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- 511: Television and The Internet
- ... of shows and actors and various additional information, such as David Letterman's Top Ten Lists. Countless web sites are also devoted to specific television shows. For example, while performing a search for the show X-Files (a unique name), I came up with over 20,000 direct references to the show. The sites essentially expand on the experience of television for the viewer. Any individual can find any information they ... between 100 to over a thousand posts a day from fans around the world. Some sample numbers of posts per day include: 155 for Friends, 324 for Party of Five, 310 for Seinfeld, 800 for X-Files, and 1106 for The Simpsons (data collected once a day for three days). The newsgroups and chat lines are where the true uses and gratifications of television are enhanced. The diversion that television provides ...
- 512: Jurassic Park: Comparison Between Book and Movie
- ... place on a small island near Costa Rica, it's about a park full of dinosaurs created by Dr. Hammond. The dinosaurs are locked in large cages with electric fences. But as the mathematician Ian Malcolm predicted, nature cannot be controlled. They find this out when the security system goes out. They soon lost the electric fence and the dinosaurs started to escape. They try to restore the power and are ... do. They decide to leave the island by helicopter. The book is much different then the movie. The book goes in more detail about the genetic engineering of the dinosaurs. The book also makes Ian Malcolm's theory that nature can't be controlled nor predicted more valid. In the end of the book version the island actually survives for a while after the power goes out. I liked the movie ...
- 513: Jurassic Park: Comparision Between Book and Movie
- ... lizard. The man brought the remains of the lizard to the doctor who sought out the treatment to the little girl. The doctor had no idea on what the lizard could be. She took an X-ray of the remaining section of the tail, and sent the X-ray and the picture the little girl drew to Dr. Alan Grant. Dr. Grant is a Paleontologist who was currently working on a site. Dr. Grant took a look at the pictures and immediately knew ...
- 514: Macbeth: Blood
- ... bloody piece of work," and Ross says "is't known who did this more than bloody deed?", they are both inquiring as to who performed the treacherous acts upon Duncan. When Macbeth is speaking about Malcolm and Donalbain, he refers to them as "bloody cousins" A final way, and perhaps the most vivid use of the symbol blood, is of the theme of guilt. First Macbeth hints at his guilt when ... out." After the death of Macbeth at the hands of Macduff, the symbolic theme of blood swings back to what it was at the beginning of the play. It is the symbol of honour to Malcolm this time. The death of Macbeth is honoured feat that Macduff is congratulated for. So as we have seen meaning of the symbol of blood change from honour to treachery, and then to guilt, after ...
- 515: Patterns of Imagery in Macbeth
- ... 51). Upon hearing this speech, Macbeth finally decides that he will go along with the murder after all. Another example of manhood being a theme in Macbeth is Macduff during Act IV, Scene iii. While Malcolm implores him to "dispute it like a man ("it" being the loss of his wife and children)" (Line 220), Macduff says that he must also "feel it as a man" (Line 221), which changes the ... slain and with no stroke of mine,/My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still" (Lines 15 - 16). Macduff can't rest until he gets revenge on the killer of his family, something Malcolm and Fleance (whose fathers are also killed by Macbeth) don't say. Macduff is the hero of the play. He is the light that will soon come to a final climactic battle with the dark ...
- 516: Patterns of Imagery in Macbeth
- ... 51). Upon hearing this speech, Macbeth finally decides that he will go along with the murder after all. Another example of manhood being a theme in Macbeth is Macduff during Act IV, Scene iii. While Malcolm implores him to "dispute it like a man ("it" being the loss of his wife and children)" (Line 220), Macduff says that he must also "feel it as a man" (Line 221), which changes the ... slain and with no stroke of mine,/My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still" (Lines 15 - 16). Macduff can't rest until he gets revenge on the killer of his family, something Malcolm and Fleance (whose fathers are also killed by Macbeth) don't say. Macduff is the hero of the play. He is the light that will soon come to a final climactic battle with the dark ...
- 517: Measure for Measure - Critique
- ... MFM" is an average play written by an exceptional writer, performed no more than competantly by gifted actors, on a boring, uninteresting stage, thus we can equate : The God of Drama - less than excellent play -------------------------------------------------- = X Excellent actors - poor performance - poor staging X = Waste of money and time...Do not see this play. If you are truly curious about the nature of this play, save yourself the money, visit the local library's literature section and read it ...
- 518: Macbeth: Lying
- ... recorded time...Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more...signifying nothing". Meanwhile, Macduff, travelled to England to meet Malcolm. There, they planned on joining forces to defeat Macbeth. Macbeth then meet the witches once again, and heard another set of prophecies. These new prophecies told him to beware of Macduff, that no man born of woman will harm him, and that he will not be vanquished until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill. In short time, Malcolm ordered that each of his men cut off from Birnam Wood. Macbeth who has been relying on the assurance of the witches tells his men to leave the castle and attack. Macbeth attacks with desperate ...
- 519: The Symbol of Blood in Macbeth
- ... the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem their guilt". This is another sinister and evil reference to blood, setting up the innocent servants of the king. Again, blood is referred to when Malcolm and Donaldbain are discussing what to do and Malcolm says : "there's daggers in men's smiles: the nearer in blood, the nearer bloody." Meaning that their closest relatives are likely to kill them. Again, blood is being used to describe treason, murder and ...
- 520: Macbeth: The Symbol of Blood
- ... bloody piece of work," and Ross says "is't known who did this more than bloody deed?", they are both inquiring as to who performed the treacherous acts upon Duncan. When Macbeth is speaking about Malcolm and Donalbain, he refers to them as "bloody cousins" A final way, and perhaps the most vivid use of the symbol blood, is of the theme of guilt. First Macbeth hints at his guilt when ... out." After the death of Macbeth at the hands of Macduff, the symbolic theme of blood swings back to what it was at the beginning of the play. It is the symbol of honour to Malcolm this time. The death of Macbeth is honoured feat that Macduff is congratulated for. So as we have seen meaning of the symbol of blood change from honour to treachery, and then to guilt, after ...
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