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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 wordsHow 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 wordsBram 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 wordsThis 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsProbably 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 wordsIf 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 wordsThe 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 wordsHeart 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 wordsAn 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 wordsCurrent 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 wordsGyrating 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 wordsb. 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 wordsRealism 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMadonna &# 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
1,799 wordsDuring 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
1,054 wordsWatership 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
850 wordsQuentin 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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