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Film Noir Classic Period
2,461 words
... or of Evil (MGM, 1948), Framed (Columbia,
1947), Out of the Past (RKO, 1947), The Pitfall
(United Artists, 1948), and The Unsuspected
(Warner Bros. , 1947) and discover that eight
different directors, cinematographers, and
screenwriters adapted different original stories
for different stars at eight different studios.
These people of great and small technical
reputations created eight otherwise unrelated
motion pictures with one cohesive style. 3 I have
previously contended that the noir cyc...
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Perfect Storm True Story
781 words
The 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
462 words
Knowledge is possessed in many ways. Much of the
knowledge an individual grasps during their
lifetime is gained through books and literature. A
true literary classic is timeless. Through the
classic novel, Animal Farm, Iraqis and Americans
can learn the importance of acknowledging their
problems and taking action. Ignorance disables an
individual's ability to distinguish between right
and wrong. In the novel, Animal Farm, the animals
were very unintelligent and were vulnerable to
their leader's ...
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Analysis Of The Death Author
738 words
In his essay The Death of the Author, Roland
Barthes attacks the tradition of Classic criticism
(which he describes as being tyrannically centred
on the author), presenting the argument that there
is no such thing as the Author of a text, but
merely a script whose ideas are not entirely
original; the author is subject to several
influences when writing, and as Barthes says we
can never know the true influence because writing
destructs every point of origin. It is not the
author (whose voice vani...
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Mise En Scene Early 1900
1,886 words
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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Walt Disneys Classical Music
1,426 words
Fantasia 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
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A 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
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Fantasy 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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... architecture wr commission by Mayan kings to
memorialize thmslvs and near the plac in history.
Th prevailing subject of the art is not anonymous
prices and unnamed gods but rather mn and women of
power that srv to grat th history of th popl. Th
works ar a relation of th society and its
interaction with surrounding popl. On of th grant
shows of Mayan artistic ability and culture is th
hieroglyphic stairway located at Copan. Th
stairway is an iconographic al complex composed of
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19 Th Century Civil Liberties
1,614 words
Mc World Mc World is the onrush of economic and
ecological forces that demand integration,
uniformity, and that mesmerize the world with fast
music, fast computers, and fast food, with MTV,
Macintosh, and McDonalds, pressing nations into
one commercially homogenous global network. The
force of Mc World is driven by universalizing
markets; it makes national borders porous from
without. Four imperatives make up the dynamic of
Mc World: a market imperative, a resource
imperative, an information-tec...
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Century Fox Horror Films
2,232 words
Into The? Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Into The?
Time Warp? : The Rocky Horror Picture Show As An
Enduring Pop Cult Classic For years, with its
phenomenal success as a midnight movie, The Rocky
Horror Picture Show has made? don? t dream it, be
it? the motto for its ever-growing cult audience.
The film continues to be regarded by critics and
audiences as the only no-holds-barred, ultimate
theatre experience, which has seemingly drawn a
repeat audience of cult film followers year after
year. More...
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Museum Of Natural History Catcher In The Rye
782 words
All novels contain common elements and qualities.
In most cases the plot, conflict, and a narrative
voice forms the style of writing. Frequently the
incidents told are direct experiences from the
narrator himself. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D.
Salinger and Huckleberry Finn by Samuel Clemens
employ these characteristics, particularly using a
constructive voice, symbolism, and a complex
connected sequence of events, dealing with human
experiences. There are many instances in The
Catcher in the R...
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Dreams Come True Miss Havisham
3,351 words
Diane 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
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Kung 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 words
Kung 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 words
Who 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 words
Dantes 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
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EXISTENTIALISM 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
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From 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 words
Harry 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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