The film Spring Breakers‚ directed by Harmony Korine‚ focuses on four young girls who seek an escape from their mundane lives as college students and decide to go to Florida for spring break. The girls are so desperate and deprived that they are driven to the extremes. This film serves a social commentary on the modern culture of today’s youths. The film takes on the perspectives of the protagonists‚ through it’s use of gloomy‚ cool colors in depictions of college life‚ and prison. However‚ the scenes
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Set in 1890’s Germany‚ Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening explores a variety of themes ranging from love and sex‚ to oppression and death. A pioneering playwright of his time‚ Wedekind allows contemporary audiences to connect with issues that were controversial then and still very much relevant in modern society. By using such relatable motifs throughout‚ the play criticises the oppressive culture of nineteenth- century that people can still respond to today. In order to understand why the play continues
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Silent Spring 1. A. I was captivated with the way Carson began the book with the imaginary town that had suffered plagues due to pesticides. She then went on to say that these were based off real events that happened all over the country. Also it was fascinating how much Rachel Carson new about carcinogens and the ill effects of pesticides such as cancer and birth defects. This was at a time when this was not a wide spread fact. B. The protagonists in this novel are nature and the public
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Silent Spring Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-silentspring/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction‚ Author Biography
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Dance Critique: The Rite of Spring The Rite of Spring was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky‚ a Russian dancer and choreographer. He joined The Imperial School of Ballet in 1900 and was later the lead dancer of the Ballet Russes. He eventually choreographed many works‚ one of them being Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in 1913. He “exceeded the limits of traditional ballet” and the Rite was an example of this. In 1919 he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the rest of his
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The Rite of Spring’s choreography and music combination kept me yearning for more. I most enjoyed the extremely emotional movements because they drew me in and made me ponder the underlying meaning of the dance. This dance was by far the most expressive one presented all semester. The frantic and sudden movements that interchanged with the soft and gentle movements flowed together and portrayed a frantic‚ yet elegant message. The type of mixed emotional energies and variation of movements is probably
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Spring Festival and Lantern Festival By Yolanda The Spring Festival‚ also known as the lunar new year‚ which falls in late January or early February. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the “Winter Sacrifice”. And the word “Nian”‚ which in modern Chinese solely means year‚ was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a New Year. So people hang“good luck”wishes on red paper on the door and wall‚ use fireworks
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Hot Springs National Park A Brief History of Hot Springs National Park The area we now know as Hot Springs National Park‚ was first a territory of the United States in 1803. It was part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1807‚ settlers came and soon realized it was an area that had potential to be used as a health resort. A short time after‚ in the 1830s‚ log cabins and a store was built to meet the needs of visitors. Today‚ thousands of people go to the springs every year.
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constant in springs Maria Loraine Menorca National Institute of Physics‚ University of the Philippines Diliman‚ Quezon City lorainemnrc@gmail.com Abstract This experiment aims to fully understand the analysis of possible errors in the measurement of the force constants in different spring systems. Springs can be utilized to store and release energy. According to Hooke’s Law‚ the response of a spring to external forces is characterized by the equation F = -kΔx. In this experiment‚ two springs were combined
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everyday. I could not escape his wrath; no matter how hard I tried. He was always there; ready to pounce like a tiger waiting to capture his meal. My heavenly mother met my little brother Tanner’s dad when I was just a petite little one-year-old child. She left my dad‚ because she could not handle how he treated her or her two daughters. She told me a story from when I was an infant that he took a baseball bat‚ and broke the window of the car‚ on the side where I was sitting at. That was the final
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