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    Penn’s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, the characters aid in reinforcing the “unconscious of patriarchal society” (Mulvey 14). American society is structured upon a patriarchal system which recognizes the male as the authoritative figure with power over the female and mainstream cinema helps to reinforce these ideas onto the audience (dictionary). Using Laura Mulvey’s Theory of ‘the Gaze’, I will demonstrate how Arthur Penn’s depiction of the characters Bonnie Parker, Blanche Barrow and Clyde Barrow…

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    and Canada. They were the perfect team and the perfect couple, some people would even like to say they're better than Bonnie & Clyde. Ian got started a couple years back when he tried to hack open a best buy company for one of his first jobs, but he screwed up and got caught, then took a deal to stay in jail for 3 years. While Anthony went to jail for assualt against a bartender…

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    aside, Bonnie and Clyde is a well-known biographical-romance story that depicts the lives of Bonnie and Clyde and their various robberies and outrageous adoration for one another. At a young age, Bonnie and Clyde met and fell in love instantly. Fascinated with delinquency, they proceeded to live out a life of crime, committing robberies and numerous acts of murder. Alas, their crime-spree and romantics came to a halt when law enforcement ambushed them, resulting in the gory deaths of Bonnie and…

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    Bonnie and Clyde The recently Hollywood movie I seen is The Last Witch Hunter, where Vin Diesel is the main character. Well he is the strong witch saver the protagonist of the classical Hollywood movies. The antagonist is a women, she is the mean witch that gets kill, however there is another women that is a witch but she is not evil. So I would say that’s what sells there is the hero that cares about someone who he generally would hunt. For Bonnie and Clyde what I saw that help tell the story…

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    When Bonnie and Clyde first met they fell in love during the few months they were together. Clyde formed group of trouble makers and started to rob small shops. Bonnie then forgot about her husband in jail and went along with Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde were criminals during the Great Depression, this affected their community because they would steal and kill. Bonnie and Clyde affected the 1930s by robbing businesses and dealing with many police officers. Some background information about Bonnie…

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    Medgar Evers organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations, and economic boycotts.He did these boycotts because of the companies that practiced discrimination. He also worked to investigate crimes that were directed against blacks.Evers applied to the University of Mississippi Law School in February 1954. After being rejected, he volunteered to help NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) try to entrap the university with a lawsuit. Medgar Evers gathered new…

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    King Arthur from the Knights of the Round Table shows what it means to follow the code of chivalry and is considered a hero. However, modern day heroes like Michael Jordan can still be found today. A comparison of these men shows that they share the same character traits of generosity, defending their followers and loyalty. As leaders of their nation and their team, people looked up to both of them and still do to this day. Heroes like this are inspirational to the young as well as the old. And…

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    Cycle route 7. Providing home to a few new boats, a pick nick area and a café. If you head further North, you will end up in the remains of the old harbour where the wrecks of six ships can be found. Wooden posts divide it from the greater part of the Clyde, but it is easily accessed from the new harbour by boat. The site is important to the performance. The ruin boats make time uncertain. They at once show the audience a surviving fragment of the past but it also shows the decaying past in the…

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    Such a lifestyle did not suit him, however, and returning to Arran he became involved with the Clyde passenger steamers. About 1874, he be-gan work as purser aboard the steamship Rothesay Castle, which ran the Arran-Ardrossan route. Three years later, William entered the employ-ment of the Clyde Shipping Company for a short while, before returning to a more open lifestyle. Thereafter, he was purser aboard passenger steamers Vesta and Guinevere…

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    been removed ahead for repair and ended up wrecking the car. Bonnie was the only one who was injured, but she burned her leg pretty bad and was in need of medical attention. They received help from a nearby farmer, until he recognized their faces and went next door to alert his neighbors to call the police. While he did this, the gang stole the farmers car and were on their way again. Knowing Bonnie still needed medical attention, Clyde never left her side. However, other members from the gang…

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