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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Infomercials And Other Dishonest Commercials
Number of words: 1128 | Number of pages: 5.... was "life changing," and that "it was so real…
the psychic knew everything." It is amazing what people will fall for in this
day and age.
Info-mercials are basically half hour commercials that attempt to sell
products to watchers. The products that most info-mercials offer are things that
are said to "improve someone's life" but in most cases the products are rip-offs
and are an easy way for the manufacturer's to make money. Some of the products
include the "AB-flex," a simple rocking seat that is supposed to hold this
unearthly power to flatten a persons stomach. The "AB-flex" guarantees to "make
it easier to develop st .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Symbols In The Play
Number of words: 529 | Number of pages: 2.... s fighting for his job.
Howard no longer need s Willy's services and without concern fires him.
This, to Willy, was like, "eating the orange and throwing away the peel".
However, Willy is partly to blame, as he does not accept change and wants
to remain in the pas t. This is foreshadowed in the scene where Willy is
left alone with the tape recorder and is unable to shut it off. Willy
believes in using his old techniques and style to succeed. N evertheless,
in his job, it is not what you know, but it is who you know. Willy is not
up to date with the business nor technology. Yet, Willy still has hope, and
wishes to leave some fo rm o .....
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Symbolistic Roleplaying
Number of words: 1084 | Number of pages: 4.... not just important in the definition of winning an outcome, but that victory should be the primary priority. Her determination to win her battle against the Greek men will not be judged or questioned. this liberal trait is an outstanding aspect concerning women because she ceases to be denied.
Lysistrata: Enough of these shams, you wretched creatures.
You want your husbands, I suppose. Well, don't you think
they want us? I'm sure they're spending miserable nights.
Hold out, my friends, and endure for just a little while.
(775-778)
This small passage about being strong-willed and determined is Lysistrata's way o .....
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Macbeth: Man Of Established Character
Number of words: 1826 | Number of pages: 7.... proper motive which should energize back of his
great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he
destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are
obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we
have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in
order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and
"Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular
fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long
as these mutable goods are at all commensurate with his inordinate de .....
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A Look At The Moss, Father/Son Relationship In Bonnie And Clyde
Number of words: 1773 | Number of pages: 7.... attention to detail.
The dominating relationship is very apparent through the eye of the
camera. In cinematography, the camera can be used to show a number of
things to the viewer that we wouldn't notice in real life. Closeups of
hands under a sink, or a birds eye view of a gun fight. These are ways of
manipulating the camera to make the viewer feel how the director wishes
them to feel. In the 2 scenes which I am analyzing, Penn, uses these
techniques to show the distribution of power, in the Moss relationship.
The distance of the camera from it's subject plays a crucial role
in presenting the level of power a character has to .....
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Bugs Bunny And The Marlboro Man
Number of words: 578 | Number of pages: 3.... Many shows
have the main character smoking or drinking. Take Rosanne, for instance;
the opening scene shows her sitting around a table playing poker, while her
husband smokes a cigar and drinks a beer. In Married With Children,
another show, Al sits around the house reading pornographic material, and
while working he ogles the women shopping in his store. Both of these
portray a family that does not care about each other. The kids run wild,
while the parents argue. Many shows contain a lot of violence. One of the
popular children's shows is the Power Rangers, which consists of nothing
except fighting. Many children, after .....
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Barbara Walters' Interview With Christopher Reeves
Number of words: 443 | Number of pages: 2.... where
Nielson ratings are god, there is no longer a place for journalistic
integrity in a profit based field. It is up to the journalist to determine
whether or not they are comfortable with what they are doing and how they
do it.
Yet the question still remains, was everything that Barbara Walters
did ethical. No. There were times in my mind when she should have laid
off. In my view she had no right intruding in the Reeves' personal life,
even venturing into their sex-life. I am sorry, however I do not wish to
know certain things about Mr. and Mrs. Reeve's personal business (namely
that that occurs behind closed doors). .....
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Movie Review Of My Dinner With Andre
Number of words: 343 | Number of pages: 2.... or taking them for
granted. He even made the parallel between the respect you have for these
objects and the respect you would have for your wife. With all of this in
mind, one must understand that this interpretation is one of the most
common of the modern world, a world entirely enthralled in the ideas of
science, however, it is an incorrect one. There are four Levels of Being,
the first, m, is the mineral level. All matter has this level. The next
level is x, the level of life. One could denote plants as m+x. The third
level is the level of consciousness, y. Animals are considered m+x+y. And
the final level is self-aw .....
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Ophelia: The Tragedy Of Love
Number of words: 1536 | Number of pages: 6.... was to make Ophelia, a minor character in terms of the number of lines assigned to her, into a memorable character evoking the most sympathy.
To fully see Ophelia's metamorphosis, one must compare her at the beginning and at the conclusion of Hamlet. Appearing first in Act 1, Scene 3, Ophelia seems to be a spirited young girl. She is very trusting and innocent. Most important however, Ophelia is naive to the way things are. Laertes attempts to 'educate' her about love, in lines 10-44, but his advice falls on deaf ears because Ophelia does not truly 'understand' until she becomes mad. Starting in act 4, scene 5, line 42, .....
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Les Miserables
Number of words: 986 | Number of pages: 4.... a factory where we meat the
other main character, Fantine. As she is reading a letter her perverted
boss snatches it up with his hands and reads it aloud. Fantine has a
daughter that lives with an innkeeper and his wife who are the only ones in
this whole play that give some comedy relief. They treat her daughter
horribly and when the boss finds out that she has a daughter he thinks of
her as a prostitute and kicks her out of the factory, which is in the town
in which the new honest Valjean is the mayor. To support her child Fantine
sells her chain and her locks of hair. Then later because she can't find
work becomes a prostit .....
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