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    John Steinbeck, is a story, about two men who are chasing the american dream, hitting many obstacles along the way. War Dance, directed by Sean Fine, is a documentary about life in the Ugandan war zone. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by Ben Stiller, is a movie about Walter Mitty, an average man with a vast imagination, who ventures the world seeking a man who has the missing negative for a magazine cover that he needs to prevent himself from losing his job. [C] Every character from…

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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The short store that I red called “The Secret LIfe of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber. I will tell you if it ok or not to go eat out with him or not. Also in this I will find out what he is thinking about during the whole time that we are eating. I think that Walter Mitty would be a good or bad person to eat with because he be a good person to pull pranks but also a bad person because Walter be off in his own world. When we are eating and if he goes into his own…

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    renowned, and have remained popular through dozens of years, and others become lost in a sea of new and innovative literature. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber is one of the short stories that has and will remain popular through the years because it has a great hook, amazing imagery, and it is a very original idea. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has an amazing hook, which is one of the major reasons it will remain popular throughout the years, as it already has. The story…

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    Lastly, when comparing the imagery of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Harrison Bergeron on the basis of plot, it is seen that Walter Mitty uses imagery to more easily and more effectively portray the plot in the story. Through the story, many pieces of imagery are used, this is one example from the start of the story. The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. The Commander stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He walked over and twisted a…

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    The review of ‘’the secret life of Walter Mitty’’ The first time I saw the poster of this movie I knew that this is a comedy. But to my surprise, I never think of a comedy could be so powerful and encouraging. This is a clearly understandable comedy with the profound theme. It talks about Walter, an ordinary, cowardly man, who works with the photographic plate in a magazine company for 16 years. His life is so tedious that he always daydreams. He dreams about being a hero, saving the woman whom…

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    Walter Mitty Movie

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    The Hopes and Tragedies of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Secret Life of Walter Mitty started as a short story, it's about a man who daydreams to escape reality. People have found this book to be both funny and sad, as some find the aspects of him pretending to be people he's not enjoyable, while others have found the idea of doing this to escape his reality is dreadful. The popularity of this short story as made Hollywood produce a movie out of it, explaining the story in greater depth.…

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    Walter Mitty

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    A Secret Life of Walter Mitty is an American adventure comedy-drama that was directed by and stars Ben Stiller. The film takes us on a journey with the protagonist, Walter Mitty portrayed by Ben Stiller, who is a negative assets manager at Life Magazine. Often times he escapes the harsh reality of the work by daydreaming in a world where he is always the hero. Walter fancies one of his coworkers, Cheryl Melhoff, but he believes he does not possess any heroic qualities that would woo her; however…

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    Americans are seeing change their views on the candidates they were originally looking at. The candidates running for the republic and democratic parties took an image to make someone look bad. Political propaganda was used in many elections such as Walter Mondale vs. Geraldine Ferraro, Reagan, Eisenhower and Stevenson, and George H.W. Bush. Eisenhower vs. Stevenson used different propaganda strategies to in their ads to persuade people…

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    propaganda. Most win by the use of their propaganda. In 1984, the two candidates running for vice president were Walter Mondale, and Geraldine Ferraro. The two used buttons to promote themselves so they could win. These buttons were a type of propaganda known as plain folks. The primary strategy of the buttons was ethical, as one of the buttons had the statement “Asian Americans For Mondale Ferraro.” This appealed to the Asian Americans, as they were the ones being targeted. The evidence…

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    My Voting Experience

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    was the 1984 presidential election between incumbent President Ronald Regan and Walter Mondale. On November 6, 1984, my father and I went to my old junior high school, which was our polling site and we both voted for Mondale. I voted for Walter Mondale because he was a democrat but I didn’t do any research or read anything about the presidential campaign; I didn’t care about it. I only knew it was either Regan or Mondale. I went to cast my vote to experience the same feeling my father had when…

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