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    echoed by the sheer enjoyment the main character, Alex, is taking out of the beating. The usage of this song in this scene can have a jarring effect on the audience, especially those for whom there is a strong association between the song and its namesake film, partly dependent on the degree to which the song can be taken to fit such a more harmful character and

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    For example, The Walt Disney Corporation owns more channels than just the ones that share its namesake. These companies include: ABC broadcast network, Disney Channel, Freeform publishing, The History Channel, Lifetime Movie Network, Marvel Studios, Pixar Studios, AND a 32% holding of Hulu, an 80% holding of ESPN Inc., and 50% holding of A&E. If you didn’t know the name by now, then it should be painfully obvious

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    The Godfather Thesis

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    Director Francis Ford Coppola's dramatization The Godfather is a standout amongst the most venerated, acclaimed and powerful works of the twentieth century. It is a movie magnum opus of business and basic achievement as such achieving that it routinely beat proficient and individual records as the best film ever. With a story so soaked with profound subjects, solid characters, brilliant exhibitions, jazzy heading, and an ageless soundtrack, there ought not be any miracle of why this work has stood

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    Mira Nair I first remember hearing about Mira Nair last year, not in my Introduction to Cinema class but from my half-Indian friend who praised Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding. It should be noted that my first film teacher was a white man, older than sixty and not concerned with women directors; out of the sixteen films screened for the semester, two were directed by women and none by women of color. Mira Nair has a unique understanding that she is fighting a long and slow battle for her films to be

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    Film: The Renderman Pixar

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    Before any film can be finished, the animation has to go through a process called rendering. Rendering is a process that makes an image high-resolution, which is why 3D animation has become so much more popular today, as it appears to almost never age. “Radiosity and procedural textures, and with the development of the first generation of solid user\-friendly computer-human interfaces for three-dimensional computer animation and imaging software. The RenderMan shading language was released by Pixar

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    Lane married Kellie Kyle at the United Methodist Church in Quanah, Texas. Lane and Kellie met in 1980 at the National High School Rodeo Finals, this is also where he met his long time best friend, Tuff Hedeman (Ebert). Many know of Lane from the movie “8 Seconds,” however what they are not aware of, is the kind of guy Lane was and what all he had

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    In today’s 21st century world dystopian fiction has made a massive resurgence in popular culture and continues to evolve even today. The piece of literature that serves as the source and namesake of this genre is Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) “which describes a fabricated country named Utopus after its conqueror. King Utopus reshapes a savage land into an ideal society through planning and reason fulfilling the ideal of the philosopher-king.” Utopia is derived from the Greek words ou and topos meaning

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    Cathy Song Paper

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    What’s In a Name? “If you wake up in a different time, in a different place, can you be a different person?” The narrator Edward Norton in the infamous movie Fight Club posed this question. This quote relates directly to the poem “Lost Sister” by Cathy Song where a young girl struggles to find an identity in China, and believes America may be able to provide what her homeland could not. Cathy Song wrote “Lost Sister” in 1983. This poem has deep connections to Song’s ties to her Asian culture. Cathy

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    Woman Warrior Duality

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    narrator simply retell the story, but she also fantasizes that she becomes Fa Mu Lan. Through the use of first person point of view in this retelling, Kingston reveals the narrator’s desires to become a more idealized version of herself, the book’s namesake woman warrior. Kingston’s diction and imagery reveals details

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    Shomi Target Audience

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    There is very less people actually know about its product and services. Our target audience are tv shows and movie- holic. So, giving them something which is already there won’t make them happy. So, we are taking some time with our ad campaigns so, that it creates a buzz and making everyone love the product and its service. Our ad campaign will be delivered in

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