John Varghese Professor Black English 130 17 March 2014 Understanding the Difference In the poem‚ “Enter The Dragon”‚ we see a relationship between the speaker and his dad. Throughout the poem‚ there is a shift in tone. One interpretive problem presented by John Murillo’s “Enter The Dragon” is the tone the speaker uses when he says “I learn the difference between cinema and city‚ between the moviehouse cheers / Of old men and the silence that gets us home” (ll. 30-31). The poem begins with
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The Reasons behind the Recent Success of Superhero Movies The superhero movie genre has made an outstanding comeback in recent years. Moviegoers eagerly await the next installment of their favorite superhero franchise as new superhero movies are being produced introducing characters never before seen in movie theaters with no end in sight. The popularity of these movies goes beyond the spectacular special effects and costumes. The popularity of the superhero movie in today’s culture satisfies a
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has become one of America’s biggest health crisis: Obesity. ‘Where does personal responsibility stop and corporate responsibility begin?’ Morgan Spurlock asks the question on everybody’s lips as waistlines expand and health declines. This leads moviegoers to supersize their responsibility of their poor decisions throughout Supersize Me‚ while Spurlock incorporates a variation of cinematic and persuasive techniques to ultimately lead us to blame corporate businesses. McDonalds prefer the chunky double
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James Eagan Holmes was described as a quiet‚ standoffish‚ 24-year-old graduate student from San Diego who had earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience in 2010 from the University of California‚ Riverside. Holmes then enrolled at the University of Colorado in June of 2011‚ taking graduate courses in neuroscience at the university’s campus in Denver. He later dropped out of a doctoral program at the University’s medical school‚ where he had been doing research. In early 2012‚ Holmes began seeing
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The Resurrection of Gavin Stone - WWE should stick to producing professional wrestling as its wacky storylines and over the top characters don’t lend themselves quite as well to the world of motion pictures. The Resurrection of Gavin Stone‚ which was released by WWE Studios (yes‚ it exists) in January of 2017 follows Brett Dalton as the titular character‚ a former child star who must pretend to be a devoted Christian in order to play the role of Jesus in a play funded by a megachurch. The main draw
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Dysfunctional. Codependent. Enmeshed. Low self-esteem. Personal struggles of the twenty-first century or those of the past? In his play‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams portrays a southern family of the 1940’s attempting to cope with life’s pressures‚ and each of their own conflicts‚ after they have been deserted by their father and husband. In attempting to create a modern-day movie adaptation of The Glass Menagerie from the original play‚ a parallel element would still be conveyed to
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In Andrew and Larry Wachowski’s 1999 film‚ The Matrix‚ and Plato’s Republic‚ "On Shadows and Realities‚?reality and illusion are one in the same. The Wachowski brothers allows the viewer to see how reality and illusion can be mistaken for the other‚ using a number of contrasting ideas found in Plato’s analogy of the Cave‚ showing that at times the dream world can be safer than real life. The matrix is a simulation that creates an imaginary world where people are prisoners from reality‚ much
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most commonly reserved for children. Our fascination for these incredible tales slowly dies out as we mature‚ and we replace our interests accordingly. This progression is clearly reflected in the films we choose to go out and see. Today’s adult moviegoers will almost always choose drama‚ comedy‚ and action genres over fantasy. Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro 2006) successfully brings fairytales back into the realm of adult cinema by combining horror and fantasy with the factual drama of the Spanish Civil
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Media and Race Tanishia Gray SOC/262 September 7‚ 2014 Dr. Sharon Chappelle Media and Race Movies are a powerful outlet to depict certain racial observations. Theaters insulate moviegoers in a cocoon-like setting with little distractions. This setting is an ideal situation to sway an audience. Movies can desensitize people to issues and shift public attitudes through influence. While there are many real scenarios portrayed in fictional film‚ to say that movies
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PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENT FILM AS A MEDIUM FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES AS PERCEIVED BY MSEUF PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS An Undergraduate Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation Lucena City In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication by: LEANDRA L. JARDELEZA CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM: ITS BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE Background of the Study Since today is a fast changing world
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