The U.S. Citizens Involvement of our Country Why should every person living in the United States be an active and involved citizen? This is a question I would ask to the public or an individual like you. Why‚ well I want to know if our citizens of the US is active and is willing to lend a helping hand to the community or help in other ways that can impact the US in a significant ways. Even if it’s doing something small like having solar panels to conserve power‚ doing community service to help
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Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane has been consistently ranked as one of the best films ever made. A masterpiece of technique and storytelling‚ the film helped to change Hollywood film-making and still exerts considerable influence today. However‚ at the time of its premiere in 1941‚ it was a commercial failure that spelled disaster for Welles’ Hollywood career. Citizen Kane tells the story of millionaire press magnate Charles Foster Kane (played by Welles). The film opens with Kane on his death
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satire lies in The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden. It is a dark satire about what can possibly happen if political and bureaucratic principles corrode the creative and revolutionary spirit of the individual. This poem ridicules the fact that government‚ or the people in control of the citizens of the US‚ know‚ or could find out anything and everything about a person. This creates the idea that people are reduced to a number‚ or a statistic‚ not a person. In The Unknown Citizen‚ the State or the government
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Problems facing by elderly citizens are a universal topic throughout the planet since elderly people contributed a lot to the social development. As one of the members of the strongest developing countries‚ the elderly problem in China has become a public focus. It was predicted that in elderly population in China will reach 280millionin 2011‚ ranking first in the world. Therefore‚ establishing the health insurance system to improve the quality of life of old persons‚ and promoting physical and mental
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similarities and differences to the movie Citizen Kane. The Prestige¡¯s starts up with an eye grabbing scene where a man is murdered after performing an ¡°electrifying¡± magic trick while another man watches him die. This is much like the beginning of Citizen Kane‚ where a man also dies‚ but not as exiting as in The Prestige. The beginning of Citizen Kane is more mysterious and dark‚ while The Prestige is very exiting and more used as an attention grabber. Both Citizen Kane and The Prestige use flashback
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Orson Welles’ undeniable masterpiece‚ Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed and discussed films of all times‚ having also frequently been awarded with the title of “greatest film ever made”. The critics and audiences’ fascination with the picture is deeply linked to its acknowledged status of nonconformity and defiance towards the formal rules that made up the classical Hollywood cinema film style between 1917 and 1960 (David Bordwell‚ Janet Staiger and Kristin Thompson 1985). Effectively
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into the waiting hands of the Millennial generation‚ new questions concerning government involvement in citizens affairs have risen. One of the largest debates‚ the struggle between treating the internet as a public or private domain of the common citizen‚ has finally begun to rear its head in modern politics‚ and with the rising issues and concerns swirling around the topic‚ more and more citizens are beginning to find themselves pondering the same question: to what extent does the government have
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Since the beginning of film‚ very few single films have changed and influenced the industry as much as Citizen Kane. It is considered a masterpiece and will often be cited as “the greatest film of all time”. Barsam says “Citizen Kane is important to your study of the movies because‚ within the borders of film history – 1895 to the present – it marks a major turning point between the films produced before it and those produced after it.” (2016) Orson Wells who produced‚ directed‚ and stared in the
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on its citizen.’’ The government most definitely should not have the right to spy on its citizens. Even if it was to supposedly secure our country’s freedom‚ it is doing nothing but taking away freedoms from its own people. It would be conflicting for our country to say that they are trying to secure our freedoms by spying on the citizens. Recent classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden (Former CIA and NSA employee) proved that the government has indeed been spying on its citizens. If the
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Analysis of Citizen Kane At the age of twenty-five‚ Orson Welles produced‚ co-wrote‚ directed‚ and starred in the film‚ Citizen Kane. Although it was a commercial failure‚ it was nominated for nine Academy Awards (winning one for writing) and was declared the number one movie of all time by the American Film Institute in 1998. This controversial film is said to be based on the real-life American icon and newspaper tycoon‚ William Randolph Hearst. America’s supposed number one movie may better be
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