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    Movie Gender Roles

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    Women and women of color play specific roles in movies and films. It is a little more obvious when it comes to women of color to the roles they play in movies and films. We see women and women of color play a couple of roles. Does not matter the movie they will always find a way to play one of the few roles that are “meant” for women to play. Movies such as Southside With You, The Color Purple, and Queen of Katwe show women having these kinds of roles. Today’s movies and films show specific roles

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    Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” by Stephen Wilkes Stephen Wilkes’ Day to Night series is a collection of stunning, composite, panoramic photographs. Each is taken over the period of one day in a variety of settings from the African Serengeti to Shanghai. All photographs in the series are composites of thousands of digital photographs taken over the period of one day that captures the passage of time in a single image. “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” in particular is not only strikingly beautiful

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    The Western genre been highly prevalent in Hollywood films for decades. Beginning with The Great Train Robbery in 1903, Western films have gained international many parts of Europe and Mexico in addition to the United States. One classic example of a Western feature (full length) film is True Grit (1969), which stars John Wayne as the strong, memorable protagonist, Rooster Cogburn. Although the film follows many filmic conventions regarding the formula of the Western genre, it also defies certain

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    Grace Hopper is a exceptional scientist. Grace led a distinguished and unique  life in specialized studies. Grace Hopper was born on December 9,1906 in New York City. She passed away on January 1,1992 in Arlington County. Which means that she died at the age of 85. She is the oldest among her siblings. In 1928, Grace graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics. Both of these Majors were then unique for a woman to graduate with. Then, two years later, she had gotten her Master’s

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    amount of money in it. The waitress is arranging the display of fruit, which is presumably at the front of the restaurant. The restaurant contains wall mirrors, polished woodwork and checkerboard blue and white tiles on the floor. The artist, Edward Hopper, and his wife, Jo, had given each figure a name while this piece was painting. The couple is Max Scherer and his wife, Sadie, the cashier is Anne Popebogales and the waitress is Olga. By personal observation, this piece contains bright and vibrant

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    Edward Hopper was an American realist painter born in 1882 in New York. After studying art and many journeys, he had trouble getting famous and put on the art world map. But finally, in 1933, a first installation is dedicated to him at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. His works are mainly inspired by his journeys, trips to different places and the solitude of the American in the twentieth century. Nighthawks is his most famous piece of art (Laura Herail, blog). After researching and

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    Gregory Crewdson’s work is very inspiring he manages to complete an entire story an entire character art all in one image and you really get involved in his world. Using light and colour cinematically places a major roll, the picture becomes an operatic framing device there so rich with props and all the other little details that when you look closer you will find something different Crewdson works with a medium format camera, eight by ten colour negatives each print is fifty-nine inches by nighty

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    Easy Rider Analysis

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    In Easy Rider, the mid 20th century intriguing drama directed by Dennis Hopper, we were drawn back to 1969 to shed light on the influences of drugs, sex, and culture as the characters began to question the American system in this counterculture movement. The counterculture movement provoked an alternative lifestyle that came about during the Vietnam War. The tensions following the protests of human inequalities embodying racial segregation and the frustration faced with the draft system resulted

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    In the following essay, I will attempt to highlight the phenomenon in cinema known as the "counterculture youth-pic." This trend in production started in the late 1960's as a result of the economic and cultural influences on the film industry of that time. The following essay looks at how those influences helped to shape a new genre in the film industry, sighting Easy Rider as a main example, and suggests some possible reasons for the relatively short popularity of the genre. "The standard

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    sounds simple. But Monet did such a good job that there seems to be more, there is emotion. That is what makes art special, emotion, and that I can have my own thoughts about what the artist is trying to say through their painting. In the Edward Hopper painting, “Route 6” there is a real warm feeling coming from it. That warm feeling is one of the best emotions that I have experienced, the only other time I get that feeling is when nature is at it’s best (sunsets, sunrises, grassy fields, ect

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