The first reason is because when Mary arrived she was clueless as to what she was gonna find in Vietnam. She was a reminder, for the soldiers, of the comfort back home and the innocence they too had before the war. War can cause anyone to lose themselves and who they were because they are losing their innocence. For example,...
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“In was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor (O’Brien 20) .” War causes people to enter a new world that to most people seems nothing like the old. The life they had is now gone, which brings these men nothing...
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For my essay, I'm going to focus on comparing both of the villains from, The Dark Knight (2008) and The Shining (1980). Both villains are driven crazy by the events of the film but the ways they both handle it create compelling characters. The performance from Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson builds the character and pushes the narrative forward and...
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Gurinder Chadha’s bold 2004 film Bride and Prejudice is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813). The film serves as a clever, contemporary take on the classic novel. Chadha introduces the themes of cultural diversity in the romantic comedy. Kenyan-born and raised in England, Chadha aims to make non-westerners visible in the film as well as discuss...
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According to Milton Hershey School, “Family consists of the people who support and love you, and the people you can confide in and trust” In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, the Bennet family has five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Cathrine, and Lydia. The goal for the Bennet's daughters is to be married move out and have a higher social...
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The 1927 silent black-and-white film Metropolis critiques the stark inequality between working and wealthy classes to champion Marxism through a science-fictional, dystopian world. The text follows Freder, son of the city master Joh Frederson discovering the underground workers who have suffered under the strict regimen, slaving away on machines that power the city above, hence feeling obligated to save ‘his...
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Throughout his incredible career, award-winning director Martin Scorsese has never disappointed with his thrilling, thought-provoking films. And this one does not. Hugo is all about a young, orphaned boy. His father passes and his uncle becomes his new caregiver. His Uncle Claude, although rude and almost depressing, teaches young Hugo how to work in clocks in a bustling railway station...
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There are two mindsets someone can have about a subject whether it be related to work and school or something in one’s personal life and the difference directly affects one’s ability to succeed in any. Carol Dweck explains the two mindsets known as a growth mindset and a fixed mindset in her article “Brainology”. The fixed mindset is where one...
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Imagine a world without money, and wealth is non-existent! It must be a lifeless world. With money, one can satisfy many needs in one's life, and happiness is promised. In the times of Jane Austen, society is in an era where money and wealth are vital contributors to joy. In her book Pride and Prejudice, the aspect is highly unmistakable....
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In today’s society if we want to be successful in the classroom the student has to show the teacher that we’re ready to learn from them and that we’re going to treat them with the respect they deserve when we’re in the classroom. When you think of a student, you think of someone who attends school, when you think of...
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The Mindsets The author begins by describing an experiment that she conducted with children to measure their responses to challenging puzzles. She observed two different responses, with some being distressed by the difficulty, and others excited. Her interest became in what caused these two very different responses. She reminds us of the creator of the IQ test, whose intention with...
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Realistic, striking, and raw diction in a POV piece imbues feeling and therefore belief in the reader. In the case of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, post-war O’Brien admits to “...making up a few things to get at the real truth” (81). When post-war O’Brien reflects on the young dainty man he saw dead near the village of...
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Introduction As a Maths Tutor at a Further Education College, I face a challenge when it comes to teaching 16 - 19-year-olds. The main issue is that of the learner's mindset coming into college. I shall be looking into the causes of low/fixed mindset and the effect it has on learning. This will allow me to observe trends in behavior/thinking...
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Book Review & Summary About the author Carol Dweck is one of the leading researchers in the fields of personality development, social psychology, and developmental psychology. She has been a professor at renowned universities like Columbia University, and Stanford University and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. Her scholarly book on Self-Theories: Their Role...
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Their eyes were watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Nationality: American Purpose: to create the life of a black woman who tries to find herself through experiences while using symbols throughout the story that symbolize different things: eternity, power, love, etc. It also shines a light on the way of life black Americans lived in the South around the 1930s....
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Jane Austen was an English novelist at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. She wrote famous novels like Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813 ). This extract is the beginning of chapter one ( volume 1) from the novel Emma written by Jane Austen and published anonymously in December 1815. Sir...
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Sirens, synonymous with their seductive and tempting voices in Greek mythology, which bewitch men causing their deaths, is one archetype intertextually present in both O Brother Where Art Thou and Homer’s Odyssey which the film is loosely based on. Through strategic employment of diegetic sound, the careful and thought-provoking composition of the mise-e-scene, and numerous camera shots, the archetype is...
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In the science fiction book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, lives in a community that is excruciatingly controlled. The members of the community could not even make most of their own choices. Almost everyone who lived within the confines of the community never had to experience anything gruesome like pain or hunger, nor did they understand the...
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In both towns, Janie speaks as an outsider. The men’s stories feature silent women who are included in the stories as objects for the men to lust after or win, rather than active characters with their own emotions. They only include women in the stories about men. These tales cast women as men’s objects of desire, reduced to their appearance...
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The true meaning of being heroic is having the qualities of a hero, such as bravery and courage, and using those qualities to save or help others. As seen through both epic poems we encounter ways that both of the main characters acted heroic and analyze in what way each character had portrayed their acts of bravery and courage. Throughout...
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Homer’s Odyssey is an epic set in 1200 BC. It begins with the victory of the Greeks, which Odysseus is part of, against the Trojans. The victory of the Trojan War which lasts 10 ten years. The next 10 years after the war, are Odysseus’s adventures and challenges to get home to Ithaca. Throughout his adventures, important life lessons are...
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Introduction Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is present almost everywhere and helps us daily, for example in self-driving cars, in virtual assistants such as the well-known Siri or Google Home, or even in the film industry. However, when asking some of my close friends, family, and IB students from around the world if they trusted AI, the most common answer was...
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From a very young age, both boys and girls are taught certain mannerisms that will shape the way they approach life and interact with others. They are taught by parents, siblings, family members, friends, as well as teachers. This lends varied sources of input on what qualifies as social standards for a person in their formative years and throughout adult...
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Human beings have throughout the years been able to produce identity and character by association and attachment, where belonging to a certain aggregate or collective gives one a sense of security that all is well and good. As social animals, we comprehend our general surroundings by taking a gander at others and emulating conduct that we esteem as the correct...
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After completing the Wellness Inventory and going over my results for each of the seven dimensions of wellness, I was a mix of surprised and shocked. Some results I received were what I was anticipating, others not so much. As a first-year university student and a teenager, sometimes it’s difficult to keep your overall wellness in check. This semester I...
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Before this class, I believed that the 'real world' meant the real experiences that people of color face in the United States. I think the 'real world' that I see is that many Americans are fighting for freedom, racism is still going on, and inequality between genders. I also think America allows citizens to have the opportunity to find their...
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Several photographers have photographed home and family life. Their styles range from the cinematic, staged, conceptual views of home, like Gregory Crewdson's 'Cathedral of the Pines' (2014) and Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Brian in the Kitchen' (1988), Tina Barney's family snapshots 'Theatre of Manners' (1997), showing the life of wealthy Americans, in an intimate, informal way, through to Richard Billingham's 'Ray's a...
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'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and to find a way to...
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According to Kotler in 1988, advertising is one of the four major tools companies use to direct persuasive communications to target buyers. Advertising is thus used in the retail industry and has impacted this industry positively from the use of online marketing techniques to advertise such as using ‘networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)’ as it has been defined as ‘the...
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In the beginning, when the quite famous Elsie and Donald utilized the term 'vegan' to describe the nondairy vegetarians, the lifestyle and the diet were considered to be 'uncool'. Many vegetarians also refused to associate themselves with this radical movement. The practice of veganism started a health-crazed and clubby reputation. Their diet eventually became truly admired and popular with countercultural...
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