Film Dr. Strangelove A brief synopsis of the film‚ General Ripper‚ a paranoid Air Force base commander‚ orders a troop of B-52 bombers into the Soviet Union to drop hydrogen bombs on military targets. General Turgidson sees this as a chance to entirely abolish the “Communists” and prevent their predictable vengeance. But the president is a pacifist‚ and he invites the Russian Ambassador into the war room. They call the Russian Premiere to warn of the attack and explain that it was accidental
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This man locked between four walls‚ has all the time to relive the crime‚ his horrible mistake that sent him to jail. Deprived of liberty‚ he remembers what life was like when he was free. Every second he spent outside those walls. All the people who cared for him. He was never grateful for the life he was living. It used to be no bars‚ no chains‚no guards to wake you up in the morning. Now that time has changed as they even tell him when to bath. Sitting in the dark‚ watching miniature
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Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare’s sonnet 138 is published in 1599 in a poetry collection entitled “The Passionate Pilgrime”. It reveals the nature of his frustrating relationship with The Dark Lady‚ emphasizing the effects of his age and his decline in beauty‚ and the effects on a sexual/romantic relationship. When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her‚ though I know she lies‚ That she might think me some untutored youth Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties. Thus
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Adaptation: The Journey We All Take As movie-goers‚ we all have seen films advertised with the “based on the book” tag line. Unfortunately‚ after watching these films there are always viewers that bring up the fidelity of the film to the original piece. Artistically‚ this raises the question of to what extent do we define originality. Robert Stam‚ the author of Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of Adaptation‚ pointed out that a film’s fidelity to a novel is an issue deemed by audiences to be moralistic
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"Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china. The dining-room was stripped of parquet‚ the skirting was up‚ the door had been taken off its hinges‚ and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of imagination had seen this house as it had now become." The Second World War had just finished and the boys were living
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Is Fashion Art? Everybody questions art. You would think art is merely created for admiration‚ but its not. The average person would describe art as a drawing on a piece of paper‚ and this quote by Clement Greenberg (1909-1991) suggests why: "The task of self-criticism became to eliminate from the effects of each art‚ any and every effect that might conceivably be borrowed from or by the medium of any other art. Thereby‚ each art would be rendered pure’ " "Painting is not sculpture it is two-dimensional;
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Jester [Clowns-Introduction.] I pray you all give audience‚ For our play is a moral play. The summoning of everyman And doth of our lives and ending show. Look well‚ take heed To thy ending‚ For sin‚ though in the beginning so sweet‚ Yet doth cause in the end for the soul to weep‚ When the body lieth in clay. How will fade from thee as flowers in may‚ Thy strength and thy beauty‚ thy pleasure and folly‚ When thou art called to a reckoning‚ Like everyman‚ to out heavenly King. Give
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Jimmy Shantcheat - A lesson for life When we are born‚ we know nothing and therefore everything we do‚ we do from scratch. We are bound to have a first time experience with everything. Whether we like it or not. Some of these first times will be memorable. A lot of them will not‚ but those we do remember have marked us for life. It is not important whether it is your first A grade in school‚ seeing your mother mourn or realizing that everybody at some point are going to die. It will affect you
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One of the most popular songs from The Rolling Stones that made them reach superstar level was in fact “Can’t get no Satisfaction”. It was a single released in the United States on June 6th‚ 1965. Keith Richards started writing the song in his hotel in Clearwater‚ Florida. The guitar riff came to him when he was dreaming. On May 10th‚ 1965‚ the song was recorded at Chess Studios in Chicago. The song is describing Jagger’s annoyances of the large amounts of commercialism that is in America and it
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The first song I chose to dissect is “Where is the Love” by the Black Eyed Peas. For starters‚ the Black Eyed Peas are a very diverse hip-hop/pop group. The members of the group are will.i.am (African American)‚ apl.de.ap (Filipino American)‚ Taboo (Mexican/Native-American)‚ and Fergie (White). They have released a number of hits such as “The Time” and “I Gotta Feeling.” However‚ they really struck a chord with Americans when they released “Where is the Love” in 2003. “Where is the Love” not only
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