U64003 FILM HISTORY SHORTLIST OF TOPICS FOR IN-CLASS TEST 2 (scheduled in week 12) 1. Choose one Hollywood major studio and write a brief account of its history (e.g. typical products‚ strategies‚ organization‚ people‚ films‚ crises‚ etc.) from the “classical era” of the studio system to the advent of conglomeration. MGM: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - part of Loew’s enterprise. Loew’s owned a movie studio‚ a network of international distribution and a theatre chain (centred in NY). By 1924 he
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Erik Andersson ENGA01.1 Kiki Lindell Okonkwo’s inner struggle In ”Things Fall Apart” Chinua Achebe takes us to a Nigerian village at the time of the British colonization of Africa where substantial changes are affecting the inhabitants. Okonkwo is a proud African man who strives to succeed in the Igbo society. In his early days he created a name for
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Alex Petrie Dr. Howell Anthropology 116 11/30/11 Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe. New York: Anchor Books‚ 1959. Number of 209. Things Fall Apart is the story of the people in an Ibo village that face destruction with the arrival of white missionaries from England. It begins by centering on Okonkwo‚ an ambitious and strong man who rose to great standing despite his shameful father‚ in order to give background to the customs of the area and the thoughts behind his actions. It then follows
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“Once in awhile things slip” this is the statement said by the butcher in death of a pig. In the story he spent several day and nights in mid-September tending to an ailing pig. In depth he talked about how he could have died‚ and the pig could have lived he felt like he should have accounted for the stretch of time and that if he died and the pig lived no one would have been left to do the accounting? In a way he treated the pig like a child tending to its sickness‚ and getting sick in the process
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I have to confess that talking about race is not my favorite thing. At least‚ talking about what I think when the subject race comes up. I don’t know how to define my own race‚ honestly. I am not white‚ and I am not black. But wait‚ is race only about white and black people as we hear every day on the news? I believe that many people get the subject “race” mistaken like I do. Maybe because what they have always known as race‚ or maybe because they don’t think the race issues affect them. To talk
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What’s one thing you are most proud of? “You can get what you want or you just get old” I don’t know where I get this quote but it’s haunting me You know what you really want and please notice passion won’t stay forever My dream is only traveling‚ to anywhere new to see my beautiful country with my limited years You will think I’m a dreamer‚ and yes I’m a dreamer When I was a kid‚ my family has a big picture of Uncle Ho. I’m so proud of this I told myself one day I will come to Hanoi capital to visit
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The Things They Carried in “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien In “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien the theme of “carrying” both physical and emotional objects by the main characters can be found in the novel. While these men carry the same standard physical army gear‚ they differentiate with personal tangible and intangible items. From Lieutenant Cross’s responsibility of his men‚ to Henry Dobbin’s girlfriend’s pantyhose for its magic‚ each man faced the war with these things attached
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during the weekends or drinking out in the evenings with their so-called “best friends”‚ I believe that true happiness is somewhere beneath those mercantile signs of gaiety and has more of a spiritual rather than material form. There is one simple thing that can make our happiness complete and prevent us from becoming reckless spendthrifts who try to fill an emptiness which we barely know about‚ exactly as I used to be – this is a person to love and cherish. To begin with‚ a great number of my
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the very center of it. Dana takes a great deal of focus as to what one calls something. In fact this is quite common it is why there are many words for essentially the same thing. Dana expresses her belief in the fact that it matters what you call things many times throughout the first chapter‚ and this belief affects her view of her own life and her relationship with her father.
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Literary Analysis - He Seems To Me Equal To Gods The poem I chose to analyze is He seems to me equal to gods. After reading this poem numerous times‚ I believe it is about a woman’s lust for a man. She talks about how he is “equal to gods” (Sappho 1)‚ he “puts the heart in my chest on wings” (Sappho 6)‚ he makes “fire racing under skin and in eyes no sight and drumming fills ears” (Sappho 10-12). My take on this poem is that she met this man‚ and after a short time together‚ she wants a relationship
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