For my outside humanities project‚ I watched the movie Spotlight. Spotlight is a 2015 biographical drama film about the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team’s investigation on the continuous case of Catholic priests sexually abusing children. For several of decades priests of the Catholic Church had been sexually abusing children without the outside world knowing of their secret. It wasn’t until the Boston Globe’s editor retired from many years of service and a new editor stepped up to the plate. The new
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The film Spotlight which was released in 2015 and is based on a news article that was published by The Boston Globe in January 6‚ 2002 called "Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years." The group that did the research and published this article was called "Spotlight"‚ which is where the name of the movie came from. Tom McCarthy who was the director of this film made Spotlight so well that it has won almost twenty-seven awards from all over the country and even from different countries all over the
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Brutus emerges as the most complex character in Julius Caesar and is also the play’s tragic hero. In his soliloquies‚ the audience gains insight into the complexities of his motives. He is a powerful public figure‚ but he appears also as a husband‚ a master to his servants‚ a dignified military leader‚ and a loving friend. The conflicting value systems that battle with each other in the play as a whole are enacted on a microcosmic level in Brutus’s mind. Even after Brutus has committed the assassination
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The lead editor of Spotlight Walter "Robby" Robinson stated‚ “It’s like everyone knows the story‚ except us and we work right there.” This quote demonstrated that this story was known by many but was not publicized. The fact that people would cover it up provided more of means to actually get the story out so people can be aware. The team took a different approach since this story was very covered numerous times. Michael Rezendes (one of the investigative reporters) thought that the story would attack
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Melinda in “Spotlight” has a vivid inner voice‚ where the reader can make an inference that she is a analytical introvert. The quotes “I see a few friends - people I used to think were my friend - but they look away” and “There’s that new girl‚ Heather‚ reading by the window. I could sit across from her. Or I could crawl behind a trash can. Or maybe I could dump by lunch straight into trash and keep moving out the door.” shows how the author’s use of diction helps create her voice as analytical
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Summary India is located in southern Asia. One-sixth of the world’s population (approximately 1 billion people) lives within the country’s 1.27 million square miles. Hindi is the dominant language in terms of number of speakers. India is a multilingual nation with more than 10 other languages spoken by 20 million people or more. English serves as the national language among the educated Indians. The Indian economy derives are depends on agriculture. India’s rural population presents a huge untapped
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Nike hit the ground running in 1962. Originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports‚ the company focused on providing high-quality running shoes designed especially for athletes by athletes. Founder Philip Knight believed that high-tech shoes for runners could be manufactured at competitive prices if imported from abroad. The company’s commitment to designing innovative footwear for serious athletes helped it build a cult following among American consumers. By 1980‚ Nike had become the number-one athletic
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Inspriring Integrity: McCarthy’s Spotlight Writer and Director Tom McCarthy’s 2015 Best Picture Academy Award Winner Spotlight tells the true story of a group of The Boston Globe journalists working to uncover systemic pedophilia within Boston area branches of the Roman Catholic Church in the early 2000s. Within the bowels of The Boston Globe‚ this group staffed a small and intensely dedicated investigate journalism unit called “Spotlight.” The title‚ however‚ also reflects the larger political
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“Eleven” and “Spotlight” are quite similar in style‚ but not in voice. They may have the same revolving theme of mean teachers and breakdowns‚ but the tones they take and even the sentence structure they have is completely different. “Eleven” is a story by Sandra Cisneros‚ which is about a girl named Rachel and an ugly red sweater. While in class‚ Rachel’s teacher is asking the class whose red sweater it is. Rachel is seemingly the only one in class that doesn’t say that it’s hers‚ which makes
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Spotlight by Tom McCarthy may just be the sleeper classic of the 2010’s. The fact that is supported by the best picture award and the incredibly real tragedy portrayed in the film. Spotlight goes farther than just exposing the lies of the Vatican and its horrific cover-up. The film breaches topics one can see in everyday life such as the “death” of investigating journalism and a rapid technology boom with unforeseen consequences. Even the very foundation of its cinematic techniques create a graceful
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