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- 4621: Jacob's Ladder
- ... is on a subway with strange demon-like individuals. The subway represents the way he is transported from this life to hell although he does not realise this, he believes that it is after the war and he is coming back from work like any normal day. After getting off the subway, Jake goes home to his girlfriend Jezebel. Jake believes he has been divorced from his wife Sara for some ... a lawyer to investigate the matter, and they all admit that they keep seeing strange demons showing up around them. Suddenly Jake's five friends back out with their only excuse being that "it's war, stuff happens." Jake cannot understand why his friends have deserted him, but what has really happened is his friends were also mortally wounded in the raid in Vietnam and are now in hell with him ...
- 4622: Euripides! Master! How Well Yo
- ... power. The status quo is defended. In that light, the "humorous" self-deprecating comments of he women do not achieve satire and I don't believe are meant as satire,. The satire is on the war. Indeed, to all appearances, the heroines believe the myths. Lysistrata remarks, "The way we women behave! I don't blame the men for what they say about us." When she tells Kalonike that "only we ... through fire." Even Lysistrata herself later moans, "There's only one thing we can think of." Aristophanes does employ satire when he has the Comissioner say, "The idea of women bothering themselves about peace and war!" and, "It would take a woman to reduce state questions to a matter of carding and weaving." I believe Lysistrata does clumsily try to do women justice, and that is precisely why I believe Aristophanes ...
- 4623: To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
- ... Branaugh uses the ability of a spanning camera to include other details that enhance the richness of the scene. The building of cannons is shown at the beginning to capture the feeling of a brewing war. Also, Hamlet is shown with a group of fencers going through their exercises while Laertes and Ophelia talk, perhaps a foreshadowing of the end scene. As many advantages as there may be to film, there ... a toy train. The only question that comes to mind is, why? An underscore of music during certain scenes enhances the emotion and intensity being played out. However, the music during Hamlet's soliloquy about war and Fortinbras gives an overwhelming feeling of reckoning, determination, and triumph. The music had too much pizzazz, and especially became overly dramatic when combined with the contrasting black clothes against the white snow, and the ...
- 4624: Media Effect 2
- ... the place most people heard about such historical events as the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin at Lakehurst, N.J., the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the landing of Allied troops at Normandy during World War II, and, more recently, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Although Billboard has covered radio since the medium's infancy, it was not until the late '20s that radio ... begun in the 1960's by the U.S. Department of Defense. The DoD wanted to create a computer network that would continue to function in the event of a disaster, such as a nuclear war. If part of the network were damaged or destroyed, the rest of the system still had to work. That network was ARPANET, which linked U.S. scientific and academic researchers. It was the forerunner of ...
- 4625: Camelot: Merlin
- ... out to be from there imagination. Next on the line up is Excaliber. In this story Merlin is portrayed as a unsung hero. If it were not for him King Arthur would have lost a war. He went out on his own battled the evil Morgana sister of the king. She had put a spell on her son (years ago she tricked Arthur into sleeping with her and bore a son ... all seeing and all knowing found out about this and went to do something about it. He, well teliporteted himself to the cave were Morgana and child were living (the day before the battle or war was to take place) and changes the spell and removes another spell Morgana had put on her self to keep herself young. Also Merlin looks different in this film he is not very old and ...
- 4626: Frederick Banting
- ... University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the army and served as a medical officer during World War I. He was awarded the Canadian military cross for bravery. After the war, he practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921, when he and Charles Best began their research into the hormone insulin. Banting, along with John J.R. Macleod, head of the physiology department at the University ...
- 4627: Summary and Analysis of the Movie Gandhi
- ... independent the people were joyed, but the British government had a catch they stated that the Pakistanis and the Muslims must be separated . As intended the country became up roared with each other starting a war between the two cultures. At this time Gandhi began one of many fast that he had taken in his life crumbling his health to near death in declaration of the cease of the war and to demonstrate his strong disbelief in violence. He followed religiously the life stages of the Hindu religion, living a life of poverty, devoting himself to manual labor, the spinning of homespun cloth and gracious ...
- 4628: The Book Of Sand
- ... unlimited English books."(Here, he was referring to his father's library) He was also greatly influenced by published poets and writers who were friends of the family and often visited. In 1914, before World War I, Borges' family went to Europe where they traveled until the war was over. During these years of traveling, Borges, in his teenage years, depended a lot on the company of his readings (mainly German philosophy and poetry). When his family returned to Buenos Aires, they were ...
- 4629: Analysis of the movie Contact
- ... is ironic that Arroway falls back on faith to believe her journey took place upon her return after having shunned faith that others had in God before. The movie did not deal with the Cold War politics that Sagan's book dealt with mainly because of the release date of this movie. The movie was made well after the end of the Cold War and the efforts to build a space pod for space travel is depicted as being an international effort. The feasibility of the events in Contact is not too far from reality. The movie makes the ...
- 4630: The Bicycle Thief
- ... is The Bicycle Thief (1948), written by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Vittorio De Sica. The narrative of this film unfolds in post-W.W.II times. The film is a portrait of the post-war Italian disadvantaged class (the majority) in their search for self-respect. It is a time of struggle for the Italian people, amplified by a shortage of employment and lack of social services. In the first ... with Antonio's perseverance and determination to find the stolen bike. These events stimulate the viewer's mind to think of solutions related to Antonio's situation, perhaps to try to solve problems of post-war Italy such as crime, famine, health issues, living condition, etc.; ills that have affected society then and now around the globe. Antonio's frustration of missing the thief for a second time fuels the hopelessness ...
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