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The Film A Few Good Men provides a lens through which to view the issues discussed in the articles "The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror" by Crispin Sartwell and "The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience" by Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton. The film depicts a classic struggle between moral correctness and militarized obedience. In "The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror," Sartwell describes that in certain situations and circumstances even the most moral people could be swayed into…

adequately portrays the epic hero, Beowulf (Ray Winstone), in the setting of Denmark. Overall, the movie does an excellent job recreating the emotions and feeling of the poem. The first of the three acts contains both the awakening and murder of Grendel (Crispin Glover), the ferocious beast who terrorizes the Danes for partying too loudly. In both the poem and the film, Beowulf travels to Denmark with his band of soldiers. Upon arrival, King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) greets Beowulf and his men…

Mark Crispin Miller’s How to Be Stupid: The Lessons of Channel One discusses television advertisements and how they are a dangerous stimulant that sends subliminal messages to its audience to urge them to buy their product. In this article, Miller focuses primarily on adolescents since Channel One is a television program commonly shown in schools. To explain why adolescents are so affected by advertisements, Miller uses psychoanalysis. In his article, Miller separates each of the subliminal…

In the Philippines, the concept of peace journalism is not new and has in fact, been the topic of several conferences and seminars over the years. Naturally, these seminars focus on the conflict in Mindanao with the aim of educating journalists on conflict reporting. One of these seminars, hosted by the British council with BBC journalist Jake Lynch and his wife, broadcast journalist, Annabel McGoldrick (March 2005)-whose works we have already touched on several times above focused on Peace…

dad’s genetics, they figured out early on that I was going to be a girl. Being the youngest of four males, it was more than likely that my dad’s children would also be the same gender. After realizing my sister was a girl (they had picked the name Crispin in case the baby boy had curly hair), they already knew what to name me: Emma. Mom always said it meant for “warrior”, but I found the Germanic name to mean “whole” or “universal”. I also realized that it’s the most popular name for girls in…

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain what is mass communication. First, this paper will discuss the key characteristics and conceptual issues about mass communication. Second, this paper will discuss the theoretical approach of framing and how that approach relates to the study of mass communication. Third, it will discuss the line of research known as media contractions. Finally, it will discuss the research findings concerning Media Telephony. Mass…

On October 3rd, 1995, people across the United States gathered in front of the television awaiting the verdict on the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Many people around the world claim this to be the trial of the century. Simpson was a legend in the football world, having held the world record for the single-season yards-per-game average. On June 12, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of former NFL star OJ Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were found stabbed to death outside of Nicole Brown…

In Mark Crispin Miller’s essay How To Be Stupid: The Lessons of Channel One he discusses how television ads and commercials are detrimental and useless to it’s viewers. These viewers he speaks of are school aged youth, forced to watch Channel One everyday while attending school. The ad’s promoted on the channel demonstrate unhealthy habits, unintelligence, and unrealistic ideas. In the essay Miller discusses the way people think while after and while watching these advertisements, what the ads…

classic performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis for over forty years, A Christmas Carol wows audiences with its intricate design and special effects. This production was directed by Joe Chvala, adapted from the original Dickens novel by Crispin Whittell. A tradition for many local families, the theatre even lowers its age requirement for this one play so that children of all ages might enjoy the reclamation of Scrooge, a wealthy man whose name has become synonymous with a lack of…

just like how Fineup-Riordan wrote that at the Seattle Art Museum, they “did not make the traditional distinction between art and culture but presented [the Yup’ik] masks simultaneously in context and lighted as works of great art.” Ultimately, as Crispin Paine would argue, these objects became “sacralised” as they entered the museum space, acquiring “a new meaning, a new value, a new personality.” In the ROM, these items have undoubtedly taken up new meaning as representing the society and…