Agree or disagree? If child want to do well in school‚ parents should limit the hours of watching TV programs or movies. There has long been an intense discussion over whether or not parents‚ in order to improve their children’s performance at school‚ should limit the hours of watching TV programs or movies. Now parents in ever increasing number are trying to reduce children’s recreational time and even to forbid them to watch any TV programs‚ considering that things like this is a waste of time
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Product placement in movies as a marketing tool has many advantages 1. Introduction Since the invention of personal video recorder (PVR) such as TiVo which enable consumers to zip and zap 30 seconds commercials on TV‚ the effectiveness of traditional advertisements has fallen. Advertisers now realise that they need to find more effective ways to expose their message to the consumers. Recently‚ the phenomenon of product placement has become popular among the marketers and advertisement agencies
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"classic example of film criticism and cultural analysis". The essay was published for the first time in 1962 in Robert Warshow’s book "The Immediate Experience". In it the author examines some of the generally accepted conventions that most gangster movies follow and draws conclusions from them about the reasons and the way this genre appeals to the audience. The quote represents one of the main ideas of Warshow’s argument - it shows the attitude of the mass public towards success. According to Warshow
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Is a play based on love‚ hate‚ tragedy and sacrifice. It has been retold many different times in both written and film text and it is effective and timeless throughout the use of many techniques. Baz Luhrmann and Franco Zefirelli are two directors who have made this classic play into film. Both directors have portrayed the major scenes within the play with some similarities and differences. The three major fight scenes being discussed are: the fight scene at the start
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Do you know who set the flag on mount Suribachi on February 23‚ 1945? If not you should watch the movie‚ Flags of our fathers. The director of this movie is Clint Eastwood and our starring actors are Ryan Philippe‚ Jesse Bradford‚ Adam Beach‚ John Benjamin Hickey‚ John Slattery‚ Barry Pepper‚ Jamie Bell‚ Paul Walker Robert Patrick and Neal McDonough. This film was released on October 20‚ 2006. Flags of our Fathers should be shown in class because this historical event has many action‚ drama and has
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In an article called “Why You Should Go to the Movies (and Do Other Stuff) Alone” written by Jesse Singal‚ it explains that most people are uncomfortable with doing things alone and not in groups. It says that people feel judged by others (usually groups) when they are not with anyone. They are seen as if they have no friends. They did a few surveys and social experiments to see how people felt. By doing things alone‚ the article said that you can meet new people and go out of your comfort zone.
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TEACHING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TO LEARNERS OF EFL THROUGH A CORPUS BASED ON DISNEY MOVIES Irene López Rodriguez Brown University‚ USA Elena María García Moreno Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Cartagena Abstract: This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach‚ idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which
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Capra himself has many deeply instilled values and all of his films portray that being a great example for auteur theory. Though some of his films show these morales more forth right than others‚ all of them contain a bit of Capra somewhere‚ or in one of the characters. In Capra’s films "It’s a Wonderful Life" and "Pocketful of Miracles" there are many similarities and differences between Capra’s characters‚ and thematic elements. Though Capra is known for having very wholesome‚ American‚ do-gooders
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2004. They have produced over 44 “classics” and are one of the most recognized names in animated film (Peterson).We expose young girls to these animated films at a very young age‚ yet doing so does not seem to be good for these children. Disney’s movies are littered with a virtually unattainable image of what a woman should look like and feeding such images to girls at a young age is wrong and causes low self esteem and poor body image. The term body image refers to a person’s sense of satisfaction
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story written by William Shakespeare‚ in the Elizabethan era of English history. The work tells of the fatal attraction between Romeo and Juliet‚ how they met and why‚ their falling in love and their ultimate sacrifice for each other’s love‚ their actual lives. Fate has complete control‚ is a theme that is riddled throughout the text written by Shakespeare. It is essentially pointing out the view that everything we do or will‚ is at the mercy of fate‚ and whatever
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