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Abstract             Documentary films are always linked to historical recollection. It often serves as a historical document. Claude Lanzmann’s documentary films show a powerful presentation of the Holocaust survivors through his interviews using memories as a tool of relating what happened in the past.             This paper also explains the narrative film of Steven Spielberg…

We have all heard “The Ugly Duckling” when we were kids. My mom would read me the story every night until I soon memorized the whole thing. Till this day it is still my favorite fairytale story. I have done some research about the story to inform people about the facts behind “The Ugly Duckling”….

Shakespeare’s Hamlet challenges the reader or director to independently analyze and bring to life what they perceive to be Hamlet’s tragic flaw. Various arguments can be made and dismantled by referring to quotes and actions from the text, as well as one’s own interpretation. Ultimately, the focus is not on determining Hamlet’s specific tragic flaw,…

‘Hero’ is a word used so loosely in popular culture that it almost seems to have lost all definition. In most movies and adolescent books, young people are taught that essentially any main character, despite existing faults, would automatically be classified as a hero, as would most characters on the established “good side.” It is…

Friar Lawrence was the man who gave the potion of seaming death to Juliet, but when we look more into depth that was not his only fault, It was Friar Lawrence?s fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet as he had prematurely married the couple after just a day of meeting each other as…

“I want to be useful or give pleasure to people around me who yet don’t really know me. I want to go on living even after my death!” – Anne Frank The Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl, which was posthumously published in 1947, is one of the most widely read book in the…

Perfection is highly sought after in society, leading people to invest in various methods such as dieting plans, training regimens, and plastic surgery. The goal is to achieve physical perfection, such as a slim waist or an attractive nose. However, no one is without flaws. Even if someone alters their appearance to what they perceive…

Society is nothing but a corrupter of the individual and the captor of man’s thoughts, at least this is what transcendentalists believe. In his work, “Self-Reliance,” famous transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson dissects this philosophy, and explains what society specifically does to entrap its members, how they can escape it, and discover who they are as…

Thesis Statement             Hunger, pain, shame, and sufferings had been endured by enslaved men during antebellum period, what more women could get as they were always as helpless and weak as they have been. Introduction             Irregardless of gender differences, there would be no horrific experience in someone’s life than taking away one’s freedom especially…

Sharon M. Draper captures the life of an average teen through the realest form of unreality exceptionally well. November Blues tells the story of November Nelson and Jericho Prescott after a horrible accident at their school. November Nelson is an average 16-year-old social butterfly in high school; she had a “perfect” life, a devoted boyfriend,…