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Language : english

film studies

school essay

date published

19/11/2007

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Summary

Nothing can create nostalgia like a movie camera. There is something about the moving image that can trigger emotions like few other mediums can. It is easy to get lost in a film; they have the awesome ability of capturing and recreating the past. The nostalgic value of the cinema is immense, but where professionals recreate, amateurs simply need to record. When it comes to remembrance, nothing comes close to the power of home movies. The unprofessional quality of home movies—the poor sound quality, the unedited images—do not impair their power; they are what makes them all the more endearing. These amateur aspects of home movies have also become an often-used effect in the world of professional cinema. When a film wants to be wistful, emotional, and touching, nothing can achieve the same effect as old-fashioned home movies.

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) stands out in a genre that is attempted often, but very rarely succeeds.
During this home movie montage, no diajetic sound is to be heard. The home movies are silent, and Ray Charles' 'The Spirit of Christmas' presides over the entire montage.
The home movie sequence in this film is one of the most memorable scenes.
As Clark Griswold sits teary-eyed watching the home movies of a Christmas long ago, the viewer can't help but feel nostalgic as well.
The fact that a couple dusty reels of film can inspire such emotion in someone is a phenomenon. It is also very relatable.

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literature

school essay

date published

22/10/2007

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In “The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison explores racial tension in the town of Lorain, Ohio, immediately following the Great Depression. The novel follows the lives of a number of African Americans, including Claudia MacTeer, the narrator, Pecola Breedlove, the main character, and Pauline Breedlove, Pecola’s mother. The central theme of the novel is the pervasive idea of white culture as the standard of beauty, and the subsequent belief that black culture is ugly and undesirable, and the way that this belief influences the lives of the three characters. Both Pecola and Pauline have completely accepted the idea of whiteness as the standard of beauty to the point where they see themselves as being ugly and undesirable, and aspire to become white: Pecola desires to have blue eyes and Pauline wishes to look like the white celebrities she sees in the movies. On the other hand, Claudia resists the message that she is ugly and does not succumb to the self-loathing that is prevalent among the town’s African American population.

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Pecola Breedlove, whom the novel is named after, is the character that is the most susceptible to the belief that white culture is beautiful, and is also the most affected by it.
Unfortunately, Pecola's life does not change and she is constantly reminded of her ugliness.
She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty
Like a drug addict awakening from a euphoric stupor must come to terms with his squalid existence, so to did Pauline find a stark contrast between the scenes in the motion pictures and the scenes in her home.
In contrast to Pecola and Pauline, who see that whiteness and white culture are the standards of beauty and who try to emulate white women in an attempt to change their lives
In summary, a prominent theme in the novel 'The Bluest Eye' is the prevalence of the notion that whiteness is the ideal standard of beauty

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psychology

presentation

date published

11/12/2007

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Summary

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, directed by Jane Anderson and released in 2005, tells the true story of a mother from Defiance, Ohio who helped raise her rather large family by winning contests to earn money and necessities in absence of a steady income from her husband. Julianne Moore plays Evelyn Ryan, who is in constant conflict with her husband Kelly (Woody Harrelson) that she does love but can’t trust to support the family. Through her contests, Evelyn is able to provide for her ten children from home, even though she lives a very restricted life and seldom travels away from the neighborhood. Throughout the course of the film, mise-en-scene plays a crucial role in establishing a realistic setting in the past through a well-planned overall design, helping the viewer realize that the story was real and that the timeframe was essential for it to be carried out. Evelyn Ryan’s story is one that could not have happened in a modern era, nor farther back than the 1950s. Establishing that strict time for the film was necessary for the story to play out at all.

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educational studies

case study

date published

22/04/2008

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Why does the United States have almost four times the rate of teen pregnancies as France? Almost nine times the teen pregnancy rates of the Netherlands?
Other nations have sexual education implemented in an effective manner within their school systems. France has implemented a mandatory sexual education curriculum that is taught in both private and public schools. The greatest emphasis is placed on middle school sex and health education. Reproduction is taught in biology and there are mandatory requirements, two hours in middle school and 30 to 40 hours in high school

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Policy Recommendations for Massachusetts as a whole.
Comprehensive Sexual Education.
Puberty, changes in the body.
More Availability of Contraception.
Policy recommendations for older urban communities and areas with high rates of teen pregnancy.
Process development, how I developed my recommendations.
Presenting to the Legislature obtaining legislative support.
Lobby legislative leaders.
Conclusion.

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Language : english

film studies

school essay

date published

19/10/2007

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The media exists for the sole purpose of entertainment, and the easiest way to bring this entertainment to the people is through television. This being said, it can be understood why the media functions the way it does; entertainment needs to be entertaining. Isn’t it only expected that writers would strive to blow everything out of proportion? Even the news focuses mostly on the heart wrenching. So really, can television be blamed for the way in which it portrays mental illnesses? Why give viewers the boredom of a psychiatrist’s office when they can be given violent, sick people lost to the madness of schizophrenia and suicidal tendencies? Instead of striving for realistic integrity, television works toward the most violent portrayal of mental illnesses it can create.

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Introduction
There is a definite formula to being a Lifetime movie.
Many perspectives in psychology, especially Freudian, look for unconscious conflicts that may be the cause for psychological disorders, pain that has been festering since early childhood.
Mental breakdowns, the sudden plummet of an individual into mental torture, have always been a favorite of television shows and movies.
Sometimes, the television shows that are most separated from the field of psychology are the ones that raise the most issues of mental illness.
Conclusion

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Language : english

film studies

school essay

date published

19/11/2007

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The term “independent film” is extremely malleable in the realm of American cinema. A film may be considered “independent” if it is financed and/or distributed outside of a Hollywood studio, or if it bends and/or breaks the conventions of mainstream American movies. There are numerous, if not infinite, ways to categorize and classify films as independent, and any attempt to do so is nearly impossible. That said, there are certain films that inarguably deserve the controversial classification, and certain filmmakers that approach American cinema in a manner that undeniably independent. One such film is Stranger Than Paradise (1984), and one such filmmaker is Jim Jarmusch. The film, Jarmusch’s second feature as writer/director, was financed with a shoestring budget (around $110,000), and became an archetype of what American independent cinema would strive to be in the following two decades. The narrative style of Stranger Than Paradise bends nearly all the “rules” of mainstream cinema. Everything about the film is minimalist, to put it lightly. In the early 1980’s, when films with grand narratives—such as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984)—dominated the box office, Jarmusch’s film served as a daring, wholly original way to approach American cinema. Stranger Than Paradise’s sparse visual and narrative qualities frame its subject, American identity, in a way that few movies had ever attempted. His emphasis on the small, mediocre, and often-unexamined qualities of everyday life, made for a truly independent film.

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While independent cinema is, by and large, a debatable categorization, the stylistic differences between independent films and mainstream Hollywood features'perhaps particularly in movies from the 1980's'are quite clear
The narrative style of the film, in many regards, is the story. Jarmusch breaks the film into three parts, entitled ‘The New World', ‘One Year Later', and ‘Paradise?.
Like the film itself, the characters' meaning is revealed through the most minimal of actions.
American identity, which Willie has desperately been chasing since he emigrated from Hungary, is the heart of Stranger Than Paradise.
One of the funniest scenes in Stranger Than Paradise involves Willie, Eddie, and Eva, in Cleveland, making a trip to Lake Eerie.
Stranger Than Paradise is a film that derives great meaning from the parts of life that usually go unobserved in mainstream Hollywood films.

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3 word format

Language : english

film studies

research papers

date published

07/12/2007

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In 1997, a product was released that would do what nothing (not Betamax, Laserdisc, nor various projector systems) seemed to be capable of: conquering the VCR/VHS system. This product was the DVD (Digital Video or Digital Versatile Disc). As soon as it hit stores in the United States, it was bought at unpredictable rates and with its superior visual and audio capabilities, it soon after replaced VHS as the leading medium for home movie viewing. The DVD was popular from its start, but certain changes in production and development made it even more profitable. The invention and distribution of the DVD created a large influx of money to the media business, largely due to the selling of various re-releases and special editions, especially the Criterion Collection, which gained popularity by offering many updated special features (which DVD buyers completely demand today) such as extra footage, “making-of” specials, and audio commentaries.

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Language : english

social sciences

term papers

date published

07/12/2007

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These days it almost seems as though the internet is synonymous with pornography. When the internet is mentioned on television, there is usually pornography displayed or mentioned. One reason why internet pornography is so popular is because the internet provides anonymity to it’s patrons, allowing them to be freed of social constraints. There is an evident lack of leadership on the internet allowing anarchy to rule the citizens of the internet community. Because of this lack of social control, sexual deviance is rampant on the internet.
In this paper, the reader will learn about sexual deviance and the internet. After thoroughly explaining what sexual deviance is and the kinds of acts that can be considered in this category, this paper will delve into the legal issues surrounding sexual deviance. The paper will then transfer the idea of sexual deviance over to the internet and the laws that are applicable to the internet will be discussed. Since this is a sociological paper, it will conclude with a discussion of how sexual deviance on the internet can be explained in sociological terms by relating this issue to the social control theories of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber.

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0 word format

Language : english

literature

school essay

date published

30/08/2007

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