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    swift bird glides high above you. It's a falcon. Its identity is revealed by its size and shape as it soars across the blue sky. Once the falcon reaches a certain point over the nearby lake, it tucks in its wings and drops down towards a flock of ducks. The ducks take notice of the falcon and begin to scatter. However, for one of the ducks, it was too late as the falcon pierces the duck's flesh with its razor-sharp claws. You stop, apparently taken by the scene to see what will follow next. Strangely, you see a man approaching the predator and its prey. He squats down to help the falcon pluck the feathers of the duck and to feed it from the dead prey's meat. Falconry,…

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    The Maltese Falcon (1941) is a film directed by John Hunston. In the film, a private detective named Sam Spade’s partner gets murdered and a woman, Ruth Wonderly, shows up needing his help to find a falcon statue. Spade meets a variety of characters all with the same motive of acquiring the falcon statue. This films use of a classical opening and closing, the way it develops its characters, the omniscience of the narrator, and causal linearity combined with the continuity editing system define…

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    The Maltese Falcon is a thrilling, mystery crime that made its debut in 1941. Main character, Sam Spade, battles around town to find this treasured falcon. Spade doesn’t know what is so great about the falcon, however he just knows that it’s costing him his reputation around town. With the police watching his every move and the death of his partner, he is pressed for time. The film gives you a suspenseful feel, as if you are doing the dirty work right along with him. Director, John Huston,…

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    Stereotyping is something that was well alive back then and still alive and well today. Although stereotyping does not have an exact date on which it started, it all comes from people not being willing or taking the time to actually complete the “total picture.” So, we take what we see and hear, such as language, gestures, and appearance to fill in the missing parts. There are two main instances which occur in the Maltese Falcon which are, sexism, and homosexuality, two of the many stereotypes…

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    An Analysis of the characters in Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” Dashiell Hammett’s novel “The Maltese Falcon” takes place in the port city of San Francisco, California. Published at the beginning of the economic crisis of the Great Depression in 1930.The novel carries out aspects of lust, greed, betrayal, and the suspense of murder, as all characters are after wealth that follows a prestige falcon artifact. As a murder mystery in crime fiction the novel presents all aspects of…

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    that deals with the dark world of crime and intrigue. It conveys a mood of disillusion and resignation proceeding from moral ambiguities between good and evil. This direction of film is clearly represented in the classic movie “The Maltese Falcon,” by John Huston. In this film it is also clear to the audience that the main character, Sam Spade, portrays an anti hero, which is a character in a story, usually the main character who does not demonstrate heroic qualities, such as courage and…

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    Kaylen Simmons Mr. Smith Block 1 15 September 2015 Sam Spade was Misused and Abused A victim is a person that is tricked or swindled. In the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, deception plays a big role. Throughout the story Sam Spade is deceived and taken advantage of in the story by Bridgid O'Shaughnessy. She is a compulsive liar and lies about almost everything in order to get an advantage of receiving the falcon. She is not completely honest with her relationship between her and…

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    A classic detective story from the 1920s, The Maltese Falcon continues to prevail today as a famous and true mystery novel. The characters within the book seem authentic, each with quirks and flaws nicking their corners, producing realistic people for the readers to enjoy. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this story contains an element of credibility to the way the detectives act, as the author himself worked as a detective during the 1910s. Nevertheless, given the era in which it was written,…

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    The film, The Maltese Falcon, was directed by John Huston in 1941. For being a black and white and old film, which I usually do not pay any attention to, it was actually interesting. The unification of the plot was not very well because there were quite a few parts of the film, which I did not understand. I do not know why Ms. O’Shaughnessy lied about her sister being with Mr. Throsby, and her relationship with the famous “Black bird.”To me, her character tied in with the plot only because she…

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    Briggsdale Undivided High School The Rustinian Red Bird The American Kestrel Netheniel Langdon Ecology 1022-1 Mr.Kopanke Friday, March 3rd 2017 The American Kestrel The american kestrel is a good looking bird with a few different color variation. This animal is biotic. It comes from the family of falcons. This is the smallest one of the species of falcons. They live in open country farmlands and wood edges. During the breeding season the kestrel may be limited to the…

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