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    Flat Stanley  Have you ever wished that you could wake up one day and have a completely different look? If so, you may wish you were Stanley Lambchop, an ordinary boy who wakes up one morning looking very different – he is only half an inch thick! Because of a falling bulletin board (which made Stanley flat), Stanley gets to experience all sorts of fun adventures. Does living a flat life suit Stanley, though? You will have to read this classic, funny book to find out!  Flat Stanley would be targeted

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    Character is how a person acts when no one else is looking. As a person is portrayed and perceived they are better understood when unveiling the true personality of an individual rather than their false persona. Both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski 's performance vary and differ depending on the situation and the person of interaction. Blanches fluctuating performance and actions can be found countless times in the book A Street Car Named Desire. To analyze this personality aspect, Blanche

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    to great tension thought the play. In my analysis I’m going to talk about the plot and characters in the play, the theme, dictation, music choices, spectacle and the convention. There are four main characters: Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski and Harold Mitchell, but lets start by talking about the plot of the play. The plot is extremely well put together and fairly easy to follow. In the first scenes you have the two main female characters, Stella arrives down from Laurel, Mississippi

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    think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself." As one of the most widely acclaimed and influential directors of the postwar era, Stanley Kubrick enjoyed a reputation and a standing unique among the filmmakers of his day. He had a brilliant career with relatively few films. An outsider, he worked beyond the confines of Hollywood, which he disliked, maintaining complete control of his

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    Before being notified by the police that his parent’s murderer is being released from prison. Blue Ruin tells the story about Dwight a vagabond who spends his days scavenging through leftovers in trash bags while living aimlessly within the doors of his decrepit Pontiac Bonneville. Nevertheless this startling news ultimately guides Dwight back to the hometown in hopes to seek out revenge on those responsible for his disarrayed past. I genuinely felt the blue motif that shows up all over the place

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    Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. “He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg

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    the main objective of the experiment was not only to see how obedient a person would be on killing someone else, but also to see if they took responsibility for killing a person or blaming it on the instructor, the person giving them the commands. For this experiment they needed 40 males at the ages of 20 and 50. Then they would be pared up with a partner. They would be given sticks to determine who would be the teacher and who would be the learner. This part of the experiment was always rigged,

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    Space Odyssey 2001

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    Space Odyssey 2001 It's a science fiction, abstract and long film directed by Stanley Kubrick which one of the biggest achievements has been to merge perfectly an extraordinary soundtrack with a complicated plot. The film as its core, explore the human nature from a philosophical perspective, “where do we come from?” and “where are we going?” are questions subtly exposed. For most viewers the initial reaction will be confusion and sometimes disappointment, however, for those which love non-conventional

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    I must say that Dr. Strange Love is my favorite movie we have watched thus far. There are many interesting aspects to this movie. First I found it interesting that the paranoid ultra-nationalist Brigadier General, Who orders the nuclear strike is named Jack D Ripper. When read and when spoken the name sounds incredibly similar to serial killer "Jack the Ripper." I truly don't think this was coincidental. The movie was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London, Whitechapel , the neighbor in which

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    A Streetcar Named Desire

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    this quote is explaining that desire led brought her to death. It represents Blanche following her desires sexually to this point in life and was then exiled from her hometown because of it which will now cause her to live in a pagan heaven with Stanley and Stella where she must reflect on her life and view the repercussions of her actions back in Laurel. Another example of desire leading to death in this play is when Blanche is explaining what happened to Belle Reve. She explains that, “improvident

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