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    actions and expect blessings in the future. The way you treat people and the choices you make will always come full circle. The movie The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, is themed around this. The characters Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Warden Samuel Norton…

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    In Truman Capote’s novel In Cold Blood, Capote follows the stories of both a murdered family, the Clutters, and their murderers, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith. Over the course of the novel, Capote reveals that Hickock and Smith met in prison and reconnected once they were both released (161). The pair’s target in invading the Clutter household was money in an alleged safe; murdering the Clutters would just ensure no witnesses could identify them as the killers (Capote 161). Eventually…

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    Shawshank Redemption: Text response Opening scene: - What happens to Andy du Fresne and Red? Andy du Fresne was accused murderer of his much loved wife. He was sent to 2 life sentences in Shawshank prison. Red on the other hand was convicted of murder as well and he was sent to 1 life sentence before Andy. It started out with Andy in the court room with slight glimpses of the night he was accused of murdering his wife. Red was introduced in a parole calling to see if he had changed or had been…

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    employees. To expand Graeter’s will need to hire more staff to stay true to its high quality product. The company has also done a great job over the years of expanding its human resources through intellect and creativity. In 2005 Graeter’s trusted Tom Kunzelman, the first person from outside the family, with ice cream production. Kenzelman brought to the company thirty-five years of consumer packaging experience from Dannon, Heinz and Anheuser Bush. The company will need to continue to hire…

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    Shawshank Redemtion is a well know movie that was based on Stephen King’s short story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemtion.” The movie is about Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) who goes to Shawshank prison for two life sentences for a crime he did not commit. There he meets a group of men and starts making friends with one of them, Ellis Boyd Redding (Morgan Freeman), or Red as he is called. Andy slowly gets on the guards’ good side and is e.g. allowed to renovate the prison library. This…

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    Working a Musical was performed at the Tillie Lewis Theater adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso from the book by Studs Terkel directed by Ashlee Temple. Working a Musical was a play on the American working class which shined light onto the daily lives of the average American worker. It depicted some of the hardships that most of the American public have to endure, but the play also had a few wealthier characters. This play is not about working but rather what America is all about. One of…

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    Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King.The novella follows Andy Dufresne as he is imprisoned in Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. The story follows Andy's imprisonment as he deals with violence, degradation learns how to work the crooked prison system, and never loses hope of freedom despite the life sentence that stretches ahead of him with no hope of parole. At first glance this novella falls far from a similarity of Mark Twain classic…

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    Candy is a popular food that most people enjoy. The two top competitors in the candy business are Haribo and Trolli. In the Haribo commercial it takes place at a ice skating rink with hockey players and a coach. They describe the gummy bears using a little kids voice. Then in the Trolli commercial James Harden (basketball player) is at a basketball court and he uses his head to describe the gummy bears. The Haribo and Trolli commercials use pathos, ethos, and logos to help promote their…

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    Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a1982 novella written by Stephen King. In the story, Andy Dufresne is the protagonist -the formerly talented banker with a good of justice, but he is convinced of murdering his wife. So, he is imprisoned in Shawshank prison in Maine. This novella becomes one of the most popular fictions because of themes whether it be theme of hope, theme of correction system, and etc. Nevertheless, to my mind, theme of intelligence is the major theme that Stephen King…

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    Music therapy. A term that has grown so much over the past few decades. As a music therapist in training, when people find out what I’m studying, the common response is “wow, that sounds so interesting, what is it?” I then often struggle to find the words to describe such an amazing concept to people in such few words. The trouble is that “music therapy means different things to different people for myriad reasons” (Bruscia, 1998). The challenge in defining music therapy is that it is the…

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