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    My first impression of this work is that I thought it was going to be not interesting to read but it was actually cool how the story is about martians taking over a place and i love movies about aliens so it was really interesting to read. 2. The genre of this selection is science fiction because some stuff that happens in the story can't really happen in real life or is real in life. 3. The exposition of the story is when the narrator gets a glimpse of the martians and becomes so shocked he couldn't

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    Gattaca Film Analysis

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    Combination of genre Gattaca is the creation of writer and director Andrew Niccol in 1997. He wanted its science fiction themes to be set in the future but because of budget issues he used the greatest parts of the past and then made it feel futuristic. Niccol employed two peculiar genres that work very well together Film noir and science fiction. To be convey the idea that even if you were born for perfection unless you try you’ll never succeed or achieve your potential. As they say in the film

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    different places where makeup is used and for different purposes, one of those purposes is in films. There are also many reasons why makeup is used in films and one of them is because people have to look representable on television, but there is a genre of films where people are supposed to look horrifying and those are horror films, which is what I will be focussing on. In the early years of motion picture history, horror was often used in order to attract, frighten and fascinate the audiences. Lon

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    portraiture, genre, landscape, and history paintings. In spite of such diversity towards subject matter, the artworks all have certain characteristics in common with each other. Three of the shared, underlying principles are an Italian influence, sense of attributing traits to the figures to increase relatability, and emphasis on the humble. A tradition of journeying to Rome, Italy for training or to simply improve upon one’s artistic skills was carried out by many Dutch history and genre with landscape

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    The Searchers Conflict

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    John Ford’s The Searchers plays with the western genre primarily through its straddling of the line between the classical and contemporary western through John Wayne's duality of the hero and anti hero among additional more complex plot elements. The film opens with the typical opening of the frontier hero mode common in classic western with John Wayne’s character appearing out of nature to join the other charters in the story shortly before the conflict of the film is introduced. The conflict of

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    Introduction to Teleportation If you’re a fan of science fiction stories you’ve probably dreamed of the idea of teleporting. When you hear that word, your mind probably thinks of the popular phrase “Beam me up, Scotty” (“Star Trek”). However, there is strong reason to believe that teleportation is in fact possible. To this point, teleportation is only thought of as a gimmick of the “sci-fi” world, but scientists are finding evidence that it is actually a possibility.

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    Permit me to begin by sharing the two main reasons I was initially enthusiastic about this film. First of all, the concept of time travel has always fascinated me. In fact, time travel stories were the earliest kinds of science fiction tales I appreciated. Add in a bit of Yuletide magic, and I'm sold. Secondly, I was marvelously elated to watch a film with William Shatner. Now, this would be peculiar if you knew my background. I grew up being "forced" to watch Star Trek. I admit that I absolutely

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    readers would read their works to the UC Merced campus. The title for the readings was “Voices of California: Tell Me a Story”. The event featured three different readers, who were Micah Perks, Brynn Saito, and Optimism One. Each reader had different genres of writing. Each of the readers will tell us stories that involved California, implicitly and explicitly. They will take us on a journey that will allow us to explore the wonders in writing and how we can use it to our benefits. The first reader

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    Hatice Ezberk

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    The article by Hatice Ezberk “The Function of Fantasy as a subversive Genre in Literature” examines the idea of how fantastic literature can bring out an emphasis on how the world transforms through the writers eyes. As fantasy literature grows it can become unclear as to what social norms the literature is trying to juxtapose. Ezberk argues that trying to categorize fantasy literature is a rebellious act as the subgenre’s become too specific and can at times deceive the reader by delivering functions

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    attitudes, values and ideas about the migrant experience in 1950’s Australia, are evident in his poem, ‘Migrant Hostel’. Migrant Hostel represents a unique insight into the Australian culture in Parkes during the years of 1949-1951. Through the analysis and evaluation of how the subject matter and literary devices communicate the poet’s socio-cultural and historical background, the reader will be placed in a position to clearly identify the themes of Skrzynecki’s difficult

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