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    Faith In The Alchemist

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    mission to find his personal legend. In this book, there are two themes that mainly stand out, personal legend and Faith/positive thinking. In The Alchemist, Santiago follows his personal legend. It starts with a dream that keeps recurring every night. This then leads to a curiosity to find out what it means. He learns that his personal legend was to travel to the Egyptian Pyramids and find his treasure. “It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your…

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    One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

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    Our generation is the first generation where it is considered acceptable to sleep around with a different guy every week. Sure, they might get called a “slut” or “whore” but the depressing truth is most of them are okay with it because the ones calling them that are just as guilty as the person being labeled. For this reason, it seems as if girls do not care if they are getting called provocative names. Personally, females need to hold themselves to a higher self-worth, which talks “about who…

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    the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a restrained manner. It Happened One Night is a classic screwball comedy; however, Capra goes one step further with a film that acknowledges the ongoing state of the nation with the presence of the Great Depression in the film. The two main characters behave differently, usually based on their different social…

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    Screwball Comedy Analysis

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    offered a source of relief in the Depression-era to the audiences throughout the 1930s and 40s; especially relieved them after the Hays Code was put into effect. The screwball comedy was a mixture of sarcasm, comedic relief, and a social satire all in one, making it wacky but highly sophisticated. Rather than focusing on the romantic relations of people, screwball comedies focused on the upper-class. The focus was a hero’s life being somehow disrupted by a heroine. The hero and the heroine were…

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    She came from a family with both of her parents working. She was also an only child until she was sixteen, which meant she had to spend a lot of time alone. When her younger sister was born, since both of her parents were preoccupied with work, she was responsible for taking care of the baby on top of her high-school studies…

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    Play Vs Night Analysis

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    contrast a Play and Night The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a teen girl and her family going into hiding during the Holocaust. In this play it tells about where she and her family are hiding ,and different problems she has to face ,that mostly involve trying not to get caught by the Germans. While on the other hand, the book Night tells about a teen boy who is in going through different concentration camps ,who is trying to survive with his father. In Night the teen…

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    awe that he projects and some even believe that she may be a close family member of his. I believe that he does love her in a romantic way, however she is someone he cannot touch or even hope to build a relationship with as she is as mysterious as night and far like the moon. In the first stanza and first line he says she walks in beauty. He does not necessarily say she herself is beautiful, but her motion and the way she carries herself elegant and ethereal, much…

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    Night: by Elie Wiesel I chose to do a book report on this book called: “Night” written by Eliezer Wiesel. The author, Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the Holocaust, and he endured the suffering of living in the Auschwitz labour camps. This book is a first hand memoir of the horrors and painful experiences Elie Wiesel had endured when he was only fifteen years old. Throughout the book, Elie describes his struggle to keep his faith in God, as he is unable to believe that a loving God…

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    Due to numerous unavoidable circumstances, children grow under extremely diverse environments. Whereas the majority of children are exposed to healthy surroundings, others encounter various forms of traumatic events. Adverse childhood experiences within families have been found to come with detrimental repercussions as far as an individual’s mental and physical health is concerned (Anna E. Austin, 2014). However, various theoretical orientations are used to explain different tendencies and…

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