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Early poetic realism films such as Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game criticized the corruption, and, immorality of the French upper class; as if recalling these years, Claude Chabrol’s The Unfaithful Wife partakes in a similar criticism of the French bourgeoisie. At the start of the film, the audience is introduced to the seemingly perfect yet wealthy Desvallées family. The family is portrayed as being perfect as they embody the qualities of a conservative family including morality, good taste…

Lewis Hine was a teacher. He began modestly by teaching natural study and geography. It was here that Hine found his passion for photography. Photos taken by Hine were used as tools to support the content he taught in his classes. From here, after leaving his job as a regular educator to do freelance photography, Hine grew to teach much more than two subjects, he taught all of the United States what the human side of industry was like so that they would be able to see the man behind the machine.…

415. The grand total was $919,729,258” (p. 182). These values hold little significane alone. However, when they are compared to expenditures for luxuries they become evidence. In that same year approximatley $1.3 billion was spent on cigarettes and cigars which is $300,000,000 more than the total cost of all education. Tobacco along with other luxuries are expenditures that are nonessential and require funds that can be put into much better use such as improving teacher salaries. This is only…

but going collect small molluscs in the mangrove swamps on an island in El Salvador. Visualize bringing a dozen cigars and four pills to keep from falling asleep. Visualize working fourteen hours a week in the mud, have cuts, and scrapes all over your body. Visualize returning home covered in bug bites and only earning $1.40, the majority your paycheck being spent on pills and cigars. As unrealistic as this fantasy may sound, for twelve-year old Alejandra, this is a raw reality that she lives…

The nature of the humour and comedic styles of television situational comedies (sitcoms) has evolved from the start of TV to today largely due to censorship. Yet a consistent feature includes sitcoms reflecting how their writers and producers viewed their society at the time. Comparing and contrasting I Love Lucy (1951) with Seinfeld (1989) demonstrates that even as sitcoms evolve, they share the concepts of reflecting on the world around them, and the need for shows to make a profit. Both this…

Issues with Identity A young honors student hardly ever chooses to sign up for all advanced courses solely by themselves and what they want. Most teenagers in high school want a social life and free time, but the academic rigors of advanced courses usually don’t allow for what a student wants. My mother, who went to Harvard and put herself through law school with a child to care for, has high expectations for me and my sister. She won’t let me sign up for a course that isn’t honors or advanced…

tobacco,also described as secondhand smoke. The two forms created are called mainstream smoke, and sidestream smoke. Mainstream smoke is the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Sidestream smoke is the smoke coming from the lighted end of a cigarette, pipe, or cigar. When innocent non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke it 's called passive smoking. ETS is a crisis in our country, because when someone lights up in public or in the car, the person not taking part in smoking is breathing in nicotine…

In “Lady Audley’s Secret” by Mary Braddon the male problem of masculinity is defined by the actions of Robert Audley. For instances, the narrator states, “Robert Audley was..a fund of sly wit and quiet humour, under his listless dawdling, indifferent irresolution manner.” (71) Robert is not acting as a strong willed male patriarch. He is described as having quite humour showing softness to his character. By using the word “quite” seems to articulate a very inward drawn character. One that would…

The movie A Rose for Emily directed by Lyndon Chubbuck, a gothic love story which was based off William Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily", published in 1930. With such in-depth detail and description of factors of the setting throughout his story, we see that Chubbuck’s Film is a perfectly illustrated reputation of Faulkner’s story. The time period is accurately displayed due to, the style of clothing, Tobe‘s appearance and actions, and the Grierson’s house allows the movie to represent…

Smoking is not something that is new to this world, whether it was for ritual or recreational purposes, but what has been smoked and our certainty of its effects are fairly new. What is certain is we are unsure of the exact origin within a range of thousands of years, but smoking could have started any moment after man discovered fire. The popularity of smoking has allowed it to survive for so long. Negative connotations have only been applied to smoking since debunking one former surgeon…