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    Claire Johnson’s essay‚ Women Cinema as Counter Cinema‚ explores the ways in which female stereotypes in films came to be and how feminist filmmakers can go about subverting the damage that decades of problematic portrayals of women have caused. Johnson spends a great deal of time talking about the idea of the woman as an “icon”—merely a symbol meant to represent a separate idea or ideal. This type of iconography has turned women in films into rough caricatures that audience members are able to categorize

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    Susan Glaspell's Trifles

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    Susan Glaspell’s work in “Trifles” displays many attributes among women such as independence and freedom. I quickly noticed that Glaspell’s work is very similar to Kate Chopin’s because both of them express equality between men and women. In “Trifles” one can see how a woman’s role in the early nineteenth century meant absolutely nothing. Men like Mr. Wright‚ Mr. Hale and the Sheriff acted and talked as if they were superior to all women. Through Glaspell’s “Trifles‚” one is able to grasp the realities

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    Susan Hill's Biography

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    Susan Hill Biography Novelist‚ children ’s writer and playwright Susan (Elizabeth) Hill was born in Scarborough‚ England‚ on 5 February 1942. She was educated at Scarborough Convent School and at grammar school in Coventry‚ before reading English at King ’s College‚ London‚ graduating in 1963 and becoming a Fellow in 1978. Her first novel‚ The Enclosure‚ was published in 1961 when she was still a student. She worked as a freelance journalist between 1963 and 1968‚ publishing her third novel‚

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    Wizard of Oz Cinema

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    Cited: Bordwell‚ D.‚ Staiger‚ J. and Thompson‚ K. (1985) The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. Routledge: London Bordwell‚ D. and Thompson‚ K. (2001) Film Art 6th Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York Bloodworth‚ R. (2000) The Allegorical Significance of The Wizard of Oz [online] URL: http://www.2b2b.org/docs/papers/WizardOzFilm370

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    Cinema: West to East

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    Film Authorship Ricciotto Canudo (1828) pointed out‚ “Cinema is the seventh art”. Any artists in each type of art have its own artistic style‚ even it is a film. Mise-en-scène is a good example to distinguish these artists. Every time we watch a film‚ we can find some period or some shots that we can identify the unique style. In film‚ we call autheurism. Although every film have its own story‚ different setting and different contents‚ we still find something whatever in comedy or tragedy that they

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    Susan B Anthony

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    2014 Introduction/Thesis: Susan B Anthony was one of the most influential women in American history. Susan was not only influential but heroic in her doings as an abolitionist‚ educational reformer‚ labor activist‚ and last but most definitely not last a women’s rights activist. Susan believed that the same rights should be granted to all regardless of race or sex. This mindset was a complete one eighty from the way of thinking back then. Paragraph One: Susan B Anthony born in Adams Massachusetts

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    Cinema and its impact on our lives Respectable members of the examination board‚ let me introduce my topic in which I would like to speak on the cinema art. Keypoints of my topic are the following: cinema art as a phenomenon‚ its history‚ development and its influence on the society. The motion pictures have a great impact on our life. Indeed‚ the movies are truly an art of our time – they were born and achieved a great development in the 20th century‚ and now they demand the serious consideration

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    susan b anthony

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    Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women’s rights movement to introduce women’s suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women’s Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women’s rights journal‚ The Revolution. She traveled the United States and Europe‚ and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. She was one of the important advocates in leading the way

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    4-23-2010 Susan G Komen Susan G. Komen for the Cure is an organization supporting breast cancer research. Since the organization started in 1982‚ it has raised over $1.5 billion for research‚ education‚ and health services‚ Thus making it the largest breast cancer charity in the world. The Komen organization is recognized as the leading catalyst in the fight against breast cancer‚ with more then 100‚000 volunteers working in a network of 125 U.S and international affiliates. Susan G. Komen

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    Film and cinema 1 Match these words with their definitions below: star director scene critic review 1. somebody who reviews new films 2. a very famous actor or actress 3. what a critic writes about a new film 4. the person who tells the actors and actresses what to do 5. one small part of a film 2 Put these words into the sentences below: screen subtitles row trailers credits 1. Let’s sit at the back. I don’t like being too near the ........ . 2. I like

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