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    thriller‚ which was directed by Peter Weir and released in 1985. The film centres around the Amish community who live in Pennsylvania‚ and a young Amish boy‚ Samuel‚ and his widowed mother‚ Rachel‚ who are caught up in the clash between two very different worlds. One world is the modern‚ American‚ consumerist world‚ focused on money‚ property and individual success‚ and the other is the contrasting world of the Amish which is focused on serving their community. This clash between the two worlds is represented

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    definitely still existing to the audience of today due solely to the fact that the Amish still remain in present society. The Amish are a community where modern technology does not exist. The film establishes a culture clash between the Amish and the ‘English’ which still occurs today. The idea of a culture clash in the film ‘Witness’ is played on by Weir as he establishes a clear difference in the ‘English’ and Amish communities. The scene where a long shot is used to show a horse and carriage and

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    today and their actions in their everyday life and compare it to how Puritans or the Amish live‚ I believe that some people would be in shock that there are people who live like they do. And these people who live unlike us don’t think that their way of living is strange or weird. In a Puritan society the Bible provided the way of living and the people living in the community wanted to be a city on the hill. The Amish and the Puritans are two very different ways of living but‚ they also have multiple

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    characters as a result. In the film Witness the Western World influences and changes the characters through the new experiences they face and encounter. Throughout the course of the film the Amish boy‚ Samuel Lapp undergoes many changes as he is influenced and corrupted by the horrors of the Western World as appose to the Amish culture which dwells on living a pacifist lifestyle within which he lives. The murder scene in Witness is critical to revealing the change of Samuel’s experiences from innocence to

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    Witness‚ directed by Australian director Peter Weir‚ made in 1985 combines a crime story with a love story‚ creating a dual narrative. Introduce question… Plot * This dual narrative film is set in 1984‚ in Lancaster‚ Philadelphia. * Amish members Rachel and Samuel Lapp are visiting the city after Rachel’s husband death‚ when Samuel witnesses the murder of a policeman. * As Samuel is a witness‚ he is needed to stay with the police in the city‚ to help the investigations‚ forcing

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    Old Order Amish and government regulations on employment and Social Security. The Amish regard the care of the sick and elderly to be one of their religious obligations; as a consequence‚ they believe that paying Social Security taxes (designed to care for the sick and elderly) would entail acknowledging that the government had that task rather than they. Thus‚ paying Social Security taxes would mean denying an important aspect of their faith. Lee‚ an Amish employer‚ employed other Amish to work on

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    Therefore‚ I disagree with the people that say that Utopias can’t exist because the Amish accomplished it. The Amish have a working good Utopia that many people live in. One of the main reasons Utopian societies exist is to make people happy in their lives. Many people move into Utopian Societies to have freedom. “The Amish faith forbids violence and active and military service.” (The Amish Lifestyle; paragraph #2) The Amish community is a real community with real people and they believe that since a

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    it. Evidently‚ it changes him and his views of the world are forever altered. When he is confronted by another Amish named Eli‚ he is asked a series of questions leading up to as to whether he would ever kill a man. Samuel replies to this question by stating‚ “...only the bad men”. Clearly‚ this emphasizes the change seen in Samuel through his interactions with others outside the Amish community. This proves that in general‚ the need to belong and the people we are influenced and surrounded by can

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    discriminated against in very different ways. For example‚ the long beard and long ringlet curls in the men’s hair in the Amish community‚ this is normal for them and if for some reason you don’t or can’t grow it or it gets cut off you are likely to be shunned by the whole community until it all grows back. Most people in society today like the short hair and clean shaven face but with the Amish it quite the opposite. So‚ therefore they are judged and made fun of‚ called names‚ etc. With Hinduism‚ it’s just

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    Culture of England Architecture and gardens English architecture begins with the architecture of the Anglo-Saxons; at least fifty surviving English churches are of Anglo-Saxon origin‚ although in some cases the Anglo-Saxon part is small and much-altered. All except one timber church are built of stone or brick‚ and in some cases show evidence of reused Roman work. The architectural character of Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical buildings ranges from Coptic-influenced architecture in the early period;

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