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    Planning and shooting play key roles in creating a work of art through film that has meaning and can provoke emotions in an audience. Cinematography encompasses these tasks and other factors that contribute to a film’s production, ranging from styling variables like color and contrast to the types of camera lenses used to camera positions used while filming. While a director or producer has the primary voice in determining what a film will consist of, the cinematographer does more than any other

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    Francis Marion 1732-1795 Also known as: Swamp Fox Born: WINTER, 1732 in South Carolina, United States, Berkeley County Died: February 27, 1795 Occupation: General Source Database: DISCovering U.S. History Table of Contents Biographical Essay | Further Readings | Source Citation Hero of the southern campaign in the American Revolution, who was known for his mastery of the small-unit tactics necessary for effective guerrilla warfare. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Francis Marion was born

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    such issues of gender and sexuality in reality. Hollinger references works such as ‘The Female Man,’ ‘Bloodchild’, The Left Hand of Darkness’ and ‘Women on the Edge of Time’ together with people like Donna Harraway, Teresa de Lauretis and Judith Butler. In addition to the well-known feminist utopian works of the 70’s Hollinger also mentions Helen O’Loy, which is an early masculine focused novel. We see the importance of feminist SF when we read about works such as this, because the contrast shows

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    Kevin Nguyen 04/16/15 REHT 250 Dr. Chriss Warren Foster Argument “What is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue” is the article that Judith Butler reads and analyzes the ideas of Foucault’s in the article, “What is Critique?” Foucault wants to express his ideas that critique is a repetition of power, which would deliver the issue with an evident as a part of autonomous. However, when Foucault rejects the impression of the autonomous matter, what portions of independence are actually thinkable

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    The 1920 ' S

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    The 1920’s were mainly known for the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and the generation where women were guaranteed the right to vote. The 1920’s has been argued to be either very conservative or liberal, but it can go either way. Although the 1920’s are conservative because of economic reasons involving immigration, the 1920’s are liberally revolutionary because of cultural changes with women and religious changes from the Scopes Trial. Granted, the 1920’s were majorly conservative

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    it. So she decides to get all dressed up and finally tell him she loves him, which seems kind of mean to Melanie, but that 's the sort of person Scarlett is. Ashley more or less says he loves her but that he 's too big a doofus to marry her. Rhett Butler, the novel 's

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    play-within-a-play, Taming fostered a critical interest in the intersection between performance and gender long before the phrase"gender trouble" became commonplace. The recent debates about performance, culture, and theater sparked in part by Judith Butler suggest, however, that it is time to revisit our analysis of gender and performance in this play. Although there are a number of

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    Judith Butler argues in Performative Acts and Gender Constitution that gender is created by the act of performance and is constructed through the body. She states “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo” (Butler 416).The concept of the display of gender through the act of performance is perpetuated within the play Latins in La-La Land by Migdalia Cruz specifically through the characters Sid/Rita and Lorenzo. Both of these characters put on gender and

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    through a rough patch with the prohibition but it seemed like things were getting worse. The Scopes Trial brought a lot of attention to Dayton, Tennessee, where substitute biology teacher, John Scopes, was accused of teaching evolution (Scopes). The Butler Act was a law “prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man’s origin” (Scopes). On May 5, 1925, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and was given a $1,000 fine. Later, the verdict was overturned (Scopes)

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    wedding ring to the cause, and Scarlett follows suit; in the book, Scarlett is the first to put her ring in the basket. Scarlett’s donation of her ring was not really a sacrifice because it didn’t have any sentimental value to her. In the movie, Rhett Butler returns the rings to both of the women but in the book he only returns Melanie’s ring. There are a couple of significant changes in the scenes regarding the escape of Scarlett, Melanie and Prissy from Atlanta. The importance of finding the cow

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