NASA has been a very influential organization for this generation beginning with the Space Race. More people seem to be looking up at the stars and wondering how can they get to one of those specks. Right now, our destination is landing on Mars but that is only possible because of the early programs NASA started in order to get...
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In ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941) directed by Orson Welles, the story is set in motion to seek for the meaning of ‘Rosebud’. At the end, when Thompson is asked about ‘Rosebud’, he states that he didn’t find its meaning, and that “maybe ‘Rosebud’ was something [Kane] couldn’t get or something he lost … I guess ‘Rosebud’ is just a piece in...
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Through the film ‘The Social Network’, many organizational behavioral problems can be identified, such as leadership problems, lack of communication among top management, and some unethical behaviors (hacking, stealing ideas, betrayal, and disloyalty). For this essay, I decided to choose the problem of communication as the main problem because it was one of the vital factors in running a successful...
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Woman are goddess and a miracle. ‘Hidden Figures’ makes a very big impression and an inspirational movie for us. The movie addresses the issues of racial segregation which was reflected in the location of the West Area computing division where the women or blacks worked, about half a mile away from the rest of the Langley Research Centre. It also...
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‘Citizen Kane’ begins with a three-minute stretch of dark and foggy silence with a low song before its disruptive by the word ‘Rosebud’ said by Charles Kane, played and directed by Orson Welles. The movie opens with a life-changing picture of a far off, haze covered castle on a slope. It's an exemplary gothic shot and goes far towards building...
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The transition from childhood to adulthood also known as adolescents (shonen for boys, shojo for females) is heavily shown within the realm of anime. Studio Ghibli is also known as one of the major producers of adolescent films with the help of Hayao Miyazaki, a director, and producer of films such as ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’, ‘Spirited Away’, ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’,...
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‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ follows the story of Randle Patrick McMurphy, a criminal that was sent to a mental ward due to his antics. He assumed that moving there would have been far easier than the prison he was at, but he was wrong; as the person who was in charge of the ward, Nurse Ratched was no...
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Spike Lee’s 1989 film ‘Do the Right Thing’ confronts the impossible nature of resolving racism in a society that is so divided by differences in ethnicities. Inspired by the Howard Beach incident in 1986, in which Michael Griffith is hit by a car while fleeing from his racist attacker, the film shows the breaking down of a community under pressure....
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Is murder for racial reasons permissible? In Spike Lee’s film, ‘Do the Right Thing’, Radio Raheem killed by NYPD for simply doing nothing for having loud music. There is no excuse or right answer to killing someone for doing something so harmless. With a death killed by police officers, it goes with no justice. This major climax scene parallels with...
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The film, movie, cinema, motion picture, or moving picture has been entertaining audiences for over one hundred plus years. They have come a long way since the Golden Age of movies. Early on movies such as ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘Casablanca’, and ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ broke and set new ideas for film-making, casting and directing. Their production made new...
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A hero is defined as a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities (Oxford, 2019) However this definition doesn’t characterize a hero by their skin or gender, yet since the beginning of time the heroes in our stories have been depicted as supreme white men. These are the stories of superior white European men being...
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Still today many books are still very important to many surroundings, they have tons of abilities and can hold a spot in your head forever. This book called ‘Night’ is definitely important especially to the writer Elie Wiesel. He was a huge survivor of a horrendous and frightening real-life event that took place in 1941 and 1945 known as the...
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“Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so” - Erin Hunter. When I stumbled across this poem the other day on my phone it puzzled me. I found myself thinking about what power means to me and compared it to scenarios from books I have recently read and movie I have watched. Power to me is...
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Tensions are created as the culmination of the audience’s sympathy and desire for the individual’s welfare and survival against the visual testimonies of anti-Semitic abuse and atrocity. William Shakespeare’s play, ‘The Merchant of Venice’, and Steven Spielberg’s film, ‘Schindler’s List’, depict the tensions inciting the human experience of change and connection through the insights accentuated by the aspects of moral...
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In Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, ‘Schindler's List’, it tells the incredible true story of a German businessman, Oskar Schindler, who saved over one thousand Jews during World War II. The film takes place in Krakow, Poland beginning in the year 1939, where an ambitious, money-hungry Oskar Schindler was ready to make his fortune from the war. Throughout the film, there...
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The movie opens in a mental hospital. The camera shows the more basic parts of the hospital, people lying in beds and nurses walking around announcing “Pill time!” in order to let the audience know that they are viewing the asylum. Next comes the introduction of a man who is being walked in with handcuffs on who is supposed to...
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The film serves to represent the journey Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) undertook in relation to the formation of Facebook. Facebook as it is known today is a social media network used by millions of people worldwide. The film’s opening scene occurs in a gloomy pub, here the audience watch Erica Albright (Rooney Mara) essentially break up with Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse...
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The extract that I have chosen is taken from Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ (1989). The reason I have chosen to analyze a sequence of this film is that of the interesting storytelling techniques Spike Lee utilizes. More importantly, the film has many underlying meanings that are represented through the film elements. I will analyze the cultural context, cinematography,...
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“Let me tell you the story of right hand, left hand. It’s the tale of good and evil”, says Radio Raheem to Mookie. Spike Lee adjusts cinematic language to show the audience deeper meaning within the context of his shots. He utilizes a film procedure called breaking the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall incorporates a cinematic style shot, that...
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Interesting fact before the beginning of this paper: five years ago, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of ‘Do the Right Thing’, the director, Spike Lee threw a party with a special message from President at the time Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. The two had seen the movie on their first date, and now, in 2019, the movie is getting...
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Sociology and the theories associated with the study of societies, are prominent in all aspects of entertainment especially movies. This essay will attempt to relate the three sociological theories - structural functionalism, conflict theory and symbolic interactionism - to the film ‘V for Vendetta’. In order to appropriately discuss how these theories are portrayed in this film, it is important...
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Berlin argues that the memory of slavery promotes a dual message; one of “the dehumanizing force of slavery and the slaves’ refusal to be dehumanized” (Berlin, 1265). The transatlantic slavery trade and chattel slavery violated the freedom and robbed Africans of their basic human rights, but it did not “define the society and culture that slaves produced” (Berlin 1264). Both...
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The two excellent works of cinematography: ‘The Mission’ and ‘Schindler’s List’ differ immensely in terms of the theme, time frame, and location. At the same time, they encompass a similar take on depicting the human experience in a fight for rights and freedom. Moreover, they both encounter a religious/spiritual aspect that is engraved into the culture and people. Not to...
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The movie I chose to discuss from a sociological perspective is ‘V for Vendetta’, which is directed by James McTeigue. The film was originally taken from the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The setting is familiar to many of the fictitious novels written in the future about a dystopian era, in which people are ruled by...
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‘The Social Network’ explores the times in which the social media platform Facebook came to be. The platform was invented through warring perspectives of smart young men with a great passion to interlink their friends though the online connected platform. David Fincher, director of this interesting script, extracted from the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' kept on our plates an enticing...
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The movie ‘The Last Samurai’ was useful to an extent for the education about the modernization of Japan. This movie is based on a historical event that unfolded in the modernization of Japan. ‘The Last Samurai’ is a 2003 American drama action movie co-produced and directed by Edward Zwick. It is set in 1876 in Japan, which at the time...
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‘Mona Lisa Smile’ explores college life through feminism, marriage, and gender roles by way of a progressive teacher at the end of a traditional era (Goldsmith-Thomas & Newell, 2003). The film begins in the fall of 1953 at the start of a new semester at Wellesley College, the prestigious all-girls institution in Boston, Massachusetts. The film’s plot revolves around Katherine...
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The movie ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ is an action-packed adventure movie starring Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones) Sean Connery (Indiana Jones’ dad). If I could give the film a rating, I would give it a 4/5 just because it's a bit more of an older movie. But the storyline and the actors are spot on. It's interesting and it...
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‘Hidden Figures’, released in 2016, is an uplifting and inspiring movie based on true events that accentuates one of the hot potatoes in society – racism. The film was nominated for an Oscar three times because it's a really great math story and an eye-opener at the same time. This biographical drama film is about the three African-American female mathematicians...
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Have you ever felt the droplets of perspiration on your skin, creeping down your body, almost like the cold fingers of a skeleton, and have been frighted of a slaying gnome or a malevolent ventriloquist? Well, the movie ‘Goosebumps’ will definitely tickle your sweat glands as, R.L. Stine’s best-selling book, turned into a blockbusting movie directed by Rob Letterman, turns...
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