What Makes A Cult Film? “What is a cult classic?” “What makes it a film that future generations love?” The Oxford English Dictionary defines a cult film as “enduring an appeal to a relatively small audience.” In addition‚ cult audiences are frequently at odds with cultural conventions‚ and often are rebelling against the status quo. These people prefer strange topics and allegorical themes that revolt against the cultural sensitivities. They challenge genre conventions and monotonous storytelling
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Plays: What Makes Them Funny?" | | By: David Zakheim 12/21/2011 | David Zakheim Funny Stories and Plays: What Makes Them Funny? “Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it” (White). One shouldn’t question comedy and what is funny to people. As soon as that happens all of the funniness disappears. There is no easy answer to why people laugh at things‚ and why things are funny. Something is funny
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Teal Jurries May 13‚ 2013 Book Essay The book I chose to read was Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin. The book has approximately 322 pages. I chose to read this novel because I remember watching the movie while flipping through channels and thought it was pretty interesting‚ and I figured the book would probably be better. I honestly also chose this novel because I need to read just a few more books before I can graduate and while skimming the book‚ it looked like an easy read and had an interesting
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Batman: a Fictional Hero “Something Terrible” is a masterpiece by Dean Trippe which tells about his own trauma when he was a child. He overcame the darkness in his heart through the world of fiction and the help of one of the most well-known superheroes in the world‚ Batman. In the story‚ his life was terribly ruined by a teenager who threatened and raped him‚ which is shown in page 4‚ panel 1 and 2. Even
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What Makes A Just Society? Throughout history‚ people have been trying to create an improved‚ fair‚ and equal system of justice‚ not only to better society in which one lives‚ but to also find a sense of meaning in what responsibilities people should hold within their civilizations in order to create this just way of living. As early as the Old Testament within the Bible‚ we see examples of how the Hebrews formed their own justice. This can be seen in the in text of the Ten Commandments
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The Color Purple questions the notions of gender. In the article “Feminism” Carolyn Perry states that “Feminism differs from the women’s movement in that it moves beyond the political and economic issues at heart of the women’s movement…‚ such as tearing down the hierarchical structure of sex and gender roles and changing the way people view men‚ women‚ and gender”(255). She believed that it wasn’t a thing as “a women’s place” (255). In The Color Purple Alice Walker shows us that women can overcome
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are offered to students without charge‚ also funded by taxation. 3. The purpose for reading material like this is to answer the questions‚ and to learn about the topic 4. A. How was the author’s experience in high school? C. What is his point he’s trying to make? D. Was he successful in high school and did he personally do well? 5. A. The atmosphere when I was in high school really relates to the authors feelings about ‘School or Prison’. “Unfortunately‚ my school is losing qualities
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retrograde institution in America‚" and told a delegation of black leaders in 1862 that "your race is suffering‚ in my judgment‚ the greatest wrong inflicted on any people." Slavery was a stain on American history and by far an unthinkable act that makes most people cringe. If you can imagine someone kicking in the door to your home‚ tying up yourself and your family‚ dragging them to a vehicle for transportation‚ and then sold to the highest bidder in some land you know nothing about. Even worse‚
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What Makes me Happy Every person in the world have different interests in everything: in studying/working‚ spending free time and so on. So different things in various ways makes people happy. For one person the most important thing is to spent a lot of time with his family‚ another can not live without fiends etc. There are as many interests as people in the world. For me a lot of things lead me to the happiness. Firstly I am a student of NSU. It was the main aim for me to entered this university
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What makes an excellent film? It took me a little while to come up with an answer to‚ "What makes an excellent film?" There really is no answer‚ actually. I believe that an excellent film is within the eyes and emotions of the audience. After researching and discovering what actually won Oscars and Golden Globe awards‚ it came down to what the people thought‚ and the popularity of a film. It is extremely hard to predict what will win these awards before the movie is even released to the public
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