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in honor of the nineteenth- century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children. This Caldecott Medal is granted to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The picture book, which is chosen by a prestigious panel of judges must be visually appealing to the eye while providing effortless understanding of the plot without using diction. The Snowy Day was written and illustrated by Ezra Keats. In…

The movie, “Groundhog Day” is a successful 1993 American film that captures the interests, mind and heart of its viewers because of its astonishing, innovative, and unique storyline, and in which this requires clear mind when watching in order for it to decode and unfold its purpose and in order for it to discover how great it is. This was directed by Harold Ramis and written by Ramis himself and Danny Rubin, based on a story by Rubin .It was starring by Bill Murray, Andie Macdowell and Chris…

vocabulary through picture book reading The primary way to develop vocabulary is through reading. When I was young, I was taught to look up words, copy their definitions from the dictionary and then memorize them. Teachers have dictation assessment regularly to check our words spelling. I do not want to teach vocabulary in this passive way as passive learners lack motivation to learn. Passive learners perceive learning, especially learning a foreign language, to be torturous. By reading picture…

Nevertheless, when it comes to the motion picture “Requiem for a dream”, words and words may fill these pages, however nothing can truly clarify the depth of intensity and meaning towards such a realization. Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer; born in Brooklyn, New York in the 1960’s and being brought up in a conservative Jewish family surely played the leading impact in his career. His passion towards motion pictures was proclaimed while studying in…

Before the 1940s, Hollywood and the Studio System, was one that carried the American Film Industry to new heights and brought on different visions from aspiring filmmakers and film companies. What was once just a convenient place to escape the grasp and control of The Trust, became the place to be during the 1920s. Hollywood was thriving with the system it created. The Big Five film companies created movies that made those years the Golden Age of Hollywood. But of course a system that gave the…

Independent Reading Task Paper Towns by John Green Paper Towns is an award-winning novel by John Green. The novel is a story set in a small town in Orlando, Florida. The story is narrated by and follows the main character, Quentin. As the reader follows Quentin we learn about how he thinks and more importantly how much he likes a certain girl, who he hasn’t spoken to since they were kids. But one night, she leads him on an adventure until dawn and then disappears the next day. The focus of this…

Paramount was accused of being n monopolizing force in the movie industry in 1921 by the FTC. The FTC believed that the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was buying the other companies to monopolize the industry. The Department of Justice opened an investigation against Paramount for allegedly block booking to keep the industry in an anticompetitive state. Almost seven years later in 1928 Paramount- Famous Players-Lasky and nine other companies were facing antitrust charges. Due to the great…

In the early to mid-20th century, the studio system of the movie industry was a powerful and very profitable business; the vertical integrated structure had proved to be successful. The nine or ten major studios made big profits from both the production of movies and the distribution and screening of their own movies. This was possible because most of these studios owned a chain of theaters in the major cities. With the independent theater owners, they made money by a system called “block…

to the royal family – the Tsar and Empress, and their four daughters and one son. Not only does it have a chapter name to inform the readers of the information that will be presented, but it also includes the years that this took place – a great frame of reference for the reader. “Chapter 1: I Dreamed That I Was Loved – 1881-1895.” Right underneath the chapter heading is a sub-heading for the first several paragraphs, titled “The Boy Who Would be Tsar” (Fleming, 17); so now, the reader can…

Exam- Question 1 During the mid to late 1950s, television networks and major film studios were not willing to work one another. There were a number of reasons why these corporations. One early problem for the motion pictures studios attempt to sell films to television was their issue with exhibitioners. Exhibitioners threatened they would boycott studios who sold features to television or studios who moved to telefilm. They were forced to take the threats seriously because the exhibitioner’s…