...Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett are two very similar boys. I read the book, The Catcher In The Rye, and watching the movie, “Ordinary People”, throughout this essay I will describe the similarities and differences between the two boys. I will show throughout the essay that the lives of these boys are very similar but also different in many ways. I’ll start with the movie Ordinary People, Conrad Jarrett is a great life and a very loving and caring family, until his brother dies in a sailboating accident. Conrad becomes very depressed and confused about life and his family, his blames himself but refuses to tell anyone what is going on. He ends up struggling with life and school and quits the swim team because he realizes he doesn’t...
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...Hitchcock Footprint Comparison Essay Alfred Hitchcock’s ability to draw the viewer into an atmosphere where you feel completely immersed is parallel to none. His style of directing has made movies recognizable beyond that of even a modern day film. His movies have been able to transcend that of many scary movies of the time because of the footprints that he embedded into each movie. These trademarks or seen throughout all of his movies, and they all share a common ground. In two of his greatest films Psycho and Rear Window you can see that these footprints attribute to the overall mise en scène of the movie. Some of the footprints that Hitchcock leaves in these two movies are extraordinary situations occurring to ordinary people, voyeurism, sound leading to climax, dark lighting, and close up shots. In Psycho one of the main characters Marion Crane an ordinary realtor's office secretary is thrusts into a situation where she is on the run from the law as well as her won guilt from stealing 40,000 thousand dollars. The fact that she works a nine to five just like every other American of the time creates common ground. When she was eventually murdered in a motel, it made the viewer feel as if it can happen to anyone who stays at a motel. In Rear Window the main character L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies was a photographer, a job which seems pretty ordinary but when he his bed ridden due to a broken leg he is thrust into an extraordinary situation where he is watching a murder investigation...
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...pattern by discussing everything from the social contexts to aesthetics of movie itself. But they focus on slightly different standpoints. It seems that Feldman's essay focuses more on the aesthetic part while Petric's essay focuses more on the political influence on Vertov's works. As Feldman essay's title indicates, the major topic of his essay is to explore Vertov's formalism, which gradually leads to shape his value on film production and essence of movies. Vertov did not regard films simply as recordings, or a collection of traces (which actually contradicts to my former understanding of documentary films), and he, as...
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...ID 201035872 Sholay Sholay is the Hindi action-adventure film that was shot by Ramesh Sippy. It is considered as the best example of the Hindi masala movie. Masala movie is a mix of several movie genres, which usually include tragedy, comedy, adventure and action. The plot of the film is about Thakur Baldev Singh, former police officer (played by Sanjeev Kumar) trying to capture the main antagonist of the movie Gabbar Singh, a gang leader (played by Amjad Khan) by hiring two thieves, who are also the main protagonists of the movie Veru (played by Dharmendra) and Jai (played by Amitabh Bachchan). Although this movie is considered as the highest box-office grossing Hindi movie up to this time, I personally did not enjoy this movie. In this essay, I will present a brief plot of the movie and then reflect my view towards this movie. In my reflection, I will examine the genres used, analyze some ideas that were presented in this movie and express the terend of masala movies in the 1970s. The film starts with Thakur Baldev Singh ordering to his fellow police officer to find two thieves Veru and Jai. When the fellow police officer questions the need for those two thieves, the movie presents to us a flashback of Thakur, when he was convoying those two detainees by a train, when bandits attack it. However, they fail to seize the train due to help Thakur receives from two thieves. After that they are found by Thakur and asked to capture Gabbar Singh, a local bandit, for a payment...
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... Criteria Essay The movie “Black Mass”, directed by Scott Cooper, is a drama and biography based on a man by the name of James Joseph Bulger, also known as “Whitey”. He and his Irish-American mob were notorious in Boston during the late 1970’s for protecting their infamous name and desired territory. The mob would go to any extreme to intimidate and frighten anyone who would interfere with their success. Cooper is credible for producing a movie that shows in-depth scenarios that happened to Whitey and his mob during the time. He also elaborates on the explicit confrontations the mob...
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...Final Essay: The supremacy of American cinema The cinema became in the 20th century the art form most widespread, largely supplanting the painting and reading, theater and opera. Each year billions of spectators flock to the theaters to enjoy a time of dreams and get out of the ordinary. All social classes, all ages, all nationalities are represented. Movie is much more than just entertainment. As one writer said cinema is an industry where competition is present, and where the race for best film to reach the largest audience founded. Americans have quickly understood. Indeed, the commercial aspect soon became a target and a constraint. Better than any other country, the United States were able to make movies and dream objects of fascination, and the film industry is partly to conquer his audience in the U.S. first, then without any border nor come to limit its ambitions. American cinema has a global success although it is criticized. Fascination and repulsion are mixed in most people. Ways to attract the audience are made available. For example, the Chronicle movie that will make its release in March was the subject of an awesome campaign in the streets of NY. Residents could see men flying through the air, enough to encourage people to go see this film in theaters. The film history begins with an innovation of the late 19th century, which helped many inventors. Initially uncertain prospects of curiosity, this discovery have gradually revolutionized the entertainment...
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...Within the article, “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People,” Southern Illinois University Professor Jack Shaheen (2003) emphasizes that similar to how children use repetition to memorize letters of the alphabet, algebraic formulas, as well as historical dates, Hollywood too uses reiteration as a teaching tool in which it educates movie audiences over and over again by perpetuating certain stereotypes and clichés (p. 172). In particular, Shaheen (2003) not only underscores that Hollywood deliberately projects slandered images of the Arab people so as to get moviegoers to believe that they are unusual and constitute a threat to the West, but more importantly, that Hollywood strives to demonstrate that because of their religious fanaticism,...
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...Schindler’s List Essay Oskar Schindler would never have been anyone’s ideal savior, especially for the Jewish community. He was an open member of the Nazi party, a womanizer, a gambler, an alcoholic, and an extremely money hungry man, but insight of all of this he was successfully able to rescue over twelve hundred Jewish men and women from death. Schindler was a very tall and handsome man. Needless to say, he was adored by all the young women he met eyes with. However, Schindler fell for a beautiful young girl named Emily. After only six weeks of courtship, they were married. Sadly, after only a few months of marriage, Schindler began to heavily abuse alcohol. He also had several affairs resulting in two children out of wedlock. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler’s father left his mother, and she died soon after. Finding himself jobless, Schindler sought work in nearby Poland as a machinery salesman. The saving of the first Schindler Jews began in 1939, when he came to Krakow in the wake of the German invasion. In Krakow, he took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of kitchenware products. In one of the businesses, however, Schindler was merely a trustee. Looking more for his own power, he opened up a small enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. Here, he employed mostly Jewish workers. This in turn saved them from being...
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...Problem-Solution Essay Syed Ahmed ENG111 Pete Baney March 29, 2013 In the 2nd amendment of the United States constitution it clearly says that the right to bear arms should not be infringed (US congress, 2nd amendment, 1791). This year one major topic that is being argued about is the right to bear arms and who should possess this right. When immigrants from far away lands step foot onto American soil they feel that they should have the protection that American citizens do. Citizens and immigrants alike do have the right to feel safe where they live. One major ban that helped in reducing the number of gun related fatalities was the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Since the ban has expired, more than 350 people have been killed and 450 people have been injured by military style weapons (Feinstein, 2013). The 1994 and the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban bans all rifles like AK-47’s and all shot guns like the IZHMASH Saga 12 types (Feinstein, 2013). What brought the gun debate to the tables of many families were the atrocious events that took place due to gun violence. The inhumane shootings in an elementary school in Connecticut and the movie theater shooting in Colorado have put the issue of gun control in the spotlight. These horrific events have spurned up the debate on how the government should go about decreasing the many innocent lives lost each year due to gun violence. Looking through the...
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...Expository Writing 101: Section EA Professor Morrone Dissociation is Normal Dissociation is when an individual mentally spaces out in order to not remember or remove themselves from a situation. The dissociation can be triggered by anything at any point in time and is often related to a traumatic experience. Individuals who dissociate intensely usually do not know that they are dissociating, and many who do seek psychiatric help. Anyone can dissociate and in her essay “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning, It was Friday,” Martha Stout, a psychologist, speaks about her successful, ordinary, normal patients who dissociate due to traumatic experiences. Society perceives individuals who seek psychiatric assistance to be “abnormal,” but Stout challenges this concept by illustrating how her patients defy this generalization. Therapy is not just for “insane” individuals because Stout’s patients are intellectual individuals who carry through conventional lifestyles. Society labels individuals who acquire psychiatric help as irregular simply because the individuals seek the therapy. Seeking therapeutic help is the first step towards fixing personal problems that cannot be fought alone. Everyone has issues that are difficult to face on their own; in Stout’s patients’ cases, the issues are severe episodes of dissociation that hinder their everyday routines. One patient in particular, named Julia, is a successful producer of documentary films. As a child, Julia...
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...French Stereotypes Stereotyping is basically a part of human nature. When an individual interacts with other people he has the tendency to make generalizations out of their characteristics and to consider these characteristics as applicable to all people of the same class. Stereotyping is defined as the process where an individual create in his mind an image of another person (Macrae, Stangor & Hewstone 3). It is also defined as “a fixed, commonly held notion or image of a person or group, based on an oversimplification of some observed or imagined trait of behavior or appearance” (Media Awareness Network). Even though we are unique and distinct from each other, it is part of human nature to make generalizations of people belonging to a specific race and nationality. These generalizations are being reinforced in movies, televisions, novels and other forms of mass media. This essay seeks to highlight the different French stereotypes being portrayed in mass media and to establish that these stereotypes are not necessarily accurate representations of the French people. Stereotyping has a positive and negative effect not only to the person being referred to but also to the community in general. When an individual creates a mental image of somebody and put that in his mind, he also acts in accordance with this stereotype. The stereotyped images serve as a person’s paradigm through which he sees the world. As a result, he behaves and acts in accordance with this stereotype...
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...booms in immigration into California. This popular conception is warm and welcoming, but it does not tell the entire story of California. When looking into the past and understanding how this state came to be, there is a dark and iniquitous aura that suggests that California isn’t really that enchanting, glamorous place that it is made out to be. The California Dream all started in 1848 when discovery of gold sparked a rapid movement known as the California Gold Rush. Word quickly spread when John Marshall first made his discovery in the American River. As Albert L. Hurtado explains in his paper, “Sex, Gender, Culture, and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush, ‘It is impossible to give more than rough estimates for the number of hopeful people who poured into California from 1848 to the early 1850s.” This movement helped create the Weiner 2 idea that anyone can obtain fast wealth in a new place. California was known as a place of opportunity where any average Joe can strike it rich with just hard work and a little bit of luck. The California Dream did not end with the Gold Rush however. San Francisco serves as a good example of the stages that...
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...at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, and empathically. They are keenly aware of inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked. They strive to diminish the power of their egocentric and socio- centric tendencies. They use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers- concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, access, and improve thinking. They work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason.” Critical thinking is taking a thought thinking about it, analyzing it, and then elaborating on it with facts and evidence. Based on Linda Elder’s argument critical thinkers use intellectual tools to improve their thinking through numerous skills. The numerous skills used such as intellectual empathy and rationale allow for critical thinkers to reason at a high level of quality. With Linda Elder’s definition in mind the following texts offer evidence to support her definition. In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing he offers the problem of people being subjective. In David Foster Wallace’s essay “Deciderization 2007-A Special Report” he shows a solution or choice to the problem. In Leon Weiseltier’s “The Democratic thinker” he shows the obligation that people have. “The Blind Men and the Elephant” shows conflict...
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...Violence is not something new to the human race, but it is an increasing problem in modern society. In his essay “Hate Violence? Turn It Off,” Tim Goodman argues that if parents or other adults object to a television program, they should change the channel or just simply turn off the television. I disagree with Goodman’s argument. Turning off the television or changing the channel is not enough. What happens when the adults are not there to supervise their kids? What about other influences that promotes or shows violence? What then? Can a concern, such as violence be simply turn off or change? When children are young, the television already begins to have an influence in their life. If we were to look at any typical family household, we...
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...Who are the real criminals in Rang de Basanti? I do not wholly agree with the message screened in Rang De Basanti. The movie, for all its comedy, drama and performances of the actors, suggests a very dangerous breed of patriotism. Simply put, you cannot assassinate the Defense Minister of the world’s largest democratic nation. It’s against one of the most fundamental ideals of the legalism India enjoys, that of due process, under which a convict is legally tried for his crime in the court of law. Similarly, the Defense Minister too should’ve been tried in the correct forum rather than being gunned down by a bunch of college students. Indeed, what the minister said and did in the movie was unbecoming and wrong, and undeniably, the movie gives a very strong base message (that the youth should make an effort to right the wrongs), however what Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra shows in the movie is drastic to say the least. Instead, if he had shown Aamir Khan and co. making an effort to rightfully convict the minister (Perhaps a sting operation? They could’ve sought access to the minister via Siddharth’s father), the movie would’ve made its mark much better. An analysis of the events transpiring before the assassination makes a rather strong case for Aamir Khan and his friends’ antipathy towards the minister. Amongst their best friend (an Indian Air Force officer) lays down his life in an aircraft crash to protect a town in Northern India, but rather than winning praises for his...
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