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    are both very similar characters that play the same roles in their respective plots in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Mississippi Burning’. Both characters share the same authority in terms of the way they try to establish justice‚ they also resemble in their characteristics and beliefs. The occupations of Atticus Finch and Agent Ward both aim to establish justice and maintain peace. In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’‚ Atticus Finch is a lawyer of Maycomb County. He is a very strong minded character who has

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    Prentiss Austin I decided on watching Mississippi Burning to write my final paper on. This movie came out in 1988‚ and stared Gene Hackman (Anderson) and William Dafoe (Ward) as F.B.I agents. Mississippi Burning was loosely based on the real life events of the search for three Civil Rights Activists who were kidnapped and murdered in summer of 1964 during the Freedom rides. This film interested me because I wanted to see how my acquired knowledge of the CRM influenced my feelings about the movie

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    reason.” This quote from Abraham Joshua Heschel sums up how inconsiderate and cruel people can be‚ without processing how evil their actions and words are. Few of us seem to realise how crooked‚ how universal and how evil racism is. In the film ‘Mississippi Burning’ directed by Alan Parker we see the idea of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’‚ through racism‚ fear and corruption. Parker helps us understand the thoughtlessness and evilness of this idea‚ with the use of verbal and visual techniques such as dialogue

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    Mississippi Burning” The relationship between white Americans and African-Americans in the USA in the early 1960s Mississippi Burning is a movie that takes place in the early 1960s‚ 1964 to be exact‚ in a small town named Jessup. The relationship between the black and the white is very intense and the black people are treated like they are a step below the normal white man. The plot in the movie is about a missing person case (three boys fighting for the black people’s rights suddenly disappear)

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    Mississippi Burning The movie "Mississippi Burning" is in one way or another based on real events. The plot in the movie is about the murder of three men in a small local town of Mississippi. Therefor Agent Rupert and agent Alan are sent to investigate the events in the little town. Rupert and Alan ere very different men and therefor have very different ways of investigating the murders. If you want you could say that somehow they are running the classical "Good cop and bad cop" technic.

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    Mississippi Burning is a movie about racial hate and bigotry. How has the director Alan Parker presented the genre through the use of Camera‚ Music and other techniques? Racial hate has been one of the biggest issues in society over the past 100 years. Film has traditionally been considered a very effective medium in presenting a message about this. Mississippi Burning is a heart wrenching film based on racial hate and bigotry. Alan Parker is the director of the film and has incorporated many techniques

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    Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964. The movie focuses on two fictional FBI agents who investigate the murders. Willem Dafoe’s character is loosely based on the actions of FBI Agent John Proctor. Hackman’s character is very loosely based on FBI agent Joseph Sullivan. The film also stars Frances McDormand‚ Brad Dourif‚ R. Lee Ermey and Gailard Sartain‚ and was written by Chris

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    MISSISSIPPI BURNING Mississippi Burning (1988) is a hard hitting action drama designed to shock and educate the viewers on the topics of racism‚ justice and the law. When three people are killed in the state of Mississippi‚ two FBI agents are sent in to investigate‚ only to find out that people are being terrorised brutally in an unfair justice system. Using tactics that are considered ‘low’‚ they find a way to arrest those responsible in a federal court because the state courts were unjust. The

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    Mississippi Burning directed by Alan Parker is a film set in the mid 1960’s. It was set in the time of the Civil Rights Movement and throughout the film it is shown how badly coloured people were discriminated against during those times. The major theme in the film is racism and segregation between the white and the coloured people in Jessup County. The director has developed this theme by using different techniques such as having characters with different personalities and authority‚ by using various

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    Mississippi Burning character essay In the film “Mississippi Burning”‚ directed by Alan Parker‚ characterisation is employed very effectively to illuminate the themes of tolerance and social change in the southern United States in the 1960s. Parker uses the buddy/buddy formula through Ward and Anderson to act as a focal point for the plot; as well as being an analogy for the greater conflict in society‚ in that they have polar opposite personality traits and initially cannot stand each other‚ but

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