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Film Noir Classic Period
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Perfect Storm True Story
781 wordsThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger is a fascinating book that should definitely be put in to the high school curriculum. For a book to be used in high school it almost always has to be a classic. These would include the greats like The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, of Great Expectations. Even though The Perfect Storm is not a classic and chances are it never will be, it still has many features that make it a great book. The novel should be respected for reasons such as the continuous action and movem...
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Saddam Hussein Animal Farm
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Analysis Of The Death Author
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
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Walt Disneys Classical Music
1,426 wordsFantasia is a truly unique movie that combines beautiful music with interpretive animation. The movies music is exquisite but one would expect no less form the Philadelphia Orchestra who, at the time, specialized in such classical works as preformed in this movie. The songs were written well but one would also expect this because they were written by musical geniuses such as Mozart and Bach and are some of their more popular works. There is no disputing these two things but what of Disneys inter...
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A Classic Book Project
1,052 wordsA Classic Book Project Summary Charles Dickens had written five books about Christmas. Among these five, two of those have garnered popularity, specifically the last book which entitled The Haunted Man and The Ghosts Bargain. The story is about Redlaw, a chemistry teacher who despite his success in life, hes still miserable. That affected not only his relationship with the people around him but also to himself. A commotion happened in the village where Redlaw lives when his wish (to erase all hi...
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Edgar Allen Poe J R R Tolkien
1,507 wordsFantasy is a tree with many roots. The fantasy genre became popular because it threads the culture into the legends. It is the product of the certain times and the response to these times; the way of reaction on the epoch. Fantasy has always been a way of escaping from the depressing reality into the Wonderland or Never Never Land. The creation of the vivid and strange world in which the reality could be transformed to the characters needs, things, that are impossible in the real world are usual...
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Ancient Maya Ft Tall
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19 Th Century Civil Liberties
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Century Fox Horror Films
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Museum Of Natural History Catcher In The Rye
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Dreams Come True Miss Havisham
3,351 wordsDiane Boissonneau March 26 th 199 Great Expectations: The Book Verses the Movi Charles Dickens wrote many famous works, including Great Expectations. Recently, a movie loosely based upon this book was directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starred Gweynth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. Great Expectations is a sensual tale of a young mans unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, this...
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B C E Qin Dynasty
2,185 wordsKung Fu Tzu (commonly pronounced Confucius in English) was born in 551 B. C. E. in the state of Lu (modern day Shantung Province). He lived during the Chou dynasty, and era known for its moral laxity. Later in life, he wandered through many states of China, giving advice to their rulers. He accumulated a small band of students during this time. The last years of his life were spent back in Lu, where he devoted himself to teaching. His writings deal primarily with individual morality and ethics, ...
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Kung Fu Neo Confucianism
893 wordsKung Fu Tzu Confucianism History Kung Fu Tzu (commonly pronounced Confucius in English) was born in 551 BCE in the state of Lu (modern day Shantung Province). He lived during the Chou dynasty, an era known for its moral laxity. Later in life, he wandered through many states of China, giving advice to their rulers. He accumulated a small band of students during this time. The last years of his life were spent back in Lu, where he devoted himself to teaching. His writings deal primarily with indiv...
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Schools Of Thought Yin And Yang
1,546 wordsWho is Confucius? To some he may appear as a joke. However, Confucius, in reality, was not a laughingstock. He was a man who strived to bring peace and happiness to a world ravaged by crime and war. Confucius did not look for paradise in the next world like other religions but rather he was more concerned with achieving happiness in ones own lifetime. A respected Chinese philosopher, Confucius, or Kung Fu Tzu, began as a teacher, stressing the importance of self-discipline and generosity. He tho...
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Holy Roman Emperor Journey Through Hell
2,123 wordsDantes poem relating his heavenly ordained journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise enjoyed immediate success: more than 600 surviving manuscripts of the Divine Comedy produced during the 14 th century attest to the works popularity. Consequently, Dantes vernacular classic was among the first books to be printed when the new technology of moveable type was introduced into Italy from Germany during the 1460 s and 1470 s. Publishers and printers repeatedly turned to Dante for his proven market...
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Black And White Film Noir
4,098 wordsEXISTENTIALISM IN FILM I could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a certain genre of film being made in America during the late forties and early fifties perhaps deserves credit for treating very early, if not for the first time, subject matter and...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgeralds
3,177 wordsFrom the Dream to the Womb: Visionary Impulse and Political Ambivalence in The Great Gatsby It seems hard to believe in our period, when a three-decade lurch to the political Right has anathematized the word, but F. Scott Fitzgerald once, rather fashionably, believed himself to be a socialist. Some years before, he had also, less fashionably, tried hard to think himself a Catholic. While one hardly associates the characteristic setting of Fitzgeralds novels, his chosen kingdom of the sybaritic f...
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Escape From Reality Good And Evil
1,611 wordsHarry Potter Literature that children are exposed to often gives them ideas and provokes them to think and draw their own conclusions about things, it also provides a necessary escape from reality for them. This is why censoring childrens books can be rather destructive to their developing minds. If the tools with which kids are given to sharpen their minds are banned, then a little part of their education is stolen from them. With every theft of knowledge the future is too robbed of possibility...
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