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The Rainmake - Film Review
Number of Words: 1628 / Number of Pages: 6
... evangelist, much to the disdain of her family, whom Birdie wants to “cut,cut,cut” from her will. His second case is Kelly Riker, (Clare Danes) a young woman repeatedly assaulted by her husband Cliff (Andrew Schue). Riker catches Baylor’s eye in the hospital cafeteria, covered in bruises, attracting Baylor’s special interest to the case, as well as the safety of the defendant.
The central case of the film is that of a mother’s battle against an insurance company who refuse to pay insurance for her only son Donny Ray (Johnny Whitworth) who is dying of Leukemia. Dot Black (Mary Kay Place) puts for ...
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The Controversial New Deal
Number of Words: 685 / Number of Pages: 3
... and this all without taking drastic measures conveying the United States government.
Roosevelt's first act was to secure the banks. By forming the Emergency Banking Relief Bill, Roosevelt erased the depositors fears of losing their investments, due to the fact that all operating banks were licensed by the Treasury Department. The public gained confidence in the banks, and Roosevelt had successfully suspended the citizens fear and implemented his programs. The President's next step was relief ; Roosevelt needed to supply jobs for the unemployed.
Forming the Civilian Conservation Corps was a sensational ...
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My Fair Lady
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... The Professor and colonel Pickering then talk about their shared interest in speech. She listens to the professor and colonel Pickering talking and she then starts to desire to become a lady. Colonel Pickering and Professor Higgens sing ‘Wouldn’t it be lovely?’
The song ‘Why can’t the English learn to speak?’ is about people like Eliza that don’t speak correctly. The orchestra in the background accompanies the song.
‘Wouldn’t It be lovely?’ is a song about their lives if they were more wealthy. They would have a nice place to stay and would be able to eat thing like chocolates.
Higgens at Wor ...
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The Native Americans Had All Rights To Their Lands
Number of Words: 355 / Number of Pages: 2
... what to think. The Two children were soon separated and all
they had were memories. They slowly started the program that the were
obtained against the will to take. It was clear that they dident want to do
what was planed for them. They stayed with it trying only once to excape,
after enough was taken they finally dicide to break out for good, after
hearing that their family wasent dead after all. In the end it made me
think a lot more about what actual happened back then, and it made me mad.
In a way I have to be thankful that what happened , happened because I have
a great life. I Thank God fo ...
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Seneca Indians: Allies And Enemies
Number of Words: 1170 / Number of Pages: 5
... lived in scattered villages
that were organized by a system of matrilineal clans.
A calendar cycle of ceremonies reflected their agricultural, hunting,
and gathering. The men hunted, cleared fields, traded and made war. The woman
gathered various wild plant foods and tended gardens.
They had a great agricultural economy. Their man crop was corn, but
they also grew pumpkins, beans, tobacco, maize, squash and later on they grew
orchard fruits like apples and peaches.
Crafts were also made. Fine pottery, splint baskets, mats of corn husk
and used wampum as a medium of exchange.
FAMOUS TRIBE M ...
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Chinese Music
Number of Words: 902 / Number of Pages: 4
... music performed solely for entertainment; accordingly, musical entertainers were relegated to an extremely low social status. Melody and tone color are prominent expressive features of , and great emphasis is given to the proper articulation and inflection of each musical tone. Most is based on the five-tone, or pentatonic, scale, but the seven-tone, or heptatonic, scale, is also used, often as an expansion of a basically pentatonic core. The pentatonic scale was much used in older music. The heptatonic scale is often encountered in northern Chinese folk music. al instruments traditionally have bee ...
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Art 3
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... I'm only now beginning to realize how much more there is to art than what I had previously understood.
When I look at a piece of my work, I see the detail and realism of it, yet somehow I feel that these aspects are all that it possesses. I wonder whether or not I've almost turned my sense of art into a science that lacks the essential characteristics of art, which are expression and emotion. Somehow now I have begun to see that the strictness and precision of my art truly is an expression of who I am, and that through it, one can understand how I perceive the world around me.
Personally I f ...
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Who Is The Hero
Number of Words: 1131 / Number of Pages: 5
... coming from the mountains and we are not really given much backround as to where he came from. Similarly, at the beginning of the movie Aliens we see Ripley (the hero) in some sort of bed, and when she is introduced we are not given much backround as to where she is from. In both movies the hero’s were introduced without giving much information on there past. This is a characteristic of movie hero’s because at the start of movies director’s don’t want the audience know much about the hero’s. They do this so the audience has the task of slowly looking for characteristics throughout the movie tha ...
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Geography And Climate In The American Colonies
Number of Words: 1437 / Number of Pages: 6
... the lives of those who settled in New England, there was a lot more that made their colonies different from others. For example, the Puritans came for religious freedom, and to create “A city upon a hill”. They left England because they felt the Anglican Church too closely resembled the Catholic Church, and they could only practice their religion underground, or they would be punished. To them, this was unacceptable, so they fled to Holland, and eventually came to Massachusetts Bay in America. Puritan society was completely based on religion, in which their main belief was predestination. There wa ...
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History Of Philippine Cinema
Number of Words: 4367 / Number of Pages: 16
... of the art of film in the Philippines. It provides insights on how the Philippine film has influenced Philippine culture and vice-versa. This is done by documenting the important events and important films in the area of film for the past ninety years. Second, it intends to explain the different trends and styles common in the Philippine film. And finally, it concludes with an analysis on how two important events in history, namely World War II and Martial Law altered the course of contemporary Philippine film.
However, this paper is limited to films only from the particular time period of the 193 ...
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