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    This part of the movie seems to capture Pollack’s focus on his painting and leaving the taste for hard liquor behind in New York City. Lee and Jackson decide to get married and focus on turning Pollack’s talent in art into something original and new. The film from here focuses on how Pollack creates his trademark technique of dripping or action painting, which leads to an article about him and his work in Life magazine. Lee and Pollack believe that this is only the beginning of the successes to…

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    The Truman Show is about reality and manipulation. Peter Weir shows that we accept the reality (to a certain point) of the world with which we’re presented. Starting in the womb, Truman was broadcast to millions of people. At one point in the movie, Truman looks back on pictures from his past. The audience can clearly tell that they are edited and he even is in a clown costume. That is symbolism of how they are exposing him and taking advantage of him. Just a clown in a cage, oblivious to what…

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    In Peter Weir’s, The Truman Show, 2004, the protagonist, Truman, goes through life unbeknownst to the fact that each minute of his life is recorded and broadcasted life. Weir exemplifies the manipulation of mass media, and conveys his theme through the life of Truman. As Truman ages, he notices hints that may suggest his life is not an accurate depiction of reality, leaving him a decision between accepting a false perception or searching for the truth. Peter Weir uses Truman to symbolize those…

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    a photojournalist captured photos of an intoxicated man shooting aimlessly at people passing by the local grocery store, killing three and injuring twelve. Around 6:30am, just before sunrise, a presumably intoxicated man was swearing and grasping a gun in his left hand. “The man was screaming and swearing but his words were slurred” said Tabitha Smith, a bystander. There were few people at the Walmart Super Center on Market Street but that only seemed to play in favor for the perpetrator. Among…

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    Banning books because of what? “Never take a learning opportunity away from a student”, this was said by a character on the hit show, How To Get Away With Murder. Should we, as students, have the right to learn what what information books provide us, or should all questionable books be locked away from the world where no student can ever learn from them. Books are wonderful sources of information, but everyday, books get banned from schools for strange, and sometimes ridiculous reasons.…

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    Joy Ann Reid Analysis

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    About the recent gun shootout in Orlando too she had her views. For the 5 feet 9 inches journalist she is very successful in presenting her ideas and views about the discrimination in America and is highly appreciated for it. Never associated with any controversy she lives…

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    Role Playing Violence

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    violence are more likely to be bullies in school,have bad behavior or think violence is ok in the future.Kids in New York schools are participating in a violent role playing activity where, they have teams and have to take out targets (using water guns) they can do whatever it takes.They hacked phone lines, camped out in vans and used their parents couches to sleep in the vans. This is time consuming and not good practice for the future. Some may say that kids that participate in role playing…

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    Truman Show Symbolism

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    The scene starts as mundane and generic as any cliché 50’s show, but the plot twists as the light falls from the sky. In the conversations, the characters do not physically interact with one another; yet speak with a fence between each other symbolizing a separation between their realities. The family across the…

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    Media and Stereotype I have always been a very open minded person, throughout out my life and even until now, I’ve befriended people from all ethnic and racial background. I didn’t care where they came from or what they believed in, I didn’t judge unless they bad mouthed another person for their belief or color. I was raised very openminded by my father who was very openminded himself. He had friends of all backgrounds. So, he preached to us as kids to not judge other even though…

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    In high school, he fell in love with a girl named Sylvia. She was against the concept of The Truman Show and began to tell him the truth about the world he was living in but before she was able to explain everything, she was forcefully taken away and exiled from the show. Truman never forgot her and years later when he observed the stage light fall from the sky, the elevator with no back wall, the pedestrians on the loop around the block and began to realize that something was going on he…

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