and brother‚ along with many others‚ lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones‚ William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all‚ along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce. Braveheart is the partly historical‚ partly mythological‚ story of William Wallace‚ a Scottish common man who fights for his country’s freedom from English rule around the end of the 13th century. In 14th Century Scotland‚ William Wallace leads his people
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To be able to access the true essence of the introductory scene and figure out its significance‚ its imperative to have proper understanding of what meaning the exposition in its description has in its holds. An exposition in a play is the means used by the playwright as a tool to provide certain background details concerning the characters’ histories‚ setting and theme‚ which serves the purpose of aiding the reader towards having a proper comprehension of the play by placing before him the summarized
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What makes an excellent film? It took me a little while to come up with an answer to‚ "What makes an excellent film?" There really is no answer‚ actually. I believe that an excellent film is within the eyes and emotions of the audience. After researching and discovering what actually won Oscars and Golden Globe awards‚ it came down to what the people thought‚ and the popularity of a film. It is extremely hard to predict what will win these awards before the movie is even released to the public
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The Mystery of Life and Death In the 1995 movie Braveheart‚ William Wallace presents life ’s uncertainties and how we should live each day when he affirms‚ “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” Sharon Olds ’s poem‚ “Summer Solstice‚ New York City‚” is an ideal representation of this quotation and the questions that we have about how to live our day-to-day lives. This brief poem is about a man who is standing on a rooftop contemplating suicide and the New York City policemen who are attempting
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The Best Years of Our Lives1946 In class one of the movies we watched and discussed was‚ The Best Years of Our Lives The movie is about these three men that come back from the World War II. It tells the story of these men coming home and their ups and downs it takes to get back to normal life. Al (Fredric March) is the older‚ upper middle class‚ higher ranked man in the Army‚ he was a banker before he left for war‚ he also has a wife and two kids at home. Homer is the younger middle class from
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Welcome to the BRAVEFOOT series‚ which I present to you with a deep curtsy. Let’s face it: YOU ARE GREAT! And your greatness needs to be recorded! Not just for a day‚ a week‚ a month‚ or a year‚ but forever! Hi‚ Bravefoot! Congratulations on purchasing your very first book! It excites me tremendously‚ as you’re about to embark on the ultimate dream I treasure in my heart for all runners+walkers globally: being able to create a wealth of glory days from today onwards – for you to relive+brag
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EXAMPLE: Field Trip Assignment Bill Schenck’s Gone with the Gunsmoke I decided to visit the Tucson Museum of Art on Friday‚ the fourth of March. The work of art that I chose to evaluate was Bill Schenck’s Gone with the Gunsmoke. Bill Schenck was raised in Columbus‚ Ohio‚ but spent summers in Wyoming. These summers produced a fascination with the West in Schenck‚ and out of this fascination he created works such as Gone with the Gunsmoke. Gone with the Gunsmoke is a serigraph print that
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I saw Braveheart for the first time a couple years ago right before I turned seventeen. Since then‚ I have seen it three times‚ for a total of four. Although the movie may be a little less captivating just by the very nature of repeat viewings‚ I can still happily say I love Braveheart and consider it one of my favorite films of all time. This picture tells a fictionalized story of William Wallace‚ a 13th century Scotsmen who would go on to make his mark on history. As Braveheart tells it‚ Wallace
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One critic argues of Mrs. Warrens Profession that ‘the men are ineffectual or immoral monsters – it is women who carry the play.’ In the light of this view‚ compare and contrast the presentation of men in Mrs. Warrens Profession and An Ideal Husband. Victorian society was almost completely governed by rich‚ aristocratic and immoral men‚ this description forms the central concept for Shaw’s play. He portrays men as immoral and sexually corrupt through his satirisation of the church and the aristocracy
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change as well‚ either through mystification or personal experiences. Author John Berger in his book Ways of Seeing writes about the various ways in which this can happen. By looking at descriptions of paintings done by a fellow student‚ a professional critic and myself we can see how different people “view” the painting and analyze how those different views can bring change to the paintings meaning. When looking at the descriptions of the painting‚ Michelangelo’s Last Judgment‚ differences are seen
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