Luke Pelagio Due 5/27/2011 Period 4 Machiavelli: Realism Over Idealism Nicolo Machiavelli is known as being an archetypical realist; in other words‚ he was someone who originated the idea that we should not try to figure out how people should be‚ but rather accept and deal with the world as it literally is. Unlike Machiavelli‚ Plato posited an idealist view of a philosopher king reigning through virtue. To Machiavelli‚ this is an extremely dangerous delusion for it ignores what he considers
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The 19th century was characterized by sharp contradictions. In many ways it was an age of progress: railways and ships were built‚ great scientific discoveries were made‚ education became more widespread; but al the same time it was an age of profound social unrest‚ because there was too much poverty‚ too much injustice. The growth of scientific inventions mechanized industry and increased wealth‚ but this progress only enriched the few at the expense of the many. Dirty factories‚ long hours of work
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Conflict in A Raisin in the Sun In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the playwright Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of an impoverished African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The Youngers‚ living in a small apartment and having dreams larger than the world in which the live‚ often use verbal abuse as a way to vent their problems. Many times‚ this verbal abuse leads to unnecessary conflict within the family. The most frequently depicted conflict is that between Walter and
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INTRODUCTION Cinemas are the central spot of people’s visual entertainment‚ acting as the medium between the art of movie directors and the audiences seeking the getaway from real world reality. It is at the cinema where people enjoy themselves by watching movies that they may find interesting initially regardless of the language‚ locality or storyline‚ as long as that one particular movie is intriguing enough to make them go to the cinema to get their movie-o-meter filled with appealing crafts
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5-Sense of masses and the protagonists to the masses- comes up from a crowed of unemployed workers and after his stolen bike‚ tragedy on the job he goes back and fights with the masses as the movie comes to an end. 6-Realism thru Humanism- creates a gate; sense of realism through the use of real people then all seasoned alters like the man and his son so this way it gives more authentic power. 7-non Professional actors- in the movie the man and his son are obviously not professional actors
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Lewis’s The Wizard of Gore and Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusions? Or shock-rockers like Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson? DS: I was influenced by a lot of stuff. Like Universal monsters got me into the whole horror movie thing. G&C: Dracula or Frankenstein? DS: If it was Dracula vs. Frankenstein‚ I’m a Frankensteiner. But it was also other things like Tarantino films. I remember watching Reservoir Dogs before I was even old enough. That scene where Michael Madsen cuts off the cop’s ear‚ I thought that
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Magical Realism in Thursday’s Child Magical Realism centers on Tin Flute in Thursday’s Child by Soyna Harnett. Magical realism is a literary genre where magical elements are a natural part to a rather realistic‚ dull setting. The title of the book comes from a nursery rhyme with the same title. Thursday’s Child is Tin‚ who was born on a Thursday and as the nursery rhyme says‚ “he has far to go.” Tin is an eccentric and isolated child who digs. His wanderings take him underneath the earth into the
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the coming of sound and color films as a negative step for the industry. He thought it would lead to the end of the silent era and to a pursuit of technical perfection in movies that place emphasis on "inartistic demand for the greatest possible realism" (Arnheim ‚ 183) In an excerpt from Film As Art titled The Complete Film‚ Arnheim expresses his views on the future of film. He uses the term "complete film" to describe what he will become the perfected film format that is hardly artistic
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In the book The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ there are numerous writing techniques that enrich the story and build realism. For example‚ Fitzgerald incorporates multiple references and allusions to the economic state of the time period in which the story takes place. Fitzgerald mentions bonds‚ parties‚ alcohol‚ bootleggers‚ and class disparities in his writing to convey the state of the economy during the 1920s. In the United States during the twenties‚ the economy was flourishing. World
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formalism is the concept that a work’s artistic value is entirely determined by its form—the way it is made‚ its purely visual aspects‚ and its medium. Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color‚ line‚ shape and texture rather than realism‚ context‚ and content.” . In Hero‚ Zhang Yimou combines cinematography with mise en scène to bring his own vision of the story‚ particularly with the use of certain colours. There are a total of five colours in this movie which choosed to express
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