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Philipa Benshoof Jessica's Face
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... ned the hair without touching it, then shut
Jessica's eyes. "I can see that. " Philipa
Benshoof's impatience was renown. Not once but
three times I had seen Philipa bust a door down
with the heel of her boot she always wore hiking
boots in the winter, black ones, with thick soles
and heavy laces, unless she was skiing, and then
they were streamlined white Nordicas, top of the
line. She brushed a strand of her thick black hair
off her face, reached into her stylish black
parka, pulled out a "...
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Eating Disorders Perfect Body
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Through the use of imagery, the display of
life-styles, and the reinforcement of values,
advertisements are communicators of culturally
defined concepts such as success, worth, love,
sexuality, popularity, and normalcy. Of particular
concern over the past two decades has been
excessive use of sexual stereotypes, especially of
women. Women are directly affected by this
advertising, beyond the mere desire to purchase
the product or service described. The influence of
the media on people is tremend...
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Movie Review Twister Blows Away Reality
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Movie Review: Twister blows away reality A storm
chaser's dream come true is to get close enough to
a mile-wide tornado to shoot unique video of
nature's extreme fury. Maybe even take some
close-up measurements of the storm's surroundings,
if the situation warrants. But never will a chase
team be caught racing into the middle of a
cornfield toward the heart of a whirling funnel,
no matter what the prize. Yet that's exactly what
Twister actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt do as
"professional" storm...
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Martin Scorsese Robert Deniro
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Movie critic, Roger Ebert, has called him a
"directing god." He has been called the "most
influential and best director of their time" by
fellow director, George Lucas. Director Martin
Scorsese has been an influential director for the
past twenty years. In the 60 's class of directors
that included, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas,
Brian De Palma, and Steven Spielberg. Scorsese
ranks with this class of artists, and his movies
have changed the film industry of America
(Friedman I). The impact ...
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Bruce Willis Die Hard
1,691 words
In our heroes, we find something we that admire,
or wish we had, in ourselves. It is for this
reason that it is easy to understand how popular
action heroes can and almost must, stand as a
collective symbol of how we as a people want to be
perceived. If the collective values of the
eighties were symbolized by the hard body, as
Susan Jeffords asserts in her 1994 article, Hard
Bodies: Hollywood in the Reagan Era, then surely
the nineties can be represented by the sharp mind.
The Hollywood heroes o...
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Famous Amos The Father Of Gourmet Cookies
1,400 words
Wallace Amos, Jr. , better known as Wally Amos,
was born in Tallahassee, Florida on July 1, 1936.
Wally was an ambitious student and dropped out of
high school six months before graduation. After
serving in the Air Force for four years, he moved
to Saks Fifth Avenue, where he earned eighty-five
dollars a week in the early 1960 s. Ever ambitious
and unsatisfied, he left Saks and took a
thirty-five dollar pay cut to work as a mail clerk
at the William Morris Agency. Though he started at
the bottom...
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Body Image Bottom Line
757 words
Perhaps no time in history have body image
standards had such an enormous impact on society.
With todays mass media people can be subjected to
thousands of images and messages daily, portraying
the ideal body image. The people most often
portrayed and effected by these messages are young
women. Females can feel constant pressure to live
up to these ideals which are most often
unattainable. This pressure can cause detrimental
physical and mental states. To fully understand
this problem we must fi...
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Falls In Love Million Dollars
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born July 24, 1970 in
Castle Hill, Bronx. She is the daughter of
Guadalupe and David Lopez. Lopez has been able
overcome the Spanish stereotypes becoming the
highest paid Latin woman in the world. Every time
she appears on magazine covers, presents on the
Oscars, makes movies and music she is breaking
down barriers and showing that every woman, no
matter what race, can do this. The place where
Jennifer grow up was a Spanish area, with people,
food, and music Her grandpare...
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White Middle Class Forced To Move
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The movie, Save the Last Dance, goes along with
all of our discussions and conversations about the
visual difference between the black and white
cultures and the stereotyping that Hollywood does
of the two cultures. The movie shows the
difference in the two cultures, according to
Hollywood. you have your typical white
middle-class suburban girl (Sarah) and your
typical low-class black boy (Derrick). Save the
Last Dance is a love story about the pros and cons
that comes along with interracial dat...
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
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The hit musical "Singin' in the Rain" may possibly
be one of if not the greatest musicals of all
time. With it's tale of the film world of the mid
1920 's and its creative underlining love story
between Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Kathy Selden
(Debbie Reynolds), it provokes the interest of
someone who would not generally be attracted to a
musical. It is a classic masterpiece that set the
standards that musical films of today will be
judged by. It is a classic performance by the
great Gene Kell...
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Left Hand Side Orson Welles
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Robert Robert Aldrich Robert Aldrich Robert
Aldrich was born into an extremely wealthy family.
He became an assistant director in Hollywood,
working in the 1945 1952 period with many
directors. A notably high percentage of these were
in the extreme left: Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone,
Robert Rose, Joseph Love, Charles Chaplin. Kiss Me
Deadly Kiss Me Deadly (1955) is Aldrich's most
remarkable film. Aldrich began directing in 1953,
and by then, the film noir cycle had run its
course as a Hollywood ...
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J F K World War Ii
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Until the 1970 s, there was no such word as 34;
docudrama. 34; Prior to that time, there had
been no need for the word because most movies fit
fairly neatly into categories of either fiction or
non-fiction. There was fact-based drama, of
course, such as Gung Ho (1943), but such films
never pretended to be exact re-enactments of the
events they covered, or the people involved. In
the 20 years since its invention however, the term
34; stuck 34; and now refers to one of the
most popular ...
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Bruce Willis Die Hard
1,693 words
Introducing the Sharp Minds: In our heroes, we
find something we that admire, or wish we had, in
ourselves. It is for this reason that it is easy
to understand how popular action heroes can and
almost must, stand as a collective symbol of how
we as a people want to be perceived. If the
collective values of the eighties were symbolized
by the hard body, as Susan Jeffords asserts in her
1994 article, Hard Bodies: Hollywood in the Reagan
Era, then surely the nineties can be represented
by the sharp...
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Soul Mate Female Relationship
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Using the movie Love Jones I will talk about the
characteristics of male / male and female / female
relationship as they are portrayed in the film.
Then I will talk about how different the female /
male relationship is and focus primarily on their
communication styles. There is some harsh
vocabulary included in my essay but only in
quotations that I have taken from the movie itself
to communicate what was going on in the scenes I
have chose to talk about. Female / female
relationship Josie and N...
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Bram Stoker Wes Craven
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Horror films have always been designed to frighten
and invoke the audiences worst fears, often in a
terrifying or shocking way. Yet at the same time,
horror films are suppose to be entertaining,
despite, or in addition to the scariness. They
deal with our most primal nature and its fears:
our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation,
our terror of the unknown, our fear of death, or
loss of identity. Horror films have developed out
of a number of sources from folk tales with devil
characters...
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Quentin Tarantino Till Dawn
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Quentin Tarantino and his films Quentin Tarantino
was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the
son of a half cherokee, half hillbilly mother
named Connie Tarantino. She named him after Burt
Reynolds charakter, Quint from the movie Gunsmoke.
When Quentin reached the age of two years, the
Tarantino's moved to South Los Angeles where he
grew up. From an early age, his mother took him to
the movies and he immediately experiences a
peculiar love and admiration for the cinema
itself. At the age of...
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Saving Private Ryan World War Ii
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The film industry of the 20 th century has done
all that it could to manipulate the viewers of the
world. Whether good, or bad propaganda in film has
been a major source for molding the publics minds
to fit the political correct way of thinking at
that particular time. Saving Private Ryan and an
Officer and a gentleman are both movies that i
believe to be propaganda films for the united
states in concern of war. Both of these movies
deal with the united states armed services, but
the message beh...
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Pre Screening Party Film Is A Masterpiece One
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Adventures in motion pictures The writer of prose
fiction, when he first turns his hand to
screenwriting, often does so with a condescending
air. Surely this cant be so very difficult, he
thinks; all thats required is to come up with the
bare bones of a story. So he goes to work
anticipating a quick job with easy money at the
end of it, and possibly a bit of glory. He is soon
disabused of these prideful assumptions. It
becomes apparent that what he has at his disposal
is merely an ordered succes...
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Twentieth Century Fox John Ernst Steinbeck
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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author,
famous for his novels concerning the poor and the
oppressed Californian farmers and laborers of the
1930 s and 1940 s, who were victimized by industry
and finance. His most famous novel, The Grapes of
Wrath, won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. His main
themes involved the struggles of the poor and the
oppressed to survive in modern society, and the
confrontation between man and his destiny. 1
Steinbeck wrote 17 novels, numerous short stories,
several plays, ...
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Rose Of Sharon Grapes Of Wrath
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Survival of the Passionate Raymond Chandler,
author of The Big Sleep, and John Steinbeck,
author of The Grapes of Wrath, focus their novels
on astounding women, the backbone of support
necessary for their family to overcome obstacles
and survive. In many ways, women are used to
gathering information, inspiring, encouraging the
hero, while hiding the negative with an absolute
and optimistic, though often false, attitude. The
women in these two novels are parallel in many
ways. They all achieve an...
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