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    just have it as random scenes of fuck. ''There has to be a story, building up tension will always created a better climax, with a plot'' was his augment to his contemporaries. One movie in particular that gave him notorious fame was Pinocchio Gets Wood. The synopsis of his egregious version of the beloved children's tale is that Pinocchio tells pokies to extend his wooden phallus on every opportunity with a member opposite sex, and one day becomes a real man. He also revamps the Mangiafuoco…

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    Well known writer, Richard Louv, in this excerpt from his essay, Last Child in the Woods, describes how there is a separation between people and nature. Nowadays, people are trying to change nature because they don't understand it, and they don't take the time to appreciate its beauty. We have this vision of what we imagine nature to look like, but we don't actually know for ourselves because we don't think its worth looking at. Unfortunately, no one truly realizes how important nature is in our…

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    Night time in the woods can be eerie. It was the night of the opening of trapping season and I was on my way to my friend’s house in Dundee. I decided to stop and check my traps because they are in a timber just off of highway 13. So, I pulled into the parking spot and started to gather my supplies. As I sat there I heard this strange sound. Like a whisper from a little girl right next to me. I shrugged it off as the wind blowing past my window. I got out, with my Remington 514 in hand, and…

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    Reading Ladder of Preference In a Dark, Dark Wood - Ruth Ware; (Conflict between peers that lead to something horrible) Death Sentence (Escape from the Furnace) - Alexander Smith; (Escaping by using their power against them) Solitary (Escape from the Furnace) - Alexander Smith; (Stuck in a hole with only the idea of escaping keeping him sane) The Asylum - Madeleine Roux; (Uncovering the secrets of not only the school but himself) Fugitives (Escape from the Furnace) - Alexander Smith; (Running…

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    African Storytelling, whether it be the oral tradition or the written tradition, hold within them an underlying message that can explain some form of African rituals or way of life. In God’s Bits of Wood, the rites of passage approach is used to explain some social commentary in African communities and gives insight on how they go about life and why things are the way they are. The social commentary explained through the rites of passage is that of how women in the African societies went from…

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    The short story “Disappearing”, written by Monica Wood, is about an overweight woman who falls into an addiction. Nowadays, society has been changing a lot and specially in the way people should look in the exterior. As we can see in T.V., movies or magazines models are now with perfect bodies. But people should as themselves whenever they see this, “what is really a perfect body?”. The perfect is how you feel and whatever makes you feel comfortable. There will always be people that puts you…

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    of The Gap in Sydney, in the early hours of the morning by her boyfriend Gordon Wood. It was presumed that she had died on the 7th June during the night by jumping from the cliff top. It was thirteen years before Gordon Wood would be put on trial for the murder of Ms Byrne. He alleged that she had originally jumped off the cliff, but evidence compiled and shown to the jury, proved them of his guilt in 2008. Gordon Wood worked as a chauffeur and personal assistant for the stockbroker Rene Rivkin.…

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    Nightmare in the Woods Charlotte I don’t know what I did wrong. I don’t know how I got here. All I know is that the darkness is coming closer. I can feel the cold dampness of the ground underneath me. The chill of the earth against my temple helped cool the raging pain in my head. I could only glimpse the faint outline of the towering trees. It was definitely dark out. So where was the light coming from? My eyelids felt too heavy to keep open anymore. My eyes fluttered open for the last time to…

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    being too absorbed in technology, but how much of that is actually true? As our world is progressing with new technology, we must reflect on how our surroundings are impacted, whether it be upon us or nature. In Richard Louv’s book, “Last Child in the Woods”, he critically addresses just that; people and nature are separating. To support his argument, Louv begins with how we are changing nature’s purpose, then proposes that we are rejecting nature, and ends with the future consequences of our…

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    Midori Kobayashi Japan in the 1960’s was the decade of psychedelic drugs, sex and the baby boomers. The novel Norwegian Wood follows Toru Wantanabe as he takes a flashback to his college years in Tokyo, Japan during the late 1960’s. We follow Wantanabe as he meets people throughout his college education, who will soon play an important role in his life; One of those people being Midori Kobayashi, who we learn to love. Midori is one of the characters in the novel that comes off as a bit odd and…

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