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- 5961: Schindler’s List 2
- ... this scene played an important role in influencing the audience. The song was a very sand song and with everything that was happening it showed the scene as the beginning of all of the Jewish death. There is another part in the movie where three scenes are being shown simultaneously. One is Goeth beating up his maid, the other one is a Jewish wedding in on of the barracks and the ... also chose to discuss some of the music. There are so many other things that are worth discussing. The way the film was done in black and white. The way that the scenes in the death camps were so realistic that you really thought you were viewing actual footage. There are so many things that made it like no other film. I know that a lot of the people found the ...
- 5962: Organized Crime
- ... The most important rule in organized crime was the rule called the Omerta. " The Omerta is a code of silence. A vow never to reveal any Mafia secrets or member under threat of torture or death" (Mafia History). Another rule was the obedience rule. "The obedience rule stated that the member must at all times be loyal to the boss or Don. A third law of the Mafia was the assistance ... recorded that Don Vito was suspected in a brutal killing of at least one man. It was told that the man was trying to do business on his turf, which led to a very vicious death where the man was cut into tiny pieces and shoved into a box" (Family Tree). Lucky Luciano was also very influential during his control of the Irish Mafia around the 1920’s in America. "After ...
- 5963: Saving Private Ryan
- ... the camera; he is going to jump into the water, take two steps, be hit by three .50-caliber gun bullets in the chest, fall into the water and drown before he can bleed to death. The man next to him is going to duck down behind an anti-tank obstacle and have his legs cut off by shrapnel. The camera keeps looking at the faces. Fish in a restaurant tank ... on the cliffs, the ground rising up and coming down, explosions going off like dice rolls. Men are shouting out orders, but we can't make out what they're saying. We're surrounded by death, jiggled gently in the palm of his hand. Out of the corner of our eye -- everything seems to happen just beyond where we can quite see it clearly -- we see a man stumbling along without ...
- 5964: Sahure Ancient Egyptian Art
- ... superhuman and royal status. The Egyptian belief in the “ka,” or the part of the human spirit that defined a person’s individuality which would survive on earth in a physical dwelling even after their death, obliged the artist to create an abode for the ka of Sahure which exemplified his mightiness even after his death. Ancient Egyptian artists used very dense, hard stones when creating such sculptures so that the “ka” would have an eternal residence. Gneiss, is a very durable metamorphic rock similar to granite, and was probably one ...
- 5965: Romeo And Juliet
- ... end. Some events have to lead to their deaths, and someone makes these events happen. The person(s) who started it all and did something that led to all the other events that caused the death of "a pair of star-crossed lovers" (Prologue, 6). The Capulets and Montagues would be most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because if their ancestors didn’t start the fighting, and they ... things, and then grew into huge fights involving many people. No leader of either household ever though about making peace, they were all too busy to spoil everything for the rival family. Only after the death of their children they realized how wrong they were. Romeo and Juliet first meet each other at a party at the Capulets’ house. They fall in love with each other at the first sight without ...
- 5966: Report On Opera
- ... to save Body. Heaven, Guardian Angel and World, Earthly Life: they vie for control over Body and Soul. In the end, Heaven and Guardian Angel reveal that the truth of Earthly Life is in fact, Death. Ultimately, Heaven and Guardian Angel conquer Soul and Intellect, while Death will conquer Body. Through a series of dramatic interludes involving a vast mixture of upbeat, higher-pitched notes, and slower, deeper-pitched notes, the great battle and internal conflict tears up the stage. Although the ...
- 5967: Popular Music Revolution
- ... Bopper, and Ritchie Valens in a plane crash on February 3, 1959. “The entire song is a tribute to Buddy Holly and a commentary on how rock and roll changed in the years since his death. McLean seems to be lamenting the death of ‘danceable’ music in rock and roll and (in part) attributing that lack to the ab-sence of Buddy Holly et. al” (Kulawiec 1995). Rock music did continue to evolve after that point, and the ...
- 5968: Picasso - Life Stile
- ... Until this goal is accomplished, the Cubist painter has not fully realized his purpose. After his initial Cubist period, Picasso moved through various other stages. He experimented with sculpture and still lifes, and by his death at the age of ninety-two, could be considered "the most famous and talked about painter in recent history." (Barnes). After progressing past Cubism, Picasso frequently came back to this style of painting because, as ... feelings towards Franco's regime and used his paintings, especially his great mural Guernica to "clearly express [his] abhorrence of the military caste which", he believed, had "sunk Spain [into] an ocean of pain and death." (Barnes) The way Picasso set about painting has been well documented by many people. Roland Penrose, in writing about a photographic study of the artist at work, eloquently describes the conflicting influences seen in Picasso ...
- 5969: Mi Vida Loca
- ... Ernesto is shot by one of his Caucasian clients on the same night. With Ernesto out of both of their lives, they can move on and earn back each other’s friendship. After Ernesto’s death shadow takes over his brother’s drug dealing business with the help of Shadow, a female gangster that was shot with Ernesto. Meanwhile, Anhenica “Giggles” is released from a four-year sentence in prison for ... imposing on women deprivations which imprison them in a condition seen as inferior by the male culture. (149) The female gender role of being independent to a man is shown many times. After Ernesto’s death, the girls complain about not ever having money. In one instance, neither mother could afford a juice for their kids. Whisper then gives them money, but it is actually Shadow’s drug money. This points ...
- 5970: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... 6). The Regulators pursued their purpose with tremendous force. They often broke into courts of justice, drove judges from the bench and set up mock trials. They dragged unoffending attorneys through the streets almost until death and publicly assaulted peaceful citizens who refused to express public sympathy for the Regulation. In September, 1770, Judge Richard Henderson was presiding over the superior court in Hillsborough when a mob of one hundred fifty ... refuge behind trees and rocks. The Regulators were deserted by many of their own comrades and took early leave of the battlefield. The Battle of Alamance lasted two hours. Tryon's forces lost nine to death and sixty-one wounded, while the Regulators lost the same number killed and had a large, but undetermined number of people wounded. Tryon took about fifteen prisoners and executed one on the spot with the ...
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