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    official website (http://www.joshuabell.com/home), “he is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era, and his restless curiosity, passion, and multi-faceted musical interests are almost unparalleled in the world of classical music.” Based on his awards, tours, and album, I can tell that he is a renowned violinist. Gene Weingarten asked Joshua Bell to perform in a subway station for a social experiment. There were five musical works mentioned in the article. The article mentioned…

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    Robert De Niro Awards

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    at some point throughout their careers. The first one, is Robert De Niro, who entered into the world of comedy back in 1999 with “Analyze This,” which became a critical and commercial success, and it earned De Niro a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. After “Analyze This,” De Niro continued pursuing and stretching his comedic prowess with “Meet the Parents” in 2000. This film also became a mass hit, both critically and commercially, and it earned him another Golden…

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    The theme of this speech from the movie “The Great Dictator”, is that we can achieve peace, equality, and happiness if we put aside our differences and not think of each other as “black” or “white”, or as “Christian” or “Muslim”, but as fellow human beings. Charlie Chaplin’s tone changes throughout the poem. He starts out with a calm and peaceful tone. But, as the speech goes on, and as his words become more and more inspiring, his tone becomes stronger and more direct. He uses metaphors and…

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    Forrest Gump: Book vs. Movie Written in 1986 by Winston Groom, Forrest Gump was made into a movie in 1994 and actually won an Academy Award, which is cool. Both the book and its film have the title character in it, is a man who goes through many obstacles and a number of signifigant historical events around the world. Although both works explore the character of Forrest Gump and his lifelong journeys, the original book has many different things that go on in it. The film portrays Forrest Gump as…

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    Fight Club Film Analysis

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    “Fight Club” (directed by David Fincher) is a 1999 American film based on the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, all of whom were praised on their performances in the film. Edward Norton plays the unnamed lead role but it referred to as the Narrator in the credits. He works at a dehumanizing office job as he explains that all you have to do is follow a formula which a computer could do. The sequence I looked at starts…

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    Rain Man Analysis

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    I decided to write my paper about the movie “Rain Man.” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was produced in 1988 and was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Rain Man depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. The movie is about an autistic savant name Raymond, who is a resident of a home for the mentally disabled, is played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking, self absorbed, self centered hustler, egocentric, younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, played…

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    Unforgiven Film Analysis

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    As one of the best American films in the western genre, Unforgiven uniquely portrays a real culture through it’s setting; a pastiche of nineteenth-century Western style, which emphasizes the nature of law and order as the only thing that stands between civilization and chaos. Being both the director and the producer, Clint Eastwood constructs Unforgiven as a self-reflexive medium; which means the film’s aesthetic would consciously make the audience aware of the devices of the film’s construction…

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    In one of Shakespeare's tragedies-Othello, the most important character is not Othello but Iago. He is the one who builds us the story and bring the story to a climax. As an effective rhetorician, Iago uses various persuasive and rhetorical devices to manipulate characters in the story especially Othello. To achieve his revenge, Iago shows his honesty and loyalty in front of people, feigns to not share information or misinformation he wants to share along with a large amount of evidence,…

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    The film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ is set in Thailand during World War II and tells the tale of a Japanese POW camp comprised mostly of British soldiers. The main characters are the vainglorious Colonel Nicholson and Colonel Saito, the determined Japanese officer in charge of the prison camp. When Colonel Saito receives word that he is to construct a bridge over the River Kwai, Colonel Nicholson takes on the challenge as a way to keep him and his men occupied, as they were beginning to get…

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    The Great Dictator Essay

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    Chaplin, a well-known comic actor with his featured mustache, wrote, scored, directed and produced his first sound movie, The Great Dictator, in 1940. The Great Dictator marked the transition of Chaplin’s career from silent movies to a period of the sound movies. In his early work, for instance, The Tramp, he used to be a mime actor as he was so talented that his action and facial expression could perfectly present the whole story. Chaplin believed that the expression of an actor made dialogues…

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