The film styles of Casablanca and It Happened One Night were completely different from that of Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives. Casablanca and the earlier films were all shot with very basic techniques where the frame just focused on the action. However‚ in Citizen Kane and The Best Years of Our Lives everything was in focus in the frame‚ even the events taking place in the background. Rather than just one main conversation or action being the concentration point of the film‚ there were
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their loss some inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy. The battle provided them with an important boost of confidence. Although commonly referred to as the Battle of Bunker Hill‚ the majority of the fighting happened at Breed’s Hill. On June 16‚ 1775‚ learning the British were planning to send troops to occupy the hills surrounding the city‚ some 1‚000 colonial militiamen under Colonel William Prescott built fortifications on top of Breed’s Hill‚ overlooking
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tendency to feel like they are able to function the same way they would if they were sober‚ not thinking about the consequences. People are lucky if all they are facing is a totaled car and a few scrapes and bruises. In Julia Beatty’s article‚ “It Happened To Me: I Crashed My Car And Got A DUI‚” it tells her story of the time she totaled her car after leaving a party on the fourth of July. She was trying to find the exit to get back home‚ but none of the roads looked right. Then when she thought she
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There was a very important woman in the Revolutionary War named Mary Ludwig Hays. But before we dive into her story‚ you need to know why the war happened‚ which battle Mary fought in‚ why IT happened‚ and why she was there. Why The War Happened After the French and Indian War‚ Britain lost a lot of money. So to pay back their debts‚ they taxed the colonies on a variety of things. These items include tea‚ paint‚ and other essentials. The colonists ended up rebelling because they didn’t like paying
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bombed the Basque town of Guernica. This bombing left tragedy and despair throughout the country. Pablo Picasso was inspired to create a work of art to represent the devastation that happened at Guernica. He created a scene that perfectly describes what war is like. He wanted to be a symbol for peace‚ and to show the world what civilians have to go through during war time. Because of his excellent depictions‚ Guernica became one of Picasso’s most famous creations. The bombing of Guernica was an important
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back from the ‘‘screwball comedies’’ in America and which became popular during the Great Depression era in the early 1930s until the early 1940s. As Deborah Jermyn states‚ ‘‘romcom’’ is the most durable genre of Hollywood‚ with Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934‚ USA) being the first of the genre to win 5 Oscars for Best Picture‚ Best Director‚ Best Writing‚ Best Actress and Best Actor (2011). This hybrid genre has attracted numerous feminist critics due to its focus on women which have always
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Qs.4. Could anything have been done differently at Lehman Brothers to prevent what happened? Explain. Answer: As Lehman Brothers & their manger were responsible for what happened‚ there are many things that could have done to prevent it. Things that could have done: 1.By ensuring social responsiveness & responsibilities: Managers social responsibilities go beyond making profits to include protecting and improving society’s welfare. On the other hand social responsiveness is when a company
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1) In 1918‚ the year of the revolution‚ when her family was killed‚ Anastasia was 17. In the movie she was about 10. 2) Not all of her family was killed that day. In fact only Anastasia‚ her parents Emperor Nicholas Romanov‚ Empresses Alexandra‚ Agnostic’s sisters Olga‚ Tatiana and Maria‚ and her younger brother Alexei were killed on that day. Later in that month‚ Anastasia’s uncle Mikhail was murdered in Perm‚ her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth‚ her uncle Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich‚ along with
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What is smarm‚ exactly? Smarm is a kind of performance—an assumption of the forms of seriousness‚ of virtue‚ of constructiveness‚ without the substance. Smarm is concerned with appropriateness and with tone. Smarm disapproves. Smarm would rather talk about anything other than smarm. Why‚ smarm asks‚ can’t everyone just be nicer? The most significant explicator of the niceness rule—the loudest Thumper of all‚ the true prophetic voice of anti-negativity—is neither the cartoon rabbit nor the publicists’
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Characteristics of a Screwball Comedy in “It Happened One Night” Frank Capra’s 1934 classic Hollywood narrative‚ “It Happened One Night” is the perfect example of a screwball comedy. One of the most prevalent themes in the movie is the socioeconomic divide between Peter Warne and Ellie Andrews. Ellie is from a well-to-do family and Peter is just a reporter. In the scene where the child on the bus is in distress due to his ailing mother‚ we see that Ellie is frivolous with money‚ even though
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