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- 11381: National TV Turn-Off Week: A Dumb Idea
- ... a young mind, I have a personal beef against that reasoning. Coming over to Canada as a little immigrant child, not speaking a word of English, I was outcast by society. I had troubles at school, I could not speak to my friends. What's a boy to do? Teachers tried to help me, my parents tried to help me but nothing helped. So I did the only thing I could ...
- 11382: Movie Review of Jerry Maguire
- ... big name stars in overly hyped, big time busts. Combine that with the fact that sports movies are rarely impressive, (Necessary Roughness?!? The Program?!?) and I have to say that my hopes were not too high for this movie. Let me tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. The title character, played by Tom Cruise, is a sports agent at the top of his business, and at the bottom of humanity. He ...
- 11383: Movie Review: Yentl
- ... is the story of a young girl, in love with learning but forbidden to do so by Jewish tradition. Upon her father's death, Yentl disguises herself as a boy to attend a yeshiva (religious school) and continue her studies. She befriends Avigdor, a male scholar at the yeshiva, and falls in love with him. Driven by her love for him, Yentl will do all that she can to ensure that ...
- 11384: John Ford and Frank Capra: A Study of Their Movies
- ... little about Gypo but a lot about his money. These leeches end up guiding the character into deeper and deeper trouble. Wheras Deeds has professional leeches like lawyers, because Deed lives in the world of high fainace the thief where suits and have offices. Both films end up using money as a test of a persons strength in the case of Gypo he fails at first but eventually learns right even ...
- 11385: Impressions of Television
- ... of music videos and an occasional demented cartoon such as bevis and butthead. It is a cartoon about two adolescent boys who have no parental supervision. They reek havoc within the neighborhood and at their school. They are always getting kicked out of class for some ghastly act or for mouthing off to the teachers. I think that this show promotes allot of negative ideas that you can see demonstrated by ...
- 11386: Dicks' Androids and Scotts' Replicants
- ... and this represents the majority of his work. He has, also, won awards for two of his science-fiction novels. He won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (Brians 1). An opera has been based on one of P.K ...
- 11387: Bull Durham: To the True Meaning of The First Fight Scene
- ... as his new catcher and helps him up. In the end, Crash invites Nuke back inside for a beer and to talk. The number of communicational concepts that appear in this short interaction is very high. The mental distractions that are present in this argument are factual distractions and semantic distractions. A factual distraction occurs when someone focuses so intently on details that they miss the main point. This is exactly ...
- 11388: A Developmental Study of Alex in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
- ... fashion to the way his attackers did 2 years ago. After slipping a sedative into Alex's wine, Alex wakes up to find himself in a locked room on the second floor of an apartment high-rise. Through the floorboards, Alex starts to hear the hateful sounds of Beethoven, and goes into his sickness fits. No exits, No escapes. His only way out is to jump out of the closed window ...
- 11389: Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Jurassic Park
- ... by John Hodge, from the novel by Irvine Welsh. Ferris Bueller's Day Off One of the all-time greatest comedies, this movie tells the tale of a smart Chicago teenager (Matthew Broderick), who ditches school with his girlfriend (Mia Sara) and his neurotic best friend (Alan Ruck), so they can spend a day in the windy city. It also turns out that Broderick wants to build his buddy Ruck's ...
- 11390: The Crucible: Characters
- ... good and pure, unlike his adulterous self, and does not want to tarnish her good name and the names of his other innocent friends by implicating them. (Warshow 117) By choosing death, Proctor takes the high road and becomes a true tragic hero. The reader feels that his punishment is unjust (especially since the crime of witchcraft is imagined and unprovable.) Because the trials take place in a Christian, American town ...
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