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- 6331: National TV Turn-Off Week: A Dumb Idea
- ... touch for just a minute could change your life drastically. And, besides, why can't you watch television while you knit? As for the people that say television warps 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 ...
- 6332: Movie Review of Jerry Maguire
- ... the top of his business, and at the bottom of humanity. He works for Sports Management International as a ruthless devil procuring the largest contracts and endorsement deals he can muster, at the expense of personal well-being and old- fashioned love of the game. The movie begins when one night, in a fit of passion, he has a revelation and writes a mission statement about how the business can be ...
- 6333: Daily Life of the Aztecs
- Daily Life of the Aztecs Jacques Soustelle was an anthropologists that specialized in pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico. The author used a collection of references in writing this book. The author did research his material in great depth. He used many quotes, including some from Cortez. This book covers the life of the Aztecs. The daily life as well as religion is ...
- 6334: "In Cold Blood" Review
- ... Blood" Review "In Cold Blood" is a tragic story of two men, Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and then find themselves running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote used only facts to create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject, but his problem was making his book read like a novel ...
- 6335: Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness
- ... exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded" and the note on the last page, "Exterminate all the brutes!" illustrates the progressive externalization of Kurtz's fear of "contamination," the personal fear of loss of self which colonialist whites saw in the "uncivilized," seemingly regressive lifestyle of the natives. Gradually, the duplicity of man and reality merged for the two Kurtzes, one in the Congo, and ...
- 6336: "Casablanca:" A New Perspective
- ... the audience directly into the action. By placing the camera at the exact location and height of the character, the viewer of the film is 'inserted' into the character's body, making the scene more personal. Curtiz uses a slight variation of this type of camera placement when Capt. Renault and Rick are having a discussion about Victor Laslo's arrival in Casablanca. The camera is placed just above and aft ...
- 6337: Beware of Television
- ... cannot slow down a delightful program or speed up a dreary one. The images move too quickly. He cannot use his own imagination to invest the people and events portrayed on the screen with the personal meanings that would help him understand and resolve relationships and conflicts in his own life; he is under the power of the show creators' imagination. He becomes a passive consumer of the TV production; like ...
- 6338: Glory: A Review
- ... performers." Howe believes that the is too much "liberal eyed giddiness (thanks chiefly to the gushy, rhapsodizing score by James Horner)." Both Ebert and Lukas acclaim Broderick's performance of Shaw, yet Howe criticizes it writing, "In this movie he is an amiable non-presence, creating unintentionally the notion that he Fifty-fourth earned its stripes despite wimpy leadership." This comment lead me to wonder whether Howe and I saw the ...
- 6339: Billy Sunday
- ... is true that Sunday was a showman who craved an audience and loved applause. But he also touched the lives of countless men and women of all social classes, helping them escape various forms of personal bondage and find freedom in the gospel. And if he did not convert all of urban America to his brand of Christianity, he at least played a major role in helping to keep conservative biblical ...
- 6340: Death of A Salesman: Willy Loman - A Tragic Hero
- ... means. You are, of course, free to differ with the designation. No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflicts that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. Willy Lowman's technique ...
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