Hubbell Gardner in The Way We Were is an abominable man. He has no passion‚ and tries to stifle that in Katie-- from the beginning‚ when he references her love of knowledge and politics as "You never stop‚ do you?". Hubbell Gardner is an awful‚ awful man. All the while she’s propping him up‚ and singing his praises‚ he’s openly treating her coldly. She treated him far too well: from the beginning‚ remember how he was heading out the door to leave her apartment‚ and couldn’t get out fast enough
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Are we or are we not the prisoner or our own conceptions? In the cave allegory‚ Plato describes the human condition as a type of blissful ignorance. I agree with Plato that we are prisoners of our own belief. In this essay‚ I describe my own opinions and issues to answer some of the questions. The first question that I would like to discuss is‚ Are we prisoners to our own beliefs and notions of truth? I believe that we are prisoners to our own beliefs because since childhood different beliefs
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filmmaker‚ Christine Welsh’s film keepers of the fire (1994) and her course “Indigenous Cinema: Decolonizing the Screen.” What insights about Indigenous cinema did you glean from Welsh’s guest lecture on November 28‚ 2017? The course‚ Indigenous cinema: decolonizing the screen‚ and Christine Welsh’s film‚ Keepers of the fire‚ both acknowledge that women’s portrayal are minimally presented in Indigenous Cinema. Additionally‚ she talks about the struggles in the Indigenous film industry. In this paper
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International Journal of Culture‚ Tourism and Hospitality Research Aesthetic labor‚ rocky horrors‚ and the 007 Dynamic Bernie Quinn Article information: Downloaded by University of Surrey At 06:08 30 December 2014 (PT) To cite this document: Bernie Quinn‚ (2008)‚"Aesthetic labor‚ rocky horrors‚ and the 007 Dynamic"‚ International Journal of Culture‚ Tourism and Hospitality Research‚ Vol. 2 Iss 1 pp. 77 - 85 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17506180810856158 Downloaded
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Why are we attracted to dystopian stories about our future and not scared? According to Jean Card from U.S. News‚ “Technology is so advanced‚ it is almost magical . . . Right now‚ the U.S. government’s branches are broken . . . Information sources have become increasingly centralized and nationalized . . . Political correctness has expanded into a genuine threat to free speech.” So‚ does that mean we are becoming a dystopia‚ like the ones we read about? According to Wikipedia‚ a dystopia is described
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experience. If movies are dreams‚ then horror movies are nightmares‚ and if they are nightmares‚ then why do we watch‚ create and enjoy them? Unfortunately‚ this burning question has yet to receive a universal answer‚ although the movies themselves‚ the brain’s activity and the multiple theories are all clues pointing towards the explanation of humanity’s fascination with fear. As with all art‚ movies reflect and reveal human nature. In the case of horror movies‚ they expose the fears and desires
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Different genres of films and their impact on the spectators No other art form has had quite the impact on our lives that the motion pictures have. Everybody loves stories. We want to watch different movies‚ depending on the mood‚ temperament and circumstances. The most important thing is to choose the right genre. The term genre is used a lot around the movie industry to break down the type of film into categories. It’s difficult to place a lot of films in a single category
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14 Live Performance Paper: The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been a cult classic since it’s birth‚ but as the years pass the musical has proved itself to be an acceptance of anything and everything offensive. The movie connected and expanded the LGBT community changing society as we know it. It is Rocky’s underlying condemnation of America’s sexual hypocrisy that makes the show still relevant today. The musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show portrays sexual liberation
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Nathaniel Khan’s documentary My Architect - a film about discovering who his father‚ Louis Khan‚ was as an individual - shined a lit into his father’s mysterious personal world. Throughout his journey we learn about his father’s upbringing and crucial moments of his adult life as well as the characteristics that defined him. From watching Nathaniel’s documentary‚ I was able to contrast‚ Louis Khan from I. M. Pei as an architect.; Louis’s designs for his buildings were dissimilar‚ he did not have
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Gary Heidnik also known as the “House of Horrors‚” was an American criminal who kidnapped women and kept them prisoner in his Pennsylvania basement. Heidnik dropped out of school in the ninth grade to go into the military. Heidnik served as a paramedic in the Army for 14 months before he was honorably discharged with a medical disability he received a diagnosis of schizoid personality disorder. His mother committed suicide soon after his discharge. She was a drunk who beat Heidnik as a young child
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