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    Fargo is a movie directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen who are brothers. It is a 1996 American crime film. Unlike most common movies, Fargo has its own style. The story is linear. It tells a story in three different lines. The beginning of the film shows a few lines of subtitles. It is adapted from a true story took place in Minnesota in 1987. The reason why this is done, just to be more attractive, if audiences feel it is real, then they will go down. Coen uses lively narrative rhythm in this film

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    Austin Briggs Degener WR100 29 October 2017 Western vs. Noir: An Exploration of Genre in True Grit Even though the novel had already been adapted into a film once, in 2010, the Coen brothers decided to take a swing at their own version of Charles Portis’ classic western, True Grit. Comparatively to the book and even Henry Hathaway’s 1969 film adaptation, however, the Coens have crafted the story into their own. Mattie’s bildungsroman is more uncompromising and realistic, the relationships Mattie

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    Legs and Miller’s Crossing The Characters in Miller’s Crossing and Legs by William Kennedy have distinct and unique qualities that separate them from the rest of the characters. Tom Reagan from Miller’s Crossing and Jack Diamond from Legs display these similar qualities. Tom wears a hat and Jack carries a rosary, by which they can be characterized. In many ways, these belongings foreshadow the characters’ actions and why these actions were performed. Tom’s hat and Jack’s rosary can symbolize, in

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    Legs, written by William Kennedy, and Miller’s Crossing, produced by Ethan Coen and directed by Joel Coen, portray the world of organized crime in America during Prohibition. Legs tells the story of Marcus Gorman, a lawyer from Albany, New York, as he works for the notorious bootlegger, Jack “Legs” Diamond. Miller’s Crossing depicts the life of Tom Reagan, an Irish gangster, and his struggle to secure Leo O’Bannon’s supremacy over competing mob leader, Johnny Casper. In both works, the jewelry, especially

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    seeks to examine crossing within polylingual families with contested structure. I analyzed a scene from the television show Trailer Park Boys in which a three member family interact using the concepts of crossing, facework, and footing, in order to answer my research question. I found that the central character uses crossing as a method of performing facework. As a result of this, he also indicates preference and dispreference to his family members. Theoretical Framework Crossing involves someone

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    young adult audiences today. This is already apparent in The Reeve's Tale, which follows after The Miller's Tale, where he decides to tell a story about a dishonest miller. This tale follows said miller and two university students who indulge in less than desirable activities. Unfortunately, this tale focuses around the two university students getting into bed with the only females at the miller's home by any means necessary, helping to bring about the themes of feminism within the tale. Among these

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    An Analyis of the Conventions of Courtly Love Within The Miller's Tale and Morte Darthur While both “Morte Darthur” and “The Miller's Tale” display some characteristics of a satirical approach in which human vices are attacked in a whimsical manner through irony, comedy, and folly, they are actually quite different in their literary genre and style. “Morte Darthur”, an adventurous tale with an imaginary setting that perfectly idealizes the chivalrous knight-hero and his noble deeds done for the

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    young adult audiences today. This is already apparent in The Reeve's Tale, which follows after The Miller's Tale, where he decides to tell a story about a dishonest miller. This tale follows said miller and two university students who indulge in less than desirable activities. Unfortunately, this tale focuses around the two university students getting into bed with the only females at the miller's home by any means necessary, helping to bring

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    dealing with love we all want to know if its true or non existent. The two people of this story chose to follow the rules of courtly love to find out. There are two stories that I am going to compare for the outcome of following the rules. In “the Miller’s Tale”, they use the rules of courtly love in the complete opposite of what it usually is used for. The narrative telling the story, well actually the miller makes a total and complete joke of courtly love and everything it stands for. He made it

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    One of the striking differences between the Knyghts Tale and the Millers Tale (which is supposed to "quit(e)" the Knyghts Tale) is that of clothing (the former tale) and lack of clothing (in the latter). Upon an inspection of the General Prologue's description of the Knyght, I found that clothing is a very signifcant part of the Knyght's Tale. Chaucer's decription of him may forshadow (or, since Chaucer wrote the tales after they were told, color his perceptions of the Knyght) the importance of clothing

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