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    its failure, he made educational films with a group known as Educational Pictures. Keaton also returned to MGM as a writer, while working for Columbia Pictures as an actor- Keaton appeared in small roles in many films in the 1940s and 50s, such as Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight (1952), and Around the World in Eighty Days, (1956) to name a few. At the same time, a film archivist named Raymond Rohauer had collected negatives of many of Keaton’s old films, which lead to a renewed interest in Keaton’s…

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    Company and he made sure I and everyone around me knew it. Now during the party I had another man come introduce himself and he went by the name of Charlie Chaplin. If I must say so myself Charlie was quite the flirt, always complimenting me on how amazing my performance was. It all clicked though when he was telling me about his job. Charlie was filmmaker and an actor himself, we had so much in common it was great we talk for most of the night until I saw someone that I had to introduce…

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    Eric Arthur Blair was a well-known journalist and novelist, in these pieces of literature he wrote he changed his name to George Orwell. George Orwell wrote many books, novels, and journals, George really did have a passion for writing and he loved doing it. George Orwell wrote in many different ways; he had some journals and article that were serious and full of facts, but he also wrote some books that were comical and full of satire. George Orwell was a very skillful writer during this time…

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    William Shakespeare has been noted to say that, “In jest, there is truth.” Similarly, in Status Anxiety, Alain de Botton argues that humorists’ chief aim is “to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly,” and therefore are vital to us. He believes that our social notion concerning humorists, is more than them simple entertainment but more so to expose truths, whether they be societal, political, or controversial, in a light-hearted and easy-to-brush…

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    Flappers- Flappers were young women from the 1920 's who defied traditional rules of conduct and dress. The change amounted to a revolution in manners and morals. Flappers defied their contempt for what was then considered behavior that was common. The short hair styles, shorter dresses, the enjoyment of jazz music, the act of smoking and drinking and wearing makeup is what distinguished them from other women. Flappers helped redefine the role of women at a large extent. Flappers began to become…

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    influence blood pressure and the other type can negatively influence blood pressure. A more detailed comparison will now be made between beneficial and harmful humour. Harmful humour can be sarcastic or aggressive, e.g., “Madame, I’d like to drink to your beauty…So you can imagine how hard up I am for a drink!” (Groucho Marx) Harmful humour can also be self-deprecating (ingratiating oneself), e.g., “My father had an ulcer for a long time, but he finally got rid of it…I left home.” (Alan Feiman)…

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    success without the need of connections. In the current day, the American Dream is not worth pursuing due to the wealthy wanting to take everything for themselves without thinking of the consequences that can come from a diminished middle class. As Charlie Chaplin had once said, “greed has poisoned men's souls,” and is destroying the American Dream. Most people cannot get ahead financially due to the rising gap between…

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    Contrary to the traditional plays that usually have clear plots, recognizable characters and logical dialogues, the plays that are categorized as absurd lack all of these essential elements. For this reason, actors playing Vladimir must first fully comprehend the practice of Theatre of the Absurd and the implicit information about the characters in the play script. The original notion of Theatre of the Absurd came from the existentialist philosopher Albert Camus who said, “The absurd is born…

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    Hello everyone, A lot of organizational theories are mentioned in Organizational Theory by Jørgen Lægaard, but the most emphasized ones are Scientific Management by F.W. Taylor, Administrative Theory by H. Fayol, Bureaucracy Model by M. Weber and Theory of Administrative Behavior by H. Simon. This essay is going to give a short analysis of each theory and tell the readers which theory influences me the most. Additionally, this essay also shows my evaluation on how these concepts have affected…

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    Prelude from Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV 829 by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Elena Casanova was a very cheery song, in comparison to the last three pieces. It gave me the emotion that I was rushed going somewhere. It resembled that of a Charlie Chaplin movie in which he was rushed to do something and trying to do multiple things at one time and towards the end you can see all of the things he was trying to accomplish finished and he is resting. This song made me feel quite…

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