invent ways to improve society technologically‚ methodologically‚ entertainingly‚ etc. Specific to this example‚ the creators of Scarface have provided entertainment to many people‚ enough to earn roughly $200‚000‚000. Therefore‚ isn’t it fair to say their efforts have benefited the many? Now focusing the fairness argument‚ those will
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1) An Incident Lu Hsun Six years have slipped by since I came from the country to the capital. During that time I have seen and heard quite enough of so-called affairs of state; but none of them made much impression on me. If asked to define their influence‚ I can only say they aggravated my ill temper and made me‚ frankly speaking‚ more and more misanthropic. One incident‚ however‚ struck me as significant‚ and aroused me from my ill temper‚ so that even now I cannot forget it. It happened during
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Morgan Young Hist 322 6/15/11 Final Exam The 1930s through the 1960s was an extremely critical and pivotal moment in American popular culture. Movies‚ radio and music changed with the movements of the decades and are arguably the best representations of how the cultures were influencing everyday life. If you want to understand a population of people you have to understand their culture‚ and the American popular culture has and continues to be a part of everyday life. During the 1930s and
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U64003 FILM HISTORY SHORTLIST OF TOPICS FOR IN-CLASS TEST 2 (scheduled in week 12) 1. Choose one Hollywood major studio and write a brief account of its history (e.g. typical products‚ strategies‚ organization‚ people‚ films‚ crises‚ etc.) from the “classical era” of the studio system to the advent of conglomeration. MGM: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - part of Loew’s enterprise. Loew’s owned a movie studio‚ a network of international distribution and a theatre chain (centred in NY). By 1924 he
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them‚ Al Capone‚ from Scarface. The movie was loosely based on Al Capone and his life. We all know that this story does not end well. However many young men idolize him and this movie. There was no need to do a scientific study here‚ they all admitted that they had learned behavior from the movie. I know that many factors we at play here‚ it was just so mind boggling to think that a movie could have such influence over young people. My own husband loves Mafia movies‚ Scarface included. Is he violent
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The Reason Behind the Scene –Why We Keep Choosing “If the outlaw hero’s motto was ‘I don’t know what the law says‚ but I do know what’s right and wrong‚’ the official hero’s was ‘We are a nation of laws‚ not of men” (Ray 62). A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema‚ by Robert Ray‚ looks at the various opposing values in America through the history of Hollywood films and cinema‚ which one vital value is the dichotomy of outlaw hero versus official hero. Official hero tends to be an idealogy
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the year of 1929 when a Chicago mobster‚ Alfonso “Al” Capone‚ also known as Scarface‚ and his gang shot and killed six men from George “Bugs” Moran’s gang‚ along with an innocent bystander. This event is referred to as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Al Capone was born in 1899 in Brooklyn‚ New York. He attended school up through the sixth grade when he decided to pursue a different lifestyle. His nickname “Scarface” was due to a knife attack that left three scars across his cheek. In the 1920’s
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got away with murder)That is also when the public had enough of the violence.So as a response to the people and government he called for a peace treaty with the other mob bosses.This however just lasted two months. The end of “Scarface” Al committed one great crime it was the St. Valentines massacre.(Al Capone’s recorded)Then after A few petty crimes al was arrested for tax evasion and was one of the first prisoners at alcatraz.He stayed for two years after he got
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He was an Italian boy born in NYC on January 17‚ 1899. It wasn’t till his twenties when scarface moved to Chicago. Al was always in the newspapers when he moved to Chicago but not for his gang presence. At first he was known as a proment boxer throughout Chicago. He was Torrio right hand man Torrio was a Boss of one of the biggest gangs in the
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