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    Walter Ruttman

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    A secondary important figure in defining and examining the absolute film movement within Germany during the 1920s is Walter Ruttman. Unlike Richter he began as a student of architecture and graphic design, which shaped his identity as an experimental filmmaker and accounts for the prominence of shapes and lines within his films. He began his career as filmmaker directly after his release from a hospital in Berlin for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his experiences in WW1. His

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    | Television journalist. Born September 25, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of nightclub impresario Lou Walters (owner of New York 's swanky Latin Quarter) and his wife, Dena. In 1937, Lou Walters expanded his business, which caused his family to adopt an itinerant lifestyle, moving from Boston to New York to Miami Beach. Walters attended the all-female Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, graduating in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in English. Her first

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    Walter Mitty is an average, middle-aged man living a dull life, and is married to a bossy wife. He does just about everything that Mrs. Mitty tells him to do, except see Dr. Renshaw; and because of all this, Walter often daydreams about the more exciting lives that he could have possibly lived. These daydreams become so elaborate that Walter is very easily distracted and does not communicate with other people very well. Walter's boring life leads him to become highly imaginative, though he grows

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    The poem “The Lie” was written by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1592. Thought out the poem, Sir Walter Raleigh is expressing his feelings about Parliament and Queen Elisabeth, and how they always lie. During this time Sir Walter begin to personally believe that the repeated, and distribution of the lie made the people like a bunch of Pinocchio. However, after many years of Sir Walter Raleigh helping to spread the lie he no longer wanted any part of it. He instead began to warn the readers using his poetry

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    Sir Walter Raleigh was brought to this world on January 22, 1552 (or 1554) in East Budleigh, United Kingdom. He died on October 22, 1618, in London, United Kingdom. Raleigh was a writer, poet, and an explorer. Went to Oxford University, then later on Raleigh went to London to study in the laws. On 1578, him and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, he’s an explorer and his half brother, sailed to America to find the colonies that are in America. Raleigh found the first English Colony in America on Roanoke Island

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    Barbara Walters Barbara Walters was born on the 25 September 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts. Walters was born Jewish, though her parents did not practice it. She has interviewed every president since Nixon and even interviewed some of America’s most infamous murderers. She originally wanted to be an actress, however, became a journalist by accident when the Today show was moved to news instead of entertainment and her boss insisted she should write for all the ansegments of the show. Today, she is

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    Tomorrow is promised to no one” - Walter Payton. Walter Payton lived by this quote his whole life not just on the football field playing for the Jackson State Tigers collegitaly or for the Chicago Bears professionally. He lived by that quote at a young age especially when his father died. Or when he was diagnosed with PSC a rare liver disease. He showed us how to live life before it's gone. Walter Payton’s young life was full of disasters and struggles. It all started when Payton was a young kid

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    Walter Mitty Quotes

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    Walter Mitty, in the story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber, can be considered to be losing in the relationship. Walter Mitty’s wife is constantly seen as being the dominant one in the relationship, and Walter Mitty is forced to accommodate for her. In one instance, as Walter Mitty is daydreaming while driving he begins to speed up, resulting in his wife exclaiming “‘You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five’” (Thurber 1). Walter Mitty is forced to adjust

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    Walter Mitty Daydreams

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    Whimsically and beautifully produced and acted, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed and starring Ben Stiller, is the perfect movie to relate to our own lives. Like countless people on this planet, Walter Mitty (Stiller) works his 9 to 5 every single day in his life, stuck in an endless cycle. Everyone that knows Mitty is aware of when he “zones out” - in some situations, he pictures himself making a wild choice, since he was never brave enough to make those illusions a reality. As the negative

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    to make the same decisions Jesus did. But is it any different? Just because situations may be different, that does not mean that the results should be. Jesus acted out of love and compassion, which shouldn’t cause for change even over 2000 years. Walter Brueggemann in his book The Prophetic Imagination, talks about a “new history” that Jesus inaugurates for all people, but especially for the ones who were marginalized (Brueggemann, 113). CJ Furness writes about how Jesus does offer a practical argument

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