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    Chapter two Form the beginning in the movie and the short story we are introduced to Mike Enslin who writes books about haunted places. His books Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted are best sellers, but he internally shows some insecurity and guilt due to his hypocrisy, he believes in the existence of ghost other hand in his books he doesn’t believe in paranormal or in supernatural phenomena. Enslin hates his…

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    You can’t always make someone do something, no matter how hard you try. There still seems to be those few who honestly couldn’t care less, unlike us good, genuine students. They don’t give a crap about what is going on and are just floating in the ocean, hoping that a wave will come push them to the shore. Often times confused with being lazy, or even just plain stupid, a slacker is his or her own kind of issue. Someone who slacks off doesn’t just not do work . No- a slacker is so much worse…

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    Review about the movie:- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an amazing and impressive piece of film-making from director Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth. It is a film of hope, where director explains it beautifully how “Hope is a good thing”. Movie shows the ugly realities on life of Prison and its day to day life. There is a lot of scope of learning during free time in prison whether it is art or literature. The film portrays the story of Andy…

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    künstlerroman written in a modernist style, we see the religious and intellectual awakening of the fictional alter ego of James Joyce named Stephen Dedalus. We see the struggles Stephen are faced with as he grows up and these struggles are his family, morality, religion and nationality. As these struggles between Stephen and the above issues progresses Stephen reaches a point in his life where he decides to reject the different bonds he has with his family, morality, religion and nationality and…

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    The movie plays with these different elements of gothic and romanticism to project the feelings of the protagonists from the inside to the outside. To underline it, the music in Beauty and a Beast goes parallel with the setting. At first, the contrast between Belle’s vil-lage and the castle is significant. The village is full with happy people who sing and dance (3:30 - 8:28) while the castle is presented with dark tones and music (13:30 – 15:00). It has the function to thrill the audience and…

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    Perhaps the most effective element director Guillermo del Toro incorporates in his film Crimson Peak is the stark juxtaposition of common fairytale and nightmare motifs. Del Toro redefines the haunted house genera with his strong use of both. He uses a combination of characters, colors, costumes, architecture, and symbols. All of which create a mystical environment for the story to develop. From the beginning we are introduced to the reoccurring theme of fairytale turned nightmare. One of…

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    In 1943 Rodger’s & Hammerstein joined forces to create the most successful partnership in American musical theatre. Both men were very well established and successful Broadway writers, Hammerstein was mainly associated with writing musicals with Jerome Kern and Rodger’s was doing the same with Lorenz Hart. The two joined together and were the perfect combination; Hammerstein wrote the lyrics and sent it to Rodger’s who then set it to music. The first Rodger’s & Hammerstein musical was Oklahoma!…

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    When looking at any successful scientist or pilot there are some traits that each one must possess. Throughout Kitty Ferguson’s biography Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind and the fictional novel The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko the protagonists Stephen Hawking and Alex Romanov share many qualities and similarities about how they work, in their respective fields of work, and how they handle situations when introducing a new concept or flying a spacecraft. Not only do these characters show…

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    “Vittoria Mio Core” by Carisimi was also performed by Evan. Giacomo Carissimi (baptized April 18, 1605 – January 12, 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. Carissimi established the characteristic features of the Latin oratorio and was a prolific composer of motets and cantatas. He was highly influential in musical developments in north European countries through his pupils and…

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    used her life experiences and writing to illustrate the plight of women searching for personal unresolved issues, equal sexual rights, and a mental illness. Virginia Woolf was born in Kensington, Middlesex, England. Woolf’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen, was born in India then later served as a model for several Pre-Raphaelite painters. Her mother was also a nurse and had written a book about the profession. From the time she was born to 1895, Virginia spent her summers at the Stephen’s Talland…

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