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    movie isn't clear, instead, the audience meets a character who has flashbacks and who is involved with a variety of characters. Later on, the story becomes clear, the premise is based on Will Smith's character, he took the lives of seven individuals which includes a family and his wife. This accident occurred because he operated a vehicle while texting thus caused the vehicle to swerve into oncoming traffic. As shown in the flashbacks, he can not live without thinking of the past. Essentially,…

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    Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narratives and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema in a number of ways. The most noteworthy challenge of traditional narratives was its application of deep focus. Citizen Kane using deep focus and having everything in frame was a serious challenge of traditional narratives and technical elements because traditionally in films of the time, only the foreground was in focus. In addition to those elements, Citizen Kane used cutting edge storytelling…

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    The Importance of Being Earnest, the satire of an upper-class Victorian marriage can also be seen as a parody of the noble Victorian society as a whole. Wilde uses short dialogue to mock upper-class marriage in order to highlight and ridicule the flashbacks of society as a whole during this Victorian era. Wilde’s clever mind comes up with the proposal in the conversation between Algernon and Jack in the beginning of the play. Algernon says to Jack, “I really don’t see anything romantic in…

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    A troubled young man tries to overcome his abusive past by joining the Union Soldiers. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: JACK MURPHY grew up in an abusive home with his father JOE and his mother MARGARET. As a teenager, Jack and his best friend, BILL CALLAHAN (18) join the army. For Jack, it’s a way to get away from his parents. Jack befriends Lt. HEINRICH SCHULZ (41), who becomes a mentor and father figure for Jack. As hard as Jack tries, he can’t get rid of the memories of his home life and this turns…

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    This section of the book has many weird aspects to it. There have a scene where Offred our Protagonist is seen eating and egg and enjoying it. Which may not mean much to some people but to me it it’s a representation of the small joys that Offred has as a woman in the Republic of Gilead. The most interesting parts come when Offred gets a desire to steal something from the household and encounters Nick downstairs. The very act of going downstairs is considered illegal but Offred pays not mind.…

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    others. In fact he was the first person to ever show people a movie (Citizen Kane) that showed the ending at the beginning of the movie. The whole movie is a flashback and is telling a story on how the ending happened. Citizen Kane uses non-linear and composite storytelling from different points of view, with interviews, deep focus, and flashbacks. Traditional Hollywood uses mise-en-scene with actors and objects mostly in the center of the frame never a…

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    throughout his life. The film is thus concerned with Bruno’s interior monologue concerning his relationship with his now dying mother, revealing through flashbacks how she might have smothered his introvertive personality with overt affection and optimism, but none the less fought for the best life for her children. This weaving between flashbacks of childhood and the present is just as well entangled with lighthearted, comedic moments and tear-jerking, sentimental scenes. This complex display…

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    writes a book set in 1873 in which it describes the hardships a mother, by the name of Sethe, faces after having previously killed her own infant child in an attempt to protect it from the miseries of slavery. In Morrison’s book, Beloved, she uses flashbacks to create multiple themes, such as isolation and family, to elaborate on the torment Sethe and her family have undergone and continue to experience. Hurt from their past as slaves, Paul D and Sethe, continuously attempt to repress horrific…

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    government wanted to find out what were the post war psychological problems that Vietnam veterans had in order to determine their needs. P.T.S.D. is a disorder caused by a traumatic event that happens in someone's life time. Some symptoms are; events or flashbacks, avoiding people and events that remind them of the trauma, and easily angered plus trouble sleeping. Although these were some of the most common signs people weren't aware of these signs for months or even years.The risk factors for…

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    o Setting: small town; living in the home she grew up in. o Conflict: decision to stay or to go with Frank to Buenos Aryes. o Climax: Eveline praying on whether to stay or go, deciding to stay and let Frank go. o Flashbacks: memories of mother’s death and happy times with her father persuade her to stay. o Foil: her father. • Good Country People: o Theme: Irony – a smart woman who got played by a “simple” man; a girl blinded by seduction can do something unexpected;…

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