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    believes in God believes that the true life and happiness for which we were created can be found only in God?s presence. In other words, all were created for one purpose and that is to spend eternity in heaven with God. In the the fantasy film ?Field of Dreams? directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Ray is an ordinary man, farmer, husband, and father in 1989 who goes on a path of redemption. To give a concrete or logical reason for faith is as difficult as producing a scientific explanation for miracles as

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    The book by W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe, and the movie, Field of Dreams, are two different types of medias that reflect rather similar stories. Both have different titles, and different scenes, however it is reflected by the same character, Ray Kinsella. The two mediums have similar characters, settings, and plot lines, although they deviate from each other in minor details. The adaptation from the book in 1982 to the movie in 1989 changes from paper script to physical presence. The book and the

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    The three movies that we watched this week were The Natural, Field of Dreams, and A League of Their Own. The themes shown in The Natural would have to be loyalty, determination, and supernatural, which will be talked about later. An example of loyalty would be when Roy Hobbs, the main character, joined a losing team named the New York Knights. The team was under a deal that if they lose the playoffs that season, they would have to give big money to a greedy and obnoxious judge. Countless times, the

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    past can bring in melodramatic moments or memories. Sometimes when life gets hard we look back to our younger days and wish life could be as simple as it was back than. A film full of melodrama and nostalgia comes from the late 1980’s classic Field of Dreams (1989). The film has many different examples of melodrama in the form of nostalgia but the two biggest examples come in the form of childhood family problems and the beauty of old small town America. The first example comes from the films main

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    in the medical field has been my dream ever since I was in middle school. I realized nursing was the profession for me when my grandfather became very sick with lung cancer during my freshman year of high school. It puzzled me that one of the healthiest and most physically active people I knew could be afflicted by such a damaging disease. After watching the suffering my grandfather had to experience and pain my entire family felt from his death, I knew I wanted to go into a field to help others

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    Everyone has a dream no matter how high or low the person aims. Dreams can affect life in the future or the present and help get through life with a goal to reach. Langston Hughes expressed this affects in his poem ‘‘Dreams.’’ Langston Hughes showed a real life experience with imagery when a person is struggling with life but his dream makes him get through the hard work and any problem that he has. Hughes used imagery to show that life need a dream to have a reason to live. Everyone in life

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    Poetry Explication: “Dreams” By Langston Hughes In “Dreams” by Langston Hughes, metaphors and personification help convey the meaning of the poem and add to the free form of the poem. Hughes starts off by stressing that one should hold on to their dreams (line 1). The word choice of using “fast” suggest that Hughes believes one should hold tightly to their dreams, which is a connotation of an inspiration, rather than the denotation of a series of events that occur in the mind while sleeping. Then

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    Hughes depicts African American life in his poems the way he sees his role in society. In his poem, “Dreams”, Langston Hughes describes the life of African Americans as lacking fullness due to a shortage of dreams. In the poem, “Dreams”, Langston Hughes uses metaphors and personification to show how miserable a life without dreams can become. In stanza one, Hughes compares a life without dreams to a broken-winged bird through the use of the metaphor, “life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”

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    the ground, but can you imagine yourself dying on the field of dreams? A baseball field, where dreams are born, dreams of making it big die and legends live forever. Baseball is where big dreams are born. Starting out as a little kid on a baseball field is almost the same as when you are born. Dreams are born on the diamond. As a recently born baby, just came out of a female’s body, all wrinkles and stuff. That is your life on the baseball field. Learning how to throw is like a baby who’s learning

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    In “Dreams,” Langston Hughes portrays the importance of grasping dreams and the negative outcomes of letting them go. The poem demoralizes a life without dreams when comparing them to hopeless situations. Through the use of metaphors, the poem conveys a powerful message on the significance of dreams. Through the metaphor of a bird, the poem shows why it is so important to dream and to essentially set goals. In the second and third lines of the poem, it is stated, “Life is a broken winged bird

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