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    Calvin Coolidge once said, “Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil… Both men and nations should live in accordance to their substance not only to productive industry but to the creation of the various forms of beauty and the pursuit of culture which give adornments to the art of life.” This statement shows the values of Calvin Coolidge in three ways. Calvin Coolidge explained in his book, the “Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge,” that he was hardworking, wise, and…

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    Analysis of Alias Grace and The Heart Goes Last by Margret Atwood : Rough Draft In the novels, Alias Grace and The Heart Goes Last by Margret Atwood, Atwood uses a specific style of writing to convey her themes of each novel. Atwood utilizes techniques such as symbolism, syntax, point of view and the use of setting to create the Theme of these two novels, In The Heart Goes last the theme is that even utopias are not all they seem to be and can often turn out to be dystopias, sort of like the…

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    Rear Window Narrative

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    narrative along with Jeff by also giving them the same limited perspective therefore using the film as a literal window into another world. This can be conveyed in the scene where Jeff is watching the couples through the windows while Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) is preparing dinner him. Jeff gazes through the window and sees multiple shots in which he analyzes to create a narrative. For example in one shot he sees a couple that appears…

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    Why Cookies and Ages? In the story, called Amazing Grace, is by Jonathan Kozol. The story about a boy he met in a really poor place. But we will get to that later. Kozol is an educator, writer , and activist. He has spent most of his adult life working with, and writing about what a lot of people ignore. The poor, illiterate, and the homeless one. Now going back to what the story about, the story, Amazing Grace, is about Kozol visiting another poor place, south Bronx. South Bronx was not always…

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    Suspense films are a huge part of movie history. They keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last moment, when the mystery is solved, and all is well in the world of the characters. Sadly, most suspense movies of today rely more on special effects than quality acting and dialogue. This is true when it comes to Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Rear Window and its 2007 remake Disturbia. While both movies are interesting and suspenseful, Disturbia failed to capture the charm of its predecessor.…

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    The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

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    characters were Lisa Carol Fremont, L.B. Jeff, and Detective Doyle. L.B. Jeff was played by James Stewart is a man who is confined to his apartment and his only view of the world in looking out his window in his apartment. Lisa Carol Fremont was played by Grace Kelly, she was a model who showed interest in Jeff, but could not get his attention. Detective lieutenant Doyle was played by Wendell Corey was skeptical of Jeff accusing his neighbor of murder until the very end when it was made clear.…

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    Rear Window Analysis

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    Critical Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window In films we watch today there is often many different morals or meanings portrayed within the story, sometimes we are unware of these themes when we first watch a film and do not understand it until we have actually thought about the purpose of the film. In Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rear Window, we see many meanings and morals to his story throughout the viewing. For example, the movie prompts us to look at ideas of mortality, compassion,…

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    neighbor’s murder and her husband’s guilt. The main characters are Jeff, portrayed by Jimmy Stewart (who also starred in numerous other Hitchcock films, most notably Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Rope), his girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont (Grace Kelly), his nurse from his insurance company, Stella (Thelma Ritter), his policeman friend Tom Doyle…

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    The film Rear Window tells a story of a photographer name Jeffries who breaks his leg while taking pictures on a dangerous race track. Because of this, Jeffries is unfortunately stuck on wheelchair in his apartment with nothing to do but to look out the window and see the lives of his neighbors. Throughout the film, one night, Jeffries hears a woman screaming, and he notices one of his neighbor name Thorwald walking in and out of his apartment in middle of the night, carrying a case. Jeffries…

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