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Role Models Dinner Party
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2,026 wordsSpike Lee, Kevin Smith And Alfred Hitchcock Spike Lee, Kevin Smith And Alfred Hitchcock As Film Auteurs In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone elses vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, p...
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Produced In 1919 Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
492 wordsCritique Of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Tampa Garrett English 376 Due 1 / 29 / 96 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, and directed by Robert Were. It was produced in 1919 by Erich Power for Dec-Bishop. 1919 was a year in which the movie industry was transformed into a giant industry. Although the movie was produced in 1919, it was not released in the United States until 1921. A time when film makers were out to prove that film was indeed art. In the year 1921...
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Jr Father
1,355 wordsFreddie Freddie Prinze Jr. Introduction Freddie Prinze Jr. was born on March 8, 1976 in Las Angeles, California. He would have lived a dream life in Hollywood fame. But when he was only ten months old, his father, Freddie Sr. had his sitcom? Chico and the Man? canceled and got high on prescription drugs and shot himself. Freddie Jr. ? s mother, Kathy Cochran, moved her family back to Albuquerque, New Mexico, knowing that if they stayed in Hollywood her son would be haunted by his father? s death...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key
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618 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. The son of a failed wicker furniture salesman, Edward Fitzgerald, and an Irish immigrant with a large inheritance, Mary Mollie McQuillan, Fitzgerald grew up in a solidly Catholic and upper middle class environment. Fitzgerald started writing at an early age. He was educated at St. Paul Academy, the Newman School, and Princeton University. His high school newspaper published his detective stories, encouragi...
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Genetic Engineering Jurassic Park
673 wordsHollywood Genetics Engineering Genetics Engineering Hollywood has been showing it to us for years. Frankenstein, The Six Million Dollar Man, Jurassic Park, etc. ; the list goes on. All these movies show mans instinct to create. This fiction of playing God in recent years is becoming a reality. In 1952, deoxyribonucleic acid was discovered (Dewitt, 1994). The spiral staircase molecule, DNA. DNA is the building block of life. This block holds the code for every aspect of any life on the planet Ear...
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Plato Artificial Intelligence
1,668 words? 2001 by Daniel du Prie Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where our bodies live. (Barlow, 1996) You? ve been living in a dream world Neo. This, is the world, as it exists today: Welcome to the desert? of the real. (Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix) From Plato? s Charmides to the Wachowski brothers? The Matrix (1999), there is a tradition of writing in Western literature, which thinks about and imagines the city as either a utopia or a dystopia, or both. I believe t...
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1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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