Bookends

For the first period, Technology and Environmental Transformations, the major event that acted as a bookend was the development and interactions of early agricultural, pastoral, and urban societies. This event enabled core and foundational civilizations to develop in many different places around the world where they grew to be dependent on agriculture. The first states began to arise within these established civilizations, and culture helped unify the state through many key aspects, like law, language

The Graduate and Plastics   The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols who won an Oscar for his direction.  This hit of the 60's focuses on the development and the maturing of the ultra-naïve college graduate Benjamin Braddock.  This movie is about "just one word...Plastics."  Mr. McQuire sums up this entire movie when he tells Ben that there is "a great future in plastics."  In this film the relationships, except the one between Ben and Elaine, are like

Film Analysis of “The Graduate” The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked

Analysis of 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkel In expressive arts we are studing the topics the 60’s. We listened to the song “7 O'clock News/Silent Night” Simon and Garfunkel. In 1956, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were juniors at Forest Hills High School in New York City. They began playing together as a group called Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis and Garfunkel as Tom Graph, so called because he always liked to track hits on the pop charts

In The Graduate, the director, Mike Nichols’, emphasizes the mysterious tone of the film with his overuse of lighting, camera angles, and shadows. The uncertainty Benjamin Braddock feels can be seen right from the start as he stands on the moving sidewalk at the airport. He is positioned at the right hand side of the screen moving forward. You can see a large area to the left where the credits appear. I think the director chose this technique for the opening credits to symbolize how this graduate

When you think of winter what do you usually think about? I think about the freezing temperatures, the ice, and the snow. However, in literature winter can be symbolic of many things. The dark, sadness, old age, and death are just some of the things winter can symbolize in literature. The songs “California dreamin’” by the Mamas and Papas and “A hazy shade of winter” by Simon and Garfunkel are both about winter but mean very different things. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor will

The characterization of Benjamin Braddock is apparent through the main focus of the 1967 coming of age film, The Graduate. The point of view, cinematography, score and less so the dialog gives the audience a detailed look into not only who Benjamin is as a person, but also the challenges he faces throughout the film. The film focuses on the perspective of Ben himself, never really giving the audience a chance to watch much else of anything, really. Occasionally, the camera angle is intended to

The Graduate is a 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as Elaine Robinson. The film follows Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who has an affair with a friend of his parents, but ends up falling in love with her daughter. The Graduate starts with Ben in an airport. The whole sequence is melancholy because the sound overlays “The Sound of Silence” with an airport employee over the intercom. This scene is very melancholy

Heaven Ornelas Professor Moses, Film 2B Spring 2017 Cover Letter for Benjamin find his voice in Mike Nichol’s The Graduate Abstract: In Mike Nichols’s The Graduate, Benjamin Braddock’s (portrayed by Dustin Hoffman), the main character, struggles to find his voice and stand up for himself as his parent and others influence him to choose a certain life plan, is conveyed through Nichols’s composition of scenes, dialogue, and symbolism. Benjamin is continually influenced by someone whether

Most comedians suffer from depression, and they use their battles as jokes that hide their true emotions behind laughter. The movie The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, is intended to be a comedy. It portrays a young man named Benjamin who is returning from college and received a highly prestigious award. Not only did he win an award, but he graduated before he turned 21. The average age of a college graduate is 22, therefore, Ben graduated 2 years early with a special recognition, and he does