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    The article “Mass Over Mass Media” is written by Steven Pinker. Pinker is a professor in Psychology at Harvard University who focusses on visual cognation and psychology in language. He is well known for The Language Instinct & How the Mind Works. He was also listed as one of the most influential people out of 100 in the world. Also, he is known for his ongoing debate over how the internet has affected our world. Furthermore, author Steven Pinker, states his thesis in a peculiar way by stating that

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    Mothers are the ones who have been chosen to keep the growth of humanity. They are the ones who build the humanity. Without mothers, there are no human beings. Mothers are the one who raised these humans to live in societies until this day. They are the ones who sacrifice their time and their body to raise children all these years and they are the reasons that populations has risen. Even though these populations and eras have changed through time, mothers are and will always be the core of any population

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    In the film “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” directed by Steven Spielberg, elements of mise en scene and cinematography are utilized narrative form to progress the story of Indiana Jones. A chain of events in a cause and effect relationship used in order to tell a story, the depth given to the main character by means of different sides of the protagonist’s life as well as discussing the settings and surroundings of events and actions of the film. In the opening scene of the

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    War is a harrowing experience, that can cause many changes in the soldiers that experience it. The texts The War Drags On by Donovan, Hero of War by Rise Against, Wrong Side of Heaven by Five Finger Death Punch and Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg all share the theme “the reality of war changes people”. This is illustrated by the lyrics, quotes and visuals featured in these texts. In Wrong Side of Heaven, we see how war affects soldiers after they return home from war. The focus of this

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    Directed by Chen Kaige, a highly acclaimed fifth-generation Chinese film director, Farewell My Concubine has received many international film awards and nominations; among them are the Best Foreign Film and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. In the film, Cheng Dieyi, a Peking Opera actor playing the leading female characters, becomes obsessed with his role as the concubine of the King of Chu and blurs his stage role with the real life he leads. The circumstances in which one grows

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    and revolutionized the American film Industry? The answer to this question is fairly clear; Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg is a modern filmmaker, with award-winning qualities and techniques that he adopted that are utilized by other filmmakers today. Steven Spielberg is an American revolutionary due to his utilization of the special effects in his movies, which paved a way for many movies to come. Steven Spielberg’s films are quite remarkable in the sense that they use a unique, or what used to

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    Have you ever wanted to go to Atlantis? In your mind you might be thinking of an underwater paradise with magical creatures surrounding you, but what if something happened to Atlantis it was renounce, irretrievable and everything goes downhill? In the underwater Atlantis gone wrong you will experience what that might be like in a closed in tube and experience many different types of science terms you might not even know about in this underwater roller coaster. I this ride at the beginning you will

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    credits, and three Oscars, all to one man, Steven Allan Spielberg. Despite his critical acclaim today, Spielberg started out as an amateur director who was rejected from multiple major film schools. Even though he was rejected by many film schools, Steven has made some of the most prominent and most popular movies of all time. Though he is still working to this day, everyone can tell that the legacy he will leave behind will be startling. Overall, Steven Spielberg began as an amateur filmmaker, he

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    Cinematic effects are an effort shared by the director and the cinematographer. In this case, John McTiernan and Jan De Bont had a lot of work on their hands. Multiple camera tricks were used throughout the movie to give the viewer a chance to assess the situation presented before them and determine for themselves the dangers associated with the situations. My favorite example is the scene where Ryan is being lowered from the helicopter to the USS Dallas. Wide angle shots are used to show how far

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    Yakin, who is Jewish, was born in New York City. His parents were born in Israel, and met in Paris while studying mime with Marcel Marceau. His father's family is from Syria and Egypt, and his mother's family is from Poland.He attended the Bronx High School of Science, where he was classmates in 1983 with actor Jon Cryer. Yakin studied filmmaking at New York's City College. He moved on to New York University, and made his first deal for a screenplay at age 19. Career After finishing school, Yakin

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