siege of Troy. This battle has many famous mythical figures such as Achilles the leader of the Myrmidons‚ Helen the princess that ran off with Paris which sparked the battle. Helen was the wife of King Menelaus ruler of the Spartans. Paris is a prince of Troy and brother to Hector the air to the throne. The movie adaptation is focused less on the adventures the Spartans had while sailing to Troy and more on the short stint of pre battle and end battle. The movie suggests the battle of Troy was over
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In comparing the blockbuster movie TROY to secondary sources found o the internet and in various texts‚ there are many significant differences in the portrayal of Odysseus and his involvement in Trojan War. In the movie‚ the first we see of Odysseus is when he’s sent by the Mycenaean King and conqueror of Greece‚ Agamemnon‚ to persuade Achilles to join the Greek war effort because‚ I quote‚ "Odysseus is the only man he’ll listen to". The respect and belief placed in Odysseus further proves the amount
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I had the privilege of attending the Policy Symposium workshop on Thursday at Ramapo College. They touched on immigration and a lot of what they mentioned was found in the text book Two things that both the text book and Symposium talked about was that when Immigrants get deported back to their country‚ they are at risk of getting raped. Women have a higher risk of getting raped‚ but men also sometimes gets raped as well. Another thing that they both mentioned was if immigrant children are deported
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1) Which three empires met at the Balkans? Russia‚ Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) 2) How did Emperor Franz Joseph rule the Hasburg Empire? Franz Joseph was the emperor of Austria and the king of Hungary. He was the uncle of Franz Ferdinand and ruled for 66 years. During his reign‚ Franz Joseph resisted any type of change‚ hated political reform and was referred to as the ‘last European monarch of the old school’. 3) How was the Hasburg Empire regarded internationally? The
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The plot in the movie and the novel had many differences. The exposition is one of the differences that made the movie confusing. Instead of Ponyboy leaving the movie house and getting jumped by the Socs‚ he starts to write The Outsiders. It was a huge mistake for Francis Coppola to leave this out because the exposition in the book involved a significant event‚ where the Socs showed the violent relationship they have between the Greasers. Another difference is When Cherry explains to Ponyboy that
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In the movie Unforgiven‚ W. W. Beauchamp who was an author that wrote about gunslingers in the west and their battles‚ was played by Saul Rubinek. Beauchamp improves the narrative be flowing around different gunslingers and learning that they are not what he thought of them. His character connected with the audience improving overall experience. Beauchamp characterization was successful throughout the movie and improved the narrative. Beauchamp was an author that created novels about what he believed
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The Crucible A joint cast from Melbourne High School and Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School were recently involved in a production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. The cast‚ led by Gilbert Stalinsfield as John Proctor and Greta Nash as Elizabeth Proctor‚ was able to captivate the audience for an the entirety of the performer. Director Anne-Marie Brownhill’s interpretation of the play‚ while short‚ allowed for each actor to contribute his or her own ideas to the story without removing the overlying
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6. Feb. 9: Freaks film analysis/discussion In the movie‚ there is many jaw dropping moments that gives disability a negative connotation. In the movie‚ the producer takes people with disability in the context of being helpless and has being freaks in the film. For instance many of the characters have disabilities‚ which is showcased to the public for entertainment because of their disability. To add on‚ the character are part of the circus‚ which gives the freak factor to their disability when they
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Perkowski created a ten-part analysis outline to be used for analyzing different characteristics and functions of vampires that appear in film‚ television‚ and literature. This outline can be used to analyze the film The Lost Boys‚ and how the vampires in the film function as a metaphor for drug use‚ American nationalism‚ and a broken family structure‚ all of which were common in the 1980’s. The first part of Perkowski’s analysis encompasses the information sources for the film‚ which includes the movie
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Human Mythology 130 The roles the gods played in the Iliad and Troy The gods were more involved in the Iliad than in the movie Troy. In the Iliad they manipulated people’s emotions‚ the weather‚ the outcomes of battle; they would disguise themselves to trick the characters into the move they wanted them to make‚ physically trip them up to give the opponent a better standing. In the movie the gods had no visible role they were more
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