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    Triumph of the Will is a documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg rally, a large announcement to the entire world of German’s rebirth showcasing Hitler and the Nazi party. The film functions as a documentary, merely chronicling the Nazi Party Congress. However, Leni Riefenstahl’s aesthetic choices and Nazi historical context are joined to make this a propaganda piece. The film is manipulated to glorify Hitler and the Nazi party immediately in its first sequence of eight minutes. The sequence includes shots of Hitler’s plane in the sky, the crowds and Nuremberg landmarks, of which ultimately combine to showcase Hitler and his regimes’ supremacy. In the first minute and a half, a series of white text on a black background recounting Germany’s suffering and rebirth lead by Hitler is shown accompanied by sombre, low pitched non-diegetic music. The music is sombre from 0:40 (describing Germany’s suffering) until 1:06 (announcing Germany’s rebirth), of when triumphal music is played. Cinematography then transitions from darkness to light clouds. The music is now serene, creating a welcoming and refreshing introduction for the spectator,…

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    To understand Triumph of the Will, one must understand propaganda, documentary, and the tumultuous time Germany was going through. Germany was in hard times during and before the Nuremburg rally of 1934. The previous war’s end and their punishment had caused the value of their money to plummet. They were poor and in need. Hitler and the Nazis were attempting to take over Germany as the first step to creating an empire. In prior months Hitler “combined the offices of President and Chancellor”,…

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    Triumph In Beowulf

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    All humans beings have a desire to see triumph in a story, namely, the triumph of good over evil. In some epic poems such as Beowulf, one can see this clear need for triumph demonstrated by the hero of the story Beowulf, where the hero comes in to save the day and provide a triumph in the name of good. While in some literature this theme is not present, there are often similar scenarios where such a theme works its way into the story. Such a theme usually presents itself in the form of a triumph…

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    The Triumph Of Fame

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    Among the various pieces of artwork representing the Italian Renaissance housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi’s 1449 piece, The Triumph of Fame (Desco Da Parto di Lorenzo De’ Medici) stands out as a key work of the time period. Foremost, the subject matter seems to call to attention both a mythologized scene recalling characters of antiquity presiding over the representations of persons who were presumably alive at the time of the commission, all gathered for…

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    Triumph Of The Will Theme

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    Film Analysis Jarett Lopez HIS 413-001 Spring 2018 Question Responses 1. When filming, and producing, Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl took great care in assuring that the camera angles were as wide as possible. The opening shot of the movie sets that tone, with the plane descending into Germany, with wide shots of the countryside as it makes its descent. These wide angles are mostly maintained throughout the film, as if the party were trying to convey its immensity to the German people,…

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    Carnival Triumph

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    After booking the cheapest vacation we had ever booked it was time to go. My family and I were full of excitement crossing the Galveston Causeway, it was then we saw the cruise ship we were about to board after months of waiting. The Carnival Triumph looked massive as it was visible from miles away. The thirteen deck ship is a eight hundred nighty-three foot long. We could not wait to explore all of its wonders. Arriving to the port there so was much commotion. People were scrambling to make…

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    The Triumphs of Love, Chastity, and Death and the Triumphs of Fame, Time, and Divinity is an art piece attributed to Girolamo da Cremona circa 1460s show cased at the Denver Art Museum in the American and European section of the art galleria. This medium of art was made through paint with oil on a panel in Italy. This particular painting was based on the 14th century poem, “The Triumphs” by Francesco Petrarch which illustrates two families combined by wedding of the top panel with the bottom…

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    Nazism is a highly criticized topic in history with Hitler and his party being portrayed negatively consistently by most documentaries and books. Commissioned by Hitler, Triumph of the Will is a propaganda film showing the positive reflection of National Socialism in Germany during the four day Nuremburg Rally of 1934. The speeches made by the leaders of the Nazi party make Nazism seem necessary to Germany, showing a different representation of the political views. The importance of Nazism that…

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    The Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1936) are German propaganda films, directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director and propagandist for the Nazis. The films were created by Leni Riefenstahl in order to deliver the Nazi propaganda messages to the viewers and glorify Adolf Hitler as the savior of Germany. Also, the films were created because both films document the early days of the Nazi Party and its leader’s moments so that future generations could go back…

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    The essay I am here to write is a synopsis of the documentary entitled “Triumph of the Nerds”. Which is about the history and development of the Personal Computer, along with the lives of the people he helped give birth to this new industry? This finally put into the hands of normal people the power of the digital computer to better humankind. The computer industry started in the minds of the hobbyist who world was electronics, the world of 1960’s counterculture and intellectualism of this new…

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