How important is realism in constructing the narrative of Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers? ... What is the importance of realism? ... There is no one criterion by which the term realism of a media text may be judged. ... But one important thing about realism is how we involve realism in the media, all realism is constructed and that realism important in concern with social issues. ... But why is realism important? ...

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It is more emotionally concerned than realism. ... Realism, people decided, would never raise the level of art. ... Realism ran opposite to all that theatre had stood for in the past. ... Craig was opposed to realism. ... Their work helped the departure of theatre from realism. ...

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The national security policy of the United States has been long debated on whether it was more motivated by realism or liberalism tendencies in preceding times. ... On the realist side, there are arguments that the US has implemented both offensive and defensive realism tendencies in the past. ... Liberalists argue that the containment policy was all in the name of democracy and that may be somewhat true, but offensive realism shows to be the underlining factor in my opinion. Promoting democracy in European countries is an idealistic form of liberalism but it also portrays offensive realism. ....

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"About 500 years ago modern political thinking began, It's enticing surface was the idea of, 'realism.' Its ruthless center was the idea that with a worthwhile end, one could justify any mean. Its spokesman was Nicolo Machiavelli," (Zinn). Yes, Machiavelli wanted to serve the people. However his mai...

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Oe has been commended for displaying Japanese culture at its finest and with intense realism. ... Oe also brought a strong sense of realism to the modern era showing people what life really is like and displaying it in the most gruesome yet realistic way possible. Winning a Nobel Prize for Literature is also no small task that Kenzaburo Oe has achieved which he earned for his work across his career and dedication to realism and truth. ...

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From the initial scene sequence, the creators of Saving Private Ryan set a tone of intense realism, which was to continue throughout the movie. ... In The Sands of Iwo Jima, I believe that the filmmakers sought the same realism and emotional ups and downs that Saving Private Ryan created, but lacked the ability. ... The soldiers go on leave in New Zealand to meet girls and drink, which is totally unrelated to harshness and realisms of actual war. ...

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Hiroshima John Hersey's Hiroshima presents the events leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb, the actual event, the aftermath, and the affects the introduction of nuclear warfare has had on the world. Hersey uses the individual accounts of six different people, and their individual experi...

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Although the film is only loosely based on a true incident, it's hard not to accept these characters and events as real and this is one very important aspect when looking at the representation of war in Saving Private Ryan, tghe realism of the representation of war. ... The results convey a gritty realism. ...

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Realism is based on 3 ideas: States are the only actors that matter, policy maker's responsibility is to create, maintain and increase national power, and No other authority can stand above the state. ...

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Those who defended Wilson argue that his idealism was in a kind of higher realism, claiming that when Wilson said that this would be "a war to end war," he recognized that armed conflict on the scale of World War I could not be tolerated again and that some framework of international peace had to be found. ...

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Introduction Scholars of international politics routinely debated on two kinds of global structures that best describe the actual world, that is, multipolar and unipolar. The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a n...

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In the book " A Separate Peace" it exemplifies true feelings and characteristics of ordinary people. It takes place in 1942 during the dark days of World War II. The book is based on a flashback by main character and narrator Gene Forrester. Based at a highly regarded prep school, by the name of ...

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Electronic Arts created Medal of Honor in late 1999 and, ever since then, has been the market holder for the World War II first-person shooter, until now. Although the list of Medal of Honor releases was very successful, players found the games to lack reality. People want to experience the historic...

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The poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est," by English poet Wilfred Owen, conveys various key ideas relating to war and its consequences. These concepts have been expressed through the utilisation of textual detail and a variety of poetic and language techniques. It gives the responder a highly realistic port...

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"The subject of neo-realism film is the world; not the story or narrative. It contains no preconceived thesis, because ideas are born in the film from the subject." This was said by one of the founding fathers of the cinematic Neorealistic movement, Roberto Rossellini. Neorealism was a movemen...

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In today's modern society we have very many things to fear from, like getting hit by a car, or just getting up out of bed in the morning is sometimes scary enough, because you just never quite know what is going to happen. So we have all these little annoying things to worry about, and now we have to worry about these "new nuclear" countries. These countries have just acquired the capability of firing a nuclear missile and starting world war III. So now, every morning I wake up and turn on the news, praying that some upstart little country that I have never laid eyes on hasn"t sealed ...

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German Painting after WWI. And in the 1920's Q: Utilizing class notes and perhaps resources of your own, write a 1,000-2,000 work dealing with each of the following artists in the period directly following World War 1 [1918-]: German art movement of the 1920s began after the end of WWI. Ther...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of t...

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A. Nuclear Weapons History. In 1914 H.G. Wells wrote in his book, The World Set Free, that atomic bombs were used in a war between the alliance of England, France and the U.S. against an alliance of Germany and Austria. All of the major cities of the world were destroyed by atomic bombs in this ch...

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In Charles Todd's, A Test of Wills, the protagonist, Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career at Scotland Yard in 1914 to fight in the Great War. In 1919, Rutledge is back, burdened with a heavy secret. He is still suffering from "shell-shock", haunted by an internal voice that belittles him and exace...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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New German Cinema "Although some maintain that the end of New German Cinema did not occur until after the cold war, many of the filmmakers associated with the movement felt, after Das Boot, that it was finally all right to make it in Hollywood--a sentiment that was to be the death knell of a wholly independent German cinema tradition." (Rentschler "How American Is It?" 279-80) Das Boot begins with a message that resonates and evokes feelings of ambivalence for both American and German viewers alike: "40,000 German sailors served on U-Boats during WWII. 30,000 never returned." ...

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Defining politics today has different meaning from 20th century. Littrë in his 1987 dictionary defined politics as the science of government of states'. Robert in 1962 defined it as the art and practice of government of human societies'. Today government of state related to that of other human so...

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