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Movie: Last Of The Mohicans

Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757 in the third year of a war in North America over land and territory. Mostly, the war is between the English and the French, but each side has taken up Indian allies to assist them. The main story in the Last of the Mohicans is the love of an adopted Mohican, ...

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Holograms

Toss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When ...

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New Trend For Horror Films

Horror movie fans should know that The Blair Witch Project has raised the standard for all future horror films. The makers of The Blair Witch Project made a hauntingly spooky documentary and before it's release promoted it as being real, which fooled most audiences into thinking it really ...

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Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo

Okonkwo, the main character of Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. And Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles Citizen Kane, both have value systems that are incongruous with their cultures. Thus allowing them to be defeated by society. These are two men with a great need for recognition. Their need ...

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Holograms

Toss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. ...

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Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic

The Gothic - Interplay between Realism and Fantasy The purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life passages which would otherwise prove unendurable. The imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a ...

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Madonna

was born on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City, located in the state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply . She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well- known ...

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Life The Courage To Change

Cruel Intentions, is a film about a young man, Sebastian, and his stepsister, Kathryn, who together do everything in their power, sexual or not, to better their own reputation. They try everything, even if it means ruining someone else’s life, reputation or well being, just to better themselves. ...

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Madonna

was born on August 16, 1958, in the city of Bay City, located in the state of Michigan. Her real birth name is Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply . She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well-known ...

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Macbeth-a True Hero?

The word hero is usually associated with superheroes that are commonplace on today's television. This is the stereotypical view of a man with special powers and a bright uniform. The dictionary defines a hero as a man who displays courage and noble qualities. It is also defined as a main male ...

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A Review Of "The Outsiders Club" Screened On BBC 2 In October 96

MA Diploma Disability Studies INTRODUCTION I decided to write a review on the social group known as The Outsiders. The group's main aim is to enable disabled adults to form personal relationships, including specifically sexual ones (Shakespeare 1996), either with each other or with non-disabled ...

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Juno

1. Opening credits sequence: Juno is seen strolling through a black-and-white, cartoon landscape (scenery). Images of her environment flash by unnoticed by her (for example, the track team runs past, including Bleeker). This, as well as the accompanying folk-style music, give us an insight into the ...

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The Phantom Menace: I Swear I’ve Seen This Movie Before

Over twenty years ago, George Lucas began filming his first hit movie of the Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars: A New Hope was so successful that it led to 2 more blockbuster films in the years to come. The three movies in this world famous, space opera trilogy have dazzled and amazed children and ...

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Analysis Of The Use Of Lighting In THE GODFATHER

I am writing about the use of lighting in the opening scene of The Godfather, (1). The photography of The Godfather as an entire film is very planned and used specifically to generate moods, and have great psychological affect. This is just as true for the very first series of shots for the ...

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Schindler’s List 2

The paper I decided to do was on “Schindler’s List”. I have seen this movie four times and yet had not really noticed the many ways in which the director, Steven Spielberg, used the camera to emphasis a “million words”. It was interesting, when watching this film from this stand point, how I was ...

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Marilyn Monroe

Many people said that was a great inspiration in their lives, but through my research, I found out that she was everything but an inspiration. Throughout my report, I will give you many facts about marilyn’s rough life and what she did to handle them. , AKA Norma Jean Mortenson/Baker, was ...

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A Comparison Of Two Classic Fi

The two films I chose to compare and contrast are my two favorite films of the course, Double Indemnity, and The Last Seduction. These films prove that although many years have passed, decades in fact, the plots of many film noirs have stayed the same. Through all the similarities however, the ...

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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The

More than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...

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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The

More than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...

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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)

In the film industry nobaody (except avant garde filmmakers) has developed a style as different as Yasujiro Ozu. He said of his own work, " I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others". His films are like experimental films, but on ...

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