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    periods in jazz: before Charlie Parker and after Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker has become an American icon and extremely important to the world of jazz. He had many successes throughout his life, but I want to find; how did Charlie Parker’s fast pace improvisation solo style effect the creation of bebop? Carlie Parker’s complex harmony and rhythms he integrated into his improvisation solo style laid the groundwork for the creation of a new jazz style known today as bebop. Charlie Parker was born in

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    Charlie Chaplin in “The Gold Rush (1925)” and Buster Keaton “The General” are master piece silent films from history. Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton are completely phenomenal actors. Neither one can be compared to the laughter and joy they bring to people, but which is the better film? Charlie Chaplin writer, and director of silent film masterpiece “The Gold Rush of 1925,” is a fantastic film. The Gold Rush of 1925 took place in Alaska during the great gold rush. People from all around the world

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    From Alexander Pope to Michel Gondry Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie that shot by Michel Gondry in 2004. The movie has science-fictional elements, although it is a low-budget production. The scenario of the movie is written by Charlie Kauffman, based on the poem Eloisa to Abelard (1717) by Alexander Pope. In this essay, I will analyze the movie adaptation of the poem Eloisa to Abelard as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Eloisa to Abelard is the poem of Alexander Pope, published

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    The 1940 film, “The Great dictator” written, directed, produced, and starring Charlie Chaplin is a prime example of a political satire. The film was made to primarily satirize Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, anti semitism and fascism. Throughout the movie, many different satirical devices are used, but one key device used by Chaplin is over exaggeration. In “The Great Dictator” over exaggeration is used during Hynkel’s speeches every time he speaks German, the various ways that Hynkel and Napolini

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    Modern Heroes Analysis

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    Critique of Modern Heroes Elvis Presley, Harper Lee, Charlie Chaplin, wow, I mean, wow, have you ever heard a group of more irrelevant and uninfluential people. I can 't believe these people were thought to be the biggest role models ever. Like who really cares if Elvis Presley “revolutionized music” when he introduced rock and roll to the world or if Harper Lee created an iconic book that changed world views on racism or even that Charlie Chaplin was considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers

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    Throughout our class this semester we learned about all different views of free will and happiness by several different philosophers. In this paper I will be speaking of the relations between a film and two sections we read. The film is the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and excerpts are from The Good Life by Charles Guignon including Rousseau’s theories on happiness, and Sarte’s theories of free will that all inter relate. In The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a very meek Joel and

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    What does the opening shot showing sheep say about the human condition? Sheep have been domesticated by humans, and are the symbol of obedience and docility without questioning. Sheep go together in masses with the head looking down, following the group. In this sequence at the beginning of the movie, masses of people going to the factory are comparable to a flock of sheep. They have been domesticated by the new era, the era of machines in “modern times”. 2 How does Chaplin characterize the

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    OF THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) 1 AN EXPLORATION OF THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) 2 An Exploration of Charlie Chaplin 's Influences, Symbolism, and Use of Sound in The Great Dictator (1940) Vincent G. Foisy Cleveland State University. An Exploration of Charlie Chaplin?s Influences, Symbolism, and Use of Sound in The Great Dictator (1940) In the early 1900?s, Charlie Chaplin became one of the most famous filmmakers in American history. His clumsy portrayal of The Little Tramp in

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    The War Film Genre

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    The war film genre includes films about warfare, including naval, air or land battles. Films in this genre may focus on the battles, prisoners of war, military training, life during wartime or morality and humanitarian issues of warfare. This genre commonly includes works of fiction, works based on historical facts and occasionally works based on alternate-history fiction. According to American Cinema/American Culture, the genre also includes four narrative elements: the suspension of morality during

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    has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we’ve had time to stop and question it. We have access to all the information in the world but no brain space left to absorb anything longer than 140- character tweets. ” Black Mirror TV Show, Charlie Brooker, Channel 4. Within this quote, Brooker says that people have sold their own ability to think independently just for all the information in the world at their fingertips. Technology has only deepened its grasp on consumers by becoming a necessity

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