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“An Extreme Contrast” Michael Henchard and Donald Farfrae are the two main characters in “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” who the reader will discover are complete opposites. “Character is Fate,” said Novalis, “and Farfrae’s character was just the reverse of Henchard’s” (Page 117). Henchard and Farfrae have a night-and-day contrast. Henchard is quick-tempered, while Farfrae is…

MGB 301 Video Case: “Remember the Titans” Groups and teams are essential to current business objectives, so understanding how groups form and operate is a major focus of study in Organizational Behavior. The film Remember the Titans supplies a useful example for studying the life cycle of a group, as well as how external pressures…

The Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) is a foreign language instructional method, which emerged in responding to the need for quick conversational proficiency in foreign language during WWII in America. With Leonard Bloomfield and Charles Fries as its leading figures, ALM was the first method being derived from contemporary theories, specifically from structural linguistics and behavioral psychology….

Titanic is a 1997 American romance film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic. The flying scene in Titanic is a beautiful and romantic sequence because it invites the audience to empathies with the lovers. These two lovers are the protagonists of the movie, a young…

Rarely does a single person stand out as much when solving a problem as Alexander Hamilton did after being appointed Secretary of Treasury on the late 1700s. Our country had a great deal of problems with national debt after the Revolutionary War, Hamilton created one of the best financial foundations ideas for our economy, that…

“The Glass Roses” by Alden Nowlan highlights the conflicts within the main character, Stephen, a fifteen-year-old scrawny teenager working with his father in the woods. He has been brought up in an environment where there is a predetermined set idea of what it means to be a man. The protagonist either has to follow in…

            Renaissance is a term used to mean a period of rebirth by the Italians which saw changes in culture and great achievements.  It was a period of renewed interest in cultural classical antiquity which proceeded the dark ages. The changes associated with this period of cultural transition had significant effects in the life of…

The continuity-based editing and kino-eye as explained by Dziga Vertov are two very contrasting ways of filmmaking. Editing that puts continuity at the forefront is what we see most often in filmmaking, it puts all of the happenings of the film in temporal order so the plot makes sense to the viewers. Kino»eye does not…

The social life of things: materiality, metallization and mobility This approach as three key characteristics: – Treats images as material Objects materiality = how they (photos) look and feel, their shape and volume, weight and texture – Its understanding Of how the material qualities Of an image intervene in the world, particularly the world of…

When it comes to gang rivalry, the word “family” doesn‘t usually come to mind, but S,E. Hinton’s The Outsiders brings up the crucial point of who really are your close ties. Between the Curtis Brothers to the Greaser and Soc families, their differentiated values are surprising. To begin, the Curtis Brothers are held together not…