perfect blend of romance‚ comedy and tragedy‚ Breakfast at Tiffany’s is the must-see classic that captures the life of the young and ambitious‚ and shows the clear statement of what it is like to make it in a big city. Perfectly put together by Blake Edwards‚ and creatively written as a novel by Truman Capote‚ Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly) and George Peppard (Paul Varjak) make this film just as special as its name. I decided to watch this iconic movie‚ as Manhattan is the city I have fallen in
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This was the paper I passed for the movie "The Emperor’s Club" for Teaching Professions class last semester. Haha! Enjoy? :))) Mr. William Hundert was a promising teacher who was quite possibly the next headmaster for St. Benedict’s School for boys. Mr. Hundert taught the classics and served as moderator for the yearly Mr. Julius Cesar competition. On the first day of class‚ he tells his students that “Great ambition without contribution is without significance‚” taking Shutruk Nakhunte’s life
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The Emperor’s Club is a film that addresses many moral and social aspects that are central to contemporary society’s moral controversy. Can morals be properly instilled in a young person outside of religion? Can our future decisions be predicted based on our current character? Can our current character even be changed or molded? Can morals be learned through studying the classics? The Emperors Club’s main characters are Mr. Hundert a teacher of classics at a prestigious preparatory school‚ and
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote As a passionate lover of Audrey Hepburn I decided to take this book for supplementary reading. It is not a secret that this book is more famous for its well known adaptation based on the Capote’s book Breakfast at Tiffany’s in which Hepburn was in the leading part. First of all I would like to say few words about the author of the book. Truman Capote was an American writer‚ born in 1925 in New Orleans‚ who moved to New York‚ where he began publishing his
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Fight Club The main character who is also the Narrator‚ tells how he is exhausted of being controlled by our society. He works as a recall campaign coordinator‚ lives in a condo‚ and spends his money on furniture from “IKEA”‚ and everything seems to be perfect in his life. But he has no point in his life‚ his life is working at a job he hates and buying things that he does not need. With no point in his life‚ there no point of living for him. “Every takeoff and landing‚ when the plane banked too
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a huge portion of what’s going to happen relies on the way we handle our present. Much of what our future brings depends on how much we let our past made an impact in our lives. To fully explain my point‚ let us examine the movie‚ “The Emperor’s Club”. It is a movie starring Kevin Kline as Professor William Hundert of St. Benedict’s School for Boys. It is a story about a dedicated Western Civilization teacher who has hoped that he could make a dent by imbibing his virtues and principles to his
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The Emperor’s Club is a fascinating movie about a teacher’s moral struggle between doing what’s right and wrong. The plot of this movie revolves around the relationship of a history teacher; William Hundert and his students. Mr. Hundert develops a relationship with one of his students Sedgewick Bell‚ and his actions leads him to start questioning his moral conscience of whether what he was doing was right. Sedgewick Bell‚ son of a senator‚ was a rebellious student who constantly challenged Mr
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s reveals a persistent theme of freedom and need to break confinement with a hidden unwarranted desire for stability. The desire for these things can cause individuals to act in unusual ways to protect the things they want the most. Holly craves this sense of freedom and independence while others attempt to form a more stabilized bond and environment with Holly‚ she refuses. The intense desire she feels for the necessity to be independent causes her to push people away and neglect
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November‚ 2011 Fight Club The book “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk was about a man whose name was never revealed and his friend Tyler Durden. Tyler believes in destroying the norm of society and taking down “the man.” He does that by creating what he called Fight Club. When you go to Fight Club you sign up to fight another person until one person gives up. After a while Fight Club became more and more recognized and more started to open up. Tyler decided to take Fight Club to a higher level by
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what ways was this an unusual POW camp? This was an unusual POW in a number of ways. Firstly‚ it consisted on no soldiers or men‚ simply women and children. Despite being women‚ they were subject to hard labour had they not joined the gentlemen’s club. They had a camp choir or “vocal orchestra” which also set them apart from the regular POW camps. Does the film portray the Japanese as evil? Why do you think the director does this? The film defiantly portrays the Japanese soldiers as evil and
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