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    Gone With The Wind Theme

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    the history of our great nation. The movie is based on the book of the same title written by Margaret Mitchell, a native of Georgia who gleaned her knowledge of the war from elderly surviving Civil War veterans. The primary character of the film is Scarlett O 'Hara, an innocent, childish and naïve lady who believes she is in love with a man who is already in love. The drama mainly focuses on romance, not military conflicts. Soldiers are not shown marching into battle, continuing and dying from…

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    Long Walk Home

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    Children tend to choose a certain person in their life or a character to be their role model. As they grow older their views change and things happen in their life that they change who they want their role model to be. A lot of people choose their mothers or a certain person or character that has achieved a lot in life and stand for a specific cause to be their new role model. Films that have been viewed in class that have good strong female role models are: alone yet not alone, gone with the…

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    depicted as having big lips, a big nose, as being lazy and enjoy eating watermelon and fried chicken. This negative stereotype is shown in Gone with the Wind when Ashley Wilkes wants to hire “Darkies” to work the saw mill instead of prisoners Scarlett O’Hara responds, “Darkies cannot be hired because you will have to feed them fried chicken and give them naps.” Latinos are said to eat tacos, take American jobs and also be lazy. Jewish people have been made fun of because of their noses and are…

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    race relations, and the practice of slavery during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. To begin, the cinema falsely presented the role of post-Civil War workers known as convicts (History is Elementary). At the end of the war, Scarlett found herself struggling to pay her taxes, so she decided to start a lumber business. Of course, she needed men to carry out the work, and since slavery was now outlawed, a new system had to be used to hire laborers. The new method was the…

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    oneself, resonates with me the most. Didion states that, “the dismal fact is that self-respect has nothing to do with the approval of others—who are, after all, deceived easily enough; has nothing to do with reputation—which, as Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara, is something that people with courage can do without”. This argument made by Didion is the most effective to me, because daily I witness the younger generation, including myself, seeking self-respect through social media or the approval…

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    Karen Horney theorized that when needs are not met in childhood that the children develop basic anxieties in adulthood. Horney believed that people tend to combat basic anxiety in three ways: by moving toward people, moving away from people, or moving against people. Those with tendencies to move toward people have compliant personalities. Some of the neurotic needs of this personality type include the need for affection and approval from others, and the need for a powerful partner. These…

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    Hattie Mcdaniel Biography

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    Hattie McDaniel As known as a great African-American Actress, Singer- Songwriter, Hattie McDaniel was a great woman who paved a way for several other African American entertainers in her time. During the rapid growth of the film industry, Hattie McDaniel was a woman of visionary that took the industry under her wings and evolved into a idealists to the media industry. Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 10, 1893; she was her parents' 13th child. Her father, Henry,…

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    Maximilian Raoul "Max" Steiner (May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971) was an Austrian-born American composer of music for theatre and films. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional when he was fifteen. He worked in England and then came to New York to work on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in 1929 and became one of the first composers to write music scores for films. Steiner is referred to as "the father of film music" and is…

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    unpredictable on set. Stella played by Kim Hunter and also Mitch who was portrayed by Karl Malden. Blanche DuBois was played by Vivian Leigh, she too had played the role of Blanche before on the London stage. Leigh also had played the Southern belle of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind” who had dreams of more genteel past, just like Blanche’s character. The film earned 12 Academy Awards nominations, all four were nominated for Oscars, of which three won. Leigh won for best actress in a…

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    7. Linda Hamilton. Linda Hamilton portrayed Sarah Connor in The Terminator film series, as well as Catherine Chandler in Beauty and the Beast. Linda Hamilton announced her bipolar disorder during an appearance on Larry King Live last October 2005. She attributed her condition as the reason for the destruction of her marriage to where she admitted to have abused her husband verbally and physically. She sought for treatment since then. 8. Mariette Hartley. Mariette Hartley was an American…

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