Mid-term Paper 10/18/2012 Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 production Rear Window is indeed a film primarily concerned with masculinity‚ or better yet emasculation‚ and the male gaze. The central character L.B. Jefferies‚ or Jeff‚ is a newspaper photographer who recently broke his leg snapping pictures at an auto race. He is now confined to a wheelchair and spends all of his time observing his neighbors from his Greenwich Village Apartment window. When he sees what he believes to be a murder‚ he takes it upon
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The topic I chose to research about is which police strategy/tactic is most effective in reducing crime and disorder. There are various forms of policing such as community-oriented policing‚ problem-oriented policing‚ hot spots policing‚ broken windows theory‚ and zero-tolerance policing. COP is a model of policing that stresses a two-way working relationship between the community and the police along with the police becoming more integrated into the local community‚ and citizens assuming an active
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VOYEURISM IN "REAR WINDOW" In this essay‚ I shall try to illustrate whether analysing the movie Rear Window as a classical example of the Freudian concept of voyeurism‚ is appropriate. Voyeurism is defined in The Penguin dictionary of psychology as: "Voyeurism: characterized by a pattern of sexual behaviour in which one’s preferred means of sexual arousal is the clandestine observing of others when they are disrobing‚ nude or actually engaged in sexual activity. Arousal is dependent upon the
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Professor Fricke 17 March 2014 Saint Denis Windows: Infancy of Christ The window displayed within an arch on the North side of Saint Denis depicts scenes ranging from Jesus Christ’s nativity to the death of the virgin. Upon initial gaze of the window‚ a colorful array of glass is divided into 21 distinct sections with a total of 3 columns and 7 rows. The display of the scenes are systemized where the central column of the window contains the main sequence of Jesus that includes popular representations
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What is the American Dream to you? In “Bernice Bobs her Hair‚” and “The Great Gatsby‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald use love‚ wealth ‚ and social status to depict what the American Dream. According to Fitzgerald‚ the 1920s‚ the American Dream was to be happy and successful. In today’s society‚ it has the same concept but different ideas. In Fitzgerald’s idea of the American Dream‚ finding love is a key idea for happiness. In “The Great Gatsby‚” Gatsby has been trying to meet his love again‚ Daisy.”Gatsby
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up since it isn ’t really a monopoly; Windows has a lot of competitors out there and some of the companies that make them are even bigger than Microsoft. And that is actually quite true: Microsoft has only about 6% of the global software market and only 3% of the global computer market overall. There are several computer companies that make more than Microsoft‚ like Sun Microsystems and Compaq and there are at least nine other operating systems besides Windows‚ some of which you could even get for
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Unit 2 Assignment 1: Calculate the Window of Vulnerability The WoV covers a timeline from the moment a vulnerability is discovered and identified by the IT people. It also includes the time taken to fix the vulnerability. It is also important to explore the device(s) that were targeted by the attack. In this instance‚ being the SMB server within the LAN. The window of vulnerability is 8 days. 1. The WoV covers a timeline from the moment a vulnerability is discovered and identified by the IT people
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In "Lean on Me" Morgan Freeman plays the role of a high school principal with a policeman mentality and vigilante behavior who is hired to reinstall order and education in the drug-infested Eastside high school in New Jersey in 1987. Mr. Joe Clark‚ magnificently played by Freeman‚ first takes control via discipline and then by instilling hope. Wearing heroic white through the whole length of the movie he one-sidedly expels all of the instigators and the problem-causing students as his first official
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Wind and Window Flower By: Robert Frost T: When I first heard the title‚ I thought on the lines that it would talk about the window flower blowing in the wind. P: The poem in my own words is talking about this flower sitting in the windowsill who had this winter breeze come by. Since winter winds don’t go along with flowers trying to grow‚ it just wasn’t working C: The deeper meaning of the poem had to do with two lovers. The flower was the girl and the winter breeze was the boy. Flower
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Trevor Stopka Mr. Bessey Rhetoric of Cinema 9 February 2015 The insight on Jeff and Lisa’s relationship Rear Window (Paramount Pictures 1954) is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies. He takes you through mystery and troubles of a relationship in this movie. You are shown what it is like to be stuck in your apartment and nothing to do but watch your neighbors. Also seeing how relationships were during the 1950’s and how Jeff (James Stewart) and Lisa Carol Fremont’s (Grace Kelly) relationship
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