The U.S. Cinema Industry ESCP-EUROPE 2013-II GARCIA RUIZ‚ Gabriela ESSAY Final EXAM PART I: Choose one element that particularly struck you‚ briefly analyze it justifying your choice (10 pts.) 1. Citizen Kane: Rosebud I chose “Rosebud” because this word evolves the main sense of the whole movie. From the beginning with the scene of Kane dropping a crystal snowball before dying and whispering “Rosebud” to the end when the last scene shows us the image of a chair burning in which back
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Jackie Robinson and The Civil Rights Movement Jackie Robinson played baseball at a time when teams were segregated. The Brooklyn Dodgers team manager Rickey‚ helped Jackie Robinson get into the Major League baseball team. This integrated the baseball for the first time in American history‚ allowing an African American to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ("Jackie Robinson Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television‚ n.d. Web. 12 June 2013.) When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in professional
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finds the best place to use his/her unique talents” (The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms). Although Holden does not find the best place to use his unique talents‚ he does meet the rest of the criteria of a bildungsroman. The novel‚ The Cather in the Rye‚ contains the criteria of a bildungsroman because Holden’s
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Kayla Soileau Mrs. Daigrepont English 3-2 27 February 2015 Title I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement: Both Cather and Twain use the archetypical terrible mother‚ river‚ and wise old man in their novels and these usages help to demonstrate the universality of archetypes: a reoccurring motif in literature that is used as a literary device to convey a wealth of meaning. B. In Huckleberry Finn and My Antonia‚ the archetypical terrible mother is used in similar but also different ways‚ where one is an
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Thompson March 1‚ 2011 You know that one person in your group of friends that just isn’t “all right” in the head? That you’re always kind of worried about in the back of your head? Well that would describe Holden Caulfield perfectly. J.D. Salinger’s Cather in the Rye is all about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield in a mental hospital recalling a crazy weekend he had the previous year. It goes everywhere from prostitutes to illegal drinking. In the novel Holden exemplifies a borderline personality
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Survival Guide on How to Make it Through School and Life with Balance By: Melissa DiNallo [pic] GEN105 05/27/2013 - 07/28/2013 The fabulous Wide World Web One of the most important rules of school‚ especially non-traditional schools‚ is the knowledge of how to navigate through the web and identify what sites are meant for education versus those meant for leisure. When I am searching the web for research I want to make sure I use creditable
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Henry David Thoreau INTRODUCTION Henry David Thoreau was an American author‚ poet‚ abolitionist‚ naturalist‚ tax resister‚ development critic‚ surveyor‚ historian ‚ philosopher andtranscendentalist. Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life. He is best known for his book Walden‚ a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings‚ and his essay‚ Civil Disobedience‚ an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral
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Many adolescents and teenagers across the world go through many difficult obstacles‚ some more than others. A child’s atmosphere has a lot to do with what they do or do not accomplish in life. The protagonist‚ Paul‚ in Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case” is a victim of these teenage troubles. From the very beginning of the short story it is rather evident that Paul is a troubled teenager. From the beginning you can tell that Paul is very uncomfortable in his surroundings. At school he uses
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Response paper on The Catcher in the Rye The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is one of the most discussed novels in American literature. The Catcher in the Rye is J.D Salinger ’s landmark novel‚ it set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted him to the heights of literary fame. The book mostly focuses on the period of time when a young teenage boy named Holden Caulfield gets expelled from his high school and how he sees‚ feels things and people around
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