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    1959 was an exciting year in the history of filmmaking. An extraordinary conjunction of talent throughout the globe existed. In France, Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rohmer, Rivette, and Resnais all directed their first films, thus establishing the French New Wave. In Italy, Fellini created the elegant La Dolce Vita, and Antonioni gave us L’avventura. Most importantly, though, in America, famed British director Alfred Hitchcock gave us the classic thriller North by Northwest, the father of the modern

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s film North by Northwest (1959) is famed as a classic man-on-the-run thriller, following protagonist Roger Thornhill as he flees across state lines in a mad dash to save his life and unravel the mystery to his extraordinary predicament. However, mid-way through the film Thornhill’s quandary is further complicated by the introduction of Eve Kendall, a beautiful yet mysterious woman he encounters on a train during his escape from the authorities and people trying to kill him. During

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    budget was estimated as $3,101,000 and Grossed $13,275,000 at the box office in the U.S. North by Northwest was written by Ernest Lehman, directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The leading characters are Cary Grant (Roger O. Thornhill), Eva Marie Saint (Eve Kendall), James Mason (Phillip Vandamm), Jessie Royce Landis (Clara Thornhill), and Leo G. Carroll (The Professor) (IMDb). Although North by Northwest is classified and thriller, adventure and mystery film in addition to the other three genre

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    Just when you thought Hitchcock couldn’t do it any better, he does. North by Northwest is yet another classic Alfred Hitchcock espionage thriller which is said by many to be “the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures”. Myself, along with many others have listed North by Northwest as one of the greatest films of all time. It was selected in 1995 for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress, as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically

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    Eva Peron Research Paper

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    Eva Peron: The Woman, the Politician, the Saint The crowds outside the residency were astounding. An amazing number of people had turned out to say a final good bye to their first lady, Eva Peron. Never before in Argentine history had a death so affected the people. A large scale mourning of this kind was something that had never before occurred. A two day general strike was called in every business except those that were absolutely necessary. Within three days of Eva’s death, not a single

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    separation of slave families, and Prue’s owner who whips her to death. Stowe uses her characters to paint an image of the south that many southerners felt to be untrue. Stowe also only has one woman in the story, Marie St. Clare, who is not likable and her main quality is that she despises slaves. Marie is made out to be an antagonist. The other women who Stowe depicts all grow to love slaves and she promotes their characters as good characters. These women are protagonists. 8. For what group is the

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    Her father, Augustine St. Clare, buys Tom and assigns him the job of being the family driver. Tom and Eva both share a faith in Jesus Christ and bond over reading of scriptures and singing of hymns. Eliza, during her escape, meets up with her husband, George, who has also run away. They are adamant about getting to Canada soon, but their trip is halted

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    Eva Peron Research Paper

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    Introduction Mystery and controversy shadows Marie Eva Duarte’s whole life ranging from her not actually being a Duarte to whether it was a good thing that in her later life she started Peronism. Known as Eva and then later Evita, was an influential speaker and the First Lady to Juan Perón. Eva helped women and the poor despite her critics, she was a great role model to Argentina and affected many people such as the women, and the poor. During Eva Perón's time, many things were happening in Argentina

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    Catlin Hetrick Literature and Culture In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe not only tackles the structure of slavery itself, but depicts “femininity” through the development and representation of good, Christian values. Stowe designates the role of mother and homemaker to said females present in the novel, both living and dead. Frequent establishment of the portrayal of the female figure furthers Stowe’s pro-domesticity stance and the woman’s ability to indirectly undermine the structure of slavery. These

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    slavery while emphasizing the importance of Christian values. Though a quite controversial novel because of its views on race, it has gained recognition as one of the best anti-slavery novels of its time. Through its contrasting characterization of Eva and Topsy, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin highlights the corrupted influence of slavery on blacks, while applying racial stereotypes to the characters in the novel. Character introductions play a very important part in how the character is viewed by the

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