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Film Evaluation Historical Time of the Film: 1552 ' Mid sixteenth century. Historical Place Setting of the Film: England Theme of the Film: How managed to gain the throne through turmoil, and then maintain it through even greater conflict and opposition. Greatest Surprise of the Film: The attention to detail and the s...
The people of Salem can hardly be condemned for their actions during the witch hunts of 1692, as described in the play The Crucible, for they were merely products of their time. This is shown through an examination of the theocratic society in which they lived, the patriarchal snobbery they exhibited toward each other, their lack of medical techno...
Movies by Alfred Hitchcock are always well done, Psycho is known as one of his best. In all of his movies there are many things that look like just normal everyday items. But they really are placed there to say something. In the movie Psycho, every item is placed, and every scene is perfectly setup to say something about someone. Dur...
Louis Hector Berlioz was born on December 11, 1803, in La Cote-Saint-Andre, a very small town in the east of France, fairly close to Grenoble, and a little further from Lyon. His father was a very respected doctor, an openly declared atheist and also a music lover. His mother was a Catholic. He was brought up under strict Catho...
In the Piece created by Robert Colecott entitled the 'Bilingual Cop,' a cop is positioned in the center of the work standing behind a brick wall. The cop is yelling racial slurs at two men who are passed out; one man is an African American and he is leaning up against a trash can and positioned to the left of the cop, there is also a H...
In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are no...
Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience released its first album in early 1967. Popular music had been leaning towards psychedelics for a couple years already and Are You Experienced? came out at about the same time as the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Are You Experienced? far exceeded the Beatles' triumph in comp...
Georg Friedrich Handel was one of the most accomplished Baroque composers in his time. Born in Halle, Germany in 1685, he was the son of a wealthy barber who wanted his son to become a lawyer. However, he displayed such musical aptitude with the harpsichord, organ, oboe, counterpoint and fugue, he became an assistant with Friedrich...
SUMMARY: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is the story of the resulting conflicts from the assassination of perpetual dictator and Roman emperor, Julius Caesar. A great friend of Caesar, Mark Antony, comes to the senate to see the dead body of their dictator. He pretends to not be angry at those who took part in the assassination, and asks to speak at h...
Light and Darkness Found Within the Gospel of John and in Sophocles' Drama As a child, my world was enraptured by the wonderful Fisher-Price toy known as the Lite-Brite. By inserting multicolored little pegs into their corresponding slots on a detailed guide, I could transform drab, dull, and dark pieces of paper into wondrous works of brilliant a...
Demystifying The A-Team Formula "In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one el...
Moliere created a variety of characters in his play, Misanthrope. Alceste, because of his brutal honesty evokes empathy within me. The other character of course, would be Celimene because she would be known as a player in today's society. Oronte, another character, has his feelings hurt because of Alceste's brutal honesty when he critiqued Oronte...
The play " A Midsummer Night's Dream " was written by a famous play writer Shakespeare. The play opens in the royal palace in Athens, Greece. Theseus, very famous and popular ruler has fallen in love with their beautiful queen of Amazon, Hippolyta. The Duke announced at the beginning of the play that they will get married in five days. At this poi...
The 1995 hit film Waterworld is a prime example of archetypes appearing in modern motion pictures. The movie displays three main characteristics that give it archetypal meaning. The first of these is the classic hero archetype. Secondly, many archetypal elements of nature are displayed. Lastly, many other archetypes such as safety, extremes...
