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leader. (Reporter). The location of King Arthur’s last battle can be identified as well as some of the characters, meaning the battle actually happened! Some works of literature record Arthur not just as a hero, but a tyrant as well. According to Gildas, “Arthur is spoken of as a tyrant, and wholly without heroic qualities, showing that the life was composed before Geoffrey of Monmouth had thrown a false glamour over this disreputable prince, who generally figures in the Legends of the Welsh Saints

Did King Arthur Truly Exist? Who was King Arthur? Most people would tell of a great King; a devoted circle of heroic knights; mighty castles and mightier deeds; a time of chivalry and courtly love; of Lancelot and Guinevere; of triumph and death. Historians and archaeologists, especially Leslie Alcock, point to shadowy evidence of a man who is not a king, but a commander of an army, who lived during the late fifth to early sixth century who may perhaps be the basis for Arthur. By looking at

Discussing two films (Iron Man, Knocked Up and/or Gilda) how are the concepts of gender and social scripts represented? When there is a shift in ideology, does representation or symbols of gender change? How do (or not) symbols reflect the ideology of gender? How are those outside of established gender roles portrayed? What stereotypes are reinforced? Both Knocked Up and Gilda provide examples of the ideologies depicting certain social gender roles. Hall describes representation as “an important

Pride is a trait everyone poses, but is having pride and being boastful a double edge sword? Pride and boasting are something that appears in many different characters with different manifestations through literature. In "Beowulf" and "Lanval", the pride and boastfulness are demonstrated as both a strength and weakness. Having the pride to boast caused many issues for Beowulf, Lanval and the Queen Guinevere. Beowulf starts boasting as soon as he is introduced to the King Hrothgar. Beowulf tells

In the medieval time, knight was a really essential part of the society, because they protected people and prosperities for them. They are respected, and have good behavior. In order to keep the good reputation, people came up with the code of chivalry which lists all the qualities that a knight should have. The movie, First Knight is about a man named Lancelot who is good with sword. He saves the life of King Arthur’s wife, Guinevere, and his behavior captures King Arthur’s attention. Then, he is

Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor) is a story about two ex-lovers that reunite when his employer marries the girl he once dated. In this film, there's a presence of power. Not only between gender, but between class. One of the first examples in the scene given is the class and power of the two men, Ballin Mundson and Johnny Farrell. The second example is Gilda verse the boys. While Johnny and Mundson have a battle of authority and status. Gilda battles being dehumanized and objectified. The only trick is

While both Citizen Kane and Gilda have an overarching element of male dominance, the formal techniques used to portray this theme differ significantly. Citizen Kane often uses cinematic techniques such as intense dialogue, graphic match, and montage editing, whereas Gilda focuses more on low key lighting, mise en scene, and dialogue. These key elements of the films are essential to display the role of male dominance of the common world. These movies were both made in the same time period, and both

Without a wide comprehensive social development, Gilda L. Ochoa exhibits however simply a fearless, management aware, counter-hegemonic academic modules will approach as a stabilizer to dissensions ways and practices like understudy following. Ochoa has done the essential work of concentrate complexities Latino and Asian American tutoring in one group and gives us a dialect, structure, and perspective with which to discuss and check it. Surprisingly provocative and perceptive, educational identification

film. Gilda Farrell (Miriam Hopkins) meets two men on a train, Tom Chambers (Fredric March) and George Curtis (Gary Cooper). The film illustrates the creation of the trio's friendship, as well as, a love triangle forms. The scene analysed for this essay deals with Gilda’s separation from the gentleman's agreement with Tom and George. Gilda accepts a marriage proposal from Max Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton). This marriage does not truly make her happy but

of a femme fatale interferes with the very idea of, as Angela Martin would say, “hardboiled” film noir. Films such as Mildred Pierce, Gilda, and Klute, though objectively different, hold a commonality in that they all present some aspects of film noir while not being seen as entirely so. Mildred Pierce presents flashback narration and shots dominated by shadows, Gilda uses the well-known role of the femme fatale, but deviates from classic noir by presenting aspects of the femme fatal in two decidedly