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two words altke and yet diferent?
2 What types of movies do you attend most cien at the theater or
atch athome? Expiin how each film type you mention feces
personal interest or need.
Febaplence is never limited, and itis never competi is an immense
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pee tt the chamber of consciousness, and caching every ci ons
pared ts tissue. Is the very atmosphere ofthe mitch eodnboe rts
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verts the very pulses ofthe al into revelations
—Henry James, “The Art of Fiction”816 Chapter 8 * Division and Classification
1 Novelist Henry James thought it important tobe a person “on whom,
nothings lout” He meant the world ha a ott offer we ave the eve
aang This applies to everything we perceive, including movies and
tp fects they have on uf Sore help vs develop psychologically to be~
Faplete hurtin beings, and other lias are just away of dio-
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has as mach to do with the fm viewer asthe lm itelt.
aac coun James Sp, iba splder-w25 that catches even the
snigutest particles. Nothing really escapes ts attention. The bigger the
Mreb rove, the more intricate and complex the design, the more that
iets caught init, Web-making Is a metaphor for maturity and peycho-
fogical developmen. The mind spins out is fine bers when simu.
tated to grow, when challenged to thinkin new ways, when asked tc
aa new kinds of problems. Any person who has ever seen spidey
soe windy fall day, when the strands of web become detached frore
fhe stems of plants or the limbs ofa tre, will have a picture for the
tray the mind scursies sboct and strives 20 manta its mode of per
Tention, As the worl is constantly changing, our minds ae constant