Response to Antigone (1961) The 1961 film‚ Antigone‚ starring Irene Papas is about a woman who is trying to rise up against the King of Thebes‚ Creon‚ who ordered the body of her beloved brother‚ Polynices‚ to be left unburied and unmourned. Her rise against the state and patriarchy causes Creon to not only sentence her to death‚ but to die alone confined inside a cave. The film provides a great visual to its written drama as well as following the plot and even the script very closely. The
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The 1961 film used the correct amount of cinematic techniques‚ such as limited close-ups and non-diegetic sounds to portray tensions present in the Younger family. The 2008 film failed to use an adequate amount of techniques and does not depict the tension as well as its older predecessor. Early in the scene‚ Walter follows Ruth around while she makes breakfast‚ trying to persuade her to tell Mama about his dreams. While standing over her‚ he goes far enough to try to make her participation beneficial
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Even though‚ it happened nearly 55 years ago‚ and the young national and international audience of that time had become older. They could not forget “the Inaugural address of 1961” by John F. Kennedy. Where Kennedy used the freedom‚ the revolutionary beliefs‚ liberty‚ righteousness‚ and other words as key terms. Indeed‚ through the use of the mentioned key terms used‚ Kennedy appealed to the noble emotions of both Americans and non American people. Kennedy’s remarks pursued to create a feeling of
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Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. This conflict was mainly about the occupational status of Berlin. Berlin Crisis initially emerged in 1958 by the provocation of the Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to conclude a separate peace treaty with East Germany unless the western powers recognized the Germany Democratic Republic (GDR) (I. W. Trauschweizer‚ 2006). However‚ the escalation of tensions began after the Vienna Summit in June 1961‚ where the
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Affirmative Action Affirmative Action was started to eliminate discrimination in the workplace by hiring workers on a nondiscriminatory basis. It began in 1961 by president Kennedy when he issued executive order number 10925 to make federal contractors take affirmative action(Altschiller‚ p.5). The goal of affirmative action is to allow "the victims of discriminatory conduct to the position they would have occupied in the absence of that conduct" Rehnquist said. Should such policies
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Even after 1961‚ people still continued to campaign for equal rights and freedom for the black Americans. At that time‚ the equal Civil Right system drawn attention to the new president‚ John F Kennedy and on 11 June 1961‚ he declared to support the black Americans for their equal rights. People concluded that the only way that they can win their freedom was to empower ordinary people‚ thus they also started to campaign for the proposed civil rights bill and voting right. Martin Luther King played
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LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 135 PARTNERSHIP ACT 1961 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title 2. Interpretation PART II NATURE OF PARTNERSHIP 3. Definition of partnership 4. Certain circumstances not prima facie partnerships 5. Postponement of rights of person lending or selling in consideration of share of profits in case of bankruptcy 6. Meaning of firm and firm name PART III RELATIONS OF PARTNERS TO PERSONS DEALING WITH THEM 7. Power of partner to bind firm 8. Partners bound
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Explain why Khrushchev ordered the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. There were several reasons why Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall in 1961‚ the first of which was the economic effects of free movement in between West and East Berlin. Since the division of the city‚ East Germans had been able‚ with enough money‚ to leave the GDR through Berlin which was described as a “gap in the Iron Curtain”. Between 1949 and 1961 in fact‚ up to 4 million had fled to the Western Germany‚ around 20‚000 per
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Ma Wang Dui and the Fei-I In 1974‚ archeologists uncovered a site of ancient tombs that we later realized would become very significant to our knowledge of Chinese Art history. The tombs lie in the suburbs of eastern Changsha and there were a total of three tombs uncovered; however the tomb of whom we later realized was Lady Dai became the most important. Lady Dai died from several various illnesses including arthritis‚ bile stones‚ and most likely heart failure. She was about fifty years old
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Intersectoral Flows: W. Arthur Lewis’ "Surplus Labor" model Lewis wanted to model development in an economy with a large agricultural sector and a small "modern" sector (e.g.‚ manufacturing). His model was subsequently formalized by John Fei and Gus Ranis‚ who ended up at Yale. Ranis also made the first formal empirical application‚ looking at Japan‚ which around 1960 was still a heavily agrarian developing economy. Below we develop this framework to apply to China. First‚ let’s remind ourselves
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