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Treatment - Film review.
Treatment This film is revolved around Mr Abbas who is trying to get revenge from his Boss, who previously has fired him due to his aggressive behaviour. In a previous meeting the boss was told to fire him because he caused physical damage to the night watch man but he doesn't do that instead gives him a last chance to sort out his behaviour, which he doesn't. Mr Abbas gets fired for doing the right thing. Mr Abbas catches a co-worker stealing from a very good customer; instead of taking him to the Boss he takes matters into his own hands and beats him black and blue. When he gets fired he is over come with anger and wants to take revenge. He does this by designing a robbery. As he has previously worked in the Bank Mr Abbas knows all the banks security measures. He plans the robbery in a very systematic way. Instead of picking few people to help him he chooses to handpick 3 blind men to help him. He achieves this goal by advertising in the newspaper for blind school training. Mr Abbas gets the entire idea of using blind men to help him do the robbery when he spots few men climbing on top of each other forming a triangle. When he goes closer to see what is going on he sees this beautiful female named Star who is instructing them. When the men get safely down he asks her why was she telling them what to do she replies "They are blind". When he hears this he gets shocked and
Brave New World- Style and Technique Analysis
Takala Soma for the Savages: An Full Novel Analysis of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Siobhan Takala English AP 20, Period 1 Holy Cross High School Mr. Hodson December 3rd 2011 Karl Marx once said, “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people”. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a utopia that has come to completely rely on technology to run their world. This advanced and civilized world has made living thoughtless. Citizens look to Henry Ford as a deity and the years are based off the making of the Model T. Children are produced on an assembly line and are chemically balanced to fit a specific social class in society. There are five classes in the brave new world: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. To dehumanize citizens even further they take a drug, called soma, to relieve any pain, emotional or physical, in their lives. Through Huxley’s style, technique, and structure he accurately portrays a brainless society in which humanity has been replaced with constant technological advances. Huxley uses many techniques in his novel to help support his theme of humanity being superseded by technology. One of the most important techniques is irony. There are examples of it throughout the whole novel. Huxley also uses point of view, illusions, and allusions to display his theme. He uses these literary techniques to
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How does the film WITNESS show the clash between Amish culture and modern American culture?
How does the film WITNESS show the clash between Amish culture and modern American culture? ''Witness'' is a modern thriller that tells the story of John Book, a Philadelphia cop whose life is altered while trying to help Rachel, an Amish woman, and her son Samuel, who witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia train station bathroom. After discovering that a member of his force committed the murder, Book travels to Lancaster County with Rachel and Samuel and poses as a member of the Amish community to hide from his murderous police peers. While there, love blooms between Rachel and Book, and he finds himself drawn in by the honesty and simplicity of the old-world Amish lifestyle. The Amish are a North American Protestant group of Mennonite origin. The Amish have maintained a distinctive and conservative agricultural way of life despite the influences of modern industrial society. The most conservative Amish are known as Old Order Amish. They dress in a severely plain style, using hooks and eyes instead of buttons. They ride in horse-drawn traps instead of cars, and the adult males are bearded. Other Amish groups are milder in discipline and less set apart from the world. All share the practice of believer's, or adult, baptism and often refuse to take part in civil affairs, such as voting or serving in the armed forces. I will chronologically go through the events of the film,
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Miller attempts to create an outright contrast between the two protagonists - Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor. Examine how he has established this dichotomy character, and what does it add to the dramatic quality and audiences involvement in the play. In this essay I will be writing about Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible", particularly about the two women, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Proctor, and how they are absolute opposites. I would like to discuss how this affects the play and how this allows a more modern audience to follow and relate to this play. These days, most people, do not actually believe in witches and witchcraft which can make it hard for a modern audience, like me, to follow and understand some of the actions and reactions of certain people in the play. That is why Miller has added this affair between Abigail and John so modern audiences can understand different aspects of the play. To make this play even more dramatic, Miller makes Abigail and Elizabeth completely different physically, mentally and in their beliefs about religion and life. Elizabeth in the play stands as this mother, homemaker figure whereas Abigail stands for youth, heat, passion, emotional and mischievous. Abigail is this young girl or child, "(gently pressing her from him, with great sympathy but firmly): Child -", who lives on emotions, who is independent, but still willing
Paying particular attention to two or more sequences, explore how successfully Costner has portrayed civilization and savagery in the video Dances with Wolves
Paying particular attention to two or more sequences, explore how successfully Costner has portrayed civilization and savagery in the video "Dances with Wolves". We started off by watching the video ''Dances with wolves''. The plot of this story is of an American soldier who got posted to a camp but on his arrival there was no one in sight. John Dumbar still set up camp and waited, and he started his diary. He befriended a wolf, which he named Twosocks and he became friends with an Indian tribe The Sioux. The Indians saw John Dumbar dancing with the wolf one day and as he became a trusted friend they gave him the name of ''Dances with wolves''. One of the sequences that caught my eye which portrayed civilization and savagery is the killing of Twosocks by the soldiers, Kevin Costner has made this sequence very long so that it would make a bigger impact on you and in the way you see the American army. They use Twosocks as a shooting target, they do not under stand that the wolf wants to be near Dances with wolves out of instinctive loyalty. Prior to this sequence John Dumbar had gone back to his camp to find that the soldiers have arrived, and because Dumbar has exchanged some of his clothing as gifts and he has received some back he is mistaken as an Indian and shot off his horse. When the soldiers run up to Dumbar and realise that he is a soldier, they take him into the
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Stories: Healing and Sharing The story can act to heal those have been injured by personal violence or social injustice. Often traumatic acts are "unspeakable" because those acts are so terrible that it clamps the tongue and subsequently the victim suffers a pain so great that the inexpressibility, the inadequacy of representation, grows and locks the sufferer inside of their suffering. By having their stories told, victims begin to feel empowered again because events where they were once powerless are being re-created. Although events cannot be erased, the act of recollecting and of telling both aid people to process and move beyond pain. Zora Neal Hurston's Mules and Men (year) and Anzaldúa's Borderlands (year) are creative and potent cross-cultural examples of such medicinal storytelling, serving to redefine and yet preserve the people they re-represent. Trinh Min-ha's Native Woman Other (year) speaks of the marginalized, woman storyteller, recognizing the power of stories as integral to healing. The complex process of healing differs for everybody, but storytelling holds prescriptive elements that promote people to move beyond their wounds. According to Trinh Minh-ha, "the principle of healing rests on reconciliation, hence the necessity for the family and/or community to participate... witness the recovery" (140). Within narrative, I have identified three functions