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Matter Of Fact Citizen Kane
1,625 wordsThere really are two ways of looking at a movie when it is based on the true story. When I see a movie of this type, I always struggle with the two choices, and usually end up somewhere in the middle. The Untouchables is that kind of movie. To start off with, I think that its a great film, director Brian De Palmas well done work. However, as is usual when the tale of Al Capone and Eliot Ness is told, some facts are taken with the source material. Manufacturing a confrontation between Ness and Ca...
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Ready To Kill Citizen Kane
1,647 words... n change the life. The composition here is like a family one, the light is flat. In the middle of the table the candle is blazing. The camera pans from Nash showing everybody in the medium shot a couple of times and stops panning on Malone. Malone is opening the secret of his call box key, that they suit Nash. That means that he is opening Nash talent by teaching him. The key is symbolic which added by filmmakers advisedly, which appears a couple of time during the film conveys the idea of t...
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Toni Morrison Dream Deferred
1,130 wordsWhat happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? While Langhston Hughes authors this poem, A Dream Deferred, it can easily be interpreted as Toni Morrison's description of Nel and her life of sorrow and dissatisfaction. Sula and Nel, the protagonists in Toni Morrison's Sula, are each the only daughte...
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Law Enforcement Officers Good And Evil
722 wordsThe film The Untouchables explores the mob and its police involvement and corruption in 1920 s Chicago. The film shows the effect of organized crime upon American society, both by focusing upon their role in society and upon their involvement with law enforcement. The two extremes between good and evil in this move are mob boss Al Capone and justice-seeking investigator Elliot Ness. Through the film The Untouchables it is shown that organized crime serves the function of providing a service to s...
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Brother In Law One Of The First
3,023 wordsWho was Eliot Ness? Nearly anyone knows Ness? accomplishments in Cleveland when he went up against Al Capone. Most also know Capone eventually went to jail for tax evasion, but what happened to Ness and his Untouchables? Did they merely fade away into quiet life? The fate of Ness was quite the opposite, he continued doing what he fell in love with. Taking down corruption on any level. He carried on his war on the mob for an entire decade after Capone, staging daring raids on bootleggers, illegal...
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Slow Motion Capone Men
539 wordsMise-En-Scene Analysis The Untouchables Elliot Ness, a treasury agent, has been trying to stop alcohol from being smuggled into the United States. He feels that the key to putting an end to the alcohol distribution is to put gangster, Al Capone, behind bars. But there is a small problem, Ness can t seem to be able to link the incoming alcohol, or any other crime to Capone. Until, Oscar Wallace, the uptight, dorky, government official, entered the picture to help Ness fight his battle for prohibi...
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Bermuda Triangle Foot Prints
866 wordsMystery and the study of the unknown has always fascinated people. The search for truth in the un comprehensible has led to many controversies. Some believe in the supernatural, while others simply do not. Both types of people obviously have their own reasonings for believing or disbelieving in it. There are numerous world famous mysteries that are still controversial and remain unsolved to this day. Some of these mysteries include the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman, and the Bermuda T...
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Maslow Hierarchy Belonging Ness
4,315 wordsThere Individualism And Democracy Introduction There is growing consensus in the United States of the potential collapse of democracy, and many scholars question whether America will be able to address the challenges necessary to avert it. At the heart of the issue is the disintegration of civil society. In a remarkable book on the subject Democracy on Trial Jean Elshtain (1995: 5) notes, As a civic question and it is by no means a civic matter alone the locus of despair speaks to the loss of ci...
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God Is Omnipotent Christian Theology
2,716 wordsTen Thousand Names A second issue is concerned with the question of the na-ture of the categories or concepts fundamental to or appro-priate for Christian speech about God. Should these be? personal, ? ? historical, ? and? ontic? in character, as they surely are in scripture, or should they be ontological, metaphysical, and therefore? impersonal? in character, as in almost every speculative philosophical system, even an ide-artistic or panpsychist ic one? This question, as formulated by Langdon ...
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Parent Child Relationship Marijuana Usage
2,401 wordsIntroduction The purpose of this study is to ascertain the affects of drug-abusing fathers on the drug usage of their young adolescent children. A special targeted population were chosen for this study; they are the children of drug-abusing fathers who are HIV-positive or at risk for becoming HIV-positive. The major factors used to determine the dependent measure of adolescent marijuana use include certain drug abusing father attributes (i. e. , illegal drug use, HIV status, and methods of copin...
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