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Shakespeare And His Theater

... the play. Not having a lighting technician to work the control panels, Shakespeare had to indicate wether it was dawn or nightfall by using a speech rich in metaphors and descriptive details. Shakespeare's theater was far from being bare, the playwright did have some valuable technical sources that he used to the best of his ability. The costumes the actors wore were made to be very elaborate. Many of the costumes conveyed recognizable meanings for the audience such as a rich aristocrat wearing silk clothes with many ruffles. Ma ...

Number of words: 562 | Number of pages: 3

Broadcasting And Programing

... pick cops first and soaps second. The third group, 500 viewers, likes soaps first and sitcoms and their second choice. This model says that the audience will watch their first choice first and then the second choice, but only is their first choice is not available. Let's say that the Federal Communications Commission licenses station A in their market. Looking at the viewer preferences, station A would start to broadcast soaps. By show soaps, it would capture a market of 2600 viewers. All viewers would watch because soaps is their first c ...

Number of words: 1857 | Number of pages: 7

Wilson's Fences

... the hard way. For example, when he had Lyons, he had to steal to provide for Lyons and his mother. Troy was also a hard-working man. He works as a garbage picker in order to provide for his family. He knows that since he is black, there is discrimination in his work field. Nevertheless, he works hard in his job even though he knows there is little chance that he will rise. Troy loves his son Cory and wants the best for him but not like anything like his father. Troy doesn’t want him to play sports because of what happened to him. ...

Number of words: 803 | Number of pages: 3

In The Movie "Tombstone", Friendship Comes In Different Forms

... on the people who did it. So, even though on his death bed, Doc Holiday, got up and went with Wyatt to help him slay them. This is one way that a friendship can form between two people. A further example of the friendship between Wyatt and Holiday was when the Dalton gang had come into town with their guns and went into the O.K. Corral. They were going to get Wyatt for killing one for their brothers. Doc knew that Wyatt might of been killed if he went there on his own. So again, even though not in the best of health, Doc went to help Wya ...

Number of words: 385 | Number of pages: 2

Critique Of Romeo And Juliet The Movie

... Juliet, the movie, gives audience in the twentieth century a taste of a new and mystical flavor to this well-known love story. The setting of Romeo and Juliet, as expected, was totally different from other settings in the past. This setting, however, was not necessarily set in way of how people today would live. The story was set more fantasy-like. Because of the setting, the deaths of the people in this movie did not seem as moving as to the old movies. For some reason, the setting of Mercutio's death interfered with this supposedly p ...

Number of words: 476 | Number of pages: 2

The Merchant Of Venice

... Meanwhile, Shylock is left bewailing the loss of his ducats and his daughter that has run away with Lorenzo and the treasure. Shylock doesn't like this at all because he really doens't like the Christians and Lorenzo is a Christian Act 3 Jessica is now together with Lorenzo. She is a Jew and he's a Christian. Jessica is embarrassed to be a Jew is planning to change religion for Lorenzo. Shylock is still looking for them and is very mad when he finds out that she has sold a ring, that was given to Shylock by his wife, for a monkey. Mean ...

Number of words: 516 | Number of pages: 2

The Night: Living By Conformity

... By the following actions of impatience, how Americans view society today and taking everything for granted diminishing man's image, argues with transcendentalism. In the human mind, everything needs to be handed to us on a silver plate. It is stated that man is to basically be good and to place his family before society. Examples of this being, to worship God and to look out for his family. It appears that man, in general, cannot seem to find time to actually do this. A transcendental man would make time to praise God and secure his famil ...

Number of words: 920 | Number of pages: 4

"An Inspector Calls": Issues And Priestly's Viewpoint

... breaking down, where privilege and responsibility are being challenged by a devious so-called inspector Goole. The Inspector does a good job of making the family and friends of Mr Birling, (a wealthy factory owner) feel very guilty for contributing towards the death of Eva-Smith who also becomes known as Daisy Renton during the play. But Moral guilt is not the major issue put forward in the play. The major issue is that of how class-conscious England has been put forward in the play and how the Capitalist's and Socialist's are shown. Birlin ...

Number of words: 1127 | Number of pages: 5

Portraying Robin Hood In Two Unique Films

... audiences, where as the Fox version, is target to an older more knowledgeable viewing audience. The Disney film uses animated cartoon animals to depict the story line. This is in contrast to the Fox version using actual characters to tell the story of Robin Hood. This significantly changes the stories between the two movies making them quite different. The cartons also aren't humans they are animals, Robin Hood is played by a Fox throughout the movie in contrast with a human actor playing the role of Robin Hood in the Fox version of the fi ...

Number of words: 549 | Number of pages: 2

King Lear: Illusion

... daughters and their husbands. His stated intention is to prevent future conflict. This is stupid since it actually invites war between the heirs, as we see, they are all ready power crazy, and do turn on each other. Shakespeare's audience (having just been spared a civil war following the death of Elizabeth) would have realised this. The one affected by illusion the most is undoubtedly Lear. Lear's high position in society meant he should be able to distinguish the good from the bad; his lack of sight prevented him to do so. Lear's first act ...

Number of words: 2304 | Number of pages: 9

Movie: The Firm

... get subtle hints of a corruption with a Mafia mob client. McDeere gets a hold of some information that he shouldn't have had access to that supports his suspicions. When an FBI agent confronts him with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm, Mitch forms a plan to indite the partners of the firm by gathering information on overbilling of the firms clients. The firms clients files contained information that could destroy both the firm and most of their mob clients. Berndini, Lambert, and Lock had a past history of spending large su ...

Number of words: 1501 | Number of pages: 6

Bugs Bunny And The Marlboro Man

... ten minutes of commercials. Most of these commercials, especially during sports events, contain smoking or drinking. You see a camel wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket, or the Marlboro Man on his horse, and you think, "Hey they're pretty cool," so decide to start smoking. How many times have you heard, "Here's that frog commercial," and went running to the television to see what they were doing now? You might start thinking that they are cool, so go and try their product, which is just the thing the advertisement is trying to do. P ...

Number of words: 578 | Number of pages: 3

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