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    You’ve gone most of your life without any large borders separating you from your peers and your friends, and then suddenly one morning you wake up and everything has become different. Your teachers, your friends, and your classmates have all heard the news, and your borderless life is instantly go ne. Now whispers form in your presence, strangers approaching you to talk to you, and looks of sadness hitting you when you’re passed in the hallways. Because now, you’re solely recognized as the girl

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    While the films of classical Hollywood differ in various aspects, there is a unifying style that allows one to look at each film as a piece in a larger picture. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks and based on a play of Tennessee Williams, remains conservative throughout which makes it an ideal film to look at to understand the paradigms, as David Bordwell would put it, that ultimately determined the way in which Hollywood films were made. Bordwell uses three different

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    house in the suburbs, children, cars and good jobs. The Art Culture Film website describes them as "trapped by the ideology of the American Dream" (Structural 1). Carolyn Burnham unnaturally obsessed with materialism and other's opinions of them (Newman 8). She has an obsession with her material items that she owns and to her they equal success. Mendes shows us a scene where Lester is trying to show passion by kissing Carolyn on the couch but all Carolyn could worry about was the beer almost spilling

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    thought it would one of the best days of her life, until it all fell apart. Finally after three months she thought it was all over. Then Becky Newman realized she was in for a very long ride, that would change everything. Three months ago It was time to leave. She was ecstatic she had been waiting for so long and today was the day. Today is the day Becky Newman leaves for college. She had decided to stay close to home in Malibu, and chose to attend University of Southern

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    Ask Questions”, “What Questions are People Asking”, and “Why Aren’t Questions and Answers Good Enough”. In part one, “Why Ask Questions,” Newman lays to foundation for his reasoning. He gives clear examples on what to say in certain situations or scenarios

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    A Companion To the Movies Title and Year: “Shawshank Redemption” (1994) Director: Frank Darabont (based on the Stephen King novel) Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, and William Sadler. The Shot Long/medium/close-up: Roger Deakins, the film’s cinematographer, and director Frank Darabont worked together to create this wonderful and classical film heavily utilizing long shots, close ups, and slow zooms. Throughout the film “Shawshank Redemption”, a series of shots take place where

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    While reading Tennessee Williams play, “The Glass Menagerie”, readers are drawn into the drama and disaster that is the Wingfield family. There were several different film and television versions of this play done thru the years from 1950 to 1987. After watching several different adaptations, Paul Newman’s film adaptation in 1987 is extremely faithful to the written version. Focusing on plot, setting, and character development the audience is introduced to a family with an austere future structured

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    The film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes is a film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment (Mendes, 1999). American Beauty explores the breakdown of a suburban family man whose life journeys from self loathing and emptiness to freedom and liberation but at the ultimate cost of his life. Mendes effectively employs a range of techniques to help convey the meaning of this film such as set design, camera angles, colour and soundtrack. Cinema often uses structured set design and camera

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    authority and protest in order to get the point across. These protests have been successful because of the mass numbers of supporters but also because they set out to change an unjust rule or norms. In the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke featuring Paul Newman, Lucas (Luke) has been sent to jail for "beheading" parking meters while intoxicated. During his time in jail, he disobeys both the de facto inmate leader and the wardens simply because he did not like to conform to their rules. Luke's,

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    comparing Rawls to the writing of Newman and Yeates on social justice. Comparatively, the general understanding of justice is the fact that it does

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