Gangs of New York is just perfect entertainment. It is an enthralling‚ bloody‚ melodramatic epic that more than justifies its two and one half hour running time. In Gangs director Martin Scorsese spins another tale of the New York underworld but with a twist. Instead of the mid-twentieth century organized crime milieu of Goodfellas‚ Scorsese ventures back to the 19th century to show us the origin of the modern street gang. It’s the early 1860s and the notorious Five Points slum is ruled by the
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Citizen Kane-Cinematography Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean‚ people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge‚ which symbolises his childhood that he lost. Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance” One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes
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How does the director make the opening scenes in Mulan effective? The first scene is set at night time at the Great Wall of China and gives out a feeling of sinister and danger. The only characters which appear are Shan Yu‚ his eagle‚ the Huns that attack the great wall‚ as well as the Chinese guard who tries to escape and give signal. The music and sound effects also helps creating this more creepy and dangerous scene; the second scene moves to the Emperors palace cleverly and gives out a very
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In the story‚ Hurry Kane‚ the narrator is a player that played on the team with Kane. They played for The Yankees‚ in New York City. The narrator tells his story from what he saw and what he was told‚ from the other players‚ on the team. The narrator of this story looks like he knows everything that is going on inside the team and outside of it and even shows us all the things that happened with Kane with his time in New York. Hurry Kane himself was from Yuma‚ Arizona. Arizona was not a state in
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by shakespear during the Elizabethan age‚belongs to the literary tradition known as Pastoral which typically involves exites from urban or court life to the world of nature. In the opening scene of this play‚we are firstly exposed to the main hero‚Orlando who is describing his plight to the servant‚Adam. This whole scene deals with the theme of primogeniture that corrupts the brotherly love. Hence‚this particular part of the play is important for us as readers to understand to what extent who is loyal
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Charles Kane is the prime example of how wealth doesn’t equate to happiness. Material wealth and happiness are not exclusive‚ but one isn’t necessarily the causation of another. Throughout the movie‚ bits of the vast Xanadu is shown and the majority of the scenes show it as an extremely empty‚ yet elegant estate. It almost is a metaphor to Kane as he feels empty. The parental bonds he was supposed to cherish early in his life were forcibly severed and since then‚ he’s been struggling to figure out
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dignitaries‚ parents and students from various schools to grace the very first (Maiden Edition) of her annual inter-house sports competition held at the U. J. Esuene sports stadium on the 12th of march 2010. The event started at about 11.00am with an opening prayer by Pst. Richard Ojong. This maiden event was graced by very important personalities including Mrs. Jennifer Bassey-Duke (Principal/CEO‚ AMMHS)‚ Dr. Inemesit Akpan (P.T.A Chairman‚ AMMHS)‚ Prof. Offiong E. Offiong (Hon. Comm. for Education was
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Macduff (Macbeth) 1 Macduff (Macbeth) Macduff (Macbeth) Dan O ’Herlihy as Macduff in Orson Welles ’ controversial film adaptation Macbeth (1948) Creator William Shakespeare Play Date Source Family Macbeth c.1603-1607 Holinshed ’s Chronicles (1587) Lady Macduff‚ wife Son‚ (name unknown) Antagonist to Macbeth; kills him in the final act. Despair thy charm / And let the angel whom thou has served / Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped (5.10.14-16) Role Quote Macduff
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INTRODUCTION BASIC ELEMENTS EFFECTIVE OPENING TECHNIQUES CONCLUSION 1 2 HOW TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE OPENING FOR A PRESENTATION EAP Presentation Team What included? 3 Basic elements: 1.Greeting 2.Title‚ subject 3. Purpose 4. Outline 5.Length 6.Inviting questions Attention getters 4 Problem technique Amazing fact technique Story/ anecdote technique Famous quote technique Thought – provoking questions technique Video analysis 5 Watch the video Analyze the techniques used to draw
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and gravely affected the life they led in the Ecuadorian amazon. In the book Savages Joe Kane gives a firsthand account at how the Huaorani fight to preserve their land and traditional way of life. ‘’We live with the spirit of the jaguar. We do not want to be civilized by your missionaries or killed by your oil companies. Must the jaguar die so that you can have more contamination and television?” (Kane 4) In this excerpt from a letter addressed to the President of the United States‚ it was
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