The Last Samurai “The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one‚ and it would not be a wasted life” (Zwick). These are the words of Katsumoto‚ an important samurai warrior. The movie The Last Samurai directed by Edward Zwick is about an American War Captain named Nathan Algren who is hired to train‚ lead and modernize a group of Japanese soldiers to defeat a rebellion of the country’s remaining Samurai in 1876. Algren is captured by the Samurai and soon
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|Media and American Culture | Copyright © 2013‚ 2012‚ 2011‚ 2010‚ 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description The course provides an introduction to the most prominent forms of media that influence and impact social‚ business‚ political‚ and popular culture in contemporary America. It explores the unique aspects of each medium as well as interactions across various media that combine to create
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in magazines for mass circulation‚ but they ever reached the middle class of America. Eventually he figured out how to create his stories so that they became hits‚ and they still resonated the themes he wanted (Bryant 1372). In his last‚ and unfinished‚ story “The Last Tycoon‚” readers can see a constant moon imagery. Piacentino says that the moon imagery “serve to highlight the illusive quality of Hollywood and the motion picture industry generally and that of Monroe Stahr particularly‚ the latter
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The Last of the Mohicans‚ written by James Fenimore Cooper‚ represents colonial American people through a romantic view. This movie is during the French and Indian war in the 1820’s. The war was going one all throughout the movie and was used for many of the scenes in the movie. The movie was about love and romance between a couple of the Mohican men and a couple of the British women. The Last of the Mohicans is a movie of romance and blind love. The movie shows that people will follow their heart
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The image I choose to discuss is the first one‚ which is named The Last Supper (Cenacolo or L’Ultima Cen‚ Italian)‚ painted by the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci. Historically‚ this masterpiece was painted in 1499. Before and after this period is known as the Renaissance. Renaissance era generally characterized as follows: it is the guiding ideology of humanism‚ its core is "all things is from human"‚ in favor of the individual as the measure of all things. Humanist emphasized on human values‚ personality
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Question: Discuss how the global media industry started taking shape after the Second World War. What were the major features of media industry in US and Europe during 1950s to 1970s? How did the media industry in US get restructured during 1980s to 1990s? Media can be defined in general as‚ "media" refers to various means of communication. For example‚ television‚ radio‚ and the newspaper are different types of media. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers
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television screen” -Robert Elegant Robert Elegant’s quote explains the significant role the media played in the Vietnam War. This essay will argue that the media’s effect was one dominant aspect of why the United States lost the war in Vietnam. Looking in detail at the heavily televised ‘Tet Offensive’‚ this essay will suggest that this series of battles was the beginning of the decisive part the media played in influencing public opinion. It is worth nothing that there are several factors involved
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Dirty Dancing and Save the Last Dance Thesis statement: Should people change to fit into a new environment? A person has to give a little of themselves in order to grow. We befriend different types of people for many reasons. Dirty dancing vs. Urban Hip-hop: Dirty dancing is sensual‚ suggestive dancing with a partner. To dirty dance is to dance with abandon‚ with your body loosened up and your whole being thrown into the rhythm. Baby is a teenage girl who crosses over into womanhood both physically
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A period of increased popular piety‚ the 12th century featured the formation of many new religious orders. Established primarily as a means to promote reform in the church‚ and to fit the demands of believers who sought out a heightened individual spiritual life‚ reform orders became one of the primary weapons used by the Church to combat heresy. Designed as grassroots organizations‚ much like their heretical counterparts‚ these groups aimed to win believers back to the Catholic faith. However‚ it
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Week One EFFECT OF MASS MEDIA During the last century we as humans have allowed many major developments to occur in the mass media. We have convinced ourselves to find many different ways to communicate with one another and these devices have influenced the American culture in positive ways and negative. The developments all started with the steam-powered printing press which now has updated to a newspaper that they type up on a new device called a computer. We went from what they thought
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