Thesis Mel Gibson’s Braveheart is routinely named in polls of film critics as the worst movie ever to have won the Academy Award for best picture‚ and it is easy to see why. The acting in the film ranges from the blandly unmemorable to the mortifying. Negligible as Scottish history‚ but it is undeniably a political film. Gibson clearly did not intend to venture into a political debate—the film is structurally and visually standard Hollywood fare‚ a costume drama of the sort normally considered
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. In fact‚ the whole poem is composed of imagery‚ that are all solely for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. The first line starts off with “My heart is like a singing bird” which gives the impression that her heart feels as elated as a bird does when singing. Another example is‚ “My heart is like an apple tree whose boughs are bent with thick-set
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Title: Best Friend Birthday Gift Ideas Word Count: 958 Summary: Gift - something that is bestowed‚ usually to give pleasure or show gratitude.When it comes to buying a gift for your best friend‚you have to give your selection a great deal of thought. Keywords: Article Body: Whatever your age‚ you want to give your best friend something really special for his or her birthday to show that you appreciate their friendship. Sometimes we feel at a loss because we think that they have everything
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What a truly special evening it is that we are celebrating this evening - an evening all the more special because we are sharing this celebration with all of you. A warm welcome to everyone and thank you so much for sharing M.Rishaleni ’s 21st birthday with us tonight. It just wouldn’t have been the same without all of you - all the people who have played such an amazing role in her life. Tonight is M.Rishaleni’s night and we hope it will be a night that she remembers fondly in the years
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Birthday by Christina Rossetti Everything in the first stanza speaks of the happiness Rossetti sees around her‚ and the repeated expression ‘My heart is like . . .’ stresses this joy‚ but she says at the end of the first stanza that her “heart is gladder than all these” which implies that what the poet is feeling is more than she can put in words. The persona compares her heart to the “singing bird” to bring out how overjoyed she felt. This may imply that the author’s heart had the same energetic
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	Christina Rossetti’s poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin’s short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti’s poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love‚ whereas the character in Chopin’s story‚ after the initial shock of her new found freedom ‚ was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes
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winter Olympics that changed a lot of people’s views on both figure skating and hockey‚ and finally the price and model of the new car of the century the SAAB 9000S. I hope to inform my audience well enough that I won’t need to tell anyone when my birthday is ever again they will already be well aware. First of all the front page of the New York Times had some very fascinating stories such as Israeli Army Ending 24-hour Incursion in South Lebanon in which Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah‚ spiritual
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Adversity brings out both the best and worst in us. It really depends on an individual. Some people turn into heroes when disaster happens and others turn into looters. Others sit helplessly waiting for help. Adversity tests the "metal" of a person. Adversity is part of life. How we react to it is based on genetics‚ human nature and learned behaviour. There are usually three different repeatable behaviours that people display in a crisis. Firstly‚ they do nothing‚ they freeze and become paralysed
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Amanda Pointer Dr. Ubriaco 16 November 2010 History to 1877 Best and Worst Presidents from 1789-1836 A great president is considered to be wise and noble. He is also firm‚ patriotic‚ and was known as‚ “the one who invented tradition as he went along.” The greatest president of the United States from 1789-1836 was George Washington. He was the first president of the United States and started great traditions. He took his job very seriously during his time. He was in term from 1789-1797
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My best experience using an electronic communication channel happened back in 2007 using Skype. Before working in the education field I worked in a big timeshare company selling vacation ownership over the phone‚ with the assistance of the computer through e-mails and chat. I had a customer that lived overseas who was referred by one of our timeshare owners and was interested in inquiring about our product and purchasing several weeks as an incentive for his employees. Most of our communication had
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