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  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Radioclash

    4 Stars Euthansia - A Discursive Essay 29/05/2004
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    The world really is often a strange place. If you see two men fighting on the streets they are thugs, put them in a ring and pay them lots of money and it's a sport. Likewise when your dog's cancer ridden and is in a lot of pain you are advised to put it out of its misery but when it's a human being in the same situation it's illegal. However nothing is ever as easy as it seems and as there is much more to the fighting argument there is also a lot more to Euthanasia. Euthanasia, also known as 'mercy killing', is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependant human being for his or ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Olly_Plimsoll

    5 Stars Nationalism is a Created Product 13/06/2005
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    Advantages Advantages Solid analysis of a great movie

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You tell me

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain: A 'Reactionary fantasy' or a critique of French insularity? Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain was a popular success both in France and internationally. The film was also critically acclaimed, but not without reservations. Several critics and reviewers felt that the highly sentimental film about a young waitress secretly improving the lives of those around her was a simple triumph of style over substance. It was suggested that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet had created a sanitised, nostalgic vision of Paris ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LukeRichardson

    4 Stars Worth reading by all psychology students 17/11/2006
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    Advantages Advantages I think it's a good essay

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Ummm

    Ok, I want to start by saying that this isn't just an easy way of getting points. I spent hours on this essay so I thought it should be shown to just one person (my teacher). Im currently studying psychology at A level and get set a lot of essay based work, I though I would offer others a chance to look at my work and see what they think! So, here begins the essay... Outline and evaluate research and/or theories into majority influence. Above is the question that I am going to be completing in this essay. First of all it is essential to achieve an understanding by what is meant by the term ... more
  • 55 of 55 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    FlameDruid

    5 Stars Oh Lord - Please Get Them To Survey Me! Review with images 14/09/2004
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    Advantages Advantages Legless

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Rejections make you go, 'ooooh.'

    I joined Ciao recently and have been busily writing reviews about everything surrounding me. I've done my monitor. I've done my guitar. I've done my games. I've done a play by Shakespeare. I'm thinking of doing my legs next. In fact, you know what? I will. My legs were created in August 1954 in the back bedroom of a small terraced house in Birmingham. They were mainly pink although in the photographs taken at the time they look grey. This is because in the fifties everybody was in black and white. Many of the films made at the time have no colour. Now you know why. I took those legs everywhere ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    i_h8_celtic

    3 Stars Othello 15/09/2006
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    Advantages Advantages Shows both sides and concludes reasonably

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Have to have read 'Othello' to understand

    This essay is an evalution on the character of Iago in William Shakepeares's 'Othello'. This is one of my pieces for english coursework so constructive critisism is welcome as always although this has already been sent away to the board of examiners. Iago has been described as 'motiveless malignity'. How far do you agree with this statement? Although the play is entitled 'Othello,' Iago is still a very central character. At the beginning of the play Iago is shown as being angry about being overlooked as Othello's lieutenant, so he follows Othello to Cyprus and plans his downfall using ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    LukeyBoy

    5 Stars Cry the Beloved Country, the book and film 01/10/2006
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    Advantages Advantages Looks at both Book and Film

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Longish

    After studying both the book and the film of Cry, the Beloved Country I have noticed several obvious comparisons and differences between them. I have compared tmost of the important scenes and I have come to the conclusion of which scenes in the film gives the book justice. The book is set in South Africa in 1946 and it is based around a vicar, Reverend Stephen Kumalo who lives in Ndotsheni. Kumalo recieves a letter from Johannesburg explaining that his sister is sick. So, Kumalo travels to Johannesburg and looks after his sister and searches for his son. He realises that his son has been ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SamCrumpet

    5 Stars Story Evaluation 26/09/2006
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    Advantages Advantages I'll let you decide

    Disadvantages Disadvantages wrote by me

    Story - The Whole Town's Sleeping. How does Ray Bradbury create and develop suspense in his short story 'The Whole Town's Sleeping'? 'The Whole Towns Sleeping' is a short story about how a girl (Lavinia) and her friend discover a dead body in the ravine near their home. They believe the dead girl was killed by a well known murderer called 'The Lonely One.' After a tip Lavinia believes she is the next target of 'The Lonely One'. On the way home one night from the cinema Lavinia has to cross the ravine by herself. While walking through the ravine she thinks she is being followed. After a frantic ... more
  • 76 of 76 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Member since 18/07/2006

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    5 Stars My Family & other Idiots (growing all the time!) 01/08/2006
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    Advantages Advantages This was very cathartic...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages you tell me..

    After much thought and deliberation I finally decided to do what I always said I would - write a book. At thirty-nine, I wandered what things I could say that would have universal appeal ? What do people really want to read ? What turns an average book into an "unmissable read"? But if I really knew that I`d have started writing this book when the idea first popped into my head many moons ago. My Family & Other Idiots (or Burn, Jane, burn) 1 Sowing the seeds My father was an ambituous farmer with plans too big and grand to be feasable. My mother was a Danish au pair working for a family just ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Ladybird89

    1 Star The effect on a person after Brain Injury. 18/06/2010
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    Advantages Advantages Positive outlook on life after nearly losing everything and changes for a safer road.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Headache, memory loss, sickness, amnesia, distant and unresponsive

    Hello all, I am not going to claim I am at a high level of understanding the brains functioning after such an injury but I am going to explain what I have been through, the symptoms and the recovery following the accident. I was involved in a collision with a bike 4 weeks ago so of course I am still recovering and the past four weeks have been difficult but I have managed to keep going with a smile. :) I cannot remember the collision but I can remember Paramedics surrounding me and I remember being dazed and confused, almost having an outer-body experience and feeling like it was an awful ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    KidMuscle

    5 Stars The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde 14/03/2005
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    Advantages Advantages A fantastic novel

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some bits are hard to understand.

    ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’ is a Victorian horror – mystery and was written in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story is about an intelligent, kind, respectable man (Dr Jekyll) who created & took a drug that transforms him into an evil creature that injures & kills people (Mr Hyde). Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He had always dreamt of becoming a writer but his father had expected him to follow in his footsteps and become an engineer. His first famous novel was Treasure Island written in 1883. He moved from Scotland to America and finally Samoa. It only ... more
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