Black Orpheus was an interesting film; it was worth the watch‚ even with its somewhat tragic ending. Being that it is a modern adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice‚ I knew what to expect. However‚ that did not take too much away from the movie; it had me captivated right from the beginning to the very end. The music played a large part in this captivation‚ and so did the characters. If I had seen the movie without prior knowledge of the Greek legend it was adapted from‚ I would
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Presentation: Wall-E Is poor CSR of Buy N Large (or any corporation) to blame for the state of the earth as seen in WALL-E? Our movie choice is Wall-E The movie WALL-E is set many centuries in the future around a dystopian vision of Earth. The Earth is choked with poisonous gasses‚ deserted cities with crumbling buildings and obelisks of rubbish making up the skyline. The humans boarded a space cruiser‚ Axiom‚ and left the rapidly deteriorating environment of Earth in 2100. The plan was to return
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WGST 300—BLACK CINEMA Option A: Select two or more films from this course and compare and/or contrast them‚ using one or more of the above criteria (shared themes‚ etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights‚ camera‚ and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry‚ but to directors‚ actors‚ and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones
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The Black Cat How is it that a man‚ loving his cat and wife so much ends up killing them due to alcoholism? Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “ The Black Cat ” talks about how the narrator with no name mentioned‚ over the years becomes moody and irritable due to alcohol. Poe reveals how the use of alcohol can change and control our way of thinking also what we attend to do at that moment. A decent man that loved animals had a variety of pets living in his household. As he says that he spent most
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20 million people in Western Europe. The Bubonic‚ or “Black Plague”‚ began in China in 1334. The bacillus‚ Yersinia pestis‚ existed in all forms of the plague and caused it. The disease was carried in the bellies of fleas that attached to rats. The Black Death subsided in the Russian Steppe in 1351. Bad hygienic conditions in Europe helped the epidemic spread. European lifestyle also changed greatly during and after the disease. As the Black Plague spread rapidly through Western Europe‚ people tried
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stay away from the dead bodys and evacuate the town. There were people dieing still even when we were hours even mile’s away from the town but up the road there were a big pile of dead bodies and the man by the body’s said; “Run my friends it’s the Black Plague” so we all ran away and i didn’t know what it was. So I asked my mom‚ My mom said that it is a terrible disease that could kill a person in a little over 2 to 3
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Berlin Wall is why it was created ‚ by who‚ and the security on it. The Berlin wall was put up on August the 13‚ 1961 by the Communist side to keep their people from fleeing to the democratic side and escaping Communist rule. It was also used to block off trade from one half to the other to hopefully boot the Allies out of
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Dorchester Ave. In the early 1960s this gang known as the Devils Disciples became the "Black Disciples" (see Explosion of Chicago’s Black Street Gangs: 1900 to Present‚ 1990‚ by Useni Perkins). The three major players in the Devils Disciples were David Barksdale‚ Shorty Freeman‚ and Don Derky. Most accounts date the founding of the Black Disciples to the year 1966 as a southside gang. The founding leader of the Black Disciples was David Barksdale‚ referred to in gang materials as "King David." As a
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“ The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history‚ resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people” (Black Death). The Black Death with its certain symptoms‚ causes‚ diagnoses‚ and treatments has a long history and has been used in biological warfare. The best known symptom of bubonic plague infected‚ enlarged‚ and painful lymph nodes‚ known as buboes. After being transmitted via the bite of infected fleas‚ the Y. pestis bacteria localize in an
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A widely-renowned contemporary movie containing multiple themes of apocalyptic literature is “WALL-E”. In this movie‚ a futuristic dystopian society is presented in which there are no longer any humans present on Earth due to it no longer being sustainable for life. The humans have now been long-removed from Earth and now live on an enlarged spaceship named the “Axiom”‚ which is funded by the monopolistic company “Buy ‘n’ Large”. Over time‚ the passengers of the “Axiom” have become morbidly obese
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