Editing In American History

In Interpretations of American History, a collaborative team of four editors (Francis G. Couvares, Martha Saxton, Gerald N. Grob, and George Athan Billias) seek to educate any student of history on the various perspectives on any one said historical issue. The editors sum up the entire book with “These volumes reflect our understanding that history is an act of interpretation. ” Essentially, this book offers a multitude of benefits for those who wish to further study history, but at the same time the reader must take everything said with a grain of salt.

Editing in Breathless is used to great extent to not only assist in the telling of the narrative, but also to convey certain feelings to the audience. By employing a mostly discontinuous style of editing, the film puts emphasis on the crime genre of the film as well as the events unfolding around the main character. This method of editing mostly calls attention to itself as a film technique, rather than a more continuous, concealed style of editing like in Casablanca. At the same time, however, this approach of editing for the film also creates very steady pacing and a discernable rhythm of the shots presented.

At the beginning of the book danny is shown to be a loud, rude person. Like during the soccer game, when Danny kept roaring at holling to get in front of doug swieteck’s brother “Danny screamed again “IN FRONT!” even though holling is his friend, he keeps yelling at him “Imagine a sound with a whole lot of vowels, and i think you have it”. Even though Danny was scared too, and Doug swieteck’s brother was a bully, he probably should’ve encouraged holling instead.

To the reader it seems at first that Danny is an arrogant, uptight son of a rabbi. We learn as the novel progresses more about Danny and that he is a less than perfect

Looking back at American History, we can see many instances where bravery and courage combined with a leap of faith changed the course of our country's history. The declaration of independence was perhaps the most significant of all those actions. In the late 1700's Britain began abusing their colonies in America, this did not sit well with the colonists, and soon people could no longer endure such unfairness and hardship. The founding fathers were more than justified to declare independence from Britain, liberating the people of America from the tyranny and abuse of the British crown.

In the novel, Danny was shown to constantly manipulate conversations in his own favor: “Danny leant forward. ‘Can I ask you what you think – no, sorry what you feel – about the trial?’ ‘What I feel? I don’t think my feelings are relevant.’ ‘oh I think they are!’” (Pg 76) and “No, it didn’t have any impact at all. It was too different. Anyway, it’s the … It’s not the trial I want to talk about.” (Pg 101). His manipulative features likely stems from his past experiences, needing to adapt to the environment quickly and efficiently in order to survive, whether it’s abusive father or imprisonment. At a young age, Danny’s father forced Danny to wring a pullet’s neck off and he did, this showcased how Danny was forced to adapt to the surroundings and thus affected by negative

It was a rainy day in Little Rock, Arkansas. Madison, 13, sat in her room for most of the day. Her mom, Amanda, came in her room and said she’s going to the store and wanted to know if she wants to go. Since it was a boring rainy day she agreed. They got in the van and went on their way. They arrived at walmart , and started to get their groceries. Madison passed by the jewelry and scarves then saw something. It looked fuzzy, so what 13 year old wouldn’t be interested by that? She looked and it was a rabbit’s foot. She didn’t know too much about the superstition, she just knew it was supposed to bring good luck and sort of believed it but only really wanted it because it matched her backpack and it was fuzzy. She told her mom that she wanted

“Honesty is the best policy” (Benjamin Franklin). I believe that for the most part our programs and policies in the US benefit the health and well being of the average modern person. However, I do think that changes can be made to our education systems and overall political mindset in modern American media. The United States educational systems and news medias are not honest with its student and average citizens when it comes to American history and politics.

Over the past 100 years many historical events and people have influenced the change on America to what it is today. During the 1900’s many historical events and figures have helped shaped America to what it is today. The events and figures led up in wars and segregation and the way we act upon these situations now so we don't, repeat them. These historical events and figures being World War 2, Rosa Parks, and The attack on 9/11.

I saw as Thomas Jefferson walked into a room with many men in white powdered wigs. They were talking about letting them use their ports in New Orleans And started punching and kicking each other. Half the men came out with torn wigs and bruises. I heard a man mumble “Why can’t we just put our goods in New Orleans”. Then another Man told him “ Heck, we will just have to go to war. Again!”. Thomas Jefferson insisted not to go to war again. Thomas Jefferson walked home in the rain and there was a French man in the distance. As Thomas Jefferson walked by he was stopped by the man. He said with a deep voice “ Hey want to the Louisiana region land.” Thomas quietly said “How much you want for it” The man said 11.25 million dollars and 3.75 for

On April 19, 1775, Americans will never forget when many deaths and historical events occurred allowing the colonist to receive their victoriorous justice. Colonists were frustrated because Britain forced them not to have any representation in the British Parliament. This led to an American battle which had 4,435 deaths involving this event. Although, we lost many lives during this time period, we gained justice and independence from Great Britain, with the help of one of Americas strongests allie; the French. In fact, without assistance, the Americans were no match for Britains; showing the hatred towards the British from the French and Americans, thus, making it easy for them to form an alliance. In 1778, representatives of both America

Tony Kaye has used many film techniques to successfully express his purpose of each scene to us the audience. Another important film technique that Tony Kaye utilizes is Mise en scene as it is used to describe the design aspects of the film and allows us to analyze everything in one scene. One scene that perfectly fits these details is the memorable police scene when Derek surrenders to the police and gets taken into custody. We see Dereks tattoo and the signs at the back clearly in this scene. What to take into account from the scene is when the Cop coincidentally put his hand over Derek’s Swastika tattoo on his right breast while he is being arrested. A mid shot is used to show Derek's body waist upwards when he was surrendering from the

In V for Vendetta (2006), James McTeigue uses several editing techniques to emphasize the dystopian environment the movie is set in. One of the film’s most compelling scenes is a domino montage where the protagonist, V, is seen setting up dominoes while Eric Finch, the detective in charge of capturing V, is in his office telling a colleague about his findings. McTeigue uses juxtaposition to connect these seemingly unrelated scenes and add suspense to this pivotal scene in the film. McTeigue incorporates crosscutting to suggest that these events are occurring simultaneously.

Danny, who idolizes Derek, also is heading down the same path of prejudice in reintegration. Their sickly mother, Doris is in contact status, oblivious to the extent her sons’ extremist potential, and is dating a Jewish man, Mr. Murray, who three years later, becomes Danny’s English teacher.

As chief editor for the newspaper it is ultimately my responsibility to do what is best for the publication and my staff. Due to a recent employee’s actions, I must now make a decision that will affect that employee, but also myself, other staff members, and even members of the community. The employee in question is the sports editor of the newspaper whose excessive overtime is causing the paper to hemorrhage money that could ultimately cost jobs or even the publication itself. While this editor is clearly passionate and excellent at his job it is important that I, as chief editor, do what is best for everyone. Using Rawl’s veil of ignorance, I will place myself behind the veil to determine what would be the most just action to take,