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    But, how gruesome? And is the film The Passion of the Christ a sagacious depiction? Film critics have charged Mel Gibson, the director of The Passion of The Christ, for being unnecessarily morbid depicting the crucifixion and left out the achievement that Christ’s offering brought to mankind. Others defend Gibson’s portrayal; by arguing one must understand his Catholic background so as to shed light on his macabre depiction. Steven Greydanus, from the National Catholic Register, is a defender

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    Within Earle Brown, the images and classrooms are displayed with a fair depiction of diversity. People of different races, genders, and cultural beliefs are represented, much like the student population found at the elementary school. Earle Brown is an IB school; therefore, it could be argued that there is more of a need to represent a worldly view. There are signs in both English and Spanish found throughout the school, as well as clocks displaying different time zones across the world. Upon entering

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    First off, the machines at the begining of the movie represent the industrial revolution, and that is what brought forth the modernism movement/mentatlity. Karl marx was also brought forth because of the modernism movement. The assembly line represents the industrial revoltuion and the people looked alienated and look like robotic slaves. The dancing styles within the movie, and even the movie itself having text and sounds used instead of a voice represent the startup of the movie industry. Within

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    Finding life in death can be equated to finding light in darkness. In the Bible, Yahweh is generally associated with the light of life, yet He also causes a majority of the death and destruction within His resplendent creation. Yahweh’s creation and management of humans illustrates this paradoxical relation between creation and destruction which can be synonymous with life and death or knowledge and ignorance. Man and woman were created to remain in a state of childlike innocence within the Garden

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    the simplicity of the information provides an easier story to follow and thus a smoother, more basic array of details that the reader must interpret. However, this simplistic style is greatly different from the one that Washburn chooses for the depiction of the crime scene. As if to build up to the change in writing styles, Washburn begins the story of the crime scene with a briefly detailed overview of the weather conditions and the time of year the murder occurs. They are described as being “a

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    The Hyper-Sexual Depiction of The Wife of Bath In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales The Wife of Bath, is arguably the most entertaining character within Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Her refusal to conform to the standard expectations of women during the fourteenth century, has earned The Canterbury Tales a place amongst the earliest examples of feminist English literature. The Wife of Bath is depicted as someone concerned entirely with wealth and reputation, and intriguingly

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    Depiction of Latinos in 20th Century Film Graphs Not Included Over the course of this past century, the depictions of assimilated Latino characters has improved a great deal. Early portrayals of Latino assimilation generally proved to be a montage of unrealistic caricatures which seemed to convey the filmmaker's creativity more so than true representations. This formed the manner in which the American people at large viewed not just Latino characters attempting to assimilate, but also those

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    Blair Murphy Professor Foltz STS 1010-11 30 July 2015 CR #2 Neil Postman’s Depiction of Social Media The words community and conversation both have concrete definitions. The definition of community is a group of people that either live together or share a common characteristic. A conversation is an exchange of ideas through spoken words. In the article, titled Technology, Neil Postman states: “how the words 'community' and 'conversation' are now used to mean, simply, people

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    Young Adults and the Depiction of Violent War Entertainment The American Academy of Family Physicians Organization states children and adolescents in the U.S. spend an average of about seven and a half hours a day using various forms of entertainment such as television, video games, and the Internet. Does entertainment involving war have an influence on young adult’s attitudes toward violent behavior in society? If so, the understanding of violence itself must be clear. Violence, as stated in the

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    Dan Brown’s Inferno, a chillingly grim picture of a potential future, is a wonderful piece of satire. His views on overpopulation take a surgically-precise stand on what statistics predict to be true. In fact, his novel has no thematic connection to Dante’s classic work of the same name; although allusion is made to it, the real topic is overpopulation. The novel depicts a bleak world in the very near future of a human race on the brink of extinction. Furthermore, the dismal predictions he projects

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