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    In What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert and his brother, Arnie are living in Endora. Arnie is a kid with special problems and needs special care. They leave a “ordinary” life with their two sisters and their gigantic mom. Gilbert is in love with a lady but then Becky comes to town because their car broke down and they stay until it gets repaired. In the whole movie they also plan Arnie’s 18th birthday and that day their mom dies. They burn the house and leave town after a while. Friendship is…

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    The Profit: Amazing Grapes

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    Summary Plot In this episode of The Profit, Marcus Lemonis visits Amazing Grapes in April 2014. Greg and Bill are wine connoisseurs in Orange Country that turned their passion of collecting fine wines into a business. However, their business Amazing Grapes has unfortunately never been profitable. The business is months away from closing down due to mismanaged inventory and absentee of owners. Marcus Lemonis comes in and convinces staff and the owners to take ownership of their business and stop…

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    What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a fictional film about the titular character who lives in a small town, where her cares for his younger brother Arnie who has a mental disability. Gilbert is responsible for the upkeep of the family home, where he lives with his extremely obese mother and two sisters. The film states that his mother gained a great deal of weight following the passing of her husband who committed suicide and has failed to leave the house in over five years. The film focuses on…

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    In What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993), the Grape family, along with other families in Endora, Iowa, struggle to make the best of life in the impoverished rural town. Some outside factors led to the town becoming what it is in the film. The small store, Lamson’s Grocery, that Gilbert Grape, who is the primary bread winner of the Grape family, works in used to do very well. Along with many other specialty shops in the small town, until a chain supermarket opened up just a short distance away.…

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    protagonist’s inner thought and feelings, but still allows for the protagonist to express themselves fully on the screen. Such is the case of the film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The majority of the music in this film, specifically the opening of the film, is the antithesis of what Gilbert is actually feeling personally. Background and Synopsis What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced by executive producers Alan C. Blomquist and Lasse Hallstrom.…

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    Movie Analysis The movie Fried Green Tomatoes centers on an unhappy housewife in her forties named Evelyn Couch who meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode in a nursing home while visiting her husband’s sick aunt. Ninny, over several encounters with Evelyn, tells her the story of the young tomboy Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode, the youngest of the Threadgoode children. After Idgie's older sister’s wedding her older brother Buddy is hit by a train and killed. Devastated, Idgie recedes from her family and…

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    Fried Green Tomatoes is about a woman named Ninny Threadgoode telling Evelyn Couch about the past.Evelyn is a woman who doesn’t have self confidence and she gets pushed around. Evelyn and her husband going to the retirement home.Ed goes and sees his relative, while Evelyn goes and sits on a couch. That is when Evelyn meets Ninny. Ninny tells a story about her friend Idgie's past. It starts with Idgie when she was a child refusing to go a wedding, her brother Buddy convinces her to go. After the…

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    people take up the whole sidewalk, like why can’t people walk straight instead of moving throughout the whole sidewalk. Like I’m here walking, trying to get by you and you move to the side of where I was going. Now it makes me look like I’m going to rob you or I’m following you. Now you are going to look at me funny, thinking I’m up to something. It’s simple, just move to the other side of the sidewalk, keep in mind that you aren’t the only one on the street! Honestly they should just make the…

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    I agree with ethical relativism because we already have it and if we reject ethical relativism then who will have to power to say what's right and wrong for all societies. If we reject ethical relativism then history will repeat itself with a person who will get the power to implement what's right and wrong without any say from…

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    world today. The media and society nowadays always like to change up stories and news happening around the world either to cover up certain things or to simply make some headlines seem more interesting. Today's society relies on the media to know what's happening around the world and they have a tendency to believe whatever they see. We…

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