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- 8541: Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda
- Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience. To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of war. Never, before the career of D.W. Griffith had anyone attempted to bring the subject to film. The result of his efforts, weaknesses aside, mark a change in attitude towards film as a media. Perhaps ... scene where two gentlemen are talking, and as the camera pans down, we see a puppy struggling with a kitten. This is another strong example of symbolism; however, even more importantly it foreshadows the coming war. It is expertly placed to add to the building tension between sides which the audience already knows results in confrontation. Its placement reflects Griffiths desire to advance the complexity and diversity of film beyond ...
- 8542: Strange Explanations
- Sleeping disorders occur to millions of people around the world. People say that they are medical problems, and some people would just say it was stress. Then there is the explanation that some people choose to follow that is the explanation that aliens had abducted these people. People around the world resort to many different forms of explanations for things that have happened. Some of these are pretty sensible, while others are completely off the wall. Strange explanations are used for many things, the Puritans chose ... Mr. Hale-and Martha Corey, there cannot be a woman more closer to God yet than Martha . Believe me, Mr. Nurse, if Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning (71). In the end, the only thing the Puritan's succeeded in explaining was how sensible people can be gullible enough to believe such radical ideas. While the Puritans chose to say ...
- 8543: Richard The Lion Hearted
- ... maturity have misjudged her. "She was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant"; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology: a queen "who surpassed almost all the queens of the world." The Crusades In 1183 the younger Henry died leaving Richard as the heir to the English throne. Another family dispute occurred when Richard receiving the lands of his brother. Henry was expected to give his ... His second was to begin to raise funds for his crusade later to be called the Third Crusade. He imposed a tax on the English people called a Saladin for the use of aiding his war effort. A King Imprisoned After the Third Crusade, Richard began his homeward journey to England. Put ashore by bad weather he found himself in Austria home of Leopold, and"their Richard had angered by actions ...
- 8544: West Side Story
- ... everybody to stop acting that way. Glad Hand made everybody split up across the room, and then whoever was directly across from each other danced together. Doc tried to stop the gangs from having the war council, he told them basically to grow up and stop their childishness. Doc and Glad Hand couldn't stop the fighting. Tony saw through the prejudice though, he loved one of the PR's and when the Jets found out, they were ashamed. Tony's love for Maria was so real, he didn't care what happened. He died. Prejudice plagues this world now and forever, as long as there is a difference in people there will discrimination and prejudice. For example, the fact that a black man was fired at 41 times and hit 19 times by ...
- 8545: E. E. Cummings
- ... rain up into the silence the green up into the silence the green silence with a white earth in it you will (kiss me) go out into the morning the young morning with a warm world in it (kiss me) you will go on into the sunlight the fine sunlight with a firm day in it you will go (kiss me down into your memory and a memory and memory i ... for your mind. The green silence , although not a true description of something tangeble, does force you you to think fondly upon silence. This is also true of similar phrases, white earth , fine sunlight , warm world . His description is obviously one of a spring day. What is truly interesting about this poem is the levels in it. Although it is one complete poem, it is actually comprised of three levels. The ... his poetry is the mystery. His poetry can be viewed as nonsense and maybe rightfully so with such obstacles in understanding. But I believe his radical style to be the attraction. Maybe everything in this world was not meant to be rationally understood.
- 8546: Ignatius of Antioch
- ... beliefs of our then second and third generation Church. He wrote that the Church can only preserve its unity if each member of the Church fulfill his or her role as a Christian in the world while recognizing that their bishop and priests represent Christ and his apostles. Of all the Churches, Ignatius emphasized the pre-eminence of Rome' for it was in Rome that Peter was executed. Ignatius wrote that ... unity of opposites. Christ is flesh and spirit, of Mary and of God, a subject of suffering and yet incapable of suffering. Through Christ God's life, the life of grace has come into the world. The prophets and patriarchs of the Old Testament received portions of this grace to prepare for his coming. We ourselves can receive this grace and, like the prophets, become Instruments of God. Our main means ... Ignatius calls the medicine of immortality and defines as the real presence of Christ. By 98 A.D. when Ignatius was arrested in Antioch during the persecution of Trojan, he was known throughout the Christian world. Wherever the ship carrying him to Rome touched port he was greeted by hundreds of Christians. He literally had to beg wealthy Christians not to use their political connections to prevent his martyrdom. Within ...
- 8547: Movie: Stand and Deliver - Mr. Escalante Should Be An Inspiration to Everyone
- ... many of the holes in his students lives, he has proven that there is hope for everyone. With the help of Mr. Escalante, the students are ready to begin their new lives in the real world, not the one of gangs, violence and repression, but the world with jobs, loving families, and personal happiness. If every teacher were as successful as Mr. Escalante, our educational system would be leading the rest of the world, not following it.
- 8548: Reinhold Niebuhr
- ... theology, he took a keen interest in trade union and political affairs. He was an active member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s, waged a vigorous fight against isolationism and pacifism before and during World War II, and in 1944 helped to found the Liberal Party in New York State. He received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 and was made a member of the American Academy of ...
- 8549: The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- ... simply as a way to express his emotions and innermost feelings. His life was full of pain and agony. From the beginning when he lost his mother to the end when reality and the dream-world became intertwined. The loss of many so-called loves and jobs placed him in a world where only him and his writing existed. It is no wonder that his death still be so feared. The way he wrote of it will allow him to haunt the earth forever. Ironically enough his ... Poe was quite a pioneer, being the first to write modern science fiction and modern detective stories, where death (a part of horror, terror, and the supernatural) plays a key role. He also explored the world of nightmare where Charles Baudelaire thought that he delved into the secret chambers of the mind. Much of Poes work dealt with psychological disorders and the comprehension ability of the human mind. He ...
- 8550: The Crucible
- ... can warp judgment, its absence can diminish memory's truth. What terrifies one generation is likely to bring only a puzzled smile to the next. I remember how in 1964, only twenty years after the war, Harold Clurman, the director of "Incident at Vichy," showed the cast a film of a Hitler speech, hoping to give them a sense of the Nazi period in which my play took place. They watched ... 1692, but it was literally worth your life to deny witches or their powers, given the exhortation in the Bible, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." There had to be witches in the world or the Bible lied. Indeed, the very structure of evil depended on Lucifer's plotting against God. (And the irony is that klatches of Luciferians exist all over the country today, there may even be ...
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