“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps” (Hawkins, 94). ‘The Girl on the Train’ is a thriller...
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The 1930’s were a traumatic time in many parts of the world. Spain has also endured its fair share of ideological conflicts, of which the Spanish Civil War is a clear example. From 1936 to 1939, Spain saw the most brutal civil war in its history. Often considered a struggle between democracy and fascism, general Francisco Franco's right-wing nationalists eventually...
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The film ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ tells the story of two eighteen-year-old girls who dream of becoming professional soccer players. The movie does not only focalize on soccer but also on the role gender plays in the lives of the characters, and how cultural differences can impact each person throughout the film. It also shows how race is still an...
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A person can come into your life when you least expect it and turn your world upside down. At first, they may seem like they are the best thing that could happen to you but then slowly what was once a dream relationship turns into something toxic. Something that turns both individuals into a person they don’t even recognize anymore....
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The movie, Inside Out, is an animated movie. The main character of the movie is an eleven-year-old girl by name Riley. Although Riley is the main character of the movie, her emotions in her head play a significant part in a lot of the things Riley does throughout the movie. Riley’s move from Minnesota to San Francisco is one of...
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The start and finish of this film are brilliantly done, tying the entire movie together without allowing you to realize it until you get to the end. The film kinda reminds me of an infinity loop twisting and turning but always ending where it started. The start and end really are Montauk for these two main characters. This movie is...
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Media portrayals and representations are the methods by which the media depicts specific groups, networks, encounters, thoughts, or subjects from a specific ideological perspective. The portrayal is the means by which media texts manage and present sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, national and regional characters, social issues, and occasions to a crowd of people. Media texts have the ability to shape...
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Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. It is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan and was Disney's 36th animated feature and the ninth animated film produced and released during the Disney Renaissance. It was directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook. Mulan is the only...
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A. Introduction 1. Background In natural communication, paralanguage takes an important part as an essential supplement to spoken language communication. When we used words, it creates language but how to deliver words so that meaning becomes clear? According to Trager (1958), human utterance fully consists of a voice set (Pennycook, 2006). The same verbal message can convey different meanings when...
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Many different types of memories can be seen in the movie Inside Out. This fun and cute movie show an insight into the different personalities in the brain and how it affects Riley’s decisions and reactions. The connection between sleep and long-term memory Each night, when Riley goes to sleep, the “headquarters” shut down. The memories that occurred throughout the...
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Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ and De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief’ are both two films that are using similar cinematic language. The way both directors are using cinematic language to emphasize the theme of each film, is fascinating. The camera shots, angles and sound, all work together to make the themes stand out. Both films have titles that make...
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Being resilient is defined as recovering from misfortune without giving up. It means to develop habits that help you to get back up onto your feet and adjust from tragedy or change without giving up. The film ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ demonstrates the ideas of how resilient gets you through hardship and tribulation fairly easily. Individuals manage and overcome adversity...
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Ever since the Europeans landed on Indigenous Australian’s land they have lost so much of their identities. What started with their land being called Terra Nullius and being taken away from them, Indigenous Australians then had to endure years of loss because of colonization. Both the film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ by Phillip Noyce and ‘Arthur Corunna's Story’ by Sally Morgan...
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Human experiences are the all-encompassing actualities that humanity endures that consists of the physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual dimensions in life. It is a significant aspect of our lives and the way in which we become who we are. Every person is able to relate to human experiences whether it is individually or collectively. From these experiences, human qualities...
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For some, home is a plate of kimchi and white rice. For others, its borscht, a warm cup of tea, beef bourguignon, or tamales. Such preferences are not only personally meaningful but culturally significant as well. These meals map who we are, where we come from, and what happened along the way. Certain meals can act as a way to...
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Public policy can be defined as a statement of intent, which guides decisions and contains goals and the means to achieve them, this can be the action taken by a government to maintain order or address the needs of citizens. According to Dye 1972, a public policy is anything a government decides to do or not to do. Therefore, a...
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In the film ‘Divergent’, directed by Neil Burger, an important character is Tris. Tris is an important character because of her bravery in overcoming the fears she had, her relationship with Four, and her stopping Jeanine because of her trying to overthrow Abnegation. Firstly, Tris is important because of her bravery which isn't the absence of fear, but you need...
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In both Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Brother I’m Dying’ and Stephanie Black’s ‘Life and Debt’, the concept of the afterlives of slavery and colonialism are fundamental. In both, black countries that were previously colonized by a white European power. Danticat and Black shed light on how these people readjust to life after colonialism and slavery, but also the repercussions to the civilization...
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The Walt Disney Company found on October 16, 1923, in Los Angeles, California was a corporation known as one of the best providers of children and family entertainment in the 20th and 21st centuries. Disney’s first animated movie Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs was a big hit and since then Disney has had huge successes. Disney has made many...
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood and ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott both take place in dystopian societies that demonstrate power over their citizens. In both texts, those lower in power are controlled by their representative state and taken advantage of. In ‘Blade Runner’, power runs over humankind and freedom, while ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ demonstrates a similar plot, including...
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Baz Luhrmann is an Australian writer, director and producer, notorious for his work in the Red Curtain Trilogy with it consisting of ‘Strictly Ballroom’ (1992), ‘William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet’ (1996), and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ (2001). Through these films he is recognized for creating an innovative style. To discuss the emotional response from his audience with the use of cinematic devices,...
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Teachers have the freedom to choose their way of teaching, aligning it to the students’ learning styles, as long as it assures the learning of the students. In the film ‘Dead Poets Society’, Mr. Keating uses a more of a non-technical and non-scientific that could appear as a humanistic approach. He wanted his students not only to excel academically but...
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Films can have a great impact on an individual’s way of thinking by helping to inspire and expand our basic knowledge of the world around us. The effects that films have on society are numerous and two-fold. Some even may have the power to completely change already established stereotypes, mindsets and prejudices. Both ‘The Help’ and ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ explore...
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The film ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ explores a range of sociological issues. These issues include class, gender, identity and power which are all explored throughout the film. It will explore how the film represents hierarchy in the workplace, expectations of those who work there, how personal lives can be affected by a demanding job and the overall way of how...
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In this essay paper I will discuss and analyze Michael Oher’s personality. This essay paper is based on true events from the film ‘The Blind Side’ inspired by Michael Lewis’s best seller. Michael Oher is an African American who grew up as an extremely impoverished child in the ghettos of Memphis Tennessee. Oher was from a place called Hurt Village,...
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Transformations of myths have materialized over centuries and are dependent on the source material for the provision of commonality between storylines, themes, characters and motifs upon which they ultimately traverse. Through these adaptations and re-interpretations of myths to contemporary frameworks, audiences can engage with and appreciate the rewriting undertaken by the adaptive text, whilst simultaneously enjoying the underlying congruity between...
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According to Ella Shohat, culturally and geographically colonialism effected the way different genders and ethnicities are portrayed in media. Historically colonialism invaded other cultures and brought with them their ideologies and views. Views that were in example depicting women and the world, from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the...
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In the film ‘Inception’, Dom Cobb is an extractor who has the ability to enter into people’s dreams and get information from them. He is given a job to implant an idea inside the mind of Robert Fischer and so he gathers a team to help him design an elaborate plan to complete the task. Along the way, the team...
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The importance of family. Two or more people who may share a genetic connection, but also an unbreakable social bond. As teenagers, the concept of family has influenced our lives from our first moments of living till now. We rely on our family for a sense of protection, endless moral support and inspiration, whilst constantly strengthening and intensifying our shared...
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In this essay I will try to reveal some of the intentions I think the directors Fernando Meirelles and Guillermo del Toro had, and I will write about what I, as a spectator, think they tried to convey in their films. Del Toro uses mise-en-scene in ‘Pans’ Labyrinth’ (2006) in the scene of the Pale Man’s lair and we see...
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