Honorificabilitudinitatibus This 27-letter word coined by Shakespeare‚ in his comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost‚ is a testament to the Bard’s own intralexiconic skills. Meaning “the state of being able to achieve honors‚” the word is the longest one in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels (Take a look for yourself….yep 9. Antidisestablishmentarianism Containing 28-letters‚ antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest proper word‚ consisting of proper and compatible root and
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Critics argue that these roles that many African Americans play in films as servants‚ jezebels‚ unintelligent black men‚ and “mad black men” are mainly what is available because these are the roles that the film industries audiences want to see. They also think that this is what will sell. Woody Allen is a filmmaker and playwright and he says he only hires African Americans actors and actresses
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where she stayed briefly.) There is though a mention of one event of her life after college‚ when she was summoned to a court in Lahore‚ Pakistan for an apparently obscene story she had written‚ Lihaaf‚ and that got published in a journal. ‘A life in words’ is an endearing account of Ismat’s growing-up surrounded by her vast and loving family that consisted of her parents‚ nine other siblings‚ a warm entourage of teeming cousins‚ and various aunts and uncles. Born in the first half of the 1900s‚ Ismat
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The film Tous les Matins du Monde‚ produced in 1991‚ stars Jean-Pierre Marielle‚ Gerard Depardieu and Anne Brochet as the main characters of the film (IMDB). This film is set in seventeenth century France where music was a prominent part of French culture and was a part of everyday entertainment everywhere from the great palace of Versailles to the small countryside villages. At the time‚ orchestral music was very popular and the learning to play the violin and or cello were of the utmost important
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2000 film starring Russell Crowe which won forty-eight awards‚ including a BAFTA for best film. Gladiator depicts the tale of Maximus Decimus Meridius and his struggle against the might of the Roman Empire and the vicious gladiatorial arenas. Throughout Scott’s masterpiece are a wide range of filmic techniques in the visual and auditory channels that collaborate in enunciating the overall narrative. The opening sequence is a prime example that uses Mise-en-scene‚ lighting‚ costume and film speed
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Response Paper: The Complete Film The introduction of sound films in the late 1920’s was a divisive issue among those involved and interested in the emerging motion picture industry. Even though it wasn’t the sudden breakthrough it is often perceived to be‚ the addition of sound and voice to mainstream cinema revolutionized movie making and led to conflicting viewpoints as to whether or not this innovation was a positive progression for film as an art and as an industry. While
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ESL 500/501 DIAGNOSTIC EXAM SUMMER 2014 Purpose: Your performance on this exam will not contribute to your course grade. Yet this exam is to help your instructor determine your strengths and weaknesses in order to better meet your needs in this class. Procedure: 1. First read the article. You may take notes and plan your own essay on the colored paper provided or on the article. 2. Write an essay based on the article‚ answering the essay question below. Your essay should include an introduction
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to see his students excel and be successful in their lives. The film was released January 15‚ 2005. It was directed by Thomas Carter and co-produced by MTV Films and Tollin/Robbins Production. Coach Carter although an inspiring story of a dedicated basketball coach‚ some elements of the story strayed away from the true events and were added for entertainment purposes. Although the movie Coach Carter added some things to make the film more entertaining‚ for the most part besides minor things were
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Idiots (stylized as 3 idiots) is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani‚ with a screenplay by Abhijat Joshi‚ and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It was loosely adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat. 3 Idiots stars Aamir Khan‚ Kareena Kapoor‚ R. Madhavan‚ Sharman Joshi‚ Omi Vaidya‚ Parikshit Sahni and Boman Irani. Upon release‚ the film broke all opening box office records in India. It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest
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FVC1 ASSIGNMENT 2011 Essay Questions Please write a properly referenced‚ 2‚750-3‚000-word essay answering one of the following questions (submission deadline: 23:55‚ January 08‚ 2012) 1. Broadcast television operates primarily on a regime of “distraction” rather than the “voyeurism” of cinema. Discuss with reference to concepts of “flow” and “fragmentation” (J. Ellis: Visible Fictions) as descriptions of televisual texture. 2. “Today‚ it is important to discuss how images work‚ because
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