Round 3 of the 2014 NRL season marked a weekend that would forever change the lives of many rugby league stars. One year into his first grade career with the Melbourne Storm‚ 23 year old Jordan McLean‚ alongside fellow teammates Jesse and Kenny Bromwich‚ became involved in a dangerous tackle on Newcastle Knights front-rower‚ Alex McKinnon. The two brothers took hold of McKinnon‚ but needed assistance to bring him to ground. McLean came to their call‚ making it a three man tackle
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nature of the programing allowed the rapid proliferation of TV’s and made the industry a full-blown threat the movies. The answer for Hollywood was already in the works long before TV became relevant. In the early forties‚ movies like Rebecca‚ the Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane were redefining the Hollywood depiction of reality. It may have been a wartime shift in perceptions that allowed these more realistic and darker themes to be successful. The 1948 “Paramount decision” began the actual 30-year
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FILM NOIR’S PROGRESSIVE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN The quintessential femme fatale of film noir uses her sexual attractiveness and ruthless cunning to manipulate men in order to gain power‚ independence‚ money‚ or all three at once. She rejects the conventional roles of devoted wife and loving mother that mainstream society prescribes for women‚ and in the end her transgression of social norms leads to her own destruction and the destruction of the men who are attracted to her. Film noir’s portrayal of
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Joshua Winchester Prof. Melissa Winters English Comp Persuasive Research Essay Final Revised December 6‚ 2011 Pulp Novels: A Golden Age of Fiction Imagine a young boy walking down the street during the worst days of the Great Depression. He stops at a newsstand‚ and pulls out a dime from a nearly worn pants pocket. Holding the dime in his hand‚ he surveys the long rows of magazines with their glossy covers and wild titles. Upon selecting a magazine‚ he surrenders his dime to the newsman‚ then
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Throughout the history of literature and film‚ women have been portrayed in endless ways. Women have been depicted as being helpless‚ ruthless‚ motherly‚ or weak among many others. The most common portrayal of women‚ in my opinion‚ is that we are either objects of desire or subservient to the more "superior" gender‚ that is‚ men. In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Theresa Cha’s Dictee‚ women are‚ indeed‚ portrayed in different ways. I want to compare the representation of women from both works of
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a more educated world (Price‚ C.A.‚ page 36). Furthermore the British Government implemented schemes to settle Maltese in other parts of the English empire. Cyprus for instance was lacking a healthy population‚ therefore the British tried to settle Maltese inhabitants there‚ to counterbalance both populations. As one will see later on‚ this was largely unsuccessful. The average Maltese inhabitant‚ loves his country and its traditions. Therefore leaving their fatherland and exploring new and unknown
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Gavan Duffy TVF Media analysis assignment Classical Hollywood Cinema In the following essay I have been asked to write a 2000 word essay discussing the main characteristic features of the classical Hollywood narrative film. This is a style of clarity where the viewer should not be confused about space‚ time‚ events or characters motivations and although a number of classical narrative traditions have been modified‚ or even rejected‚ this unfussy style of making movies it is still very much
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can tear apart civilizations. This is reinforced by the fragmented rhyme scheme which reflects the breaking down of order. Yeats also uses the despairing imagery of ‘the falcon can no longer hear the falconer’ this image conveys man no longer being able to control the beast within them. Yeats reinforces this concept with ‘Falcon’ being the subject of the line
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In Federigo’s Falcon by Boccaccio the theme of sacrifice and the theme of mortality presented in The Pardoner’s Tale by Chaucer both contrast and compare in different ways. Boccaccio clearly presents the hope for Federigo in the story and how much he would do for the woman he wanted‚ while in the Pardoner’s tale the men all showed they would go above and beyond to get the treasure to themselves. Federigo shows a good side to people‚ a side with humility and persistence whilst the men in the Pardoner’s
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Welcome‚ Ladies and Gentlemen! I am sure that most of you love Hollywood crime dramas that incorporate heated relationships between main male and female characters. Rewind to the early 1940s through the late 1950s‚ add sharp black and white cinematography‚ and you’ve got Film Noir. Film Noir can be defined as film that conveys moral natures and real-life situations‚ usually dealing with crime‚ seductive women‚ and guilt‚ through dark lighting and shadows. Film Noir encompasses detectives‚ femme fatales
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