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    Fashion

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    The fashion in the 1980’s was very weird and crazy. The trends of the 80’s changed almost every two years. This was a very weird decade‚ not just for women‚ but men and children also. The rapid changing of clothing was different each time. There were a lot of things that affected the way people dressed in the 80’s‚ things such as music and religion. 1980s fashion history is memorable and quite distinctive. A variety of fashion looks ran parallel to each other in the 1980s. Women of this era began

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    Birth of a Nation

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    Racism has been around since the beginning of time. Basically if you had a skin tone darker than the shade of white‚ you were inferior. Times have now changed‚ but there are remnants of this subject everywhere‚ even in film. The movie Birth of a Nation is considered one of the greatest films of all time‚ even with these themes. AMC’s Filmsite even has it listed within the 100 Greatest Films of All Time. Another movie with the some of the same themes is Blazing Saddles. Blazing Saddles does not have

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    world. One can see the same approach in the genre of westerns. The director might show the Cowboys and Indians having a conflict over an issue. However‚ the audience will see that they Cowboys are the better of the characters. The only reason why this happens is because of how the director films the movie. The point he might be trying to get across is the fact that the Indian is in actuality the hero and he Cowboy is the

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    are partially true. In About Men by Gretel Ehrlich she explains the truth about the cowboy attitude‚ cowboys attitude compared to the stereotypes that are believed due to the way they were portrayed in western films and Marlboro advertisements. “If he’s “strong and silent” it’s because there’s probably no one to talk to” (Ehrlich). During the time period where western films were very popular the image of a cowboy was portrayed differently than it actually was to make it more interesting for the film

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    19th Century Gauchos

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    Often compared to the American cowboy‚ gauchos were the symbol of Argentinian nationalism and the frontier during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Representing the normal working class population of immigrants to Argentina‚ gauchos largely impacted the economy until they disappeared during the late 19th century. Towards the end of the 18th century‚ the gauchos came about after the South American upper class began investing in large estates and ranches. These ranches were so large that people were

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    Machete and Tron Review

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    this movie that much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The digital universe proves both dangerous and gorgeous‚ with its color scheme of midnight black‚ electric blue and neon red‚ its population of outlandish humanoid programs and its exotic gladiatorial games. The world of the grid is rippling with detail. The action scenes‚ Disk wars‚ particularly the light cycle races‚ are awesome. Factor

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    Western Movies Since 1960

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    Bibliography: Frayling‚ Christopher. Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul‚ 1981. Rigorous intellectual examination of the meaning of the American Western in the European imagination. Indispensable for understanding the spaghettis. French‚ Philip

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    Island during the Vietnam War. There‚ this type A personality man motivates his platoon by ceaselessly insulting and demeaning them‚ giving them abusive nicknames. A pragmatic recruit who talks behind his back becomes “Joker.” A Texas recruit becomes “Cowboy.” And a slow-witted recruit with no intelligence or ambition becomes “Gomer Pyle.” It seems as if this man needs to inspire fear in the men he is training to obtain respect and have his orders followed. There is‚ however‚ one specific soldier who

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    Gender Roles

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    depicts the true character of an all American cowboy‚ and how his true identity is mystified by the iconic individual that the people are known to hearing about. The author states‚ “[her] hellbent earnestness to romanticize the cowboy [she] ironically disesteemed [their] true character”(Ehrlich 155) and that courage has less to do with facing danger than with acting spontaneously”(Ehrlich 156). It goes in to context of saying that men‚ especially cowboys are projected to live with this vivacity and

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    Kimberly West Professor Hancock English 1010-Wednesday 20 April 2011 Appalachian Mountain Music Many listeners who are not familiar with Country or Bluegrass music may have trouble in differentiating the two types of music. While Country and Bluegrass share a common lineage‚ there are several differences set them apart. During the 40’s and 50’s Bluegrass music was a big influence in society. It combined traditional folk ballads‚ gospel songs‚ and string band music to create a style characterized

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