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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 words
How on earth do horror film directors sleep at
night? Don't they ever wake up and say, "Is this
what my life is about: making people fear dark
rooms, old houses, and things that go bump in the
night?" How do they stand it all? What inspires
them to create these vividly outrageous spins on
reality? These may be the questions often asked by
people who don't quite understand the method
behind the madness that is the horror film. These
questions will be answered in this paper as it
explains the deve...
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Bram Stoker 200 Years
323 words
Bram Stoker having published it in 1897, Dracula
has been around for over 200 years. While many
works written in the same time period are
nonexistent today, Stoker wrote a masterpiece
still distributed furiously throughout the world.
Many of the things that make Dracula effective are
the same things that audiences cry out for in
contemporary entertainment. One appealing
attribute the book has is its suspenseful nature.
Stoker creates terror in his audiences with his
development of the characters...
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Family And Friends Talk Show
1,063 words
This essay will be broken up into three parts, 1.
The analysis of the program, 2. Whom does it amuse
and 3. What techniques does it use to amuse its
audience? The television program that Im going to
be talking about is one that I often find myself
watching. The program Frasier, is one of those
programs that once you start watching it really
keeps you entertained throughout the entire show.
It is a comedy and one of the better ones shown on
television. Why is it a comedy, or what makes it
such a ...
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Racial And Ethnic Half Lives
1,652 words
The appalling conditions of New York Citys
immigrants were disclosed by Jacob Riis in How the
Other Half Lives. Being an immigrant from Denmark
himself, Riis, felt it was his duty to present
others the disturbing life that many immigrants
endured, including children. Riis, a photographer,
was able to portray the slums as no other person
had been able to do before. He brought to light
the crime, disease, and hopelessness of the
tenements. His book and photographs led to
legislation throughout New...
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Cleveland Ohio Twenty Minutes
1,539 words
The players, including myself, are veiled behind
the platform. My heart begins pounding, as you
would wake from a branch tapping into your window
on a stormy night. Waiting for all the right cues,
I deeply anticipate the rising of the red drapes
so I can begin my quest. Yet I still feel
overwhelmed by the charge of intensity running
through me, easily seen by the bullets of sweat
that line my forehead, starting their trickle to
my already dampened cheeks. The time seemed to
take on a fast pace. ...
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Women Of Country Music
1,328 words
... t in country music. She was born into an
impoverished family in the Great Smoky Mountain
Region of Tennessee. At 18, just out of high
school, Dolly left her 11 siblings and moved to
Nashville. Less than two years later Dumb Blond,
hits the charts and climbs to No. 24 and her
second Something Fishy reached No. 17. Later this
year, 1967, Porter Wagoner hires her to replace
his female singer on his television show. This was
Dolly's big break. The duets they sang routinely
made the Top 10. In 19...
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Mozart Composed G Minor
903 words
Probably the greatest genius in Western musical
history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in
Salzburg, Austria, Jan. 27, 1756, the son of
Leopold Mozart and his wife, Anna Maria Part.
Leopold was a successful composer, violinist and
assistant concertmaster at the Salzburg court.
Wolfgang began composing minuets at the age of 5
and symphonies at 9. When he was 6, he and his
older sister, Maria Anna, performed a series of
concerts to Europe's courts and major cities. Both
children played the keybo...
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Young Lovers Happy Ending
1,331 words
If there is truly tradition to be found among the
great theatres both on and off Broadway, then
certainly the Sullivan Street Playhouse and its
long running production of The Fantasticks rates
as one of the most celebrated of New York
theatrical traditions. Maintaining its place as
the longest running production Off Broadway, The
Fantasticks remains an enchanting and insightful
tale of both young love and bitter
disillusionment. It also reminds one, in this age
of spectacle and the mega-musical,...
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Romeo And Juliet Fall In Love
1,038 words
The path of true love never did run smooth. Three
such love stories from our time are Romeo and
Juliet, An Affair to Remember and the recent movie
Moulin Rouge. These great well-known stories
depict the path of true love littered with
tragedy, other people trying to sabotage love and
other disasters befalling the star-struck lovers.
Nothing in love goes smoothly all the time, there
are always hiccups along the way. This is the key
factor that makes these stories and other great
love stories, so ...
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Joseph Conrad Heart Heart Of Darkness
1,280 words
Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Paths, paths
everywhere; a stamped in network of paths
spreading over empty land... (Conrad 39). When
Coppola decided to make a story telling the
journey to the heart of darkness, he had many
paths from which to choose how to tell the tale.
In some choices he followed Conrad, and in others
he forged his own path. Coppola's film, Apocalypse
Now like Conrad's novella, Heart of Darkness
leaves the viewer in moral confusion; however,
Coppola uses radically differ...
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Work Of Art Upper Class
1,191 words
An Interpretation of Stagecoach In 1939 John Ford
masterminded a classical western film by the name
of Stagecoach. This film has the integrity of a
fine work of art. Being that it could be
considered a work of art, the impression left on a
viewing audience could differ relying on the
audiences demographics. However, it is conceivable
to all audiences that Ford delivers a cast of
characters that are built on stereotypes and
perceptions conjured from B westerns that preceded
this films time. Each ...
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Stay At Home Current Affairs
819 words
Current Affairs Presentation Producers of
television current affairs programs manipulate the
audience s comprehension of an event and the
people concerned in it. The techniques in current
affairs often form a bias interpretation of events
and therefore forms prejudice towards certain
groups. Techniques used which manipulate and
create bias are interviews, editor gate-keeping,
speaking head or narrator, visuals and music. I
will be using a segment from Today Tonight to
prove these points. Intervi...
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African American Dance Company
687 words
Gyrating hips, fast feet, high stepping, and
magnificent moves, are characteristics that belong
to the great African-American dancers of history s
past. Fax s Black Archives Museum has a vast
collection of African-American artifacts including
a variety of pictures of dazzling African-American
dancers. These dancers Katherine Dunham, Martha
Graham, and Bill Bo jangles Robinson exemplify
black beauty, style, and grace. Katherine Dunham
was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on June 22, 1909,
to Albert a...
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Sing Sing Ive Heard
1,048 words
b. March 15, 1916, Albany, Georgia, USA. d. July
5, 1983, Las Vegas. Harry James father Everette
James, was a trumpeter and led a circus band with
the Mighty Haag Circus. His mother Maybelle, was a
trapeze artist with the circus. Harry began
playing the drums when he was four and began
playing trumpet when he was eight. He joined the
circus band the next year and was leading it by
the time he was twelve. Then their family moved to
Beaumont Texas, and at 15 Harry James began
playing in local danc...
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Social And Moral Values Of Society
1,094 words
Realism is the movement toward representing
reality as it is, in art. Realistic drama is an
attempt to portray life on stage, a movement away
from the conventional melodramas and sentimental
comedies of the 1700 s. It is expressed in theatre
through the use of symbolism, character
development, stage setting and storyline and is
exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A
Dolls House and Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters.
The arrival of realism was indeed good for theatre
as it promoted greater...
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Act I Scene End Of The Play
862 words
The Roles of the Fool in King Lear Fools in
traditional royal households were seen as imbecile
and jesters, nothing more. The older role of a
royal fool, which Shakespeare adopted from the
pagan setting of King Lear, was to correct minor
faults and incongruence in their masters. By
detaching the Fool from a conventional fools role,
Shakespeare allows for the crowds suspension of
disbelief in the Fools ability to get away with
the comments he makes to the King. In the opening
scenes, King Lear fa...
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Marilyn Monroe Publics Eye Image
448 words
Madonna 038; Marilyn Monroe Cultural Icons
Throughout many years of the post-modern era,
society has drawn special attention to women who
have made an art of keeping the publics eye. Two
key figures in the movement of womens roles and
expectations include the controversial, yet
undoubtedly successful Marilyn Monroe and Madonna
Ciccone, popularly known as Madonna. While each
woman made her own distinctive mark in her
generation, the stigma that seemed to both glorify
and shun each woman are ve...
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First World War Firing Squad
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During the First World War, many people were
accused of being spies and helping the enemy. One
of them, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, has gone
down in history as one of the most legendary women
of all time. Using the pseudonym Mata Hari,
Margaretha led a career as an exotic dancer, was
accused of spying for the Germans, did spy for the
French and was executed before a firing squad.
Mata Hari? s trial was clearly unfair and the
evidence was weak at best. When we examine her
background, the events ...
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Great Britain Private Life
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Watership Down Watership Down, by Richard Adams,
is a tale of adventure and sorrow through the eyes
of rabbits as they seek their own place in the
animal world. The Sandleford warren rabbits used
their natural instinct and fled the intrusion of
man and destruction. This decision takes them
through the remainder of the book, which enriched
by Adams s vivid imagination, tells of their
dangerous travels over the green fields and
meadows of early England. The group barely
survives vicious predators ...
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Natural Born Killers Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is a man who acts in movies. He
acted in movies such as: From Dusk Till Dawn, Girl
6, Desperado, Destiny Turns On The Radio, Four
Rooms, Coriolis Effect, Pulp Fiction, Sleep With
Me, Somebody To Love, Eddie Presley, Reservoir
Dogs, The Golden Girls, All-American Girl. He
wrote movies such as: From Dusk Till Dawn, Crimson
Tide Four Rooms, Its Pat, Natural Born Killers,
Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Past Midnight,
Reservoir Dogs. He also ...
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