François Mauriac

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    Imagine. Just imagine being scrunched into a bowl where all that could be seen are simply screens that present images of what the people outside of the bowl want you to see. Fahrenheit 451 takes us to an environment where people think they are living their free lives, but really are actors who are given roles but are oblivious to the fact that they are being directed by others. However, what if some were different or maybe, just aware? What if someone decided to leave the stage and say what they

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    Unlike older directors, directors in New Hollywood were both aware of critical film terms like auteurism and had nearly endless control over their production. In this way, these directors were often aware of their corpus, and tried to implement their styles into that corpus. One of the earlier auteurs that French film credits were able to identify was Howard Hawkes. Hawkes, being a classic Hollywood director, was very limited in that he could not break the established invisible editing. His auteurisms

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    I chose to draw the symbols of the fire department because to me, they play a huge role in the novel. The symbols help give the reader or observer an idea of what the firemen did and what they used to symbolize their job. Last year, my english teacher decided to let us watch the movie of Fahrenheit 451. In the movie, the firemen always came in a fire truck and personally, I thought it was an important image to add to my project. I loved how the fire truck looked so different compared to modern day

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    Burning Book

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    The Negative Effects of Burning Books Burning of books is a sin for those who have knowledge. Burning books is burning knowledge that people could be learning from. When someone burns a book, it’s just like disobeying their parents, guardian, any person who is older than them, or even god. It’s a prevention of gaining knowledge for those who already have it or don’t have any knowledge at all. Burning books is taking away the knowledge of people and is causing the society to replace books with technology

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    Thematic Idea

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    Your Notes (36 points): Thematic Idea #1:different forms of courage Document the Precise Location (1 point) Summarize the Situation in the Text (2 points) • Discuss how the situation relates to and reveals the larger thematic idea (2 points) • Draw a conclusion about the larger thematic message(s) that Bradbury seems to be communicating through this instance (1 point) Example #1 page 104 top to bottom Montag went into the metro station and goes to Faber's house with a book

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    The term ‘Auteur Theory’, coined by Andrew Sarris in 1962, was originally developed from a group of film critics who wrote for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Critics who would then later become the directors of the French New Wave. Auteur Theory was the idea that help encouraged cinema to be considered as an art from, at the same level as literature, rather than just mass culture entertainment. It brought the director to attention by saying that he was the sole author and creative force of a film

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    McBride 1 Brandy McBride McAndrew ELA August 6, 2017                                  Night In the book Night by Elie Wiesel there are many instances where his use of imagery helps establish tone and purpose. For example Elie Wiesel used fire (sight) to represent just that. The fire helps prove that the tone is serious and mature. In no way did Wiesel try to lighten up the story about the concentration camps or the Nazis. His use of fire also helps show his purpose. “Never shall I forget that night

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    The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting, 83.8 cm × 111.8 cm (33 in × 44 in), created by French realist painter Jean-Francois Millet in 1857. The piece of oil painting vividly depicts the nineteenth-century French rural life, with a rich flavor of harvest. Jean-Francois Millet arranges the farm as the main scene of background, and aims at three women gleaners being bent to pick up ears of wheat. Through the observation of the painting, we can see three peasant women occupy in the center of

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    Furthermore, realist and constructivist arguments against Post-Modernism are weak, unstable, and are easily shut down when closely analyzing post modernist views. Within realism, the sole criticism of Post-Modernism is that the belief is that an anarchic system leads them to conclude that power politics is the only way to conduct world politics in order to survive. However, this belief is myopic and leads to policy changes that will make war more probable. Post-Modernism invalidates realism because

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    The Golden Book by, Doris Lessing includes many issues, some of them are feminism,individualism, allienation, communism etc. however it contains both modernism and post modernism given as a mixture through out the text.With both of these terms used in the same book is enough to make it fascinating. What is modernism and post modernism? How does it affects the use of language in characters. Modernsim started at the late 19th century and ended around 1920s with great works accieved and also with

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