qualities of integrity to be recognized in Japanese history. Behind the perfectly painted face and overly constricted kimonos are the scars of true sacrifice towards this cultural profession‚ but is the true perseverance of the traditional geisha fading into the shadows of modern day stereotypical cinema and media? The stereotypes surrounding the geisha have increasingly caused these women to be portrayed as cheap prostitutes or women of pleasure in Japanese society. These misconceptions became the
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Contribution to Meaning Symbolism Mark: 18/20 The most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel is through the use of literary devices. In Cloudstreet by Tim Winton‚ one of the most prominent of these devices is symbolism‚ which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harboured by the text’s audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. Indeed‚ Cloudstreet itself‚ the river and religious symbolism contribute to meaning and the author’s
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of today‚ is considered a timeless classic. The story is set in postwar New Orleans‚ in an urban working class neighborhood where Stella DuBois lives with her husband‚ Stanley Kowalski. One day Stella’s sister‚ Blanche‚ comes to visit. Blanche is a fading southern belle‚ slightly older than Stella‚ and works as a representative for Stella’s old high-class life at their childhood home‚ a big plantation in Mississippi called Belle Rêve. There is a notable tension in the air between the two sisters‚ and
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Structuralism and “The Wars” Timothy Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He has written many novels such as The Last of the Crazy People and The Butterfly Plague. Findley also writes an extraordinary novel titled The Wars. This novel is about a young man whose name is Robert Ross and is on his way to war because he feels guilty about the death of his sister. Mentally and physically he is not ready for war because he feels much violated of his privacy. As Robert is in the war to end
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How does the Sofia Coppola‚ in The Virgin Suicides‚ use a range of stylistic features (film techniques) to display the movies themes and with what effect on the audience? INTRO: Director Sofia Coppola uses a range of film techniques to display themes of obsession‚ the superficiality of vision and isolation from the real world in her film The Virgin Suicides. Through use of symbolism‚ characterization‚ setting and techniques specific to a film such a soundtrack‚ Coppola is able to construct
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image into another through a seamless transition. Most often it is used to depict one person turning into another through technological means or as part of a fantasy or surreal sequence. Traditionally such a depiction would be achieved through cross-fading techniques on film. Since the early 1990s‚ this has been replaced by computer software to create more realistic transitions. | Three frames form a morph from George W. Bush to Arnold Schwarzenegger showing the midpoint between the two extremes
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evoked by visible brush strokes‚ as opposed to the active transformation from water to mist in Bierstadt’s lake. Also‚ where his mountains serve as fixed objects in the landscape‚ O’Keeffe’s mountains seem to be rolling in a more literal sense. The fading of colors gives them an undulating feel that starkly contrasts the Franconia Mountains
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Visa" he states that "This scene of a dozen Parsis armed with sticks line before me in a menacing mood‚ and myself standing before them with a terrified look imploring for mercy‚ is a scene which so long a period as eighteen years had not succeeded in fading away. I can even vividly recall it-- and I never recall it without tears in my eyes. It was then for the first time that I learnt that a person who is an untouchable to a Hindu is also an untouchable to a Parsi".[5]Then after he tried to find ways
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Courtney Claassen Mrs. Kerr Block 1 27 September‚ 2010 Love I can’t see you….but I know you’re there. Somewhere‚ someday I will find you. I’ve heard things about you. The way you surprise people when their least expecting it‚ or jump at them when they want it the most. You are happy. But you have your days‚ where you can be down. Oh love‚ how I wish to feel the warmth of your wrath that others have felt. I wait. And wait. But nothing seems to come. You link two people‚ in ways unimaginable
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20th Century European History Due Date: October 1‚ 2008 A Very Long Engagement In the movie “ A Very Long Engagament” there is a sadness of love buried underneath the trenches of the war. Along with this sadness is a strong showing of Militarism and how it ruined so many lives in the years 1914-1918. Matilde’s account of lost love and hope has made her goal to struggle through the harsh realities of life to try to find an answer‚ an answer which she surely knows will cripple her mind. The
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