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The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies
Number of Words: 562 / Number of Pages: 3
... mentally torture the "good" guys. The satanic enemy is presented in the most evil way. Then when the Americans shoot them there is a rush of happiness that the opponent has been eliminated, "die you commi bustards." However, just a year later a whole view of Vietnam changed in Apocalypse Now, 1979. When a dozen of helicopters surrounded a civilian village, the Americans played Mozart while shooting M60s at the innocent people below. After things got a little out of hand, the choppers sent missiles to annihilate the Vietnamese. This violent scene sets a mode of guiltiness and regret. The killing ...
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Does Romeo Behave Rashly While Juliet Shows Superior Judgement?
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... come with him to a nunnery. Instead she tells
him "Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." She tries to poison herself
but there is none left. When she hears the watch coming she grabs Romeo's
dagger and fatally stabs herself. Juliet is so upset she doesn't think and
tries to poison herself instead of listening to the Friar, and in
desperation of death, kills herself with the dagger. Romeo is careful and
considerate in some parts of the play. An example of this is when he tries
to convince his friends not to go to the Capulet ball : "'tis no wit to go".
Another example is when Juliet confesses her de ...
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Causes Of Macbeth's Downfall
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... Banquo smiles upon me/ And points at them for his" (4.1.136-138). In the end Macbeth believes in the prophecies to make his own fate. He was fighting Macduff successfully, even after Dirnam wood moved until he learned Macduff was not born of mortal woman. "Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,/ For it hath cowed my better part of man!/...I'll not fight with thee" (5.8.21-26)! Even though Macbeth's pride helps him continue the fight he no longer thinks he can win and is killed. Macduff was a lesser swordsman, but was predicted to win.
Another factor leading to Macbeth's downfall is hi ...
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TV Violence
Number of Words: 1641 / Number of Pages: 6
... The CRTC responded by saying that "the show is avassively
to violent."(Chrisholm 1994 p.52) As a result of the petiton, many stations
voluntarily refused to air the controversial kids show. This case shows the
power that people can have over the CRTC. Unfortunately, the parents were not
able to entirely shield their children from the Power Rangers TV show. Many US
broadcasters, available on cable, continued to air the show.
Another study that supports this belief that TV violence causes children
to act more violently is an experiment conducted by Leonard Eron and his
collegues. In these stud ...
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Hamlet: Moral Order
Number of Words: 1117 / Number of Pages: 5
... against him were wrong, but, to a lesser extent, so was his revenge.
Near the start of the play, The Ghost tells Hamlet of the crime
committed by Claudius. When Hamlet finds out his father was murdered by
his own brother, who then stole his wife and crown, he immediately commits
himself to avenging the murder; "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as
swift/As meditation or the thoughts of love/May sweep to my revenge." At
this point, Hamlet is completely justified in his feelings, and most would
agree that his revenge is morally right. Although the act of murder itself
is wrong, an "ey ...
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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... and image works to interrogate and problematize both feminist and antifeminist assumptions about gender, power, and subjectivity.
In Alice Doesn’t Teresa de Lauretis claims that feminist film theory has gone well beyond the simple opposition of positive and negative images, and has indeed displaced the very terms of that opposition to a sustained critical attention to the hidden work of the apparatus. It has shown, for instance, how narrativity works to anchor images to noncontradictory points of identification, so that “sexual difference” is ultimately reconfirmed and any ambiguity reconciled th ...
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Twelfth Night: Two Faces, One Mind
Number of Words: 499 / Number of Pages: 2
... creates when he returns would not occur
without Viola's disguise. Sir Andrew believes that the woman of his desires,
Olivia, is spending too much time with Cesario, and challenges him to a duel. As
he put it, Olivia was doing “more favors to the Count's servingman than ever she
bestowed upon me.” (3-2 l.5-7) At first, Viola is nearly forced into a battle,
but is saved when the confused Antonio arrives. Later on, Sebastian and Andrew
do get involved in a scuffle, for which Viola is unjustly blamed. Finally
Sebastian and Viola are reunited, but only after they have already caused a
large amount of ...
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Television, What A Waste Of Timme
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... of things in their own minds.
But with TV, all the images are created for you and almost all the arguments are
one-sided. With TV, you no longer create your own ideas; you are told them.
Television has a great impact on the health of America. The seductive topics
and biased broadcasts shows daily across America are luring more and more people
to the confines of their living room couch for a greater amount of time.
Inactivity and overeating are a common result of this decision made by adults
and kids alike. Perhaps this is the reason why America is one of the fattest
countries in the world.
Telev ...
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Cultural Write-Up On “Gone With The Wind”
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... I was in awe with the lavish scene, beautifully costumed and photographed at the Twelve Oak’s ball and barbecue. Its magnificence suggests an idyllic culture with warming and abundant security. The major characters were one by one introduced with immeasurable boldness that draws the viewer to them. I was immediately attracted to the lighthearted and beautiful Scarlett when I first saw her. War was then introduced, and the South is looking toward the dreadfulness of defeat. What I like about this movie is that it does not show the war battles in great details, although war is the central event. ...
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Is Macbeth A Thoroughly Representative Character?
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... and only wanted to find a faster way to obtain that authority, thus he
killed, lied, and cheated his way to that place of honor.
Readers may debate that Macbeth was indeed insane, thus leading the
reader to believe that he was not representative of a typical human. This is
true, yet any human can be insane, which further proves the validity that
Macbeth was a common individual. Perhaps driven to insanity, no evidence exists
to say that Macbeth was not ordinary, which means that he was not in any way
different from the rest of humanity. What he did in the drama was no different
than what anyone ...
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