...In the film, Don't Look Back, the documentary starring Bob Dylan, we see both the dark and enlightening sides of Bob Dylan. throughout the film it’s clear that Dylan has a level of comfort with the director, and as a result we are allowed into his personal life on and off stage. there are also a few moments of ambiguity and some highlights in the film that indirectly give us a sense of ageism, sexism and cultural values. The directors craft helps tie these together in a way that is appealing to the audience and can be drawn back to David R. Shumways’ of that era. First I’d like to analyze my impression of the film. Before the film I knew of Bob Dylan, his music, his legacy. I was under the impression that Dylan fell into the category of mellow pot smokers or “stoners” of the midsixties who were heavily involved in politics and current events. Then having heard a few of his songs, I thought, “wow this guy really wants the best for our society”. With that in mind, I also believed Bob Dylans personality would be sort of gentle and affectionate. Dont Look Back pretty much challenged all point of views. Dylan gets into a lot of conflict throughout the film. There are several moments, when we are unsure if Dylan is being civil or argumentative with people. Although, we do get a glimpse at Bob Dylans sensitive side, we are preoccupied by his radical actions throughout the film. The introduction to the documentary, is a flashback into Bob Dylan's career, showing his origins ...
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...The Life and Music of the original Angry Young Man On May 8th 1956, Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre as the third production of the newly formed English Stage Company. It was viewed as a play that would provide a euphoric blow to the customary and old English theatre. The changes in popular culture between 1950 and 1960 in Britain have been called a “cultural revolution”. Whatever was revolutionary about this era must have some bearing on both the genesis and reception of the ground-breaking play Look Back in Anger, by John Osborne. Appearing in the middle of the decade Osborne's drama initiated the cultural moment of the Angry Young Man. Precisely which young men were angry at this time and why are questions that lead back to this concept of the Cultural Revolution. Understanding Osborne's Jimmy Porter, the original Angry Young Man can take the researcher away from literary culture and deep into British popular culture. The cultural revolution of the 50s can be constituted with permissiveness, cosmopolitanism, new class attitudes and youth, each of which is manifested by distinctive artefacts such as cinema, popular music, the daily papers and other texts that surrounded the ordinary person on an ordinary working day. These four areas encompass the change in social attitudes and behaviour between the end of post-war austerity and the onset of world recession in the 1970s. By the end of this time, British society dressed differently, ate differently...
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...Back in Anger (Plays, Penguin) (Paperback) "Look Back in Anger", first performed at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1956, is often cited as marking a theatrical revolution. The British theatre of the early fifties, dominated by playwrights like Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan, was widely regarded as genteel, well-mannered and middle- class. John Osborne's play can be seen as a deliberate reaction against those values. Its plot is conventional enough. It centres around the stormy marriage of a young couple, Jimmy and Alison Porter, who separate after a series of quarrels. Unknown to Jimmy, Alison is pregnant at the time, and he starts a relationship with her best friend Helena, an actress. Six months later Alison, having lost her baby, returns, and Helena ends her affair with Jimmy so as to allow the couple to be reunited. What was shocking about the play was its social setting and the attitudes displayed by the characters, especially Jimmy. He is from a working-class family and, although he has a university degree, has turned his back on the sort of well- paid white-collar job that such an educational background would normally have led to in the fifties, working as a trader in the local market, running a sweet stall with his friend Cliff. He and Alison, with Cliff as a lodger, live in a dingy bed-sit in a large Midlands town. Alison herself is from the wealthy upper middle classes (her father is a retired Indian Army officer)...
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...Feminist perspective in 'Look Back in anger' Any text from Feminist perspective should: 1) Depict equality between men and women on social level 2) It must make an attempt to validate the nature of the woman, the essence of a woman as distinguished from the nature of a man 3) In religious undertones and overtones , accept woman as being equal to men 4) Depict woman in the text seen as equal by the other characters and reader alike John Osborn’s play ‘Look Back in anger’ is not in any way close to a feminist movement infact it’s more a misogynistic work of art and works in opposite manner of what feminism states. One of the most prominent depictions of the belittling of a woman happens when Jimmy tells Alison that the only way she could be a human would be to suffer. Many times throughout the text Jimmy refuses to recognize Alison's nature of being a woman and states that she is not even a human being. Jimmy has taken away Alison's identity of even being a person. Jimmy’s extreme language specially in his depiction of the ways in which he wishes Alison’s mother would die, seem to suggest that the play harbours a deep distrust for women. Although Helena and Allison, the two female characters are not feminists in any way or manner, there are some glimpses of ‘hope’ of feminism in them, for they do TRY and break free from patriarchal and ‘accepted’ notions of identity and replace it with free and lasting identity created by self, Something Allison manages to do when...
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...A look back at "Salvation" by Langston Hughes Our story begins like many other stories with a setting, main character, and a catchy introduction. Like many other stories it attracts the reader’s attention with something vague, making the person reading the story want to continue on further into the piece. This reading is like many other’s which portray real life situations, and show a different culture coming from a first person point of view. In the story, the main character, Langston, is a young boy who seems to be going through a common religious ritual that is normally bestowed upon young people when they reach a certain age in what seems to be a different sort of society. At this age, young people are asked, or maybe better yet, told to believe in God, and only then will these children be able to achieve pure "salvation." This is highly evident within the first paragraph where the author writes, "Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, "to bring the young lambs to the fold"" (Hughes 1). It is during these ceremonies that Langston feels that he has almost committed a crime for which his sins will never be forgiven. Throughout the reading, the author explains the process that these young children are put through during a ritualistic ceremony. The process according to the author is the path to righteousness, or the way to God. “My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light, and something happened to you inside! And Jesus came...
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...As far as I know i'm pretty sure that i wasn’t too bad when I was back in kindergarten. Not to say that I was a golden child that listened to every direction said my way, but I wasn’t a nuisance. That is until I got to first grade. First grade is the grade where my class clown tendencies began. This is where I used to do what I now view as stupid but back then viewed as cool things just to get a laugh out of my classmates. I was very disruptive in class and didn’t follow too many directions. You could've called me a problem child or a sort of rebel to be completely honest. When I look back on those early years of my school education I can’t figure why I acted like such a brat. Teachers viewed me as the student that was very bright but would...
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...A 5 years old boy finds himself sheltered by his father when his father carries him on his back in the 2 kilometers road back home in the night and tells him softly "I am ok", despite he fell off because of a pot-hole in the road An 8 years old son couldn’t feel the brave expectation from his father when he tells him " Lost in a fight, still crying? Next time don't cry after a fight, remember?" An 8 years old can remember forever a simple spelling lesson he was given by his father after reading his essay "People don't use "and" after a comma, you know?" A 12 years old son takes many years later to fully understand the lesson his father gave him when he play balls and lost. His father doesn’t mind giving him money to continue playing until he wins in a match. But he lost finally. His father waits until the evening and tells him "You should know when to stop. Don't just play when you feel you can" A 13 years old boy takes long time to know how psycho his father was when he want his son to have a close girl friend. When he finds out, the chance has lost. A 14 years old son knows that men can cry when he sees his father crying, but why his father cry is the thing he keeps in his mind secretly. A every ages boy can know he is everything to his father when he see his father proud of him everywhere, every time, despite with his immaturity thinking, he knows he is just a normal boy like other boys The biggest lesson about heartless...
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...ceremony of the DSU-MBA Course in Vietnam. It’s already 10 years since 2010. Time really flies! Looking back on the last 10 years, I am so happy with the all the wonderful achievements I had and the right decisions I made for my life. The first major milestone would be my MBA degree in 2012. The program itself provided me not only a range of new skills and business knowledge, but more importantly a “bigger picture” understanding, a different view on the world, which I found very helpful in all the jobs I have been doing until now. The degree also played an important part in the evolution of my career. After six years working at Cisco, an IT company, I moved to Ford Motor as the Marketing Manager in 2013 with a total new business environment in a consumer market. My following 4 years in Ford gave me opportunities to further practice the skills I learnt from this MBA course, especially the strategic thinking and leadership skill. The second key achievement I made was the decision to open my very own business, “Gam Restaurant” in 2017. I still remember the early days with a lot of challenges and how difficult it was for me to decide to leave a multinational company for this private business. I have learnt many good lessons along the way to bring the restaurant become one of the best choice of Vietnamese food in town and then to open the 2nd “Gam Restaurant” today. A look back to the past 03 years, I think my biggest “secret” is “Passion”. Passion for the good, passion to learn...
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...Roman Holiday PART 1 ROMAN HOLIDAY TRANSCRIBED BY Graham (hepburn@unforgettable.com) (A newsreel begins:) --PARAMOUNT NEWS-- NEWS FLASH (A commentator describes the newsreel showing Princess Ann at several ceremonies in various European locations.) NEWSREEL Paramount News brings you a special coverage of Princess Ann's visit to London, the first stop on her much publicised goodwill tour of European capitals. She gets a royal welcome from the British as thousands cheer the gracious young member of one of Europe's oldest ruling families. After three days of continuous activity and a visit to Buckingham Palace, Ann flew to Amsterdam where Her Royal Highness dedicated the new International Aid Building and christened an ocean liner. Then went to Paris where she attended many official functions designed to cement trade relations between her country and the Western European nations. And so to Rome, the eternal city, where the Princess' visit was marked by a spectacular military parade highlighted by the band of the crack Piersa Yeri Regiment. The smiling young Princess showed no sign of the strain of the week's continuous public appearances. And at her country's embassy that evening, a formal reception and ball in her honor was given by her country's ambassador to Italy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (The Embassy ballroom. People fill the floor of the room. A fanfare sounds. The Master of Ceremonies appears and the people...
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...conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the benefit of supporting details, and shows how the point of the essay was made. It’s important for students to learn how to write a conclusion that finishes the work of the essay, and supports the main claim. ... Read More »The conclusion of an essay is as important as the introduction, with the two paragraphs considered the essay’s figurative “bookends.” While the first paragraph introduces the topic and makes a claim, the conclusion of an essay looks back at the claim with the...
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...echo in the room. Rustling is heard as the interviewer settles in. Jason looks up. Jason is in full stormtrooper armor, helmet missing. The rank insignia of Lieutenant over his left breast. His hair clean and cut. [Cut to a close-up of the table, the interviewer in the background out of focus; her head will not be within the frame limits] The interviewer sets a recording device in the middle of the table, light reflects from its metallic surface revealing her face. She sits back in her seat. (She wears a grayish business suit, hair tied up) [Cut to perspective view of Jason, camera will be to his front and left] Jason adjusts himself in the chair as to make himself a little more presentable. He glares at the interviewer, then to the recorder, then back to her with a glare. (Jason however is not trying to come across as upset or angry. His defense mechanism is to look like a stone wall from prior training.) prior Imperial service Interviewer: "Okay, your name please?" [Scene cuts to interviewer in the background, Jason in the foreground] Interviewer sits formally holding a datapad on her knee, her legs crossed. [Cut back to Jason.] Jason: "My name is TK-98--" (Interviewer cuts him off) Interviewer: "No... What is your real name." Jason adjusts in his chair again attempting to get comfortable but never succeeding and clears his throat. [Scene cuts to the side of Jason's face as he looks...
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...is a look at the different undercut men hairstyles; Short on sides long on top This is supposedly the most common style, whereby, the sides will be short enough. There will be a section that divides the sides and the top. The hair fades from the top of the head, down to the ears. On the other hand, the top section is longer, and it will not necessarily need styling. Medium top With this style, the sides are trimmed off, and the top has a medium-sized hair length. It will also...
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...whole, the eye is passionate and wild. FADE TO BLACK. INT. SARAH’S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT SARAH HENSON, 18, tosses aside some brown wrapping paper and a red ribbon as she sits cross-legged on the white carpeted floor, leaning back against the bottom portion of a brown leather sofa. She holds the PAINTING of the eye. SARAH Oh my god. Chris- It’s wonderful! Her brown bangs fall across her face, hiding her left eye. She sweeps them away to continue inspecting the painting. CHRIS TAYLOR, 18, is lying on the floor across from her, stretched out on his side. His brown hoody has specks and smears of dried paint on it. So do his black jeans. One knee is shredded, and the other is just beginning to follow suit. CHRIS Well, it is yours. The eye, I mean. Sarah smiles to herself as she gazes at the painting. SARAH It’s a bit weird though isn’t it? I mean, my eye hanging on a wall somewhere, staring at me forev- CHRIS I never said you had to keep it. Sarah looks up at him, her mouth cracked in surprise, and her slim eyebrows raised. He avoids her glance by plucking at the stray white carpet fibers and then smoothing them back down. SARAH What? CHRIS I dunno. You just haven’t been all that into my stuff for a while. For a split second, Sarah looks guilty. Chris doesn’t notice. Then she narrows her eyes at him and smiles. SARAH C’mon you. Sarah jumps up with the painting. Chris gets up and follows. INT. SARAH’S KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS Sarah walks over the black-and-white...
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...downstairs; I take one more look at my choice of outfit before going to the kitchen and eating my breakfast. "Where's dad?" I look up at my mum to see her over happy face, how can she be so happy about this? "He's gone to work; a different job means a different schedule." I don't question anymore as I finish my food, kiss my mum and little sister and run out the door. I get to school and head to the principal’s office, the woman at the desk lets me in and the principal stares me down. "Welcome Scarlet, here is you new class schedule, I have also assigned a buddy to help you get around the school." Before I know what's happening I'm out the office and facing a boy a little taller than me. "Hey." Man I'm awkward around new people, he doesn't look up as he whispers a small hello and walks off. I run after him and silently follow into a class room, he sits down and I get the feeling he doesn't like me. Too bad, the only open seat is next to him, I walk over and the teacher starts talking about random stuff. As the teachers going on and on I decide its best to at least have my 'buddy' half like me, so I write a note and slide it over to him, luckily he has a look and writes back. Me: what's your name? Him: Ben, yours? Me: Scarlet. Him: like red. Me: yeah, call me red if you want. Him: really? Cool, hey red. Me: hey Ben. Have I done anything wrong or offended you in any way? Him: no, why? Me: you looked like you didn't want to know me back there. Him: well, I thought...
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...friend; the one who she knew could make her smile one last time. As she sat and thought about what to say she picked her phone up and started to dial and he phone begins to ring. ‘Ring ring’ “Hey what’s up?” “Hey Nate, its Genesis.” “What’s up Boo.” Genesis smiles at the sound of him calling her boo. “Can we talk for a couple minutes?” “Ya boo what’s up you sound like your upset.” “I wish I could tell you what’s going through my mind.” “Boo talk to me you know I’ll always be here to listen and talk to you.” “I know and that’s why I love having you around.” Genesis looks down and knows that he can tell something is wrong. For a couple minutes the phone has an odd silence. She hears a door close outside. She gets up and looks out the window and there is Nate sitting on the hood of his car. Genesis heads down the stairs and runs over to Nate into his arms. Nate looks down and sees the tears in her eyes. “Boo what’s wrong?” Genesis hugs him and whispers “everything!” Nate lifts her face up so he can see her face and softly says, “Nothing is Boo you’re safe and loved and that won’t ever change.” Genesis just smiles and knows that he does love and care about her. Nate and Genesis start talking about things and moments that they had done and saw together. Nate recalls the day they really started talking. “Remember the day that you and I first came started really talking. You were the quiet one over on the couch that stayed quiet. You looked so...
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