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One Week Essay

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Canada is a beautiful country with an abundance of attractions and sights to explore. For some people, it could be their first time ever visiting the country or possibly looking to make Canada their home. For others, exploring Canada can be a way to find that missing piece of their life that they have always been waiting to find. In the movie One Week by playwright and director Michael Mcgowan, there is this dual message that shows throughout the movie and the events that take place. Ben Tyler who is the main character in One Week gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, and he starts to realize that he does not have very much time left. He begins to feel like he needs to find some life meaning while he can before treatment. He begins to buy a …show more content…

Through Ben’s series of events, it showed the beautiful country that Canada is. When Ben was travelling, he went into a hockey rink to find the Stanley Cup sitting in the middle of the rink. He was amazed that something so valuable was sitting right in front of his eyes. Hockey is a very popular sport in Canada and it is a sport that a large amount of Canadians enjoy and spend their time watching. This shows that when Ben got to experience kissing and touching the Stanley cup, that it was a huge accomplishment because thousands of Canadians wish they could do that. Ben visited one of Canada’s most beautiful parks it has to offer, Banff, Alberta. Banff is an amazing place to travel to and spend time looking at its wonderful view of our mountains; Canada offers us the most unique places to travel. Ben visits Drumheller, Alberta, where he is gazing off into the beautiful hills. He is just sitting there and taking in all the wonderful things the place has to offer. Drumheller shows the Canada is full of unique places and sights to see, that we have the chance of being able to explore. When Ben finally makes it west and arrives in British Columbia, he is about to make his way in the the ocean, a couple stops him and asks if he will take a picture for them. Ben takes the picture of the couple and as they reply with “thank you,” they also mention that Canada is the most beautiful country in the world. Even when

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