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    Also, when she eventually met with her half-sisters, they were holding a picture June may sent to them earlier before another one was snapped holding, laughing and crying all the way. The Polaroid camera also afforded the sisters to once again see the image of their dead mother and it helped in bringing out the title of the story “A Pair of Tickets” because it symbolizes and captures the moment of family love and reunion that they all have

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    The 1940s Research Paper

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    new advancements that began a prosperous time later in the 20th century. This decade was known for its history altering events such as D-Day, renowned people, such as Winston Churchill, and technological advancements such as the invention of the Polaroid camera. If the people, events, and inventions of the 1940s had never happened, the world would be a very

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    Memento Film Analysis

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    Although many people know Christopher Nolan for his more recent films “The Prestige”, “Dark Knight Trilogy”, “Interstellar”, “Inception”, and now most recently the war film “Dunkirk”. Although each of these films are amazing we should never forget one of Christopher Nolan’s first great directed films “Memento.” Memento is a uniquely structured psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one

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    James Welling is commonly lumped in with the group of artists referred to as the Pictures Generation – the generation of artitsts that were coming of age in the late 70s, as the first generation to be strongly defined by the omnipresense of mass media, and who created works that were critical of this nature of media (CITE).1 During his time at CalArts, Welling was producing collage work that was very much in line with his fellow artists in the group. His MFA thesis work, And Should (1974) was a

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    In the Moment Essay

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    character, Leonard, who is suffering from severe memory loss, is constantly trying to figure out the past, even though he knows he will not remember it once he learns what has happened. His wife is dead, and he is searching through a system of notes and Polaroid pictures for her killer. Though the story is unclear at first, through narration, structure, and repetition, the plot of the story becomes clearer. The story is told in reverse order. Since the events in Memento are presented backwards, this allows

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    A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan uses unpretentious yet intense symbolism and imagery to make a wonderful story with layers of importance and significant profundity that one can't completely acknowledge unless you read it more than once. The story is around an American-conceived Chinese lady, Jing-mei, who goes to China to meet her twin stepsisters that her mom was compelled to relinquish numerous prior years. Since her mom had passed away just a couple of months prior, the meeting is full of vulnerability

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    In the film “The Music Box” the protagonist is Michael Laszlo is a Hungarian immigrant who is accused of being a war criminal, his daughter is Anne Talbot, a defense lawyer in Chicago who nobly decides to defend her father in court. In the early stages of the film Anne stands behind her father, her values lie in thinking of him as a loving, genuine and honorable man, as any child would think of their father. However, as the trial progresses and evidence reveals that her father is, in fact, guilty

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    Kodak: Funtime Film

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    Harvard Business School 9-594-111 Rev. May 8, 1995 Eastman Kodak Company: Funtime Film On January 25, 1994, George Fisher, Kodak’s recently appointed chief executive officer, met with analysts and investors to set out Kodak’s new strategy for film products. During the past week (between January 17 and January 24), Kodak stock had lost 8% in value on rumors of a price cut on film. While Kodak continued its overwhelming

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    Mrs. Johnson had a full heart as she made her way down the streets of New York. She took the time to capture the beauty that hid within the streets with her camera. As she was making her was down one unusually empty street she noticed a boy, about the age of 12, sitting alone outside a store front. The boy was wearing a sad expression on his face and Mrs. Johnson knew what to do. She went up to the boy and gave him 6 of the brightest, happiest pictures that she had taken that day as well as 6 suckers

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    college degree and an expensive camera to be a photojournalist? Two war photographers, in the same conflict, using two different mediums of photography to tell their extremely similar stories; David Guttenfelder and Erin Trieb. Guttenfelder used a “Polaroid” filter app with an iPhone to

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