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wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

simple event people can become confused about a truth based on the fact that everyones "vantage point" or perspective is different...

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

on twelve clay tablets. The epic tale is of a Babylonian king, two-thirds god and one-third man. Another key character in the stor...

people who eventually fought each other had prior history together. "Before whites and Indians would feel inclined to fight each o...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...

In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

This paper examines how artistic expression can be conveyed through cinematic expression. The author also addresses censorship, c...

In 5 pages this paper discusses the Nouvelle Vague or New Wave French cinematic movement of the Fifties and Sixties in a considera...