In the film ‘Inception’, Dom Cobb is an extractor who has the ability to enter into people’s dreams and get information from them. He is given a job to implant an idea inside the mind of Robert Fischer and so he gathers a team to help him design an elaborate plan to complete the task. Along the way, the team ventures deep into the dream world and face the risk of falling into limbo, a dream realm where the line...
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There were many rapid changes in America in the 20th century, some of which shaped entire generations. One of the major historical events that had a significant impact on how Americans redefined themselves during that century is the Civil Rights Movement. Minorities, specifically black Americans, had always been kept inferior. This movement reinvented the way they were seen as a result of them actively fighting for their equal rights; which created a foundation for the next generation. The Civil Rights...
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‘Coco’ is an animated movie about a young boy name Miguel; young Miguel has a highly ambitious to be one of his idols that is Ernesto de la Cruz. Miguel is a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small Mexican town. Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the magnificent and colorful Land of the Dead. After meeting a charming scam named Hector the two new friends board on an extraordinary...
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The movie opens with the fact that on June 17, 1972, security guard Frank Wills in the Watergate complex finds a door bolt taped to prevent it from closing. He calls the police, who locate and arrest five burglars at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee inside the complex. The Washington Post assigned new reporter Bob Woodward to the local courthouse the next morning to cover the story, which is considered minor. Woodward discovers that the five guys, four...
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In this paper I would like to celebrate the life and legacy of Robert H. Weitbrecht, born deaf, but became an important figure in the deaf community as a genius inventor. Before the convenience of skype, texting, or instant message, those that were hearing impaired, or deaf, relied on an invention by Weitbrecht, the telephone typewriter, also known as the TTY. This invention came to be all because of the brilliant mind of Robert Weitbrecht. Born deaf in 1920 in...
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The importance of family. Two or more people who may share a genetic connection, but also an unbreakable social bond. As teenagers, the concept of family has influenced our lives from our first moments of living till now. We rely on our family for a sense of protection, endless moral support and inspiration, whilst constantly strengthening and intensifying our shared connection and love. Now, imagine being stripped from the comfort and warmth of your very own mother’s arms and being...
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Nothing can stop the excitement and anticipation of camping more than a dark rainy day. If the sky is gloomy and humid, even the most adventurous camper will lose some enthusiasm on the way to camping. After arriving at the destination, campers must 'settle down' in the downpour. This includes keeping the inside of the tent dry and dust-free, placing sleeping bags in a dry place, and protecting food from rain. If the sleeping bag is wet, cold becomes the...
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Pizza is the most famously delicious dish in Italian cuisine. It is considered an antique plate since it has been cooked for many centuries now and has been constantly evolving. Centuries ago, pieces of flatbread were seasoned in a traditional but in an exquisite way, only for those who did not have the money to buy ‘proper’ dishes, and where in constant movement searching for new jobs. This changed at the start of the 19th century in Naples (city in...
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A piano is an instrument with strings and it relies on the vibrations of the strings to produce a pleasant resonating sound. The first piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori, an Italian harpsichord maker, in 1709. During the history, the external appearance of the piano was made by using different materials however, its internal design remained the same. Since the Cristofori was a harpsichord maker, the first piano looked like a harpsichord. When the piano was first invented, it was...
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With the invention of Jacob W. Davis in partnership with Levi Strauss and Co. in 1871 jeans paved the way to the fashion industry to become bigger to reach a wider audience. After James Dean popularized them with his motion picture ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ in 1955, wearing jeans ended up the image of the youth amid the 1950s and the 1970s. Amid the 1960s the pants got to be more worthy, by the 1970s it had ended up common...
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The captivating sounds that can be made by eighty-eight black and white keys were what started my love for playing the piano. Whether it be Chopin’s rubato or Schubert’s modulations, my fascination with the instrument has never gone away. It all started with my mother and my first-grade music teacher, Mr. Manges. My mom grew up in a poor household and never had many opportunities. She had a goal of allowing her children to master an art, and I was...
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J.K. Rowling is already so famous for her award-winning books that there's almost no question about who she is. She’s known for her book series, which talked about a character named Harry Potter and this magical world outside of normal London. J.K. Rowling’s full name is Joanne Rowling, and she was born on July 31st, 1965. She was born in Yate, Gloucestershire. Her father Peter was an aircraft engineer in Bristol while her mother Anne was a science technician in...
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When it comes to the subject matter of the paintings, Renaissance artists replicated biblical stories through their portrayal of society while realists and impressionists capture society as it is. Renaissance art is idealized. The representation of nude figure was central to all Renaissance art as well as iconography of biblical and mythological female characters. Emphasis on the humanity of Jesus and Mary is shown through iconography such as the Holy Family or the Madonna nursing the Christ Child, which is...
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The comparison of similar themes within varying mediums of text, in addition to each composer’s diverse individual perspectives on these issues, reveal the universality and importance of these ideas. Through the exploration of the themes of the importance of supportive relationships and the contrasting impacts that the suppression of free will can hold in differing mediums of text, Malorie Blackman’s ‘Noughts & Crosses’ and Boaz Yakin’s ‘Remember the Titans’ are able to effectively explore the distinct impacts that each of...
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‘Pearl Harbor’ is an American romantic war drama film directed by Michael Bay in 2001. The film presents a heavily fictionalized version of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, focusing on a love story that unfolds in the run-up to the attack, its aftermath, and the Doolittle Raid. Historians have found multiple inaccuracies in this film. Professor Bruce Reynolds believes the greatest outcome from people seeing the film is that the film would engage them and...
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Various occasions in history have influenced and changed how we perceive the way in which clothes are developed. Toward the very beginning, individuals spent hours making their clothes, and those who could afford it had them tailored. The demand for more caused the mass production of clothes to be made. Thanks to technology the way that clothes have been made for hundreds of years has changed. How individuals live, their way of life and new innovations affect how clothing is...
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According to a 2014 study, 73 percent of all arrestees in the United States were males. This number increases to a whopping 80 percent when accounting for violent crimes. Brent Staples outlines the tendencies of his friends and relatives to become ‘thugs’ in his essay ‘Just Walk on By’. He attributes this trend to the idea of the ‘male romance with the power to intimidate’. To understand what is meant by this statement, we must first explore masculinity itself. What...
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Paul Revere was born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 21, 1734 or January 1, 1734 with the modern calendar. Paul’s father Apollos Rivoire, who later changed his name to Paul Revere. Revere was a Huguenot refugee who arrived in Boston as a youth. He became an apprentice as a silversmith, these skills were later passed on to his son, Paul Revere, who later became one of Americas most talented artists to create pieces in silver. Paul was given a fairly...
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The film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ is narrated by a paranoid schizophrenic Native American male who pretends to be deaf and dumb in order to avoid socialization or confrontation from anyone in the Oregon psychiatric hospital. Bromden along with the rest of patients in the hospital fear former army and head nurse, Nurse Ratched, who Bromden believes to be controlling the ward. Bromden is dictated by the fear of this assemblage that is ruling society and coercing others...
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The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is a dominant billion dollar company; they are the business leaders who can trample over anyone who dares to cross, have money and have money with them. The evils of being seen are powers. From the beginning, PG&E has defrauded the community of Hinckley, California, by providing false evidence and misleading them with its dishonesty. PG&E manipulates persons into believing that the chromium they use is healthy and has nothing to do with...
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The Sugar Act introduced various merchandise that contains hides, skins, and hydroxide to the listing of enumerated commodities that is in a position to be lawfully exported at a lower place in the Navigation Acts. British Prime Minister, Saint George Grenville launched this act, Saint George Grenville was an associate degree English politician who United Nations agency determined to tax yank colonies throughout the American Revolutionary War. The 1764 Sugar Act amended the prevailing 1733 Sugar and sirup Act. The...
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Our first assignment was to produce a piece of writing on the meaning of culture. My initial reaction to the assignment was confusion, because of the limited definition of culture that I had. From my perspective, culture ultimately reflected an individual’s race. Ever so often I get an orchestrated question referring to my ethnicity or nationality. Whether it is where I was born, where I am from, where I feel I belong, or where do I live. Sometimes I feel...
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The lights flash on and swivel at me. I nervously take the stage and try to center myself. 'Breath in...breathe out.', I tell myself, but I can still feel my cheeks glowing hotly and my mouth turning to sandpaper, rough and dry. I try to remember the lyrics of the first song I am supposed to sing, but my mind cannot focus. As I stand there frozen with stage fright, I look around me and realize that I am not...
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The document is an extract from Ian Barrow's book, 'The East India Company 1600-1858, A Short History with Documents, Passages: Key Moments in History' published in 2017. This book deals mainly with the British East India Company, the first modern multinational Company which operates a global trading network. The author reviews the history of this company, in specific how it has skilled such a large rise and a sudden decline. This extract deals more specifically with the Sepoy rebellion and...
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What does being American Mean? Well if I'm being honest there is not a straightforward answer to what being American means. So I'm going to first start by telling you what America has meant in the past, well in the past there was always something going on in America. There was always some type of war or battle going on. America was always fighting to keep our country from enemies that keep trying to win it over, there were so...
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Injustice faced by people around the world has always driven my desire to try and help others in both my immediate vicinity and on a broader scale. For example, the three hundred days without charge that Jagtar Singh Johal faced when he was abducted by the Indian authorities in 2017 on fabricated accusations moved me deeply as a travesty of justice. Despite a thousand-page charge sheet filed no conviction has yet been given. Societal perceptions of right or wrong are...
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The film 'The Pursuit of Happiness' is a text that illuminates and conveys ideas, attitudes, and values of the 'American Dream.' In the Oxford Dictionary, the 'American Dream' is defined as the traditional social ideals of the United States of America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. It exposes how the protagonist is devoted to obtaining their desires and how they strive to further achieve the ‘American Dream’, although their values and attitudes alter in both positive and negative...
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The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas' Le Guin's terrifying story begins with a pleasing event it is the Festival of Summer and the community is celebrating the wonderful climate and the gatherings. The narrator talks promptly to the audience as they depict the kids who are readying for a horse race and the observers who are out. The storyteller asserts that the community of town is delighted and urges us not to correlate prosperity with unsophistication. They say that...
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In The Lesson, the narrator overcomes the silence caused by the pigmentation of their skin and finds the moral courage to voice their opinions amidst double standards. In The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Miss Moore educates local children about the unfair distribution of wealth and advises them to strive for a better life. Bambara instills the idea that intelligence and awareness exist everywhere and need to be awakened instead of silenced. Syliva, the African-American narrator from Harlem, believes...
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“In a lifetime, you must meet a good teacher who changes your life” is a quote from a Hong Kong movie “Little Big Master”, and I met my geography teacher Athena Chan who change my mind; build my dream; change my life in high school. Also, she aims for me to major in Geography as I want to be a geography teacher like her teaching students to understand the world and helping students find their future. In Hong Kong, every...
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