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    American Beauty

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    The Color Red "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul." George Sand hit the nail right on the head when he said this in 1872. Appearance versus reality has been a central theme in many American creative works including the film American Beauty. American Beauty is a film that delves into your typical‚ middle-class suburban American home and slowly uncovers all of the abnormalities that lie within. The family

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    American Beauty

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    Sam Mendes’ American Beauty‚ at first‚ evinces the perfect picture of the ideal middle class suburban American life. The Burnham family appears to have everything anyone would want- success‚ money‚ status‚ and with that‚ presumed happiness. However‚ reality contravenes this façade and paints a much darker and more sinister truth. Throughout the film‚ several interpersonal communicational concepts are incorporated to depict the elaborate layers of the characters and their relationships in the film

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    American Beauty

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    A True Beauty Sam Mendes’ ‘American Beauty’ is a daring‚ startling and gut-wrenching film that explores a seemingly typical mid-life crisis of a middle-aged office drone‚ which quickly turns into an unbelievably dysfunctional dimension of self-discovery. The drone in question is none other than Lester Burnham (played by the terrific Kevin Spacey) - a 42 year old who has reached the lowest point in his unexciting‚ boxed in‚ suburban life. However this all changes when Lester meets a friend of his

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    The Gaze

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    The Gaze (John urry) - is an understanding how the tourist behaves by the regulation of the culture. Thus‚ rather than being ’out of place’ a person may be regulated by the gaze of others so they may embody the culture of difference. However‚ this does not always apply. A tour group of the same culture may find more comfort in the ’sameness’ of their fellow travellers. False Front (Boorstin) - Objective authenticity of toured objects treat authenticity as a property inhering in toured objects one

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    American Beauty

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    American Beauty tells the story of a man’s mid-life crisis set in contemporary American suburbia. The character of Lester Burnham is already dead and tells the story as a flashback. Lester works in a steady job‚ is in a loveless marriage‚ and has a tense relationship with his daughter. However‚ he doesn’t like his job‚ has extreme marriage troubles with his wife‚ and feels depressed and hopeless. He ends up changing quite a bit‚ he gets sexually obsessed with his daughter’s friend Angela‚ decides

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    The Male Gaze

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    Both films It’s a Wonderful Life and American Beauty focus on a protagonists identity crisis. George has a momentary break down in which he lashes out at his wife and children‚ plagued with fear of not being ale to provide for his family‚ nearly drives George over the edge. When he enters an alternative universe‚ nobody recognizes him and he is cast as an outsider. Though George contemplate suicide‚ he is able to reclaim his life after recognizing his home‚ family‚ and friends make him whole. On

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    Gaze Direction

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    The present results discredit the initial intention to show a relationship between emotional expression and gaze cueing effects. This was especially relevant to the research hypothesis‚ as these results force the null hypothesis to be accepted in the cases of a happy emotional expression having a positive impact upon reaction times and accuracy‚ and likewise for fearful producing a reduction in both. These results conflict with the previous research looked upon in order to formulate a testable hypothesis

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    The Gaze

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    Assignment 2: Milk Customer service is a very important concept in business‚ but I also believe that what a customer does not know will not hurt him or her. Since we decided to sell the product instead of destroying it‚ I see no point in telling the customers about the nine percent difference in product quality. In my opinion‚ telling the customers will do more harm than good. One reason is that a likely backlash will occur from those who feel we should not be selling the product in the first place

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    Asian American Beauty

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    Asia is a big continent but their preference in beauty characteristics is very much alike. Pale skin‚ big eyes‚ small features are the main points of what used to be expected in an Asian woman because of high social status. Although social status is not as important now‚ Asia still holds onto their standards of an idealistic woman and uses them as a basis of what being beautiful should mean. Asian beauty‚ like any other standards of beauty can be achieved through cosmetics. Products that can be used

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    Male Gaze

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    Assignment: How have women been portrayed through photography? 16/01/2009 How have women been portrayed through photography? The gaze deals with how the audience views the people presented in visual culture‚ in this case‚ adverts‚ magazines and Cinema. The ‘male gaze’ is the male ability to exercise control over women by representing them in visual means as passive‚ sexual objects of male desire. The power of men over women has always existed. They are seen as the more powerful and clever species

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