Shotgun Stories: Funeral Scene Jeff Nichols has mastered leveraging cinematography and mise en scene in his 2007 film‚ Shotgun Stories. The film in its entirety is very visually striking. The characters and sets are arranged in interesting and unique ways and each shot could translate to a powerful still image. The way in which the camera captures the dialogue between the characters emphasizes the duality that exists between the characters and within themselves. One scene that particularly emphasizes
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FUNERAL BLUES by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dogs from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ My South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and my Sunday rest
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Vision for the Plan: As a teacher‚ I want to be professional and a positive role model to my students. I want to have a good and supportive environment in my classroom so that it allows my students to have good opportunities to succeed. I will keep motivate my students to be better in their work and it is my job to make sure that each students learn something. Therefore‚ I plan to use positive reinforcement in the classroom and praise any positive behavior in the classroom. I will use the classroom
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We thought it was almost over. That we were going to let us live. To be done with it. They knew that the end of the war was coming. The Americans‚ British and French‚ were coming. But that is when they came up with the idea for the solution of the final solution. The deathmarch. I had never felt this cold before. It was cold so cold. But after all of these miles i began to not feel so cold anymore. Like I was in a trance. With momma’s hand in mine‚ we continued to shuffle our feet along the cold
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very different Greek city-states‚ Athens and Sparta‚ fought for domination of the Greek world. In the first winter of the war held a public funeral to honor those who had died in battle. As was the custom in Athens‚ one leading citizen was asked to address the crowd‚ and on this day it was Pericles who spoke to the people. In this famous Funeral Oration‚ Pericles gave voice to the ideal of democracy and the importance of the individual. It was the Greeks who created the intellectual foundations of
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In the eulogy at Caesar’s funeral‚ Marc Antony‚ close friend of Caesar and general‚ seems to claim that he believes that Marcus Brutus and the rest of the men involved with the death of Caesar are honorable men‚ but in actuality believes that Caesar was the only honorable man in the Senate who was always there for his country and brought prosperity to his country. He also claims to not want to get revenge on the murderers of Caesar‚ but in reality‚ the whole point of his speech was to turn the citizens
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Athens was about to experience it’s greatest epoch. A time filled with power and great social and political wealth. All of which was the product of a great man’s work. His name was Pericles. Pericles was born in the year 495 B.C. into a very noble family. He was the nephew of Cleisthenes who founded Athenian Democracy. Pericles lived his whole life in a political environment. When he became involved in Athenian affairs‚ he received a very good reputation. In 462 B.C. he began to dominate the politics
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Monsieur Rouault visits Charles the day following his wife’s funeral in order to to deliver him his payment for the medical treatment he had received‚ and he gives his condolences. He tells Charles to come and visit Les Bertaux again; he happily accepts the invitation. Rounalt cheers Charles up; he soon forgets all about his wife‚ everything starts to look better for Charles. Charles likes living without his wife‚ he doesn’t have someone there dictating his every move‚ he can eat when he wants to
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eulogy delivered before the Athenians in 431-430 B.C during the Peloponnesian wars‚ Pericles states‚ “we are called a democracy‚ for the administration‚ is in the hands of many and not of the few.” In this quote‚ Pericles is communicating the idea that they are a democracy because the type of government that they have is special to them as well as very inclusive‚ unlike other governments at the time. The eulogy of Pericles should be considered accurate to a moderate extent because while on one hand‚ it
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Pericles’ building program. Reasons and aims for building the program. - Pericles was able to use the Delian league funds however he saw fit. The allies didn’t have say because they didn’t turn up to the conference. - To beautify Athens by restoring the temples that had been destroyed during the Persian wars. - The large scale of the buildings were to reflect the greatness of Athens. “He recognized that the city by enabling the houses of her gods would enable herself and that she could express
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