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The Chocolate War: Comparison Between Book And Movie
<view this essay>.... sorts of assignments and his mother is dead and he has no
verbal communication with his father). As far as Jerry is concerned his
father pays the bills and puts food on the table, and says hello and
goodbye.
The differences between the book and the movie were substantial.
In the movie there was a fight at the end, and Jerry beat Archie up. And
in the book there was no two person fight. At the end of the movie Obie
becomes head of the Vigils and Archie is reduced in rank. Archie get the
marble in the movie but not in the book. There is no music in the book,
but there is in the movie.
I liked the movie better than the book. It was better because
Jerry .....
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"Fire From Heaven", "Much Ado About Nothing", And "The Flea": Sinful Acts
<view this essay>.... the good they were trying to achieve. The Puritans of Dorchester
as we have learned about our reading, were a very religious group who
wanted to create the perfect society. Their mission in Dorchester was to
make extinct all the sinful acts of the townspeople. The struggle they
started soon ended in failure. They were a definite influence upon his work.
His views of sexual misconduct between married men and women being worse
than that between unmarried people probably come from his growing up in a
more modern world. The Puritans probably did distinguish some, but it
wasn't very prominent or apparent. His makes this point clear in the
passage, .....
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Antigone
<view this essay>.... alive and his son killed himself because of it. He went back to save her, but it was too late. She hung herself. Creon’s wife then stabbed herself. Creon then had to continue living with all the guilt from killing all these people.
I think that the reason Creon is forced to live until the end instead of being killed is because he needs to learn what it is like to suffer. He would have been a much better leader if he would have just kept an open mind and listened to what others, especially his family, told him. He was too concerned with how good he looked and how powerful he seemed. Creon needs to learn how to stop being so arrogant. He also needs to lear .....
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Movie Review: Sense And Sensibility
<view this essay>.... be classified as a love story, but
that would just scratch the surface of what this movie has to offer. It is also
a period piece, giving us a chance to visit English society in the nineteenth
century. Director Ang Lee brought us to this historic time with beautifully
constructed sets and sites that drop us right into the country cottage of our
heroines. This natural scenery, with its wide sweeping camerawork warps us back
to a time without the loud annoyances of TV and machinery. By this example Lee
sets the stage for the story to begin..
If there is one thing that keeps this movie constantly going is the work
of the superb actors. The talent of the a .....
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Camera Techniques Used In Shakespeare In Love
<view this essay>.... something on a piece of paper. The camera the zooms in to the piece of paper where we discover Will is writing his name over and over again. The use of tracking draws the viewer into a closer, more intense relationship with the subject: moving away tends to create emotional distance. For example, in the opening scene when Henslow is being tortured with hot coal under his feet, tracking was used to show the fear and pain in his face; and the viewer develops sympathy for the character. The final camera technique that was used to show movement is called a following pan. The speed of a pan across a subject creates a particular mood as well as establishing the .....
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King Lear: Sense Of Renewal
<view this essay>.... I Scene I, the first glimmer of hope is revealed in the play at a
time of madness, corruption and despair. In this scene, King Lear has created
an environment of competition that promotes false flattery, among many other
things as he divides his kingdom in relation to the amount of love his daughters
profess to him. King Lear in his willfulness and arrogance does not see the
error that he makes in equating love with reward, in this competitive
environment.
Cordelia is the only one of the three sisters who cannot fully
participate in the competition to gain her father's inheritance by engaging in
false flattery. Instead of trying to out due her sisters, s .....
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MacBeth: Everyone Has At Least One Flaw
<view this essay>.... anyway.
The first Thane of Cawdor, is killed by MacBeth for trying to lead
a revolution against England. His fatal flaw was that he was according to
Ross, "a disloyal traitor". The thane of Cawdor was greedy, and wanted the
throne of England for himself, and as a result was murdered. But his
murder wasn't really disheartening, because the Thane of Cawdor, deserved
his fate. He was leading a battle, in which many lost their lives, for the
sake of greed, and deserved to die because of his flaw.
Duncan was the King of England, and was murdered by MacBeth. He
was murdered, because in order for MacBeth to fulfill his plan and become
king, Duncan would have .....
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The Simpsons
<view this essay>.... of the cartoon, it is evident that affect children in harmful ways.
Matt Groening took up drawing to escape from his troubles in 1977. At that time, Groening was working for the LA Reader, a free weekly newspaper. He began working on Life in Hell, a humorous comic strip consisting of people with rabbit ears. The LA Reader picked up a copy of his comic strip and liked what they saw. Life in Hell gradually became a common comic strip in many free weekly and college newspapers across the country. It even developed a cult status (Varhola, 50).
Life in Hell drew the attention of James L. Brooks, producer of such works as Taxi, The Mary Tyler Show, and Ter .....
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