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1939) emphasizes honesty verses falsehood. Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) has great honor and he upholds his integrity. Smith is always in constant danger because he lets his honesty take over. Fallacy and lies manipulate Smith’s integrity to…

camp for the Marines. You come into it from your civilized life, they subject you to violent language until you're numb, they abuse you verbally and physically until all of your normal feelings and values are reduced to dust. Leaving you aware that…

Neil in Dead Poets Society is a good example of a tragic hero. He is a character that is controlled by his passionate nature and by an insatiable desire to act in the theatre, against the wishes of his authoritative father. Neil is portrayed…

Military Comparing Hamburger Hill to Platoon More than ten years after the end of the Vietnam War, two movies were released that showed differing opinions about how the war was fought. Hamburger Hill and Platoon were released during the glory…

written by giant of Russian literature count Leo Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy, the son of Count Nicholas Tolstoy, was born in 1828 at the family estate Yasnaya Polyana about 100 miles south of Moscow. His greatest novel War and Peace was published in 1869,…

Walker Introduction- Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare most famous plays. In English class we have started the novel. But before we did that we watched the latest version of the play on video and we watched the first scene of an old version.…

Sam Mendes and released in 1999. It is a story about a father who is going through a midlife crisis and making everybody close to him want to see him dead. He sees what he is doing to everybody but all he wants to do now is live before he dies. One…

nineties. This is a movie of betrayal, money, sex, lies, videotape, and yada yada yada. No, seriously, this is an excellent movie. This is why I picked this movie for my major critique. This movie is coming from the point of view of Sam (Robert…

movies. In Hitchcock's Psycho, violence is brought out as a substitute for sexuality. Norman Bates uses violence to release his sexual frustration. Two clues in the movie to support such an idea are: taxidermy and the shower murder. To…

atmospheric stories, and working honestly with deeply felt themes about the role of the dead in our lives, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has followed up last year's touching Wide Awake with an even better film about a boy in the grip of loss and…