Witness, By Australian Peter Weir

The author’s employment of various archetypal elements throughout “Peter Two” reveals Irwin Shaw’s purpose to highlight the transformative, yet destructive power that acts of violence have on people’s lives. When the reader is first introduced to the protagonist of this story, Peter, he is portrayed as an undoubtedly confident and self assured teen, who has a “conscious feeling of confidence and pride in himself” and believes that he has identified his role in society­­ as that of the hero (Shaw 2). The pride he has in himself partially manifests from the victorious confrontation Peter has with the bully, Charley Blaisdell, resulting in Peter being seen as a hero by a harassed classmate. However, as the story progresses, Peter descends into

The first example of society behavior is used through the story of a late thirties white man name Benhard Goetz who shoots four black youths on a subway cart in New York. This anecdote is significant to the novel because it takes place in the mid-80s where society is pointed by drugs, and violent brutality wreaks havoc through the city of New York. Leaving his Manhattan apartment, Goetz hops on the subway and notices four African American youths “horsing around,” and “acting rowdy.” According to the story, Troy Canty, one of the boys, asked Goetz for five dollars. Out of instinct James another one of the boys, “gestured toward a suspicious-looking bulge in his pocket, as if he had a gun in there.”

Given the many cultural differences between the native nations and European settlers, hostile relations among the two gradually developed due to a multitude of controversial issues. These issues mainly stemming from the contrast of both sides’ everyday lifestyles and traditions. The native nations and Europeans had polar opposite ideas about what women and men should be and what their roles entailed. “ The difficulty that Europeans had in understanding the alternative gender realities to which they were exposed tells us how strong is the impulse to view established gender definitions in one's own culture as natural rather than socially constructed” (Evans, 1989). Naturally developed gender definitions and norms for the natives were mainly rooted from religious and cultural background. Europeans did not hold the same amount of religious value as the natives did.

David Landers articulates, “Witnesses can be essential to the success of any car accident claim. In many car accident scenarios, the only witnesses are the drivers of each vehicle. . . That is why the presence of additional witnesses, known as ‘third party’ witnesses, can become so crucial.”

There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world, we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage, friendships, and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s perspective of culture on the screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions that are reflected in a particular pattern. Examples of both verbal and non verbal intercultural communication and how they relate to particular intercultural

There are many different types of cultures, languages, and religion out in this enormous planet we call earth. It was quite hard to decide on what cultural group to study, since there are a wide range of interesting cultures. The one group of individuals that has always interested me was the Native American culture. Though there is a wide range of Native American cultural groups as well. The one group that I wanted to pinpoint and what interested me the most was, the Cheyenne Native American Tribe. Not only were they so close to home but they were different from most of the other tribes.

In the film "Witness" starring Harrison Ford, producer Peter Weir has created two different worlds with different value systems. He has done this through the use of juxta-positioning, camera angles set at different heights and the process of character development. In the Film, John Book played by Harrison Ford plays the parts of detective, protector, and refugee, all to solve the murder case of another Police Officer. The only witness to the murder is 7-year-old Samuel who is unofficially under Books protection against everyone from corrupt cops to the murderer.

The art I chose to look into is Lighthouse by Alan Foxx. It is a representational artwork of a lighthouse. The painting in its entirety is of a lighthouse on a stormy shore with a boat at sea. The art according to the artist himself is always up for interpretation but he personally likes the thought of the light house being a light in the dark. The focal point is the lighthouse. There are not really any implied lines in this artwork. All the actual lines are natural as it is a representational artwork. The natural shapes are natural and the man-made structures are extremely polygonal possibly just to create a juxtaposition of natural and unnatural. You can’t really see in the picture provided but the lighthouse has a hexagonal pattern on its

While I can drive a car, Ira could have only “dreamed of driving a truck” (Wagler 67). Using any form of motorized transportation, except trains, are prohibited in almost all Amish communities. Other forms of technology were also forbidden by the Amish Church. “There [was] no music [and] no TV” in the Amish world unlike the English world (Wagler 177). When I get bored I can just watch TV; meanwhile, Ira was not permitted to watch TV at all as it was forbidden in the Amish culture. Buggies “rolled along the three or four miles to” their destination at a slow pace (Wagler 177). Cars can zoom past the buggies with no trouble at high speeds. All sorts of technology marvels that are present in our daily lives are prohibited in the Amish society. The novel shows me that I should take nothing for granted as most of the tools I use everyday were not available to Ira while he was living the Amish

Amazement was felt as hearing the leg-iron sounds used when the defendants entered and left the courtroom. The images were not sharp but were dirty, enhancing the feeling of tension. The camera showed a special effect when it focused on who was talking and giving testimony. The camera zoomed into their faces showing the speaker's reaction and feeling towards the subject. I admired the parent interviews in this documentary because it gave the viewer the parent's perspective about how they felt towards the subject. The parents were not educated, so they had insufficient knowledge of what was going on, so they relied their proficiency upon the lawyers who were more

The thriller film ‘Witness’, directed by Peter Weir in 1985, tells about cultural conflicts between the Amish of Western Pennsylvania and Modern American corruption and violence. Philadelphia Police officer, John Book was obligated to hide from the three brutally and corrupt police officers as they were looking for a little Amish boy, Samuel Lapp. The boy witnessed the brutal killings and identified the killer as the three police officers. The ‘Witness’ strongly displayed many images of people and incorporated several techniques and images in various scenes to portray the contrast between two different worlds.

Witness is a Hollywood film that was directed by Peter Weir in 1985. It’s a story about an Amish boy who witnesses a murder on his trip to the big city. Weir in the closing scenes is able to show through different themes, various techniques of sound, camera and lighting to correspond the Amish community, their connection to the land and disconnection from society. The main themes conveyed in this movie include violence vs. pacifism, community vs. individualism, moral judgement vs. personal choice, the clash of cultures and innocence and purity vs. corruption.

In the novel, there are three themes that are prevalent throughout the book. The first theme that the reader is introduced to is the concept of competition. Healthy competition can make a work environment more progressive, but in the book’s case, the competition can lead to some sneaky moves. A fruit of competition can be exaggeration. The reader sees this as the newspapers sensationalizing the murder. The second theme is corruption of the press. The press frequently twists people’s words to fit their need of readers. Also, the corruption of marriage is seen as Mrs. Nack killed her husband, the person she vowed to love and protect. The 1870s to 1900s were called the Gilded Age because of its shiny, perfect exterior, but corrupt and tarnished interior. Corruption ran like blood in veins. The last theme is the theme of wealth. The American dream is living a comfortable life and working hard to get to that. Almost everybody wants to strike it rich. The more readers the newspapers receive, the more money is

The film Witness(underline witness), Directed by Peter Weir was famous in 1984. This film is about two cultures clashing with each other the Amish and The Western Society and a story line of a murder crime. “A big city cop who knows too much...His only evidence: A small boy who’s seen too much”. The main character of this film is Harrison Ford as John Book. Today I will be talking about two of the themes Peter Weir uses in the film ‘Witness’. They are the clash of two worlds and power.

Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter (2011) takes place in a US American heartland location typical of the director’s work. As with Shotgun Stories (2007) and Mud (2012), the action is situated in the small town ‘real America’ of working class protagonists who all, in their own ways are grasping to connect with an idealised version of the ‘good life’ which their lived experiences cannot match. All three films hint at this struggle being played out in the context of a dangerous external world- the sign warning of rising water levels at the beginning of Shotgun Stories, or the poisonous snakes and turbulent Mississippi river in Mud. Neither film, though, is so concerned with the existential threats to these imperfect, unassuming but somehow idyllic worlds as is Take Shelter.