Alex Hoffman IB Film Mr. Evers January 10‚ 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson: An Auteur of Film There are two types of directors in the world: those who write their movies and those who don’t. This doesn’t mean that one is a better director than the other‚ but it does however define if a director is truly an auteur of their film. Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out of film school after just 2 days. He went on to spend his savings and college money to produce his first short film Cigarettes & Coffee. It
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Then all of a sudden a member of the tribe signaled to back down. They turned their heads the direction member was looking at trying to find a hope to live. Down the stretch of a forest were brown-coated men lined up with a M1819 Hall rifle aiming right above our foreheads. “Shoot us‚ ” said the tribe leader “ I Dare you to‚ ” The leader was smart enough to know that the accuracy of the gun was lacking. And if they were to shoot both the tribe and the hunters were in harm’s way
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THE GRIP OF CULTURE: EDWARD T. HALL Edward T. Hall is an anthropologist and one of the founders of intercultural communication study. His works have played a key role in describing how people’s view of the world and behavior are largely determined by a complex grid of unconscious cultural patterns. In The Silent Language (1959) Hall outlined a broad theory of culture and described how its rules control people’s lives. In The Hidden Dimension (1966) he introduced proxemics‚ the study of our
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Of all the 1980 ’s films‚ that can be described as "Eighties Teen Movies" (Thorburn‚ 1998) or "High School Movies" (Messner‚ 1998)‚ those written and (with the exception of "Pretty In Pink" (1986) and "Some Kind of Wonderful"(1987)) directed by John Hughes were often seen to define the genre‚ even leading to the tag "John Hughes rites de passage movies" as a genre definition used in 1990s popular culture (such as in "Wayne ’s World 2" (1994 dir. Stephen Surjik)). This term refers to the half dozen
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The main threat to the stability of the Weimar republic in the period 1919-1923 came from the political violence of the extreme right There were many threats posing Germany in 1919‚ the political system formed on the back of failure produced resentment towards Weimar from both the extreme left and the right. Other factors linked to economic issues caused by war‚ such as hyperinflation and the war guilt clause which `led to much suffering for the German people through loss of savings and jobs and
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International Communication Paper Jennifer Conner COM/360 April 1‚ 2013 Faculty: Gilbert Noel‚ SR. If there was ever a country that had miscommunication issues‚ it is Japan. Throughout the many years of their political relationship Japan and United States have found themselves in the midst of many instances of miscommunication. This is to be expected when a collectivistic and high-context culture‚ such as the Japanese‚ finds themselves constantly communicating with an individualistic and
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Saturday together in detention they find themselves interacting with and understanding each other for the first time. A jock‚ Emilio Estevez‚ a stoner‚ Judd Nelson‚ a princess‚ Molly Ringwald‚ a basket case‚ Ally Sheedy‚ and a brain‚ Anthony Michael Hall‚ talk about everything from parental tension to sex to peer pressure to hurtful stereotypes while serving the eight hours in a library. Ultimately‚ the five find that they may have more in common than they ever imagined and learn more about themselves
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The Ruhr Crisis‚ hyperinflation and the Munich (beer hall) Putsch; these catastrophic events were great threats to the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis occurred in January 1923 when Germany missed a reparations payment to the French in 1922 therefore French and Belgium troops decided to invade the Germans raw materials and goods so the German workers went on a passive resistance. This event was a humungous threat for the Weimar Republic as they would automatically receive a bad reputation and some
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disaster‚ Hitler was unable to successfully depose the government of Munich under Gustav von Kahr. He turned up at a beer hall where von Kahr was speaking stood on a table‚ fired a shot into the ceiling to silence the crowd and announced the Bavarian government was being overthrown and demanded that von Kahr surrender and hand over power. Hitler had 600 men surrounding the hall and a machine gun set up in the lobby. Elsewhere in Munich Hitler had the SA under Ernst Roehm seize several key installations
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Abstract: This chapter outlines the theoretical perspective behind a varieties of capitalism’ approach to comparative political economy‚ emphasizing the central role of the firm as the agent of economic adjustment and the impact of the relationships it forms in the spheres of corporate governance‚ labor relations‚ skill formation‚ inter-corporate relations‚ and employeremployee relations. It develops the distinction between liberal market economies‚ where firm endeavours are coordinated primarily
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