Shattered Glass This movie concentrates on the journalist Stephen Glass a 25-year-old rising star at The New Republic‚ wrote dozens of high-profile articles for a number of national publications in which he made things up. Stephen‚ who fabricated a number of articles to impress his readers‚ has been one of the most respected journalists in The New Republic. Stephen Glass was making up stories to impress people‚ and he said it was because he loved the electricity of people liking his stories.
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Produced by Craig Baumgarten‚ Marc Butan‚ Gaye Hirsch‚ Tove Christensen and Adam Merims‚ Shattered Glass premiered in 2003. I selected this film because my favorite unit of this class was the psychology unit. I have always been fascinated about learning how people have become the people they are and what made them do what they did. I watched the trailer and was very intrigued. I had never heard about Stephen Glass‚ so I decided to watch it. Shattered Glass’ purpose was to entertain and inform. The
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In the piece “ The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman he describes the life of a man named Phil through literary techniques. Ellen spoke of the man unable to be memorable and a pedestrian man who was easily replaced. Utilizing them he created an apathetic attitude that accepted Phil’s death quite easily despite him being a “Type A” worker and a vice president for a company . Rhetorical techniques that were incorporated in the writing include both the writer’s and Phil’s “Dearly beloved” perspective ‚
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member of parliament and social reformer who was very influential in the abolition of the slave trade and eventually slavery itself in the British empire. William Wilberforce was born on 24 August 1759 in Hull‚ the son of a wealthy merchant. He studied at Cambridge University where he began a lasting friendship with the future prime minister‚ William Pitt the Younger. In 1780‚ Wilberforce became member of parliament for Hull‚ later representing Yorkshire. His dissolute lifestyle changed completely when
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Mapping the Soul -------With the freedom of poetic language‚ William Blake expressed his abhorrence of the Church’s deep-rooted stance on faith; such a stance on Christianity was considered blasphemous‚ but he could not be charged with a crime. He believed that with true spirituality‚ the individual could fully engage in their faith and attain eternal salvation without the intrusion of organized religion—for the Church is solely concerned with subduing Christians with an orthodox emphasis
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was easily one of the greatest playwrights of all time. He has written many plays including Romeo and Juliet‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ Macbeth‚ and Hamlet. Shakespeare was also one of the proprietors to the Globe theater in 1589. Much of his work is still performed today. Shakespeare was born on April 23rd 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. John was an alderman of Scotland who had served as mayor in 1569. Neither of his parents could
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British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion
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To What Dramatic Effect Does the Playwright Make Use of Light and Sound? A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. Like in many other modern plays‚ here the playwright makes an extensive use of stage effects: the ideas are expressed not only through words‚ but also by sound‚ music and light. They are used to set the context and the mood of the scene – or of the play in general; to implicitly suggest an idea‚ an action; to show the feelings of a character‚ and to let
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of others. William Carlos Williams worked hard throughout his career to reach his goal of perfecting his own simple and modern style of poetry‚ along with the help of some friends. William lived in the era of modernism and was considered to be an imagist poet. Williams strived to write poetry that focused on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime influence the way Williams wrote poetry? William Carlos Williams poetry was
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I will explain the William Carlos Williams poems in my essay. I am going to analyze his some poems ‘’Spring And All’’‚ ‘’The Red Wheelbarrow’’‚ ‘’This Is Just To Say’’‚ ‘’Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus’’ and ‘’To Elsie. I will start with short entrance of imagism and Williams’ style. Firstly‚ I need to say that he has a big influence to Ezra Pound and T.S Elliot. He is imagist poet and he focused directness of idea and economy of language also he rejected Romantic and Victorian poetry. Imagism
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