Context: The "film noir" as we know it is a world of hard-boiled crime drama with conventions that are‚ for a genre itself outside convention‚ rather consistent‚ especially in the realm of its major players: the sleazy smooth-talking criminal and the femme fatale. The ever-present sexual dynamic between these two provides the basis for much of the criminal action and‚ therefore‚ the ultimate ignominious downfall of the man (and the woman herself might get dragged down in the scheme as well). Often
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Getting Around Sacramento: Public Transportation & Tours Worth Knowing About Meta Description: Sacramento is a fantastic city full of history and culture. Use our quick guide to public transportation to get around. Meta Keywords: Sacramento Transportation‚ Sacramento Mass Transit‚ Sacramento Tours‚ Tours in Sacramento See all of Sacramento from the Seat of a Bus‚ Train‚ or Bicycle Sacramento‚ the state capital of California‚ is a wonderful mid-sized American city full of culture‚ fantastic green
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* * * * Mae West and 1930’s censorship Nowadays‚ we probably take for granted that the majority of films created in Hollywood have no moral or content boundaries whatsoeverAlthough today the boundaries might seem a little blurred‚ it was not always like this. The censorship process in Hollywood films (as well as in many other media) is a process that has grown and fluctuated along with American society. Behind many of these films there have been struggles‚ debates‚ and confrontations
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Gang violence is a major problem in many places in many places‚ and if the Interrupters keep up and expand their work‚ it could be lessened. According to the US legal website‚ "Gang violence means criminal and non political acts of violence committed by a group of people who regularly engage in criminal activity against innocent people." (UsLegal.com) In the movie The Interrupters‚ by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz‚ there is a group of violence interrupters that are working on interrupting and stopping
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Iva Toguri was an American born Japanese woman whose fabricated name was “Tokyo Rose”. Iva Toguri became the seventh person to be convicted of treason in U.S. history after her wrongdoing in making broadcasts full of propaganda. However‚ the name “Tokyo Rose” isn’t just a name for Iva Toguri only‚ it was a label given to many women who were accused of spreading Japanese Propaganda. Iva Toguri was a Japanese born American who graduated from the university of California. When she was in school‚
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West Side Story West side story is a musical drama film adapted from the 1957 Broadway Musical with the same name. The films show the story of two young lovers that belonged to opposite gangs. Tony‚ a former member of the Jets (the American gang)‚ fell in love for Maria‚ Bernardo’s sister. Bernardo led the Puerto Rican gang‚ the Sharks. Both gangs were in continuous conflict‚ but everything got worse after Tony met Maria. Both gangs were against the union of Maria and Tony‚ therefore they had a
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The Western Frontier The romanticism of the west employed the frontier as the outer edge of the wave meeting “between savagery and civilization.” To historians‚ a frontier is “is not a lining of marking the start of an empty place but a zone of interaction where two or more societies vie for the use of land.’ In the “frontier thesis”‚ Frederick Turner describes the frontier as “gradually peopled.” However‚ the congress in 1862 funded the transcontinental railroad‚ the union pacific‚ and
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The westward expansion was in the 19th century‚ which started in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. During this period it brought way for the slave debate‚ if the new states would become slave states and how the north and south would be balanced for economic growth and vast new territory. The expansion west rose the question of how and if slavery would still continue which is known as the slave debate. This conflict was about the northern states depended on free labor rather than slave labor compared
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Abstract In Santa Cruz County in the city of Watsonville the gang recruitment has increase by double. More and more young Latino kids are getting recruited to be the gangs. The two gangs that has established in Watsonville is Sureños to the south and Norteños to the north. Watsonville is a small-town with population of 51‚199 according to the 2010 census. The violence and crimes has increase through the past years. The Santa Cruz Probation has been trying to reduce the juvenile crime in Watsonville
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First‚ in the opening scene‚ the chicken runs from guys because they want to kill it‚ also the people that they are around and how is there situatuion. As the consequences in the film changed to different time‚ the color and lightneing changed to show us violence and crime that are dominating in that area in real life. Also the camera movement in the film‚ like the scene when the guys were chasing the chicken‚ this makes the audience feel as if he is the one that he is chasing the chicken. The
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