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The Day began by me attending the civil court early on Monday, 17, August Morning at 9:00 AM to witness the processes involved with civil case proceedings. I had a selection of court rooms to choose from so I took some time to investigate from the attorney’s on which one was the most interesting case to attend. I also wanted one where there would be a long hearing to maximize the time I spend on the case (Hemming & Lockhart, 2014). Soon I was direct to a court hearing a case involving a family business

How Do You Know You’ve Witnessed a Murder? This question is a perplexing one, and will be explored throughout the following text. However, first a person must consider the value of a films translation of text into cinematic language. “A movie based on a literary source is often seen as a secondary work, consequently, of secondary value” (Cahir). What makes this ideology present in our society? What makes one translation considered more valuable than another? “Literature, generally, still occupies

Category number 1- Culture and Race. In this category we first we have Mexico. Mexico is a place I am very familiar with well, mostly all my mom's side of the family is from Tepic,Nayarit. Nayarit has beautiful landscaping and also hard working people. I love going to Nayarit it's such a relaxing place. Nayarit mexico in general is something I identify with because whenever people ask me where i'm from I say Nayarit it's where I love to be and and I identify as “Cora”. Being Mexican is a big part

For every action a person takes, there is usually a purpose behind it. The riskier and more dangerous an action, the more motive that individual must have to continue. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film, Rear Window, is a riveting thriller that is based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story “It Had to be Murder”.  This film tells a narrative about an adventurous photographer, Jeffries played by James Stewart, who after breaking his leg is forced to remain shackled to a wheelchair within his home. To cope

Rear Window is a film about L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Jeff is a photographer while on bed rest he takes an interest in his neighbor by peeping through his window, hence the name Rear Window. He begins to suspect Lars Thorwald, one of his neighbors, of murdering his wife and hiding her body. The film centers around this murder to explain the voyeurism and invasion of privacy Jeff and the audience is guilty of. It is clear the film focuses on romantic relationships and marriage

How many people can look back and identify with an event that would leave a lasting impacted their life? Everyone has had a significant event occur that has impacted his or her life in some way. Most people present a memorable event that is very near to them, and how it had a great impact on their lives. Many characteristics of my life has shaped my character and how I live my life. There were three major events that occurred in my lifetime that had a great impact on my life: Moving to Japan, American

Always a viewer, and never an active participant. When watching a film, an audience is allowed to look in another person’s life. All the audience can do is sit in their seat, and watch the events as they unfold in front of them. The audience can laugh, cry, and scream in their seats, but nothing they do can change what is about to happen. Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his suspenseful films, which leaves his audiences screaming. In Hitchcock’s film Rear Window, he portrays a wheelchair bound photographer

Throughout Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, Rear Window, the “male gaze” of the 1950s is shown to the audience through the main character, Jefferies. His point of view strains the relationship with his fiancée, Lisa. His point of view coerces him into thinking less of himself due to the fact she was a successful woman who went against these views. Her success at first makes him feel inferior, which went against societies view of what a woman should be. While forced to spend his days recovering in a wheel

Alfred Hitchcock’s, ‘Rear Window’ (1954), is ultimately a film presenting the ideas of a natural voyeuristic nature within society and how the concepts of the traditional gender roles for males of ‘participating’ were challenged during this time. ‘Rear Window’ is a film about a magazine photographer who’s active and adventurous life gets turned around when he is confined to a wheelchair in his small apartment for six weeks. During these weeks he’s found himself occupied by watching out his window

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, the stylistic elements utilized by the director create a unique availability the depth of information available to both the characters in the film and the audience watching. The entire film is from the perspective of the rear window of the injured photographer Jeff. Jeff, unable to move is stuck with nothing to do but look out his window. As the audience, we are given an objective view, looking over his shoulder as he stares at the lives of his fellow tenants. From