Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered one of the most impressive science fiction films in the modern era and is a critically acclaimed masterpiece. To begin this analysis I will first give a synopsis of the films plot and key points to help lay a foundation for the film. The movie is broken into 4 acts‚ each focusing on a different event and time in the story. We first start with “The Dawn of Man”; we are greeted by what appears to be a tribe of early hominids foraging for food in
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I leaned toward the window where my pillow was pressed against the car door. I watched the lightning a few miles to away from the car as it lit up the mountains. Compass by Zella Day played through my headphones as I sat up to look through the windshield. I took my headphones out and my friend/cousin‚ Amaya‚ sat up excitedly in her seat. It was the first time she’d ever taken this trip. The city lights below sparkled. Amaya’s mom‚ JoAnn‚ and our uncle Bill played songs from “their time” as we drove
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This report is based upon the book "Katharine Hepburn: American Women of Achievement." Kathern Hepburn was born on November 8‚ 1909 in Hartford‚ Connecticut. She found her love for acting in college at‚ Bryn Mawr College1. Hepburn was an actress of the 20th century cinema‚ often referred to as a legend. When she was younger she always played roles in plays of strong women who dealt with men as equals. In her family she was one of the 3 girls out of 6 children‚ 3 boys and 3 girls. Katharine tried
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The Protestant Reformation may be described as a time of “reclamation.” Reformers set out to bring doctrine and practice into closer alignment with the New Testament. Following the Reformation‚ a period of rationalism set in. Human reason became the final court of appeal. What started as a response to a cry for reclamation of revealed scripture now heard voices that denied the existence of revelation. Although this Age of Reason is bracketed from 1648 to 1789‚ its effect has continued to the present
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Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny‚ the creation of the Looney Tunes‚ has been called everything from "classic" to "perennial" to "an American institution" to "one of our national heroes"--and "wascally wabbit‚" "long-eared galoot‚" and a lot of other things besides! But most of us just like to call him Bugs. Bugs was voted the most popular in the entire short-subject field in the United States and Canada for the year 1945‚ and then stayed in the Number One spot for the next 16 years straight. Today Bugs
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iterations since it inception in the late 1800s. Although film-making varied from generation to generation‚ one thing remained constant and that was the eight major Hollywood studios. Many of these studios are around today such as Warner Brothers‚ MGM‚ and Universal Pictures. Most of the studio’s longevity was based off of their involvement during the height of the studio era commonly referred to as the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Throughout this essay I will decipher a film from 1930 to 1952 and
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Clarke simultaneously as the movie was being produced. The movie was distributed through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM for short and was first screened on April 2 1968‚ the total run time of the movie is 2 hours and 29 minutes. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rating of this movie is “G” for general audiences. I find this rating quite fitting as there
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What are the entry barriers to the Las Vegas Casino Resort market? When one thinks of casinos‚ one cannot escape from Las Vegas. Despite Nevada legalizing gambling in 1931‚ today‚ the notorious Las Vegas strip is dominated by several key players and the reason why this is so is due to the barriers to entry‚ defined as obstacles faced by potential new entrants‚ existent in the Las Vegas casino resort market. The entry barriers are explained below. Government Policy While the lucrative nature
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YouTube claims it is in compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act‚ which requires owners of content to notify Web sites when their copyrights are infringed. Why is it a good solution for YouTube but a poor solution for copyright owners? In MGM v. Grokster the Supreme Court said that some of the main reasons for finding the peer-to-peer site Grokster liable were that it did not sufficiently police infringement when they were responsible for doing so‚ and the owners of the site continued to
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The Walt Disney Company -Company Profile- The Walt Disney Company is a worldwide entertainment company‚ whose hero (the well-known Mickey Mouse who enchanted every child’s life) is even more famous than the company itself. Public Profile First of all‚ we have to locate the company: its headquarter is in California‚ more exactly at 500 South Buena Vista Street‚ Burbank‚ CA 91521. It was created in December 1919 by Walt Disney and Ubbe Iwwerks under the name
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