... time as watching television, and that was reading" (p.187). Many European families make their children read on a daily basis. They believe watching television will lead to laziness and is very unproductive towards the family. They speak of American families and how so many are overweight and nonproductive. Many Europeans think fairly negative towards Americans. There views towards Americans can be related to Juliet Schor's. That Americans are ... the ideals of change. Americans like to have a lot of structure in their lives. A schedule of where and when to be certain places usually for ...

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... -invented again with the younger generation through Romeo and Juliet, taking away the perception of Shakespeare as being a boring English class siting and reading through plays, and the idea of a musical film was re-invented in Moulin Rouge. All of these factors draw the audience further into the films allowing them to connect on a more personal level and relate to each one in a specific way. The three ... the story has a tragic ending (grabbing their attention and provoking emotion at such an early stage) and are drawn further into how the story will develop. This can also be applied to...

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... creating a film from a book, the director will emphasise what he sees as the more important sections and the images he created when reading the book could be wholly different to the viewers of that film and therefore, for some viewers at least, the nature of what is being represented will be very different ... still kept the story. This idea has been recently portrayed in a film version of Romeo and Juliet, where the action takes place in the present day, with the use of guns as opposed to swords and the protagonists getting around in cars. All the language used is exactly the same as th...

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When reading Hamlet it becomes clear right from the beginning that Hamlet has a deep relationship with his mother, Gertrude, because he loves and respects her so much. In the opening scene we can see Hamlet and Gertrude engaged in tender, loving behaviour. But as the play develops we see this relationship suffer ... are treacherous and can not be trusted. But Ophelia is also important to give us insight into Hamlets behaviour towards everyone else. She is just a nave, innocent young girl who doesn't really understand how to help her lover. "If she had been an Imogen, a Cordelia, even a Porita ...

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... she will not sleep with Angelo, he comes up with aplan. Isabella would agree to meet Angelo at midnight and theywould send Mariana instead because the two of them were supposed tohave been married before but her dowry was lost at sea and Angelohad backed out on the marriage. The plan works but Angelo goes back on his word and ordersClaudio's head delivered to him at ... so everyone will know what king of a person heis. He has been tricked into marriage and is now a very miserableperson. Although he had the ultimate power for a brief time, heabused it and now has to suffer the consequenc...

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... have been destroyed in a storm at sea. As the ships wait for Othello to come to the harbor Cassio greets Des by grabbing her hand and Iago sees this as a plan in the making. Othello comes ashore and says there is to be a party tonight in honor of the Turks safety. As Roderigo gets even more upset he realizes that there is no ... Roderigo because he has winged Cassio. Othello is now standing over Des and is about to kill her when she awakes and pleads for her life, which Othello disregards and plans to still take her life. Des's servant then comes into the room to report of Roderigo bein...

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... I'm sure Holden didn't ride all the way to New York to pick a run down hotel. So I take it when he drove up it probably looked good on the outside. He even "took it off [referring to the red hunting hat] before I checked inI didn't want to look like a screwball or something." So ... is inevitable then it's a tragedy. Salinger illustrates a full blown tragedy with a 15 year old boy; it sounds a lot like the classic we read last year Romeo and Juliet. A young boy, even the same age, is placed in a no win situation. The next one I just thought about is the time Holden got a snow ball off .....

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