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Media And The Military
Words: 672 / Pages: 3 .... the way you keep morale up is you don't let the public know
how bad war really is.
Television is one of the most powerful tools of media and “by the
mid 1960's television had become the most important source for news for
most of the American public, and beyond that, perhaps, the most powerful
single influence on the public.” (Hallin 106) So people trusted what
reporters like Walter Cronkite were telling them. They believed it when
NBC journalists told them things like, “ the Marines are so bogged down in
Hue that nobody will predict when the battle would end…more than 500
marines have been wounded and over 100 dead since the in Hue began. .....
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Interpretation Of Romeo And Juliet
Words: 497 / Pages: 2 .... Unfortunately, Tybalt and Mercutio are killed and Romeo
gets banished leaving Juliet without a husband or a cousin. "O, I am a
fortune's fool," (Act III, Scene I) explains how Romeo felt at the moment
of Tybalt's death. He felt that he fell into one of fate's many cruel games
and it was too late to get out.
When things are just getting worst, Lord Capulet arranges for Juliet
to marry Paris causing Juliet to panic. She then has to hurry and do
something to stop the wedding and of course fate would just happen to guide
her back to Friar Lawrence. Fate wouldn't just stop there. He just kept on
going. He has it arranged that Friar John, the m .....
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Raw Deal: Film Techniques
Words: 1062 / Pages: 4 .... different intensities of lighting, low-key lighting and high-key lighting. In the scene where Joe Sullivan escapes from prison, Pat is waiting in the car and all that you can see is her face, a result of low-key lighting. The use of this type of lighting is used to increase the intensity of the scene and define the mood. By directing their attention to Pat’s face, the audience can concentrate on her facial expressions and sense her fear. The direction of the light also plays a key role in creating a successful visual image. An example of this is the use of front-lighting and back-lighting in the scene on the boat where Joe is talking to Pat a .....
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A Man For All Seasons: Value, What Would I Die For?
Words: 477 / Pages: 2 .... In the long run they will learn to live without me physically, but in their souls I would forever be alive.
Friends do not share souls as families do. Friends come and go, some quicker then others but rarely forever. You do not always share as much love with your friends then compared to your family. To die for friends is questionable. Only the forever friend, will I die for, but how could I tell the future. One does not know the future, and for that reason is my value towards my friends questionable.
As for my country I refuse to risk my life for dictator who is on a power trip. Almost all wars are useless as the war of Vietnam. Did the Ame .....
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Pop Art
Words: 438 / Pages: 2 .... and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Yet another American pop artist was Larry Rivers. He was born in 1923 and
still lives. His work may be found at the Metropolitian Museum of Art.
Robert Rauschienburg was also an American pop artist. He was born in 1925,
and, like most of the other artists in this essay, still ives. His work may
be found at the Whitney Museum of Art and at the Modern Museum of Art.
I chose to describe As I Opened Fire, by Roy Lichenstein. It was made in
1964 and is the the third of three panels in a narrative arrangement.
As I Opened Fire is magna on a canvas which is 68 X 56. Its composition
reminds of a comic book. It .....
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Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play
Words: 467 / Pages: 2 .... of the conspirators against Caesar) ancestors, the Tarquins. Nearly five
hundred years before Caesar was even born, a cruel, unscrupulous leading family
had seized the riens of power and had set themselves up as kings. From that
point on, the people of Rome hated kings, and they bounded themselves together
by a solemn oath never to tolerate a monarch, and it was formally enacted into
law that if any man wish that the monarchy should be restored, he was to be
declared a public enemy and be put to death.
Brutus and the rest of the conspirators had killed Caesar, but they made
an error, which was letting Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends live. A .....
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Othello: Roles Of Cassio, Roderigo, And Brabantio, And Their Functions
Words: 875 / Pages: 4 .... play is not one of the extremely
important ones. His main function is to be a figure who's actions are
partially responsible for Othello believing that his wife is cheating on
him. For example, Cassio asking for Desdemona's help leads to the two of
them being seen together, which is in act three scene three line 35. In
the end of the play, Cassio becomes the governor in Cyprus after the
former Governor, Othello, commits suicide, in act five scene two from
line 366-378, which shows another of his functions, to act as one of the
means which ties up the loose ends at the end of the play.
Now, Roderigo. Roderigo is a foolish, cheated, .....
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Julius Caesar: Conspiracy Theory
Words: 1355 / Pages: 5 .... of Rome?" Most, if not all of them, seem to have the ability to gain from Caesar's demise. Even if they were all acting for the greater good, no man can be held accountable for crimes he might commit in the future.
In a tragic play, the protagonist is plagued by a "fatal flaw" in his or her personality. Usually the flaw leads to the protagonist's demise or downfall. Brutus' fatal flaw is that he is too trusting. Brutus is an honorable man, who foolishly believes that those around him are just as honest and noble as himself. He just wants what is best for the Republic, and the conspirators convince him that Caesar's death is the best thing for .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Mistaken Identities
Words: 869 / Pages: 4 .... and see how he reacts. In addition to ordering his
servants to treat Sly as their master, he too pretends to be a servant. The
most amusing part of this induction occurs when Sly becomes convinced that he is
indeed a nobleman. When he first awakes, he thinks that everyone is playing a
joke on him. After some convincing, Sly gives in and believes that he really
was suffering from a long sickness. When Sly asks the page, who is pretending
to be his wife to undress and join him in bed, the audience must have reacted
with loud laughter knowing that his ‘wife' is actually the same sex as he.
Although Sly does not understand the lifestyle of the upp .....
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Hamlet: Sane Or Insane
Words: 888 / Pages: 4 .... Ophelia, but a man driven crazy by thought.
Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gifts, while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sanity as he tells Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of madness [Act V, scene II, lines 236- .....
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