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    The following review will be about a movie named Avatar. Avatar dates back to 2009 and was directed by James Cameron. The greediness of those in power will always results in the suffering of those lacks power. This statement refers to the greediness that was depicted in the movie by the Resources Development Administrators (RDA), which led to a forceful relocation of the Na’Vi people. The following essay will include the discussion of three anthropological themes that were displayed. The first theme

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    "The Shawshank Redemption" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1994, and opened a few weeks later. It got good reviews but it did not do good business as it does not have an interesting title; it was a "prison drama" which did not attract women. It contained almost no action, it starred actors who were respected but not big stars, and it was a long 142 minutes. Clearly this was a movie that needed word-of-mouth to find an audience, and indeed business was slowly but steadily growing

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    “The Shawshank redemption” is a film in which Andy Dufresne is wrongfully given two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover and is sent to the Shawshank prison where Andy is subjected to a variety of different beatings by the guards and other inmates, even being raped by other inmates. After getting involved with doing the guards taxes the crooked warden forces him to hide his many untaxed revenues. After Andy escapes he leaves the jail in scandal by giving evidence to the press surrounding

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    In the year 2009, James Cameron wrote and directed one of the most remarkable films I have ever seen ‘Avatar’. This science-fiction saga has a story line that is engaging and captivating for its audience. Avatar took place on a moon called Pandora. Humans discovered very valuable natural resources on Pandora and did whatever it took to obtain what they needed from Pandora. The people of Pandora are Na’vi’s, a 10 foot tall, blue-skinned humanoid alien group that lived in the rainforest or Pandora

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    The Beauty Queen of Leenane, a deep, twisted play by Martin McDonagh, is a symbolic work of art. The symbols within this play, powerful as they may be, do not jump out at the reader. They are instead embedded into the simplest objects and the relationship of the main characters. Martin McDonagh portrays his symbols with such an ironic eloquence; the dark, powerful symbols are inextricably linked in such a beautiful way, that once the reader makes the connections, the entire aura of the play changes

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    There is a problem in the collective vernacular of our society, it is the problem of not wanting to admit in the distinction between non-violent, primarily drug offense criminals, and those in our society that acted violently against another person. Why do we need this discussion of understanding each other? Because recently, we have witnessed the first prison escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility in its 170 year existence, built in 1844. What a history to let slip into shame. Two convicted

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    In the book “Airman,” it starts off in the evening sky with Captain Declan Broekhart in uniform along with his wife Catherine, who is pregnant. They are in a hot air balloon but little did this captain know what was about to happen next. Their hot air balloon had climbed several hundred feet in the air over a nice and calm ocean. After a few moments the hot air balloon was shot with a sniper rifle. Catherine is now forced to give birth to her young boy in order to save his life. “Airman” by Eoin

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    The green mile is a very powerful movie with lots of emotion. It is about a man called John Coffey who has been blamed for a murder he did not commit. Due to this he was imprisoned for many years until he was executed. But while he is in prison he makes friends and enemies. When he is in prison the guards and other prisoners soon find out John Coffey has a gift, which he can heal and take back the evil that has been done. What I enjoyed about the green mile is how John Coffey has such care for all

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    In Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King writes about what it is like to be a prisoner for life, and how being in prison can change a person and their morals. Throughout the book, the narrator, Red, constantly discusses hope and it is the key to enduring each day in Shawshank Prison by applying anaphora and symbolism. Red portrays the suffering that Andy faces in prison and how it was through his mental and physical strength that he was not only able to survive in prison but also

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    The biggest conflict in the movie The Shawshank Redemption is that Andy Defresne is convicted of murdering his wife. Andy is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences though we know he is innocent. He has done everything he can, but he still must spend his rest of life in the jail. When Andy is in the prison, there was another conflict, he wants to have freedom while he can only have imprisonment. But he nerves give up. Writing one letter a week for six years got him funding for the prison library

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