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Review Of The Show "Home Time"
Number of Words: 553 / Number of Pages: 3
... real.
The main purpose of this show is to get people to watch and learn.
In another words its another learning channel. If they want people to
watch so that the people can save money, then they are doing a good job.
They build things fix things. All the stuff that they fix of build are
around or in the house. It is almost odveus what they work on because of
the title.
When the show comes on it is about 3-4 p.m. It can be for future
home builders but, its real target audience is mature adults, middle to
high income, and male. The reason it is on the mature male adults is
because the ...
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Movie Review: A Time To Kill
Number of Words: 549 / Number of Pages: 2
... having top billing) helps Brigance to get the trial
moved to another town. Unfortunately, the judge (Patrick McGoohan) decides
against moving the trial. Brigance needs to get a jury of young, married men
with children. What does he get? A jury of women and old men. So Brigance has
his work cut out for him, especially when he is up against the cruel and
cheating Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey).
The film moves along quickly, which I wasn't expecting. The movie is 145 minutes
long, but it seems shorter than this. The book is over 500 pages, so Goldsman
had his work cut out for him. But he did a great job an ...
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Evita
Number of Words: 661 / Number of Pages: 3
... are protected by traditions and laws of a
Spanish/Catholic system of morality. The main rule in their culture is that
"You may look at my sister, but if you touch her I will kill you." This system
has made Latino women more open and daring. Once they go out of their cultural
system, they practice the same actions which often tends to be misinterpreted as
being easy. Some Latino women have used this as a way to advance themselves
onto higher positions in the world just like what Evita did. These women are
not of the majority but almost all Latino women fall into the stereotype of
being easy just b ...
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Romeo And Juliet: The Capulet Family
Number of Words: 636 / Number of Pages: 3
... standing up
for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea
of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept , even
though that was possibly not what she wanted.
An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the
fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love
with Romeo, a Montague. She knew that if she informed them of how she felt,
they would get angry and maybe disown her, just because of their hate for
all Montagues.
That is another of the Capulet family's flaws. They are rather
narrow-minded because of their ...
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What To Do?: Terrorism And The Media
Number of Words: 1715 / Number of Pages: 7
... try to exercise influence over targeted officials on
nations through intimidation of the public and arousal of sympathy for the
social and political causes they espouse. Without widespread publicity,
terrorist acts can achieve neither of these effects" (Bandura, Albert qtd. In
Nacos 1). Terrorists need the news media to get the publicity, and the media is
a willing accomplice. The news media is an accessory to terrorism, and as such
they should develop a set of standards that will limit the terrorist ability to
get their message out to a large audience during terrorist situations; Also the
media ...
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Aristotle’s Theory Of Tragedy As Seen In Euripides’ Electra
Number of Words: 1310 / Number of Pages: 5
... of tragic suffering, and a strong catharsis of pity and fear.
In Electra, both Orestes and Electra can be viewed as tragic figures, however Orestes is the better choice according to Aristotle. Orestes is the son of a king and is a prince, thus he is of a high birth. He has ethos, or a sense of right and wrong, in that he recognizes the injustices that have been done unto his father Agamemnon, his sister Electra, and himself by both Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Orestes is basically a good person in that he is motivated by justice and love of his sister and murdered father. He wishes to resto ...
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Macbeth: Downfall Due To Ambition And Human Weakness
Number of Words: 683 / Number of Pages: 3
... "no rubs nor botches in the work"
Macbeth is obviously afraid of experiencing the same emotional trauma of
his first murder. Although he think he is solving his problems, his
damnation is ever progressing by making being indirectly involved in the
murder of his one time best friend and father of a line of kings. The
reader sees how ones desire for self - power can destroy himself completely.
Shakespeare's diction through other characters in the play also
help to portray Macbeth's break down. In the beginning, when Macbeth still
depicts his sensitivity and morality, Lady's Macbeth almost forces ...
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Movie Review: Yentl
Number of Words: 1022 / Number of Pages: 4
... in Eastern Europe in 1904, Yentl captures the essence of the Jewish
woman's eternal struggle. It is the story of a young girl, in love with
learning but forbidden to do so by Jewish tradition. Upon her father's death,
Yentl disguises herself as a boy to attend a yeshiva (religious school) and
continue her studies. She befriends Avigdor, a male scholar at the yeshiva,
and falls in love with him. Driven by her love for him, Yentl will do all that
she can to ensure that he is near her and that her secret is not revealed.
Yentl struggles with her secret until the day she can no longer remain silen ...
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Analysis Of The Movie Contact
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... faith
that others had in God before. The movie did not deal with the Cold War
politics that Sagan's book dealt with mainly because of the release date of
this movie. The movie was made well after the end of the Cold War and the
efforts to build a space pod for space travel is depicted as being an
international effort.
The feasibility of the events in Contact is not too far from
reality.
The movie makes the assumption that the alien civilization that contacted
us is far more advanced than humans. If contact was made today it could
only be achieved with the assistance of a civilization ...
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Hamlet's Treatment Of Ophelia And Gertrude
Number of Words: 1538 / Number of Pages: 6
... such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good. (Hoy, 11)
It is understandable Hamlet is upset with his mother for forgetting about his
father and marrying his uncle, Claudius. In Hamlet's eyes, his father deserves
more than one month of mourning and by remarrying so quickly, the queen has
sullied King Hamlet's memory. This remarriage is a sin and illegal, however
special dispensation was made because she is queen.
Hamlet's opinion of his mother worsens as the play progresses because
his father, who appears as a ghost, tells him of his mother's adulterous
behavio ...
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