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Use Of Fairy Tales In Germany Pale Mother
Number of Words: 1426 / Number of Pages: 6
... road construction. The daughter does follow the path with great unease, however, as she follows the path she marks it with peas. She finally comes to the house, and is promptly warned by a bird that she is entering a house of murderers. The girl enters and house and finds it almost entirerly deserted. However, in the basement she finds an old women who repeats the bird’s warning. The crone then prphesizes that the girl will marry death and her bridegroom only seeks to kill her, cut her pieces up, and eat her. As the two prepare to escape, the bridegroom and his band of theives return with maiden [virgi ...
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Natural Born Killers 2
Number of Words: 1262 / Number of Pages: 5
... figure, and some other smaller parts. The main representation is Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), a talk show host who is obsessed with serial killers, especially Mickey and Mallory. This talk show host along with other forms of the media has made Mickey and Mallory stars. It shows that serial killers can become as famous as movie stars and sports stars. In fact, this film is about so many things that it' s hard to explain in a review.
The Motion Picture Association edited 32 minutes during its review prior to the release of the censored version, they were latter edited back in on the directors c ...
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Underwater Photography
Number of Words: 2014 / Number of Pages: 8
... between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Land environments are dominated by plant life, while the underwater environments are dominated by animal species. When we describe land environments, we refer to grasslands, redwood forests, and oak tree groves. When we describe underwater environments, we refer to coral reefs, oyster flats, and mussel beds. In addition, the animals photographers encounter underwater often have unusual, if not bizarre, shapes and colors that provide a never-ending supply of photographic subjects.
Land objects, which take on an entirely different nature and sometimes ...
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A New World Power
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... slaughtered Cubans in the Concentration Camps many Americans were outraged. Cuba had begun to declare independence from Spain so they were placed in these camps. Support for Cubans cause of independence affected “deep historical roots” in the US which became the main cause for war. In World War I, problems developed when the following happened:
- Germany violated the Sussex Pledge
- Arthur Zimmerman wrote a note of alliance to Mexico
- Germany sank the Lusitania
Other problems developed with nationalism and military expansion. Since the French revolution, Europe has had the idea of nationa ...
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Masaccio - Innovator Of Perspe
Number of Words: 736 / Number of Pages: 3
... These frescoes were started by Masolino and ultimately completed by Fillipinno Lippi years after Masaccio’s death. This chapel is now a significant monument in the history of art. These frescoes had a tremendous impact on Florentine art thereof, and were used as a basis to teach new artists like Michelangelo and Raphael. It is on these walls that Masaccio created -Expulsion from Eden and The Tribute Money, and many others with Biblical subjects. Probably his most famous, The Tribute Money, gives a superb example of linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, the separation of lines, and the clas ...
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The Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 595 / Number of Pages: 3
... doing it illegally. The 21st amendmnet repealed prohibition and alcohol taxes were increased. The same thing should happen with pot. Pot should be heavily taxed to increase this countrys revenue. The same countrys that make medications would also make pot, so the quality would be assured, containg no posions or toxins. Sterile needles would be readily at the corner drug store. these could be taxed as well because the user will be assured of clean drugs.
Making drugs legal would reduce the great amount of money spent on law enforcement each year. Right now this country is in a no win situation with th ...
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Slavery
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... oarsmen. Where they were employed in private domestic service, it was not uncommon to find them on friendly terms with their masters.
Roman was differed in several important aspects from that of ancient Greece. Roman masters had more power over their slaves, including, by law, the power of life and death. was also far more necessary to the economy and social system of Rome, especially during the empire, than it had been in Greece. Wealthy Romans, often maintaining large city and country homes, depended on numerous slaves for the efficient operations of these households. Imperial conquests an ...
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Eugene Ritchards
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... is to select and make us look at the faces of the ignored, opinions and reactions are left to be made by the viewer.
Have you ever been at the beach safely shielded by a dark pair of sunglasses and just watched? Being a silent third party to a father screaming at his seven-year-old daughter for putting the inner tube in the wrong place. People watching has for a long time been one of my favorite activities as third party you are able to see people for what they are, unbiased by already having known the person. Eugene Richards’s book has made me look at my hobby from an artistic vantagepoint. He’s ma ...
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American Prohibition In The 1920s
Number of Words: 1743 / Number of Pages: 7
... into effect. This determined intoxicating liquor as anything having an alcoholic content of anything more than 0.5 percent, omitting alcohol used for medicinal and sacramental purposes. This act also set up guidelines for enforcement (Bowen, 154). Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, seen by some as the devil’s advocate, and thereby reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the economy and the quality of life. “National prohibition of alcohol -- the ‘noble experiment’ -- was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by p ...
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Lawrence Of Arabia (Movie)
Number of Words: 5167 / Number of Pages: 19
... is known as the subordinate side. This character feels uncomfortable and weaker. Lawrence will shift from the subordinate side to the dominant as his journey progresses.
Another aspect to a film is the soundtrack. This emphasizes scenes and adds a dramatic element to the film. For example, the tempo of the music may quicken when a battle starts. This will make the audience feel involved in the scene as a first hand observer of the event.
Another feature of film technique is the use of the camera. Panning, long shots, or close ups will emphasize certain elements of an object or a character. Long s ...
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