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    The Lives of Others by Michelle Looc Question: We follow the stirred up emotions of the main character in a visual or oral text to chart struggle and change. Florian Von Henckel Donnersmarck who directed The Lives of Others portrays Wiesler as an emotionless guy like a robot. We follow Wiesler’s journey as we find his struggles and changes in emotions peculiar due to his strict emotionless state. Donnersmarck uses the theme individuality vs conformity to initiate changes in Wiesler’s

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    Within the essay ‘The Lives of Others’‚ author Alekskandar Hermon ends the essay with a rhetorical question. Hermon asks “What am I?”‚ which is a fitting question for an essay with the reoccurring theme of identity and self definition. Hermon continues further‚ accompanying the question with an answer of his own explanation. Hermon wrote‚ “I am complicated…I am nothing if not an entanglement of unanswerable questions‚ a cluster of others. I’d like to say it might be too early to tell” (24).Within

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    horrors of the night‚ but sometimes the aim of the story-teller is to instruct‚ to help others in their understanding of something. The skills needed to narrate a story well are not entirely the same as the skills needed to write a good essay. Some wonderful short fiction writers are not particularly good essayists and vice versa. Still‚ it is useful to look at those elements that make up a good narrative and know how to apply what we learn toward making our essays as dramatic as possible whenever that

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    You will have to forgive me because I cannot speak German‚ nor can I spell it‚ therefore this response will be particularly informal. That said‚ I rented the movie‚ watched it‚ watched the deleted scenes‚ and I confess‚ I watched the Director’s Interview. I could not help myself. I must give credit where credit is due so I will site any ideas that I took from Florian Henckel Von Donnersmark. Wiesler is the character on whom the action takes place. He is meticulous and upright the entire time.

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    Chernobyl * The Chernobyl accident in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel. * The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind. * Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident‚ and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning. * UNSCEAR says that apart from increased thyroid cancers‚ "there

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    Half-full or Half-empty? How many of us grew up believing in Peter Pan philosophies that thinking happy thoughts would make everything better? Or at “every clouds has a silver lining”‚ “the glass is always half-full?” and that no matter how awful life is has been “there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.” Otherwise‚ you were at varied enormous principle‚ raised on the belief that by thinking the worst of everything and everyone‚ you’d be better prepared for disappointment… Psychologists

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    human increases his life duration How? Route map A‚ B and C A) Physical activity: Usually people lead quite busy lives‚ they understand the benefits of exercises in all areas in life. B) Reduce stress. Finding ways to decrease stress and live a calmer‚ more peaceful existence can improve our lifespan. C) Nutrition People understand that well-balanced healthy diet improves body general condition. How? Summary: main points A‚ B and C Why? We can

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    Name: _____________________________ Jacob the Great Jacob hated finishing things almost as much as he loved starting them. As a result‚ he had gotten into a million hobbies and activities‚ but he never stuck with any of them long enough to get any good. He begged his mother for months for a guitar so that he could play Black Eyed Peas songs to Angie‚ a girl he liked‚ but after he finally got one for Christmas‚ he found out that guitars don’t play themselves. He took a few lessons‚ but strumming

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    The movie “the lives of others” is a German film that takes place in East Berlin‚ November 1984. Five years before its downfall‚ the former East-German government ensured its claim to power with a ruthless system of control and surveillance. Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career when given the job of collecting evidence against the playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend‚ the celebrated theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. After all‚ the "operation" is backed by the

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