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The Evolution of Sonata Forms
The Evolution of Sonata Forms Sonata form which was prevalent in early classicism was a prestigious musical form back in late eighteenth century. Compared with other forms such as binary form, it demonstrated an entire scope of musical structure. It is widely regarded that the idea of sonata form is central to enlightened musical thought. In this article, the definition of sonata form and how it evolved in different eras will be discussed. Also the
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The Fantasy Story
Today I’d like to tell you about fantasy literature. It is very hard to tell all about it but I’ll try to do it as good as possible and not being boring. First fantasy motifs were shown in romanticism. We all know the mystical and unreal characters: ghosts, phantoms etc. Authors for building the special mood and charm of that epoch used that figures. But fantasy is something more than romantic ways of showing
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The Film Metropolis Film Shots
The film Metropolis is a unique film. If one thinks about the time in which the film was made and then thinks of how little technology was available to the film industry, they would see how awesome the film truly is. A specific scene that had two camera angles involved in it was when Maria was saving all the children from the flooding. It was filmed with a crane, but it also moved around her
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The Fray Lyrics - How to Save a Life
The Fray Lyrics "How To Save A Life" Step one, you say, "We need to talk." He walks, you say, "Sit down. It's just a talk." He smiles politely back at you You stare politely right on through Some sort of window to your right As he goes left and you stay right Between the lines of fear and blame You begin to wonder why you came Where did I go wrong? I lost a
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The General
“The General” The General is classical in form and structure, right down to the use of black and white cinematography. Apart from the fact that this particular classical gangster tale is set in contemporary Dublin and manages to involve several major social and political threads defining urban Irish life, it is also inflected with the director's concerns in his country that he focuses on major issues that affect it. The movie establishes motivation for Cahill's
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The Giver - Movie Review
The Giver; Movie Review Imagine living in a world with no colors, or feelings. It doesn't sound very interesting or fun. Does it? This is the world that Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) has to live in. This is the reality of Jonas and of his community. This inspiring film takes us through Jonas’ journey as he tries to make things right. When Jonas becomes a twelve he is given the assignment of receiver of memory. He
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The Glorious World of Stagnation: A Look at the Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader Film, “taxi Driver”
New York City that is depicted in Taxi Driver seems to be too real to be true. It is a place where violence runs rampant, drugs are cheap, and sex is easy. This world may be all too familiar to many that live in major metropolitan areas. But, in the film there is something interesting, and vibrant about the streets that Travis Bickle drives alone, despite the amount of danger and turmoil that overshadows everything
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The Gospel - Movie Review
For my reaction paper I chose to do New Modern Medium which included a movie. The movie I chose was The Gospel, which starred Boris Kodjoe of Soul Food and American Idols first season finalists Tamira Gray. The movie starts out with a young boy singing soulfully at the church. The young boy David Taylor who’s aspirations is to be a pastor like his father. In the beginning David and his best friend Frank are
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The Graduate
Shot by Shot Assignment The Graduate Shot 1 Observation Duration: 14seconds Ben enters his room and is at ease finally. The music stops and the focus is on him. The room is well lit and his head is leaned against the white door, which gives the audience a sense of escape. As he makes his way toward the window, we see a dartboard next to his bedroom door that has not one of the darts
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The Graduate
The Graduate "Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The film The Graduate is an epic piece that captures the spirit of the times, and allows America's youth to perceive onscreen an image of themselves which they can both identify with and emulate. The graduate is a timeless romantic comedy with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The aspect ratio is significant due to its broad range of visibility.
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The Grapes of Wrath
Film Review: The Grapes of Wrath The film The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, pragmatically depicts the conditions, both cultural and economic, during the Great Depression. The film specifically focuses on the “Dust Bowl” in the 1930s. The main focus of The Grapes of Wrath is the journey of the Joad family. The family is forced to leave their farm in Oklahoma due to the tyranny imposed by banks and big mechanized companies
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The Great Bollywood
The Great Bollywood Motion pictures have been around for a long time. They are popular all over the world. When people think of motion pictures, Hollywood always pops in their heads. As great and as popular as Hollywood is, there is a larger film industry in the world, and it’s not in the U.S. The largest film industry in the world is called Bollywood and it is located in Bombay, India. Bollywood puts out
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The Great Debaters - an Even Greater Inspiration
Mills Eileen Mills CA 305- A The Great Debaters- An Even Greater Inspiration “Never Quit” is the message I take from the 2007 film The Great Debaters, a biographical drama about the Wiley Debate team in the 1930s. The Wiley Debate team that this movie is based on consisted of four African-American college students. One of which is a woman. They were met with opposition but they worked hard to overcome these obstacles so that
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The Great Debaters Movie Review
FILM CRITIQUE The Great Debaters (2007 film) Director: Denzel Washington Plot (ideas that drove the film): The plot begins when Professor Tolson asks the class to come out and try for the debate team for tryouts. Later about forty students show up to his house to debate with each other. He only ends up taking four students. Henry Lowe and Hamilton Burgess are taken as the primary debaters and Samantha Booke and James Farmer, Jr.
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The Great Gatsby
In Jack Clayton’s film adaptation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the director uses several visual techniques to emphasize and heighten the illusion of the American dream. These visual techniques include: Framing, color, lighting & space. The most interesting type of framing repeated al throughout the film is the use of mirrors in trapping the characters in their surreal reflection. The director used this technique in more than one scenes, nevertheless this
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The Great Gatsby the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby The Jazz Age In 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald said that “An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.” Fitzgerald wrote about what he saw during the 1920’s, which he dubbed “The Jazz Age,” and The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era. After World War I, many Americans felt a distrust toward foreigners and radicals
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The Great Influential, Daniel Louis Armstrong
“In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the greatest trumpet stylist of all time and has influenced every trumpet player of his time and long after” (Al Hirt). Many people have said, still say and will say that he was a musician who played to please his audience, to better musicians around him, and to better the view of jazz music and to make jazz music a popular outlet during the 1920s. Armstrong’s disciple Nicholas Payton
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The Great Music Debate: Classical Vs. Non-Classical
While is it is true that classical music is more complex, challenging and demanding, the merits of music are not based on rational or irrational/abstract discourse rather it is based on taste. Classical music cannot be listened with the same inattentiveness and distractions as other musical styles because there are many intricate details within classical music that set the ambiance and characters. To appreciate classical music properly you must give it your full attention, as
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The Greatest Game Ever Played
“The Greatest Game Ever Played” “The Greatest Game Ever Played” is a new release on Disney DVD (or VHS for everyone still clinging to the good ol’ days) that is based on the true story of an underdog that is given the opportunity of a lifetime. The film is set in Boston in the early 1900s, where Francis Ouimett, who is only a child, works as a golf caddy. He has a deep infatuation with
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The Green Berets and Casualties of War
The Green Berets and Casualties of War The films I chose to do my comparative paper on are The Green Berets and Casualties of War. Both of these films deal with issues concerning the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was viewed as unpopular and pointless by society; The Green Berets objective was to gain support for the Vietnam War. The film puts great emphasis on liberal war journalist George Beckwith (David Janssen). Beckwith originally doubts
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The Green Mile
The Green Mile Frank Darabont (writer-director-producer) in 1999, returned to the director’s chair for the first time in five years. Darabont, who not only directed Shawshank Redemption, but adapted it from a Stephen King story, followed the exact same path with The Green Mile. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and Produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, Darkwoods Productions, and Warner Bros. David Valdes is the producer, David Tattersall, B.S.C. is the director
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The Green Mile
The Green Mile was about a murder of two girls. When the father is told by the mother that the 2 little girls are missing, he gets a whole crowwd together to look for the little girls. They find the girls in the arms of a huge black man (I had to add the about the color of his skin because this part of the story takes place in the 30's and we all know
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The Green Quest
The Green Quest For centuries, money has had tremendous impacts on every aspect of one’s daily life. The never ending quest for fiscal superiority has driven people to unprecedented highs and unexpected lows. In D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner, there is an imperative yearning for more money. This need for money seemed to be more important to the mother than were her own children. Both Paul’s mother and Paul’s father had expensive tastes, expensive
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The Guardian: A Humanist Critique
The Guardian: Humanist Critique In the movie The Guardian there are two main characters, Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) and Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher), who believe that everything is all about them. When Jake first arrives he tells Captain Frank Larson “That guy who holds all them records? I just thought you outta let him know I’m about to knock his name off that board.” He believes that everything is about him. Later on in the
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The Guardian: Humanist Critique
The Guardian: Humanist Critique In the movie The Guardian there are two main characters, Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) and Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher), who believe that everything is all about them. When Jake first arrives he tells Captain Frank Larson “That guy who holds all them records? I just thought you outta let him know I’m about to knock his name off that board.” He believes that everything is about him. Later on in the
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The Guilt of Committing a Crime or Misdemeanor
The Guilt of Committing a Crime or Misdemeanor In the movie Crimes and Misdemeanors, the main character, Judah Rosenthal, make a life changing decision when he decided to kill his mistress. For Judah, there were no other alternatives to keep his affair a secret. His mistress, Delores, wanted to confront Judah’s wife Merriam to tell her about the affair that had been going on for the last past three years since Judah could not tell
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The Guitar
Guitar 1. The guitar first came to be known in the 14th century. When it was first known it had three pairs of strings including a single string which was for the high notes. It was thought to have originated in Spain where it became quite popular with the lower and middle class people in later into the 16th century. During the 16th and 17th centuries the guitar popularity spread into other European countries. Then
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The Hip Hop Culture
Since the early to mid 90’s, hip-hop has undergone changes that purists would consider degenerating to its culture. At the root of these changes is what has been called “commercial hip-hop". Commercial hip-hop has deteriorated what so many emcees in the 80’s tried to build- a culture of music, dance, creativity, and artistry that would give people not only something to bob their head to, but also an avenue to express themselves and deliver a
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The Hip Hop Culture and Ethnic Relations
THE HIP HOP CULTURE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS The “hip hop culture” has permeated popular culture in an unprecedented fashion. Because of its enormous crossover appeal, the hip-hop culture is a potentially great unifier of diverse populations. Although created by black youth on the street, hip-hop's influence has become worldwide. Approximately 75% of the rap and hip-hop audience is nonblack. It has gone from the ghetto, to the suburbs, and into the corporate boardrooms. Indeed,
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The History of Rock and Roll
Rock and roll has developed a long way throughout the years from a dance craze in the 1950’s to a political and cultural landscape that is recognized worldwide. Rock and roll has come to define the roots of teenage rebellion, people who don’t follow the norms, and have disrespect for authority. The style of rock and roll itself is a melting pot of music, a combination of sounds that include jazz, country, blues, ragtime, gospel,
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