Character Analysis on Rear Window Rear Window‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ was made in the year 1954. It has been said that Rear Window is the basis for D.J. Caruso’s movie Disturbia. Rear Window has three main characters‚ J.B. “Jeff” Jefferies played by James Stewart‚ Lisa Fremont played by grace Kelly‚ and Stella played by Thelma Ritter. Each of these three characters is critiqued by five different categories‚ including‚ appropriateness‚ inherent thoughtfulness or emotionality‚ expressive
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The Boy at the Window is a poignant poem written by Richard Wilber. According to a statement made by Wilber‚ it was inspired by his five year old son being concerned about the possible danger his newly completed snowman was in due to a pending storm. Poetry is often recognized for its ability to evoke strong feelings in the reader and the beautifully innocent nature of Boy at the Window exemplifies this magnificently with skillful use of personification and beautiful use of metaphors. The story
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Alfred Hitchcock as a Misogynist In the film Rear Window‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ misogyny and Svengali is portrayed throughout the film. Misogyny is the hatred of women by men however; Svengali is a person who manipulates or exerts excessive control over another. Alfred Hitchcock has extensively agonized from a reputation as a misogynist and a Svengali. Hitchcock has received this reputation through scenes of violence against women in his films‚ his remarks about women in his interviews
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Windows to the Soul I’ve been told that the eyes are windows to the soul. If you looked into my great-grandmother’s eyes‚ you would see the slow evolution of time. You would see nearly a century of life and knowledge hidden behind her milky violet irises. You would see a battle‚ visible on the inside and out‚ as you watch the dementia slowly creep over as each second passes. My tutu Violet is one of the oldest people I know; she is the ultimate test of time. Over the years‚ she has done it all
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Both Cates‚ in Inherit the Wind by Lee and Lawrence‚ and Procter‚ in The Crucible‚ by Arthur Miller‚ are both subjected to unjust laws. Both demonstrated that ‚ "if the law is of such a nature that it requires one to be an agent of injustice toward another‚ then I say break the law‚" as stated by Henry David Thoreau. When a law is put into effect that will convict a person who is a free thinker then it is a unjust law. One might as well break it because if no one stands up for the principle then
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1. My initial reaction to this piece was a mix of sadness‚ disgust and confusion. I didn’t think it was possible for a mother to neglect their child to such extremes. To me it seems outlandish for a child to never be held or given the basic forms of human contact. Then for her brothers to not have an instinct to protect her‚ surprised me as well. I have five brothers; four are half brothers and two I’ve never met. If I found out any one of them was in trouble‚ there is no doubt in my mind I would
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The authors‚ Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s‚ main purpose through Inherit the Wind is proving that humans hold the right to think. Henry Drummond is vital in this discovery because of his firm belief that one should hold this right. Drummond’s hero archetype is the cause for his strong feelings‚ and he succeeds when convincing the audience of his beliefs by revealing the contradictions underlying his witnesses’ inherited religious beliefs. Henry Drummond arrives in Hillsboro as an atheist
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COMPARING OF WinXP‚ Win7 and WinVista ON PERFORMANCE: (using an ordinary pc with the specs of consisting of an Intel dual-core E5200 CPU‚ 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card. We installed XP‚ Vista and Windows 7 in that order (all 32-bit versions) on the machine’s 500GB hard drive) #Boot time: 1. Win7 2. WinXP 3. WinVista #File transfer (small file capacity): 1. Win7 2. WinXP 3. WinVista #File transfer (1gb file capacity): 1. Win7 2. WinVista 3. WinXP
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created by McCarthyism in the 1950s echoed the outrage caused by the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial” case‚ as people in both cases were fighting either for or against the right to hold varying opinions. Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play Inherit the Wind in response to McCarthyism and based it on the Scopes Trial‚ warning that threats to freedom of thought will continue in the future if such hysteria is repeated. The play follows fictional characters based on the real participants of the
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Windows XP In 2001‚ Microsoft introduced Windows XP (codenamed "Whistler"). The merging of the Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/Me lines was achieved with Windows XP. Windows XP uses the Windows NT 5.1 kernel‚ marking the entrance of the Windows NT core to the consumer market‚ to replace the aging 16/32-bit branch. Windows XP is the longest version of Windows ever released between upgrades‚ from 2001 all the way to 2007 when Windows Vista was released to consumers. The Windows XP line of operating
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