Red. He also finds himself being protected by the guards after the warden of the prison begins using him for an illegal money…

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