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The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film
Third World Film Professor: Andrew Millington Student: James Cheek Date Due: May 3, 2004 FINAL PAPER: The Maroon as Metaphor for Resistance in Latin American Film Cultural surrender is more than a matter of rejecting one's father and mother culture. It means that one accepts a new definition as a
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The Matrix
The Matrix Interweaves much symbolism, mythology, philosophy, and psychology. On the surface, the movie challenges the dominance of technology in our culture and predicts an apocalyptic result from the use of artificial intelligence. Yet, behind the human struggle for survival is a mythical backdrop upon which are backlit some of
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The Matrix
Darrell Stafford Philosophy H.E. Malmquist At the beginning of the Matrix a computer programmer known as Neo falls asleep in front of his computer. A mysterious message appears on the screen "Wake up Neo." This phrase encapsulates the plot of the film as Neo struggles with the problem of being
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The Matrix
"The Matrix" If I was Plato and I was a movie critic, this would be my opinion of the movie "The Matrix." The Matrix and my work "Plato's Republic" revolve around the notion that reality is vastly different from the illusions man accepts to be true. In each work, man
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The Matrix - Movie Review
The One In the film The Matrix Keanu Reeves plays Thomas A. Anderson, who is a man living a double life. One part of his life consists of working for a highly respectable software company. The second part of his life he is a hacker under the alias "Neo." One
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The Matrix Discussion
The "real world" is shown by using dark colors, such as black and gray, the "Matrix" is distinguished by brighter colors. However, there is one scene that I thought showed a different perspective, which was when Neo met Morpheous for the first time. It was raining, the room was dingy
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The Matrix Revolutions
Neo was last found unconscious in the Real World, where his mind has been, in the Matrix World, captured by the Merovingian and taken to a Limbo state-of-mind, between the Real World and the Matrix World. He confronts a program that speaks only of love and religion, something that Neo
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The Meaning of Life Opinion
The Meaning of Life -Opinion My beliefs on the meaning of life in religion and interpretation of such things. In approaching the question of 'the meaning of life' we have to examine the nature of meaning itself. Meaning, is by definition the point, or the intended goal. Consider the point
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The Media and Its Affect on You
The Media and Its Affect on You Growing up each individual is taught different values and morals. Those values and morals in return affect the daily decisions that we make. How do we obtain these values? We obtain these values from the objects that we come in contact with on
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The Mephisto Waltz
"The Mephisto Waltz" Composed By: Franz Liszt Reviewed By: John Teabout Jr. January 18, 2006 Mr. Brellochs Piano 1 A4 Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811 in Raiding, Hungary. His father Adam Liszt, a cello player, taught him to play the piano. As a young boy he
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The Messiah
The Messiah On Tuesday evening, December eleven I attended the 68th annual rendition of The Messiah in Zeeland. It was performed by the Zeeland Civic Chorus along with soloists Betsy Archer as the soprano, Cammille Zoet De Boer as contralto, Matthew Lehman as tenor, and John Scheid as the bass.
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The Mexican Corrido
The Mexican corrido is in essence a lyrical genre, primarily narrative, which narrates with a simple and invariable musical phrase composed of four members those events that powerfully touched the sensibility of the masses; violent crimes, violent deaths, tales of bandits, catastrophes, railroad derailments, wars, battles, heroic deeds, humorous stories,
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The Milagro Beanfield War
Who would ever think that using water could get a whole community of people mad at you? Well, the main character in the movie Joe Mondragon, didn’t really think much about using the communities water to water his bean field. When the people found out that Joe was “stealing” the
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The Mind of Criminals
What are psychopaths? The definition of a psychopath is a person with an antisocial personality disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior without empathy or remorse (Buss 5-6). The so called psychopath of Moonraker is Hugh Drax, and From Russia with Love is Red Grant. These villains are
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The Mirror of Time and Memory
The Mirror of Time and Memory. Live in the house-and the house will stand. I will call up any century, Go into it and build myself a house... With shoulder blades like timber props I help up every day that made the past, With a surveyor's chain I measure time
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The Mise-En-Scene of Metropolis
An Expressionist Vision German Expressionism is a unique film style that came out of Weimer Germany, the period between World War I and World War II. It focused mainly on the visual aspects on the screen meant to express emotions that trigger more personal reactions from the audience. According to
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The Mission
The video starts with Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert DeNiro) a European slave trader who supplied areas of South America with “slaves” to work the plantations. Mendoza encounters Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) after Gabriel is sent to take his dead brothers place in converting the native peoples of South America into Christianity.
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The Mission
“The Mission” The mission begins in 1750 in the rain forest of Central South America when Father Gabriel who was a Jesuit missionary attempts to bring the Gospel or good news to the native people who are called the Guarani. This was Father Gabriel’s mission, which was very risky considering
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The Monroe Doctrine
1. What is the Monroe Doctrine? The Monroe Doctrine was the Declaration by President Monroe in 1823 that the US would oppose efforts by any outside power to control a nation in the Western Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine took George Washington's foreign policy and then expanded on it. Not only
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The Most Beautiful Man in the World
The most beautiful man in the world is not a movie that would raise profound questions about the meaning of life or the lack of it. What it does is however to recreate an ordinary day of a little girl's life into a lyrical tale about her awakening, both metaphorically
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The Movie Crash
Martin Luther King stated "Yes, I am intouchable, and every Negro in the United States of America is an intouchable" (The African American Dream). Americans live their lives afraid to touch one another due to their differences in beliefs, backgrounds and ethnicities. Each person lives in a dream which separates
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The Movie Crash by Paul Haggis
The movie Crash, created by Paul Haggis, incorporates the many struggles faced by today's racial stereotypes, into a collage of various interconnected, cultural dilemmas encountered by the film's multi-ethnic cast. Most people are born with good hearts, but as they grow up they learn prejudices. "Crash" is a movie that
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The Music of the Baroque Era
The Music of the Baroque Era The style of polyphonic music containing elaborate ornamentation and contrasting elements, that is how Baroque music is defined. The Baroque era was a kind of transitional era in art and music. The Renaissance means rebirth and is typically regarded as such. The Baroque era
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The Musical Career of Anthony Way
Anthony Way was an English chorister and classical singer who shot to fame after appearing as a chorister in a BBC TV series. He has since had success as a recording artist, with gold and platinum discs to his credit. He was born in London on December 14, 1982, and
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The Mystery of Picasso
The Mystery of Picasso The strokes, the marks, the black, the white, and of course the colorsÐ'--amazing! Pablo Picasso was a true genius in his artwork. I have always thought of Picasso as a great canvas painter, but in this video he proved and exceeded my expectations in being able
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The Name of the Rose
In the year 1327, two men named William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk were asked to investigate. Many monks go into the abbey where towards the end a library is located. A few monks die after leaving the library and the inquisitor thinks they are being possessed by
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The Negative Effects of Mtv on Our Society and Culture
The negative effects of MTV on our society and culture What do you think about when you hear the word MTV? Carson Daily counting down the top ten on Total Request Live? Bam Margera doing insane stunts on his new show BAM? How about The Wild Boys chasing alligators
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The Net (movie Review)
In just a click, your whole identity might just be blown away and you'll be out of nowhere that is with the use of computers. Computers are not our enemies actually. It helps our work loads lighten. It can store any information we want. However, as the movie entitled "The
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The Notebook
The Notebook Classic Love Story The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes. With Ryan Gosling (Noah Calhoun), Rachel McAdams (Young Allie), James Garner (Older Noah; Duke), Gena Rowlands (Allie Calhoun; Older Allie). 2004 The Notebook was a phenomenal film with incredible performances and many heartfelt moments from beginning to end. It
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The Notebook - Opinion Essay: Book Vs. Movie
The Notebook Author: Nicholas Sparks & Director: Nick Cassavetes The first time I saw the preview to The Notebook, I was already intrigued and had my heart set on seeing this film. Now, to be quite honest I am not a reader, but for some reason I had a gut
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