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    For my final project‚ I choose to watch Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg‚ 1975. Jaws is set on Amity Island known as a popular summer tourist destination. As the town prepares for its annual Fourth of July parade‚ a shark lurks in the waters threating the town’s main source of summer income. After multiple shark attacks‚ three men take it upon themselves to catch the great white shark that has plans on ruining the summer. At the opening shot we find a group of kids siting on the beach with a bomb

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    Character Relationships with Celie-from “The Color Purple” Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” is a riveting‚ controversial novel about a woman named Celie‚ other African-Americans and the relationships between them that are either tested or brought closer together. Celie‚ a former slave‚ narrates this novel through her writing of letters to a person she loves and trusts the most‚ God. In these letters: Nettie‚ Albert and Shug are three dominant characters that surround and transform Celie’s life

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    The first literary term this writer will mention from Stevens’s poem is personification. Stevens used personification in “Schizophrenia” to describe how the house in the poem took on human qualities. The house in the poem suffered along with the family living inside of the home. “It was the house that suffered most.” (Stevens‚ 1922‚ line 1). The couple as well as the home lost the feelings of being happy and started to self-destruct. The poem started out by saying how the house was suffering. The

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    How does the director Steven Spielberg use filmic techniques to build suspense and tension for the audience in the film Jaws? Steven Speilberg directed the epic blockbuster film‚Jaws‚ alongside producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck. He is an American film director‚ producer‚ screenwriter and undoubtedly one of the most influential personalities in the history of filmmaking. Additionally‚ Spielberg is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time and his movies have earned in the region of four

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    Many films have been reviewed as brilliant thrillers but strive for original special effects. A good thriller director uses camera shots‚ music and sounds‚ imagery and colours‚ false alarms and many other techniques to keep the viewer tense and on the edge of their seat. A successful thriller should include a variety of techniques to achieve the thrill desired. I believe that what we hear and see in a film effects the outcome of how much we like it. Whilst watching a film the senses available are

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    will allow for expansion without additional financing. The “back to back” will allow a substantial saving on air fare and also a better price to the hotels because the rooms are utilized all the time.TTG can sell vacations at savings of 35% or more. Steven is offering to sell 25% of the company‚ and he got an offer from the bank that they will match every dollar of equity he reaised with one dollar of debt. 2. Business and Marketing Strategy The business is to offer cheaper vacations to groups by

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    Explain the demise of Kodak. Eastman Kodak is an iconic American photography brand which has been in operation since 1880 (Kodak 2012). Kodak created and influenced the photographic industry through an effective marketing strategy. This contributed to Kodak becoming the dominant firm in the industry for almost a century. Ironically the first digital camera was invented by Kodak‚ which happened to be the undoing of this successful company. Since 2003 Kodak has had to reduce its workforce by around

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    questioning how the Ku Klux Klan was able to function under relative anonymity‚ if parenting is really that influential‚ or the effectiveness of children’s tv shows‚ as long as you ask the right questions‚ you can find the answers. The books Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell dives into the study of how our world works. The amusing Freakonomics deals with how completely opposing phenomena‚ such as schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers‚ can be compared

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    have been considered delicate and have been looked down upon by men. In books and movies women are treated like children and work animals. In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston‚ and in the movie The Color Purple directed by Steven Spielberg‚ originally written by Alice Walker‚ women are not treated like equals but as an inferior being. These stories present stereotypical women that stay at home and are mindless compared to men. Janie Crawford and Celie Harris are women who

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    the methods use to make the opening battle sequence of “Saving Private Ryan” both shocking and realistic and say how effective you find it as an introduction to the film “Saving Private Ryan” is a war film directed by the well-known Jewish director Steven Spielberg and was released on September 11th 1998. It was a joint production with Paramount and DreamWorks pictures. The film won in total 5 Academy Awards (Oscars) including best director in 1999. This is most likely due to Spielberg’s many conventions

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