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    Williams carefully employ stage directions to illustrate the Amanda’s yearn to wed Laura to a gentlemen caller; thus, perpetuating the expected role of women as domestic objects during the 1930s. EX: The coherent use of stage direction is seen in Scene 5, whereby Amanda is seen talking to her daughter while reminiscing of her old self. The stage direction highlights ‘[She carries a bunch of jonquils – the legend of her youth is nearly revived].’ (p. 48) A: The statement perpetuated by Amanda shows

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    is a multi-channel process.” This implies that the auditory channel process is only part of the deal. Indeed, the importance of the various non-verbal channels is pointed out in Birdwhistell’s belief that “probably no more than 30 to 35% of the social meaning of a conversation or an interaction is carried by words.” A few years earlier, in 1959, Edward T. Hall coined the term “the silent language” to describe nonverbal communication and direct significant attention toward the subject. The purpose

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    specific aspects of mise-en-scène and cinematography, John Ford displays his views of society. The film consists of many cliché western characters. There is a banker, an outlaw, a prostitute, a doctor, a gambler, and a pregnant woman. These characters are categorized by social class. The banker, the pregnant

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    The film “The Mission” released in 1986 is a fictional story with a historical underlining. Several of the characters are based off of historical figures. While certain scenes represent historical events. The film is about the Jesuits’ work and how the mission of the Jesuits was to, “spread Catholic ideas through teaching… (and) missionary work” (pg1.) The film does more than just apply history; it shows us how far humans will go for power. Power back then was to expand as far as possible, the more

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    years, only talked to him on the telephone once or twice, but still there was a genetic pain, which was soon to be pain as real and immediate as a broken bone” (59). The theme of finding one’s own identity is one of the major themes in “What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona” that is carried along the plot by the journey of Thomas and Victor. Victor is a broken man. “Smoke signals” uses a combination of the translation and pluralist paradigms seen in Kilen’s piece about film adaptation to alter the plot

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    Trashed and disheveled, Jesus Gris enters his now destroyed antique shop littered with broken sculptures, paintings, and documents. Oddly enough, as Jesus walks in awe to his desk one item remains to be whole, clocks. The clocks surrounding him appear to be frozen some of the hands are pointed at 9:00 while others are set too far back to truly identify. In this scene the mise en scene parallels to Jesus physical state. After using the Cronos for the first time Jesus looks and feels reinvigorated

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    choice. She aims her rifle at her disease-stricken husband and he dies in her arms. As a result of this shooting, Janie finds herself on trial for Tea Cake’s death. The common themes of gender and race stereotypes, as well as social conformity are expressed throughout this scene. A jury, consisting of all white men will decide Janie's fate. “Gentlemen of the jury, it is for you to decide whether the defendant has committed a cold blooded murder or whether she is a

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    I believe that Piggy’s death was one of the most important events in the novel Lord of the flies. To represent the most important scene of the novel, I portrayed the death of one of the main characters, Piggy. To recall an evil sadist, Roger released the rock that flew down from above the cliff and fell on Piggy. “ Piggy fell forty feet and landed across the square red rock in the sea”, the author describes in the book. Definitely, he could not survive this serious fall, so the boy fell down on the

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    where it is broken off in three parts. The first part starts off with describing each character and their way life. The second part is associated with Robbie and the third part is associated with Brioney. The author of this novel, Ian Mcewan, uses descriptive words to describe each events, in each part, clearly. The social class plays an important key to this novel as the story progresses. Social class affects the character 's way of thoughts and action towards their understanding. The social class is

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    Reflection Paper Red

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    Communication in Social Relationship is the topic I chose in writing about a reflection paper on the indie movie that is directed by Jay Abello, Red. Basically, relationship is everywhere. It could be a relationship between friends, family, lovers or in the workplace. It is important to build social relationship because it brings various rewards that will help us in our daily lives. In this reflection paper, I would write five scenes in the movie red that depicts the cost and rewards of social relationship

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