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    The Legend Of Eddie Aikau

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    Despite the startlingly high number of drown victims each year, it was viewed as a futile effort to rescue the victims due to the overwhelming currents and massive waves. Waimea Bay needed a lifeguard but no one was willing to accept that job. To do so was certain death. Nobody except Eddie. It was Eddie’s destiny. Two hundred years ago, King Kamehameha entrusted Waimea Bay, Waimea Beach, and Waimea Valley to…

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    Emma Goldman Anarchism

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    Emma Goldman was born on June 27, 1869 in Lithuania, Russia. Little did anyone know at the time what a major figure she would be in anarchism and feminism all over the globe. She showed her first signs of the potential she would soon bring into the world when she resisted her father’s ideas about a very domestic future for her. Instead, she went her own way and migrated to America in 1885. Here is where it all really began. She would do great things for not only women, but all of society in…

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    The wing beneath my wings: Paul Joseph Watson. The person I look up to and admire the most is a man named Paul Joseph Watson, a reporter for the online news outlet called Infowars.com. There, Paul covers stories the media won't touch, reporting on culture, politics and conspiracies, which are often shoved to the side due to controversy, and pc culture. In a world where facts seem to get ignored, it's nice to see someone tell it like it is, in a way where there's no repercussions. He's…

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    The film Les 400 Coups is autobiographical, through the character of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut recounts the struggles of his upbringing as a troubled young adolescent in Paris. Les 400 Coups (a French expression meaning to “raise hell”) shows the result of neglectful, or entirely absent, parenting as it is of youth delinquency. Antoine is certainly not blameless, many of his actions are dictated by necessity. He is a victim of circumstance. There is no doubt as to where our sympathies lie or…

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    The French New Wave

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    filmed in eight to ten minute-long segments (Bacchus). Although the directors of New Wave were not the first to utilize this technique, they certainly played a part in solidifying the long take within modern cinema. Some famous examples of its use in Hollywood cinema are in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman (2014) and Marin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). Oftentimes, the long take was only the result of a New Wave director’s unique sense of camera movement. Just as painters use their brush to…

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    Le Corbeau, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, was released in 1943 during World War 2 in France. The film was produced by Continental, a French film production company bankrolled by the German government to produce lighthearted and joyful films that had no political plot, but rather played on and exploited the French culture. Clouzot got fired before Le Corbeau release due to it’s harsh look at provincial France, which was quite the opposite of what the Germans wanted. In the film, Clouzot…

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    Third Wave I want to do my research paper on Third Wave feminism. Third Wave feminism is part of a three piece time period of feminism.The name comes from the idea that there have been three major times when feminism was popular or making great strides. First Wave was white women wanting the right to vote. Second Wave Feminism was roughly in the 1970’s and was about stopping domestic abuse, advancing women's rights in the workplace and the start of including women of color in feminism,…

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    chose to write about The French New Wave which is also known as “La Nouvelle Vague”. The French New Wave happened during 1958 to 1964. The French New Wave was started by a group of French film makers who wanted to create their movement in film and they did that by changing how a film could be made. The French New Wave turned out to be the biggest movement of them all and also made an impact on all filmmakers. Some of the main directors who created the new wave were, Jean-Luc Goddard, Fracious…

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    The title of this work of are is Under the Wave off Kanagawa it is also referred to as The Great Wave. The dimensions of this particular work, measures ten and one-eights by 14 and fifteenth-sixteenths inches. The date that the Wave off Kanagawa was created 1830 till 1832. The medium that was used in the creation of this work of art is: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. #2. In the Wave off Kanagawa there is obviously a gigantic wave that takes up most of the portrait. There…

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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa, which is additionally called The Great Wave or The Wave for short, is a wood block print made in japan by the artist Hokusai. It was created by Hokusai sometime between 1830 and 1833 as the very first print in Hokusai's series 36 Views of Mount Fuji. It is one of Hokusai's most famous work. Also considered in the art world as one of the most recognizable pieces of Japanese art in the world. The image is essentially, a massive wave threatening boats off the coast of…

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