The Walkabout
.... that he did. Having a picnic in the desert, shooting at the kids, committing suicide and then blowing up the car. I also thought that the oasis was quite odd. The water and fruit were there and disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.
I really liked the part when the three of them were playing in a tree together and at the same time the Aborigines were playing in the car. It was almost like the two swapped places. I thought that it was funny when the radio turned on and they all ran away. It was a comic relief. But why did they hang the body?
All in all, the movie was clear. At the end it took her several seco .....
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Grease: Theme
.... draw of GREASE -- the music. As I type this, at least one Top 40 station across the country is playing the "Grease Megamix," a medley of the three most popular songs from the movie ("You're the One That I Want," "Greased Lightning" and "Summer Nights"). Travolta and Newton-John's songs in the film have become karaoke favorites, and the movie soundtrack is actually back in the upper reaches of the charts.
Travolta, the archetype of cool, plays Danny Zuko, car- loving greaser who bosses around a bunch of tough-guy clones. Newton-John plays Sandy, the virginal good-girl from Australia he had a fling with over the summer. They .....
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King Lear - The Fool: A Motivated Character
.... beginning of his misfortunes. He spoke as a prophet. The king lost everything including his wits, and has now himself become the fool. The Fool shows the sign of real sanity. The solution to the problem is set by the Fool; the problem of moral relativity, “Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile, filths savour but themselves,” (IV, 2, 38-9). “Lear’s tragedy is the investing of the king with motley, and the crowning of the Fool,” (Weisford 162-165).
William Hazlitt agrees that the Fool is of great importance to the play. He feels that the contrast would be to o painful, the shock to great, if the Fool was not part of .....
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Interpretation Of Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
.... society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her husband; and Nora's flirtatious nature contradicts her devotion to her husband. These occurrences emphasize the facets of a relationship in which women play a dependent role: finance, power, and love .....
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Perspective / Vanishing Points
.... "The Last Supper" (www.metlab.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/vinci/lastsupp.jpg). The vanishing point here is quite pronounced and obvious--da Vinci wanted all attention to be placed on Jesus Himself, as this is his last supper before crucifiction. The vanishing point lies directly on his head, with the opening of the bright sky behind Him added for a larger contrast.
The last of the three paintings in the lecture materials is the painting by Jan Van Eyck. Entitled "The Arnolfini Marriage" (www.metlab.unc.edu/wm/ paint/auth/eyck/ arnolfini/ arnolfini.jpg.), this painting is another where the vanishing point is put almost at the cente .....
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Hamlet - Appearance Vs. Reality
.... his son with advice that sounds sincere but in reality it is rehearsed, hollow and without feeling. Polonius gives his advice only to appear to be the loving caring father. The reality is he only speaks to appear sincere as a politician, to look good rather then actually be good: "And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!" Act 1
Polonius gives his son Laertes his blessing to go away, he sends a spy to follow him and keep an eye on him. This shows .....
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MacBeth - Attitude Changes
.... time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
(I, vii, 13-16)
When Lady Macbeth enters, though, she uses her cunning rhetoric and pursuasion techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to do. He then tells her that "I am settled." (79). He is firmly seated in his beliefs that killing Duncan is the right thing to do .....
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Teletubbies!
.... attention to what people say.
As far as the characters go they’re strange to but promote self-esteem and individuality. Showing that people are different and will be different and can live amongst each other peacefully. I also think that the rumor of the one who caries a bag as being an attempt to show that homosexuals are ok is so absolutely absurd that its stranger then the teletubies themselves. The age group that this show reaches barley has grasp on the idea of male and female. Also I don’t know many homosexuals but I’ve never met or seen one that carried a pocket book.
I will say that one bad side to the Telietubb .....
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Hamlet: Spying
.... Why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but
yet I could accuse me of such things that it were
better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud,
revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck
that I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
them shape, or time to act time in. What should such
fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go they
ways to a nunnery. Where's you father?
Ophelia: At home, my lord.
Ophelia told a lie when he asked where Polonius is. She is trying to cover for Hamlet .....
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Advertiser Influence On The Media: Censorship And The Media
.... of news coverage even further is the ever-looming presence of the advertiser or corporate supporter. Advertisers have pressured more than 90 percent of U.S. newspapers to change or kill stories, reported a recent study by Marquette University's Department of Journalism . The same number of newspapers had advertisers threaten to withdraw or withdrew advertising over reporting of news or feature stories . However, only one-third of those newspapers caved in to those pressures .
Amidst the corporate battle for control and influence of media outlets lies Blue Springs, Missouri, population 49,290 . This Midwestern community is .....
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El Norte
.... said, "it is living hell".
During there tunnel journey, they encountered rats and they were getting eaten alive. Finally they were gone and they were able to continue and they found their coyote at the end. He got them hooked up at a motel to stay.
Day 1 they try to find work, and people pick them up to put them to work and give them two dollars a week and they think it is a whole a lot, but it really isn't. Enqrue and Rosa said "that everyone said how much more money u get in the United States but they didn't say how much everything costs" I think this quote is a good point. At the end Enqrue sister Rosa has to go to the .....
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Macbeth’S Changing Fears
.... the first passage Macbeth says:
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
If chance will have me King, why,
Chance may crow .....
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