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Pablo Neruda's - Explaining a Few Things in Connection with Isabel Allende's House of Spirits
Through their separate mediums of writing, poetry and literature, both Neruda and Allende both achieve a common goal of criticizing the actions of certain militant forces, past or present, within there country of living. In Neruda’s “I’m explaining a Few Things”, the Civil Spanish war, sparked by the forceful and bloody overtake of the current, fair republican government by the Faschist general Fransisco Franco, is the topic of Neruda’s disgust and criticism. The “burning” and
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Dust Bowl
According to answers.com, a dust bowl is a region reduced to aridity by drought and dust storms. The best-known dust bowl is doubtless the one that hit the United States between 1933 and 1939. One major cause of that Dust Bowl was severe droughts during the 1930’s. The other cause was capitalism. Over-farming and grazing in order to achieve high profits killed of much of the plain’s grassland and when winds approached, nothing was there
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Fight Club - What Did the Film Distort?
What did the film Distort? A film adaptation of a book can be like hearsay. The author writes a novel to send a certain message. Someone else reads it interprets it in a different way and talks to a film producer. The film producers then take its, leaves out major events, change the ending and make a film with a completely different message than the author. The author then screams bloody murder then takes his
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Ethnic Notions: Film Response
Ethnic Notions: Film Response The 1987 film documentary Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs, identifies the evolution of African American cultural depictions through ethnic stereotypes and caricatures in American culture. I feel Ethnic Notions exposes the roots of false generalization from the beginning and presents a series of classifications for racial depictions that still are noticeable in today’s society. These racial depictions identified with in this film begin in the mid 1800's and continue
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The Two Facets of Love: The Contrasting Nature of Love Explored in Beloved
In her novel Beloved, Toni Morrison explores the paradoxical nature of love both as a dangerous presence that promises suffering and a life-giving force that gives the strength to proceed; through the experiences of the run-away slave Sethe. The dangerous aspect of love is revealed through the comments of Paul D and Ella regarding the motherly love of Sethe towards her children. Sethe’s deep attachment to her children is deemed dangerous due to their social
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Film Noir
Unit 1 Interactive Assignment 1: Reading Discussion Definitions are as difficult as they are necessary. In the case of "film noir" we always begin with the question: What is it? But this is perhaps the wrong question. Perhaps we should ask a deeper question: Is it? In other words, is the word empty of meaning, that is, so general that in practice it is useless? Let us begin, then, not with what it is or
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Film Prioritization
In this scenario, a large film making conglomerate wishes to examine a number of potential film making projects. Each project is to be ranked according to its feasibility, measured by the ability to adhere to a number of corporate objectives. There are seven proposed movies to be judged and the conglomerate will produce four to six each year. First is to examine each of those projects to the corporate objectives, compare and contrasting project selection
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Explorers of the Renaissance
Exploration There were things made in the Middle Ages, which were used later in the Renaissance. One was invented in the twelfth century was the magnetic compass. Another was a portable device used by sailors to help them find their way, which is called an astrolabe. The astrolabe helped determine latitude. Which was very important in navigation. One was invented in the twelfth century and it was the magnetic compass. Maps became very reliable also.
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Teenage Film Essay
Teenage films are a type of film made to attract an adolescent audience. The main ways that film makers try to attract teens to a teenage film are to create an unreal adolescent world, to make the teenager the hero, the adults stupid and incompetent and to use stereotypes that teens can relate to. By doing all this they can manipulate the teen audience and suck them in to the film, making it an affective
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Kenyon’s the Blue Bowl
Kenyon’s criticism of burial and the mourning process and the manner in which it fails to provide a sense of closure for those who have lost a loved one is the main underlying theme in The Blue Bowl. Through her vivid description of both the natural setting and the grief-stricken emotional overtone surrounding the burial of a family’s house pet and the events that follow in the time after the cat is put to rest,
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Film:analysis: The Life of David Gale
The debate about whether capital punishment should be used has raged incessantly since it was reinstituted in the Democratic United States in 1976. The latest statistics on the death penalty reveal that 71% of Americans favor it for citizens convicted of murder, while 26% oppose it. Although the United States doesn’t lead the world in total numbers of executions per year, it is within the top five. Of all the 38 states that still have
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Summay of the Money Bowl
Article Summary The Money Bowl By Joseph McCafferty CFO, August 2006 According to Rodney Fort, a sports economist at Washington State University, college sports is the only business in America that has no bottom-line responsibilities. College athletic departments are under pressure to do everything they can within the rules to win, including spending all their resources. Anything less means they didn’t try hard enough. Without university or student-fee subsidies, only a handful of athletic programs
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Ten Best Performances in English Films
In any movie, the hardest job is probably that of the actor. He not only has to give his character an air of believability but also must bond with the viewer emotionally. As always, a few things first, • In compiling this list I have tried to focus on what in my opinion should be the best performances in English films. However when speaking of performances, it is impossible to keep one’s personal choices
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Thoughts on Tania Modleski's “cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film”
Tania Modleski’s “Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film,” discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy, the jezebel, and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn’t analyze the sapphire stereotype, she does use Whoppi Goldberg’s past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski’s comparison of Goldberg’s roles and
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The Place of an Auteur Director in the Nigerian Video Film Industry
Introduction Films are the product of many individuals working together. This is evident in the credits that are scrolled at the end of each finished work. I could easily say that it takes a village to make a movie. Consequent upon the above stated, it becomes shocking to find out that there is a significant tendency among film scholars to treat films as the product of a single individual. To toe this line of interpretation
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Analyse Shane with Specific Reference to the Films Visual Style and Western Themes
‘ Analyse Shane with specific reference to the films visual style and western themes.’ By analysing ‘Shane’ (1953) in conjunction with its visual style and western themes, it will clearly show what aspects of western culture are apparent in the film. By looking at the visual style, this will show how the mise-en-scene informs the audience that ‘Shane’ is placed in the western genre. Firstly I will analyse the western themes that are visible in
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Film Analysis of the Movie
The movie begins with the screen displaying the words of Isaiah 53:5 which reads “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” I think the director is giving us a introduction of the movie. A close-up shot of the full moon appears and then a long shot showing us the entire sky. The camera moves
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Chinatown: Above the Film Noir Genre
The viewer sees a private eye and beautiful client. First thought, “It’s definitely another Hollywood crime drama.” On the surface, Chinatown has all the elements of a film noir: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman, otherwise known as the femme fatale, a gritty urban setting, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. Chinatown, however, is different. Polanski shot Chinatown with color
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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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Fear and Trembling Film Anaysis
Fear and Trembling Film Analysis Paul Regallis Intercultural Communication 35852 Dr. Mei-Chen Lin November 28, 2007 Abstract The movie Fear and Trembling shows many examples of intercultural communication. Amйlie, one of the main characters in the movie, encounters different kinds of intercultural adaption difficulties. A few examples of these are making friends, cultural knowledge and appreciation and pressure to conform. Some of Amйlie’s experiences have her going through some aspects of culture shock such as
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Film Studies
People’s lives cross with other people’s every day. Strangers become a vital part of our lives, often in ways we don’t ever recognize. Crash is an ensemble piece about a circle of strangers whose lives all touch. Director Paul Haggis successfully conveys this through epiphanies that burrow deep into the truth about racism, and its manifestations. Haggis forces the audience to examine their own motives, raise questions, and scrutinize the ugly side of ourselves through
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Femme Fatale in Film Noir
The term film noir was coined by French critics for 1940s-50s American films that shared a dark sensibility and a dark lighting style, such as Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Many theorists related the common noir attributes and aesthetic elements to a post war society characterised by insecurity about gender roles, the economy, changing definitions of race, and nuclear technology. One of the cultural problems
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Home Scool Connection
For many students, the majority of their studying takes place in the classroom with very little effort being made at home to reinforce learning. Regrettably, for the students affected by this educational trend the reason that learning stays primarily at school is due to the ethnic, social, economic, and educational condition that exists in the home. But regardless of the specific reason that this situation occurs, the underlying cause in almost every case is a
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Space Exploration
People have been venturing out into the universe for many years now. In addition to satellites, both women and men astronauts have traveled into space to collect data about the universe. The first human being, the first animal, and the first spacecraft in orbit, were all achievements of the Soviet Union. In 1958 a group known as The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded. The first probe to escape Earth's gravity was
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Exploring Alienation and Conformity in the Metamorphosis
In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka conveys the series of emotional and psychological repercussions of a physical transformation that befalls the protagonist, a young salesman called Gregor Samsa. As the story progresses, Gregor finds himself unfairly stigmatized, cruelly rejected because of his clear inability to financially support his family, and consequently increasingly isolated. Through extensive use of symbolism, Kafka is able to relate the surreal and absurd, seemingly arbitrary events of this short story to a
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