A Narrative Analysis of the Film The Great Debaters and its Relationship to the Urban Debate League Movement A Senior Project Presented to The Faculty of the Communication Studies Department California Polytechnic State University‚ San Luis Obispo In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Arts By Nicholas J. Carrasco Chris Skiles Senior Project Advisor Signature Date Signature Date Dr. Bernard Duffy Department Chair © Nicholas J. Carrasco 1 Table of Contents
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"Through Deaf Eyes‚" a two-hour HDTV documentary for PBS‚ explores nearly 200 years of Deaf life in America. The film presents the shared experiences of American history - family life‚ education‚ work‚ and community connections - from the perspective of deaf citizens. Narrated by actor Stockard Channing‚ the film includes interviews with former Gallaudet University president‚ Dr. I. King Jordan‚ and actors Marlee Matlin and Bernard Bragg‚ as well as historians and deaf Americans with diverse views
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Teaching a Descriptive Writing Gender: Grade :5 Date:25.Nov.2013 Time:45 minutes General Goal(s): ◆ students will learn the elements of descriptive writing. ◆They will understand the parts of a descriptive paragraph ◆will be able to generate a descriptive paragraph. Teacher Instructions Objectives: ◆ Students will identify the elements of descriptive writing. ◆ Students will write to describe using all five senses. Outcomes: At the end of class student are expected to be able
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Bait Review This short British film based in North East of England in the late 1930s is about an important close relationship between a father and son and how life was and how hard it was. Running through “Bait” is the theme of poverty and love‚ shown through captivating performances and clever camera work. At the beginning of the film we are introduced to a father‚ Ian Hart‚ in his mid-30s‚ getting ready for a job interview while Clint his son is “busy” making the “bait” (this is a term used for
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following two texts‚ a cartoon strip and an extract from a memoir‚ share similarities and differences regarding the theme and context‚ audience‚ purpose as well as certain formal and stylistic features. The first extract is a cartoon strip written in 1986 by Cathy Guisewite. The cartoon features four panels with three female characters with narrations and speech bubbles to emphasize dialogue and the message regarding women’s rights and sex stereotyping. The context of the cartoon is to show the inequalities
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Book Review “Media and Cultural Theory” Book Review Media and Cultural Theory Book “Media and Cultural Study” containing new thinking and brings together international scholars to address key issues and debates within Media and Cultural Studies. The takes as its starting point from enlightenment. Focusing on the three theories of the pre and post Enlightenment‚ it is easy to see how they sit as cornerstone of
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The film A River Runs through It is a heartfelt and beautiful movie. This movie is about to brothers who grow up in Montana. Their father is a minister at an indigenous church. He taught them how to be caring‚ respectable‚ and good man. Furthermore their farther showed them how to fly fish in the wondrous Montana Rivers. Both of the brothers are prideful and daring. Throughout the film the brothers prove that they’re courageous. Early on in the movie the go down the most treacherous part of a river
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parallel writing in teaching writing in English to Form 1 students. Young learners always have difficulties in writing especially free essays or composition. Though they have learnt writing since primary schools in English lessons‚ many students still do not acquire the ability to write a good essay. The writing still is included in the curriculum specifications as one of the skills which students have to master. This research was undertaken with concern of the inability of students in writing good essays
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Wilson of the U.S.A wanted the least involvement with Germany. Lloyd George was the middle ground of the treaty. Germany had no involvement in the deciding of the harsh terms of the treaty‚ however was eventually forced to sign it. Cartoon Examination: The cartoons provided are based of the events that occurred before and after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles‚ from 1918 to 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was a document of peace terms created by the Big 3 against Germany. The Big 3 are
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Cinematic Techniques in Film Narrative How do movies carry us from scene to scene? The answer is in the screenplay as well as the cinematic techniques used in the film. Scriptwriters will start their script with a series of meaningful cinematic techniques. Cinematic techniques such as the act structure‚ choice of shot‚ scene transition‚ and camera movement‚ can greatly influence the structure and meaning of a film. These techniques include the hook‚ establishing shot‚ montage‚ leitmotif‚ foreshadowing
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