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    The Shawshank Redemption: Movie Questions 1. A degradation ceremony is a ceremony in which people are stripped of their personal identities and thrown into a brand new situation; something that they have not experienced before. An example of this from the movie was when the men first arrived at Shawshank Prison at the beginning of the movie. As they were walking in‚ they were surrounded by the “experienced” convicts and teased. They were then stripped naked‚ covered in powder to make sure they

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    STanner Eitel Professor Brooks Sociology 18 April 2011 Shawshank Redemption The classic film centers on the predicament of Andy Dufresne who is ultimately found guilty of murdering his wife and receives a life-sentence; all of this occurs with little circumstantial detail given to the viewer of his innocence or guilt initially. Dufresne arrives at the infamous Shawshank correctional facility where he seems to take on a positive and optimistic attitude despite his perceived innocence to the

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    Personal Response to “The Shawshank Redemption” Punit Gor Foundation II DSK Supinfocom Director Frank Darabont’s 1994 debut‚ The Shawshank Redemption is a Drama film adapted from Stephen King’s novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption from his 1982 collections. Thomas Newman delivers the score to the film. The story is chronological and is in the same time period of the film (1994). The film stars Tim Robbins‚ who plays a young and successful banker‚ Andrew “Andy” Dufresne‚ sentenced

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    The story of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption starts in 1947 when Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank prison. Unlikely the other convicts Andy is not a hardened criminal. He is a soft-spoken banker convicted of killing his wife and her lover. Andy claims he is innocent. Soon after he arrives at the prison "The Sisters"‚ a gang of prison rapists led by Bogs Diamond‚ turn their attentions to Andy. The story is narrated by Red. He is "the guy who can get stuff." Red his well known for being

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    The movie I’ve selected to analyze‚ which I feel provides a rich moral context‚ is Shawshank Redemption. The movie focuses on main character‚ Andy Dufresne‚ a banker in 1947 who was wrongfully charged with the murder of his wife and her lover. Due to the lacking of his lawyer‚ Andy was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine. In an attempt to be his best self while serving his time‚ Andy befriends fellow prisoner Eliss Redding‚ otherwise known as Red

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    The movie "Shawshank Redemption"‚ written and directed by Frank Darabont is about Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) who in 1947 is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. However‚ only Andy knows that he didn’t commit the crimes. Sent to Shawshank Prison to do hard time‚ Andy‚ a banker in the outside world has to learn to get by in the brutal‚ cutthroat confines of prison life as he is subjected to vicious attacks from the guards and his fellow in-mates

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    path of the tornado... I just didn’t expect the storm would last as long as it has.” ‚ Is a quote from the character Andy Dufresen from the film Shawshank Redemption. It is one of many quotes that have greater meaning in this film about the path of Andy and his torturous life in prison. Each of the three main characters in the film Shawshank Redemption has several events that change the morals and ethics of the character. It is a great example of how you can have a set of value that are ethical

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    institution is reprogrammed to accept and conform to strict controls that enables the institution to manage a large number of people with a minimum of necessary staff. The Shawshank Redemption presents the story of several long-term incarceration prisoners and how these prisoners have been institutionalized. Inside Shawshank State Prison‚ Red is a very important man who can get things from outside for everyone in the prison. This ability made him special among the prisoners and made him became

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    Title: The Shawshank Redemption Director: Frank Darabont In the movie the character Andy Dufresne played by Tim Robbins is sent to Shawshank prison on a double life sentence for killing his wife and her lover. In the prison he befriends Red‚ played by Morgan Freeman. Andy spends out his sentence helping the guards with tax returns and such and eventually he is laundering the corrupt money in which the prison makes. He is blackmailed by the warden when he says he is out so he escapes through a

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    ‘Red’) who bond over a number of years‚ finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. A film dedicated to hope and the power of being able to accept the situation for now and regroup. One definition of redemption is “to make good‚ another to find salvation”. The character of Andy Dufresne does not need to follow this train of thought as we later discover him to be an innocent man. Shawshank Redemption surly follows the Latin motto carpe diem‚ roughly translated as “seize

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