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Home Alone Home Alone is a brilliant film directed by John Hughes, which explains the hilarious story of a house robbery attempt through the eyes eight year old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin). The director starts the story in Kevin’s house where his family is getting ready to leave for France the next day. While they are preparing their last dinner at their house before they leave for France, Kevin gets into a fight with his brother and is forced to sleep on the third floor. His parents forget to bring him on the family trip due to being rushed from a power outage overnight and being isolated since he is on the third floor. This leaves Kevin alone with no power in his house for days. During his time alone he realizes that a pair of thieves are planning to rob his house, but he creates the ultimate plan to take them down and send them to jail.      As the film progresses, the audience sees Kevin start off as selfish stubborn kid, like in the beginning when he...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of ever-increasing use of technology? Nowadays, increasing use of technology is an actual theme that should be unstoppably explored. Technologies provide the progress of an economic sphere, because it’s possible to work in offices with new digitals; infrastructure is becoming more developed.  Technological change makes education an essential case for high-grade living, because in a modern progressed world we can’t exist without special knowledge. Progress is increased by quickly steps, and society needs to keep pace with it. Technological progress created the substitutes. It’s known that resources are limited, and this fact is a big problem of economy. Now we can sit on chairs without deforestation for their production because of an existence of plastic due to substitutes. As for disadvantages, increasing use of technology is a risk of human’s dependence on digitals. Day after day, new digital is a slogan of modernization. Mo...

Hologram of Amy Winehouse set for 2019 worldwide tour The article “Hologram of Amy Winehouse set for 2019 worldwide tour” written by Laura Snapes is devoted to the discussion of the problem of development of disadvantaged young people through music. First, the author draws our attention to projection of the late singer. Then he analyzes the purpose of this performance.  He gives an example of awareness for Amy's Foundation and also emphasizes that Amy's Hologram is the third such project. The author suggests that the technology has become increasingly common and pays attention to its incredibility. Then he argues that Amy's charity educates young people about drug and alcohol misuse. In addition, her legacy will continue in this innovative and groundbreaking way. Finally, the author informs us about release of new documentary. It includes “previously unseen footage of Amy” and new interviews with her collaborators. Reference:  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oc...

Art Performance Hip-hop industry started working in far 70s. It was the first music, that fully discovered an ideology of Hispanic culture, being built by antagonism of White American culture. Hip-hop was developed by DJ Afrika Bambaataa, who divided this subculture in five aspects that called DJing, MCing, Breaking, graffiti and knowledge(special philosophy). . All that happens now still amazes public; but recently, it's absolutely normal, just beautiful for those who understand art events. Choreographers construct a new kind of self-expression all over the world. Contemporary directors use subculture as a powerful apparatus for making perfomance. An evidence for this statement is Pierre Rigal's working. Pierre connected hip-hop dancing style, original clothes, aesthetics of contemporary art, and own conscious that allowed him to make scandale high-concept community. Even if perfomers felt themselves being trapped in creation myth, it can be regarded as ...