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    In Modern Times clip1, the first factory scene, we can see a lot of interesting film skills, especially the editing makes the movie more interesting by using different tips of editing and helps the audience understand the movie. From Modern Times Charlie Chaplin’s movie, we can see different between upper level and lower level (co-worker) during 1990 Modern Times people’s life. Modern Times portrays filmmaker as a mill-hand used on associate degree production line. There, he 's subjected to such…

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    factory owners could careless about their workers they just cared for the work to be done. For instance, in Metropolis when Freder went to tell his father how the workers were being treated he just looked at his son as if he was delusional. In Modern Times the factory owner had a screen in his office to keep an eye on everyone to make sure they were working and not taking a break. Meanwhile the factory owner had his feet on his desk and reading the newspaper as if he nothing better to do. The…

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    Gothic Imprint in Modern Times The Gothic style was truly a humanist philosophy that spread throughout Europe in the mid 1300s. It affected both the artists and its patrons. The effects of such now ripple thru modern times. The Limbourg brothers written and painted works in Gothic times are a most welcome legacy in today’s world. Paul, Jan, and Hermann Limbourg were three Nordic migrants who were commissioned by the wealthiest man in Europe at the time. He was notably, Jean, Duke of…

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    of Modern Times (Ιστορία των Νεωτέρων Χρόνων) which was taught from 1974 to 1979 to the pupils of the last year of primary education (Dimotiko) and Georgia Koulikourdi’s Modern European History from the 15th Century A.D. to the Present (Νεώτερη Ευρωπαϊκή Ιστορία από τον 15ο αιώνα μ.Χ. ως σήμερα) which was taught from 1975 to 1984 to the pupils of the last year of the first circle of secondary education (Gymnasium). Kafentzis’ book was first published in 1956 under the title History of Modern…

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    Racism and Bias in Modern Times On February 26th, 2012, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17 year old African- American, in Miami Gardens, Florida. Zimmerman identified Trayvon as suspicious because he was a black male wearing a hood, and called 911 to report him. The police told him to not approach Trayvon or even leave his vehicle, but Zimmerman disregarded this, resulting in Trayvon’s death. Zimmerman was later acquitted for his crime. He…

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    Story Modern Times depict Chaplin in his Tramp persona as an assembly line laborer utilized on a sequential construction system. There, he is subjected to such insults as being forcibly fed by a breaking down “bolstering machine” and a quickening mechanical production system where he screws nuts at a consistently expanding rate of bits of apparatus. He at long last endures a mental meltdown and runs wild, tossing the industrial facility into disarray. He is sent to a healing facility. Following…

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    Catapults can be used in many ways. They were used in ancient history times. There are many types of catapults. When launching a projectile, physics is used in the catapult. Catapults are very helpful to launching things to either destroy something or to launch something over a taller building. Catapults were one of the most effective weapons in early modern times. Catapults were used by Greeks, Romans, and Chinese. In history, the catapults were used to launch missiles directly at a wall or…

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    Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh is a 1997 one-hour BBC documentary by Adam Curtis about Henrietta Lacks and her HeLa cells. It won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Around this time, this documentary gave the first major exposure of Henrietta Lacks’s story to the public. Consequently, many more articles, books, and even songs and an episode on Law & Order were made about Henrietta Lacks, her cells, and her story. To put if briefly, the…

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    to be gripping, interesting, and usually have cliffhangers every installment, such as modern day serial television dramas Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead. If serialized novels did not get people’s attention and let them fixate on it, sales would dwindle and die out. This can be seen in the first serialized novel to be published in All the Year Round, Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (the most sold novel of all time at over 200 million copies). Every few chapters there is another question to be…

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    Truth? Are we so far advanced that reading such an outdated piece of literature could be relegated to the library section of folktales and fantasy? Take a few minutes to read the above quote and frame the words in the mind of someone who lived at the time it was written. Technology for the world was still based in agriculture. Concepts of controlling the masses were easily perceived through the use of the sword and military strength. Yet here we read of a ‘Mark’ that will allow a select people…

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