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Prom Night in Mississippi Reflection Prom Night in Mississippi is a documentary film about Academy Award-winning actor, Morgan Freeman who offers to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under the condition that, prom had to be racially integrated. In this film, we view the struggles that are faced and overcome to have a successful integrated prom in 2008. My personal views, emotional connection, previous thoughts, reaction, and what I learned from watching this…

American for the sake of the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a restrained manner. It Happened One Night is a classic screwball comedy; however, Capra goes one step further with a film that acknowledges the ongoing state of the nation with the presence of the Great Depression in the film. The two main characters behave differently, usually based on…

Night of the Living Dead” is film about a zombie outbreak in the 60s. First in the film we meet Barbara and her brother Johnny when they are arriving at their father’s grave to pay their respects in wish of their mother. Upon leaving the grave site it is very clear something devastating has happened. Throughout the film different concepts can be examined and related to our everyday lives. Hedonism is the belief that our actions are driven by the desire for pleasure. When analyzing the film we…

The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by…

Friday Night Lights follows the Permian Panthers high school football team through their 1988 season in West Texas. The high school has a long standing tradition of winning both district and state championships. This winning tradition places a tremendous amount of pressure on the players, as well as the coaching staff to have a successful season resulting in a state title, and anything less is considered a failure in the eyes of the town. The movie focuses primarily on several of the senior…

On Sepetember 27, 2008, Saturday Night Live (SNL) performed a cold open sketch of Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin during the presidential election of 2008. Tina Fey impersonates Sarah Palin, while Katie Couric is portrayed by Amy Poehler. The two comedians mock an actual interview done by the potential vice president and journalist that was performed a few weeks prior. The 7 minute cold open, which is longer than most of their sketches, contains a plethora of communication methods to…

study the effects that late night political comedy has on politics. While these are both different and well-respected programs that provide viewers with a hardheaded and a playful understanding of current affairs, there is a body of a political frame of mind that can be searched and characterized in a style that can be looked at as information and still seem entertaining. The quantitative analysis, which will be in the shape of an online survey, will analyze how late night political humor has…

well as its "One Thousand and One Nights" theme. "One Thousand and One Nights" is the story of King Shahryar who killed his wife after learning she had been unfaithful and then vowed to marry marry a different woman each night before killing her the next morning to prevent being betrayed ever again. He did this for many years until he married Scheherazade, who devised a plan for her survival which consisted of her telling Shahryar a different story every night but stopping the story in the…

Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights is a compilation of Middle-Eastern folklore and contains great cinematic potential in terms of Mise-En-Scene. Though the story primarily takes place in the Middle East, various tales from all over the Eastern hemisphere are told throughout the play. Creating a film that contains so many different cultures requires an emphasis on costume design, makeup and setting to ensure each diverse location is represented and each culture is portrayed respectively. In…

“Starry Night” is a poem by Anne Sexton that was written to show her own analysis of the painting by Vincent van Gogh which holds the same name. While the painting is a beautiful work in itself, Sexton’s poem provides details that accentuates the painting. Sexton’s interpretation of the painting is completely angled toward a beautiful death experience. Sexton’s poem is filled with imagery, figurative language, and diction that brings more life and understanding to the painting. Anne Sexton…