While many sitcoms conform to an aesthetic of realism and are naturalistic, there are some that break this mould and fit into an alternative group of their own. ... In the seventies special effects were becoming more and more complex and the need for realism in the audiences was at last satisfied. ... Early sci-fi relied heavily on the implication of danger to produce fear but in the 90s Mars Attacks' and Independence Day' made in1996 show people and cities being destroyed with dreadful realism. ... This realism is the one thing that gives sci-fi its credibility today. ...

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He states realism in Streetcar is identified with the bright light of the naked bulb that exposes Blanche's aging face. ... She outright says, "I don't want realism I misrepresent things to [people]. ... Ultimately, Kernan finds realism to be a mode of acceptance by which people deal with what they normally could not handle. ... Stanley's realism, old South vs. new South lifestyles, and her old-fashioned perception of romance and sex. ...

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She says in scene nine, "I don't want realism! ... This action is not only an acknowledgement of Stanley's supremacy, but more importantly the dominance of his realism. ... After making the comment about not wanting realism Gordon 5 but rather magic, Blanche continues, "I misrepresent things to them. ...

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Intro: Loneliness is a disease. It eats away at people slowly, gradually tearing them limb from limb. It is a virus that send some people insane, some turn senile, it sorts the strong characters from the weak and it can devastate lives. In the book "of Mice and Men" I am going to look at 3 differen...

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Austin: Positivist Identity of law: what makes the law the law Law (is) = Rules + (issued by a) Sovereignty. Rules = General Commands A command is an expression of a wish backed by a threat to inflict an evil (=sanction, like telling the child to get the toy is not a command unless it is backed by a threat) in case the wish is not fulfilled, issued by someone who is willing and able to act on the threat. All commands impose obligations. But only the general rules and commands. Eg: Prohibition of importation of corn is a rule, but one that prohibits the importation of a specific shipment of ...

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Introduction News and reality, a paradox? There are so many different news programs these days, with news from all over the world just jumping in our living rooms. In the Netherlands you have the for instance: Het NOS Journal, RTL Nieuws, Hart van Nederland, Het Jeugdjournal, Netwerk and many more....

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In Search for Independence and Self-Fulfillment In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. Thus the cult of True Womanhood was still promoted which preached four cardinal virtues for women: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Women were considered far more religious than men and, therefore, they had to be pure in heart, mind, and, of course, body. Not engaging in sex until marriage, and even then not finding any pleasure in it. They were also supposed to be passive r...

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I aim to look at crime and deviance from a Marxist perspective & a Right Realist perspective. I will provide a definition of crime and deviance. Throughout my assignment I aim to cover just how extensive crime & deviance is in contemporary Britain, also to consider who are the offenders and more so, why do people commit crimes? I will also be exploring how crime is measured alongside my own opinions on the subject. Crime is usually defined simply as a violation of the criminal law. ...

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Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States In assessing what is good in a president, one must look at that president's ability to properly govern its citizens and country and in the manner in which he does it. Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the great...

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"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," is the fourth film in the Indiana Jones franchise. This movie's plot was much different than any other version of Indiana Jones. The movie is all about a crystal skull from an outside world which had crashed into earth long time ago. The movie is...

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The Making of A New Writer How does a man with yellow tinted aviator glasses, a trademark cigarette holder, and khaki pants become one of the most influential writers of modern day? With arrogance, and 22 loaded guns at all times of course. This writer has been through many different paths in life, his writing has the tendency to draw in all types of people: the heavily political, the heavily athletic, and the heavily psychotic. There can be no other than Hunter S. Thompson to fill this description. ...

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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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The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece. The words of Prince exemplify the importance of the woman's voice in the anti-slavery campaign, while the controversy over her moral credibility challenges the principles of English society at that time. In many ways, her impact on history mirrors that of the myriad abolitionist...

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The "Christ- in "Christabel- The last decade of the Eighteenth Century was during the time of a great emotional movement in Europe. Several revolutions were taking place from culture to science. Another important revolution was in British literature, known as Romanticism where importance, style, a...

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The summaries in this paper examine several unique and sometimes conflicting perspectives that, taken together, give the reader of Native Son a deeper understanding of the novels purpose. Finding the purpose of the novel is a challenge, because the initial reaction is one of shock and dismay. As a...

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Nelson Mandela easily earned the title of the best South African President. Serving only one term from 1994 to 1999, it wasn't his Presidency that made him such a popular political figure. It was the events leading up to and his leadership style that gained Mandela the title he deserves. Yukl's definition of leadership, the ability to influence others, is demonstrated throughout Mandela's life. He has an innate ability to influence people to come together and gain control over a situation. ...

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"We knelt and we prayed and I held the one's hand, whose leg had been blown off and looked him in the face and I mean...I can only tell you that I watched the life go from his body. As his eyes turned green he took his last breath and I see that guy often...In my mind...I don't guess you ever forget...

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"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." -Gloria Patch (p. l34) F. Scott Fitzgerald began his second novel in l920. It was published when he was just twenty-five years old in l922. ...

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Introduction Plasma screens first entered the US market towards the end of 1999, but the concept has been around since July of 1964 at the University of Illinois. The first displays were nothing more than points of light created in laboratory experiments. The technology was developed and improve...

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"Readers love it, as well they should, for in the best gothic fiction, realism and romance join forces to create a territory somewhere between this world and some other in which almost everything is slightly, deliciously over the top" (Yardley 1). ...

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According to the text book "Introduction to Sociology" Culture is defined as all that humans learn to do, to use, to produce, to know, and to believe as they grow to maturity and live out their lives in the social groups to which they belong. Every group has its own specific culture, its own way o...

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1. PREHISTROIC/EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Early on, when man had but a basic understanding of himself, it is theorized that he (they) had a basic religious belief. The belief was in Animism and The Locus Mundi. Animism is the term given to the belief that everything has its own spirit, or energy. Not just things we consider "alive", but hills, waterfalls, the air you breathe, all of these had energy. ...

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The Glass Menagerie is mainly about the spiritual paralysis of human beings as the result of the depressive atmosphere of the society, breakdown of family institution and lack of understanding among even the most intimate persons; that is, the members of a family. In the 1939 letter to his editor,...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...

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Ingres's baigneuse comes to mind "and not surprisingly, considering Henri's admiration for that artist as an exponent of realism and the frequency with which he directed his students to study the master's works. ...

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