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- 3891: My Darling Clementine - The Ef
- ... I tend to think of movies like Batman. There the lighting reflects the moral and physical issues behind the motives of the characters. And to keep that feeling going threw out the movie, even the day scenes are dark and gloomy to a degree. To me, that's dark. That is where a lighting style has been implemented to enhance a chosen mood for the story. That's noir. The image of a bright sunny day with blue skies, white clouds, green grass, and birds singing would have no place in a seriously dramatic fantasy like Batman. It just would not fit. I think My Darling Clementine is different. In this ... film did have very elaborate dark scenes but still not enough to put it under the label of noir as a whole. The difference is that here I belive that one of those "bright sunny day" sequences that I mentioned before would not look so out of place in a film like this. I agree that the western is one of our most traditional genres with John Ford it's ...
- 3892: The House on Mango Street: Esperanza
- ... young girl ( about Esperanza’s age ) who constantly prays for better luck, and a happier life, but enables her husband to take advantage of her, and therefore sets the path for her unsatisfactory life. “ One day she is through and lets him know enough is enough. Out the door he goes. Clothes, records, shoes. Out the window and the door locked. But that night he comes back and sends a big ... around her. In addition, near the end ( of the book ), Esperanza feels a need to come back and help those who are unable to leave, because she is positive that her fate will change. “ One day I will say goodbye to Mango. I am too strong for her to keep me here forever. One day I will go away…to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out “ ( pg. 110 ). Esperanza has a sensitive heart, one that is sympathetic; she doesn’t want ...
- 3893: Huckleberry Finn: Review
- ... who have sought the coolness of the church and notes "most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different"(122) The narration of Huck's final day with the Grangerfords is prefaced by: "I don't want to talk much about the next day"(124). For Huck's easy-going fluid dialogue to become stilted and censored, the reader knows the young boy has been hurt. A senseless fatal feud is not the only tragedy depicted through the events of that day, also shown is the heartbreak of a young boy who loses every vestige of the hopeful trust he put in a father, brothers and sisters. Huck is shocked to hear the fatherless, brotherless Buck ...
- 3894: Animal Farm: Historically And Politically Allegorized As The Russian Revolution
- ... the Proletariats work for the lords. Neither the Proletariats nor Boxer were educated, when the animals on the manor were trying to form a system of schooling, all Boxer managed to learn was up to D. The Proletariats were never enrolled in school and were never educated in anyway because they were told they did not need to be educated. Boxer was a casualty of the revolution, he was sent away ... winter, rain or shine. We will teach this miserable traitor that he cannot undo our work so easily. Remember comrades, there must be no alteration in our plans: They shall be carried out to the day. Forward, comrades! Long live the windmill! Long live Animal Farm (Page 72-73). He believes by rebuilding the windmill that it will show Snowball and the humans that they will not go down so easily ...
- 3895: The Battle For Your Mind: Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public
- ... point out that hypnosis and conversion tactics are two distinctly different things--and that conversion techniques are far more powerful. However, the two are often mixed . . . with powerful results. How Revivalist Preachers Work If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back. Most ... are always looking for new converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary techniques used to generate the conversion. The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This may be any place ...
- 3896: In What Way Is Lizzy Newberry A Highly Unusual Woman For Her Time?
- ... some has been taken. This knowledge that Lizzy has is very unusual for a woman of her time, and Mr.Stockdale is very shocked about the smuggling and the extracting of the liquor. The following day when Lizzy asks Mr.Stockdale if he wants a fire in his room he refuses and then doesn’t see her for the whole of the following day because she spends the day in bed, which is unusual for anyone. On page 100 Mr.Stockdale notices a man in the bushes, watching Mrs. Newberry talking-to the miller, and when Mr.Stockdale tells Lizzy she becomes worried ...
- 3897: Wuthering Heights Summary
- ... he is feeling better, and swears to Cathy that he really is. Cathy and Nelly leave, promising to come back the following week. Edgar is dying, and Cathy doesn’t leave his side until the day of her appointment with Linton. Edgar tells her to go, even though she doesn’ t want to leave him. Linton once again acts cold and ignores her, and Cathy demands to be told why he ... before he dies. Five days later, Zillah finds Nelly locked in a bedroom and tells her that everyone thought that she and Cathy were lost in the marshland. Zillah says that Edgar has one more day to live, and sends Nelly to the Grange, saying that Cathy will soon follow. Linton is upset because Heathcliff told him that Cathy hates him, and Nelly reminds him of how kind Cathy is. Nelly ... let her see Cathy. Linton dies, because Heathcliff refuses to get him a doctor, and Cathy refuses to attend the funeral. Heathcliff shows her Linton’s will, in which everything was left to Heathcliff. One day Cathy comes downstairs and Hareton tries to impress her. He touches her hair, and Cathy screams that she can’t put up with him. Nelly finishes her story, and Mr. Lockwood decides to tell ...
- 3898: Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School
- Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School The battlefield is full of warriors fighting for their lives. They will never know if they will live through this or any other day. That’s exactly what happens in Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals. In this book Melba experiences the integration in Little Rock’s Central High School during the 1950s. Warriors Don’t Cry ... Warriors don’t cry also means warriors don’t give up. Melba did not give up, even though she thought about killing herself,(pg.160). Her grandma was the one who kept her going. She’d always remind Melba that she was on the battlefield for the Lord(pg.161). I think Melba used this theme in her book because without this encouragement, she wouldn’t be alive today. Melba fought ...
- 3899: Joy Luck Club: Conflicts Faced By June and Her Mother
- ... everything." (p. 143) What June did not realize, was that the real reason why her mother was upset was not because she had not lived up to her expectations. She was unhappy because June di d not care about having the best for herself. She did not have high hopes or a passion to be successful at anything. She failed because she did not try and she did not care. This ... June to know that her life had value and that she just needed to develop and use her talents in order to discover this. After her mother's death, June begins wearing this necklace every day. She also thi nks back to her job and decides, "I was very good at what I did, succeeding at something small like that." (p. 233) Because June does not make many of these discoveries ...
- 3900: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... you had to wait for the Widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the vicuals...” Huck actually got used to living that way, and liked it for a while. Until one day he said, “The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the Widow ... late. You know what I mean- I don’t know the words to put in it.” The raft was so free they didn’t even need to wear clothes, Huck explained, “We was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us- the new clothes Buck’s folks made for me was too good to be comfortable, and besides I didn’t go much on clothes anyway.” One restriction of the shore, from the raft, was Huck could never be himself. He always had to pretend to be someone else. One day, during the journey Huck went on shore to find out some gossip. He went to a women’ s home dressed as a girl. She knew right from the beginning that he was a boy. ...
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