In his Book Black Film‚ White Money‚ Jesse Algeron Rhimes makes an interesting parallel. He declares “Edison initiated mass film viewing with the introduction of the large-screen projector in New York City on April 23‚ 1896. Less than one month later‚ on May 18‚ the U.S Supreme Court formally sanctioned “Jim Crow” segregation by formulating its anti-Black “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson”. He adds‚ “ Racial segregation and mass film viewing are siblings‚ if not forever squabbling
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Written Response: Bartoleme de Las Casas My immediate response to Las Casas’ account was one of sorrow‚ dread‚ and horror. I cannot even express in words the emotions that ran through my mind and soul as I read this terrifying report exposing the truth of our country’s beginnings. My voice cracked as I read aloud Las Casas’ words‚ and I felt myself holding back tears as a roar against injustice raged within me. I wish I could believe Las Casas was a liar‚ but his brutal honesty wipes away every
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Jose Vasconcelos’s “La Raza Cosmica” is definitely not what I expected. It took me multiple reads to understand what José Vasconcelos is was trying to imply. Turns out‚ it’s pretty racist‚ and his meanings are buried under explanations and reasoning hard to comprehend. In my opinion Jose Vasconcelo gets too caught up in metaphors that detract from his true meaning and theories. “La Raza Cosmica” reads more like a science fiction than a call to unity or nationalism. If Jose Vasconcelo had published
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What makes a good team? Is it having complementary skills or working well together? In the two excerpts from “La Vida Robot” by Joshua Davis and “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson both have different point views about how to build an effective team. Depending on the type of the team and different attributes. In the excerpt of “La Vida robot”‚ Davis believes to become a great team that individual members need to bring complementary skills to the task. And he supports his topic by saying “Lorenzo
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Cisneros Film Noir Assignment 1--How is the mood of Sunset Boulevard representative of the Film Noir style? The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. As we fade backward into the story‚ we quickly come to understand that this film is about "behind the scenes" Hollywood‚ self-deceit‚ spiritual and spatial emptiness‚ and the price of fame‚ greed‚ narcissism‚ and ambition
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Much attention is given to the quality of play in Las Vegas poker rooms. These rooms‚ which hide in conspicuous enclaves of big time casinos‚ have long been home to some of the world’s finest players. These days‚ the overall level of play has dropped dramatically. With ESPN and other networks giving poker more mainstream coverage‚ average Joes everywhere are learning to play the game. While they learn to play games on the internet and against their below average friends‚ they also want to test their
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Arthurian Legend In the film‚ King Arthur‚ there are many similarities and differences when being compared to the novel. My main focus is on the many differences that change the relevance of the story. Arthur’s father is a Roman general from the Imperial Roman army and his mother is a Celtic woman. In the historical notes of the legend‚ Arthur’s father is Uther Pendragon‚ a famous Romano-British commander and one of Britain’s earlier kings‚ and his mother is Igraine‚ a beautiful young woman who
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In her 2010 film Tambien la Lluvia‚ Iciar Bollain certainly makes the deleterious consequences of colonial‚ and neo-colonial exploitation clear. From the very outset of the movie‚ the viewer is bombarded with the parallelism between the film’s plot and its context; Tambien la Lluvia portrays a Western film crew from Spain attempting to film a movie depicting Columbus’ arrival to the New World‚ a film they opt to shoot in Bolivia to capitalize on the cheap labour provided by Bolivian people who‚ during
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head Personal Film Evaluation Criteria Paper Personal Film Evaluation Criteria Paper Elizabeth Bryant University of Phoenix Personal Film Evaluation Criteria Flashing back on all the films I have watched over the years I never taken notice to analyze not one of them the way that I have learned in this film study course. My techniques used as of the present time for evaluation the qualities of films has just began because I have started this course. The way how I view films back then is totally
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Velazquez’ Las Meninas is a masterpiece of Spanish Baroque painting‚ meaning irregular. It makes the statement of illusion versus reality. You would have to wonder though‚ if this painting revolves of the life of Velazquez‚ the artist who was an individualist painter of the Baroque‚ in the seventeenth century Counter-Reformation Spain‚ or is this a true family portrait of King Philip IV and Queen Mariana with their child. The portrait Las Meninas has always had questions that surrounded its meaning
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