hand experience‚ with every ounce of information that is being said. He combined his life with problems in today’s world to relate to others. The speech benefitted me in many ways but here are some of the parts that really popped out at me. Mr. Hoffman said‚ “...after you walk through the door‚ there is no way back out.” What he was referring to was‚ the moment you try drugs‚ that automatically opens a gateway for more drugs and more powerful drugs. When he said‚ “...there is no way out‚” he meant
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more of the play. While I was reading The Death Of A Salesman it was hard for me to picture the characters or the setting till I read further into the play. When I watched the movie I was very pleased to see that Dustin Hoffman played the main Character Willy Loman. Dustin Hoffman played the part perfectly‚ because I’ve seen him in both as a comedic character and a more serious one‚ it made it easier for me to believe that he could play the role of Willy. As I read more into the play I was wondering
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The movie Mad City is an exciting and thrilling film staring John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman. John Travolta plays Sam Bailey a recently laid off security guard to a natural history museum. Dustin Hoffman plays the main character of Max Brackett a news reporter who ends up becoming a liaison between Sam and the authorities. In this film the news reporters such as max bracket show disregard for the code of ethics of which reporters are supposed to follow to ensure their actions are moral.
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attacked the audience as well as the perpetrators. As it is‚ it’s too predictable: A media circus springs up when the museum guard‚ a likable everyman played by John Travolta‚ creates a hostage crisis and finds himself bonding with a TV newsman (Dustin Hoffman). The movie is obviously inspired by “Ace in the Hole‚” the knife-edged 1951 satire from Billy Wilder‚ about a man trapped in a cave and the broken-down newsman (Kirk Douglas) who spins out the crisis to rescue his own career. But while Wilder’s movie
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disturbing and depressing‚ almost as if wanting the make the viewer question the value of his or her own life. The film portrays the story of The Loman Family‚ a common American family based in New York city. The father‚ Willy Loman‚ played by Dustin Hoffman‚ is a tired and obsolete salesman‚ who can no longer provide weekly for his family. Willy is obsessed with reaching
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I would say Rain Man’s reputation lies somewhere in the middle of the spectrum when it comes to best picture winners. It’s not held in as high esteem as a Schindler’s List or Ben-Hur‚ but neither is it as reviled as a Crash or Oliver!. Instead‚ it lies somewhere in the realm of the Slumdog Millionaire’s of the world‚ nether beloved nor despised. After viewing Rain Man‚ I would have to put it into this middle category‚ but more towards the lower end of the continuum. Rain Man tells the story of Charlie
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his wife‚ Eva‚ who made many improvements to Argentina. Eva Peron was a hero in her philanthropy which garnered the adoration of the Argentinian
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“Cruz. Eva Cruz is the name‚” It was May 22‚ 2030 a sunny day outside in West Point‚ NE. The day lives would change forever and really begin. “Sorry for thy tardiness.” Eva had spent three hours getting ready for her High School reunion‚ Class of 2020. She was wearing an open back dress. The dress was black with gold lining on the sides in a delicate way. Her heels were a bright iridescent gold. Eva did not look like her eighteen year old self no more. She was healthy and grown up. Ten years‚ Eva thought
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someone a hero. An example of this is the movie Accidental Hero. In the movie‚ Dustin Hoffman helped those people for the sake of helping them. Although he may show himself as someone who is crooked‚ he really is a nice person. He did not show himself to everyone saying “Hey! I helped those people!” Dustin Hoffman didn’t want the fame; all he wanted was money not even for himself but for his son. Like Rizal‚ Dustin Hoffman did not wish for fame but for the safety of the people inside the plane. Rizal only
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that social security will be given to everyone who retires. However‚ it was his wife‚ Eva Perón‚ nee Duarte‚ who truly stood out. She was known to be one of the very few women of her time who decided their role after her husband first assumed the presidency in 1946. Not only was Perón in charge of health and labor ministries‚ but she led movements to counteract women’s oppression and eliminate the cycle of poverty. Eva Perón improved women’s suffrage and the lives of the poor through activism. Juan
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