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    McKenna Holmes Mr. Reinhardt English III‚ Period 7 11 December 2013 Transcendentalism Those who think Transcendentalism is just a literary movement that took place in the early 1800s are only half correct. Transcendentalism is indeed a literary movement; however‚ it is much more than that. It is meant to challenge people to think for themselves and cause change. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee taught the importance of non-conformity

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    fiction movies Planet of the apes 1968 by J. Schaffner and the newer version by Tim Burton are examples of dystopian fiction. Both movies explains the idea of doomsday that there are facts and ideologies that we use in the present that can lead to the destruction of mankind. The reason of the dark theme is that fiction is related to horror‚both of them reject any type of change (Helfield 4). Therefore in both of the movies apes took the role of humans and became the masters and both movies had medieval

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    Television and movies contains various kinds of contents in their category.Some people weap watching miserable drama;others laugh watching comedy.However‚If I had to explaine influence of those on people‚I would say that it would be split into roughly two groups:good and bad aspects. My primary reason is that Television and movies have cultural and moral influence on people who is children‚college students and scholar.One example of this is that differing from animal‚existance of human being has

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    Knollmeyer 1  Samuel Knollmeyer  Ms. King  American Masterworks  11 February 2015  Transcendentalism in ​ The Scarlet Letter   The Scarlet Letter​ ‚ a story constructed with verbose prose and prolific detail‚ has a level  of metacognitive encouragement that delves into the deeper implications of sin and human  nature. Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ born in the first half of the 1800’s‚ looks back‚ reflecting on a time  that haunts his family name. He was born Nathaniel Hathorne‚ but later changed his name to 

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    is associated with butterfly-cocoon relationship or reborn of phoenix. Isolation is one of the elements that triggers transformation. Of course‚ Some Australian movies use these themes in the movies to introduce this process using dessert as setting but some of them use another setting. This essay analyses three scenes from two movies about this.

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    Movies of the 1930's

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    Movies in the 1930 ’s Gangster films and musicals came from Broadway in the 1930 ’s. These two new genres symbolized the impression that Hollywood had on national culture during the great depression. Some musicals like gold diggers were not just made to be enjoyed but intended to go against the economic depression. It did just that by showing the spirit of optimism and cooperation. Gangster film such as "Public Enemies"(1931) and "Scar face"(1932) dramatized violence. Violence in those films were

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    “A great nuzzling gout of fire leapt out to lap at the books and knock them against the wall” (Bradbury 110). Burning and shouting all for a book! They are burning books because they are illegal to own. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 no one is allowed to have books. Most people don’t want to speak out for fear of their house being burned‚ and some don’t care. For this reason many are conformists. Although it was hard for them to not conform‚ the idea of nonconformity was simple for philosophers

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    movie; is it one that can make a person cry‚ laugh‚ worry‚ or feel angry? Well the fact is it can be any of those and more. In truth‚ most good movies have a unified plot‚ a credible storyline‚ and are interesting. The genre or style of a movie will also play a role in a person’s opinion of what he or she considers to be a good movie. Some people prefer movies that are full of action‚ drama‚ comedy‚ romance‚ or fantasy. Many people enjoy a movie that has a message or a moral of the story‚ which may

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    Everywhere you look you can find some type of racial stereotyping. It’s around us‚ in the books we read‚ and the films we watch. Most movies just poke fun at racial stereotyping but some movies show the harsh side of labeling a certain race. After 9/11 many people saw Middle Eastern and South Asian people as terrorists. In airports the tighter security portrayed the seriousness of the US government. However‚ the firmer security was only leaned toward people with specific last names‚ and certain nationalities

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    Illness and Movies The topic I chose to do is Mental Illness and Movies and I chose this topic because generally‚ society as a whole‚ is uneducated when it comes to the topic of mental illness. So I chose the topic of Mental Illness in Movies because I knew I could elaborate on this topic and also debunk some of the most common misconceptions associated with Mental Illness. To start off‚ I will define terms associated with my topic: PsychoMedia - the combined effect of exploitation movies and biased

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