...Dead man * Dead man (1995) * Genre: Drama fantasy western * Director : Jim Jarmusch * WritteR: Jim Jarmusch * Cinematography: robby muller * Editing : Jay rabinowitz * Music: Neil young * Starring : Johnny depp- Gary farmer PLOT Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told by the factory owner Dickinson (Robert Mitchum) that the job has already been filled.Jobless,hopeless and without money,blake meets a former prostitute called Thel Russell (Mili Avital), who sells flower papers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) surprises them in bed and shoots Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. the wounded Blake shoots and kills Charlie with Thel's gun before climbing bewilderedly out the window and fleeing Machine on a stolen pinto. Company-owner Dickinson, the father of Charlie, hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson (Lance Henriksen), Conway Twill (Michael Wincott) , and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett (Eugene Byrd) to hunt Blake as the murderer of his son and Thel, although he seems to care most about recovering the stolen horse. Blake then finds himself below a big american indian guy (Gary farmer) who is attempting to remove the bullet from his chest. the Indian guy called himself Nobody reveals to him that the bullet is too close to...
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...Tovarisches, General Konspiriskiy notified me of a most troubling and subversive ditty making its rounds of AlGore's, aka the People's, Internet. It is sung to the tune of "She's Lump": "Barack, Barack, Barack, He is The One, To re-distrib-ute wealth, he sure has fun! He wants to destroy our society, Every rule and reg fills his ble-eak soul with glee, He's destroyed our country's fiscal health While stealing every hard working man and woman's wealth Barack, Barack, gutsy and bold; Ruin the healthcare industry is the goal, If you're over 50 hate to burst your bubble; If you get sick and need a doc, you're not worth the trouble Barack, Barack, he'll make a car, Kludged together by 50,000 czars, It'll run on rainbows and unicorn farts; Only trouble is it can't even start Barack, Barack, he's got the power But not enough to run your heater for an hour; He promised energy prices would skyrocket, And you can't pay for anything with your empty pockets! Barack, in '12, tell him no way, But he'll declare an emergency and he will stay! And that's all the Repubicans have to say about that!" UGH! I am so righteously and equally disgusted that I must take a shower after cutting and pasting that filth into my message form. Excuse me tovarisches... ...Praise The One, I am better now due to the cleansing power of the Party shower He has beneficently provided me with. On with the message... ALERT to all People's Cube (PC) tovarisches: Find the dirty...
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...December 17, 2010 What scene or image from the film stood out to you? Why? The film Dead Man Walking is a very powerful motion picture, one that captures the most natural and deep aspects of the human spirit. Throughout this film there are many powerful scenes. What is most powerful about this film is its ability to evoke thoughts of love and sympathy, for both innocent people and savage killers. Sister Helen exemplifies what it means to be a caring individual throughout this film, and Matthew Poncelet shows why even humans who have done the gravest wrongs are still capable of change, and deserve their dignity. Of all the scenes in Dead Man Walking, the most powerful is the resolution to the film’s conflict, the execution. When preparing for his death in his jail cell, Matthew Poncelet confesses to Sister Helen that he in fact was guilty of rape and murder. The closing scene begins when he is being led by guards into the execution room. Matthew asks for permission for Sister Helen to touch him, and it is granted so. Sister walks with him, reading to him from the Bible. He tells Sister that he is not afraid, and that he knows he is going to be in a better place. Sister tells him that the truth has set him free. At this point, the emotional power this scene carries begin. A man, though about to die, has found comfort in what a nun has preached to him. He has taken faith on the way to his death. The next dramatic part of this scene is when the curtain to the execution room...
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...Not Living Dead If there is one thing that has remained true throughout the time of all human existence, it is that we all must die. However, there are sometimes moments in our lives when we encounter people who are perfectly alive, but could also be characteristically described as dead. In James Joyce’s “The Dead”, we encounter Gabriel who has an epiphany that is considered gloomy on a night that has historically always been “a great affair” (178). In reading about Gabriel’s epiphany, it has served as a sort of warning to me personally, that it is important to take the time out to really enjoy the ununiformed parts of life. The lesson is a warning against working so hard that I wake up one day to find myself dead inside, thus becoming a part of the living dead. Gabriel is a man who considers himself intelligent, in fact, more intelligent than the other guests at the party, and this is further evidenced, as he studied his speech and considered changing parts of it to accommodate those who may not understand his Robert Browning references. “He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers” (180). The setting of the story begins at an annual party that his aunts and cousin host, and then veers off to a lonely night in a hotel room. The contrast of the settings is interesting because at the party, Gabriel appears to be this intelligent, comedic guy who his aunts deem important as they felt that he was the perfect...
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...Is the death penalty a true punishment for terrible crimes? Being executed is not a real punishment for a terrible crime, such as a murder. There is an old expression that says, "You do the crime, you pay the time." Being killed for a crime does not allow a person to pay the time and realize how awful their action was. The court is actually doing many criminals a favor by executing them. As if men and women with life sentences were asked if they would rather be in jail for life or put to death, a great number of them would probably say they want to die. With a life sentence, a prisoner has to live with knowing that he or she ruined his or her own life with one wrong decision. Every criminal that is put to death has some family or friends they leave behind. Those close to a criminal should not have to suffer the consequences of the offender’s wrong-doing Socrates, in his conviction from the Athenian Jury, was both innocent and guilty as charged. In Plato's Five Dialogues, accounts of events ranging from just prior to Socrates entry into the courthouse up until his taste of hemlock, both points are stand for. Socrates in dealing with moral law was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of by Meletus. Socrates was only guilty as charged because his peers had concluded him as such. The laws didn't find Socrates guilty; Socrates was guilty because his jurors forced the laws. The commandment couldn't put in force itself. Socrates was accused of humiliating Athen childhood, not believing...
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...Kaitlyn Simpson W0436017 Dr. Gibson English 231-04 Archaic Lore in “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” and “The Dead” Intro: Id texts and subject. Thesis: D.H. Lawerence and James Joyce use archaic lore in their stories “The Horse Dealers Daughter”, and “The Dead”. Storytakes place in English midlands, four sibling late 20’s sittng around family home. -- D. H. Lawrence’s stories have the sense that they’re ritualistic; his rough home life. He had a God awful dysfunctional family. His mom and dad were polar opposites which caused them to Fight battle through the kids. In early 20’s he got ill, and diagnosis 100 years ago tuberculosis. It was incurable then. . He knew he was dying therefore he decided he wouldn’t waste what he had. He sought out the things that were really important. A deeper meaning in life “savage pilgrimage,” he traveled around the world. He was looking for the power spots. One of the things he realized was there were also power centers within everyone of us. All over the planet ancient patterns that play out over and over. In D. H. Lawrences’ writings he explains a very archaic belief--that there are energy vortices within all of us. These power centers are located in our spiritual bodies, and are known as “chakras”. But as Lawrence explains, in most of us, there is a tremendous imbalance in the way the chakras are activated, and this imbalance causes various problems, neuroses, and complexes in our lives. In “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” D.H. Lawrence...
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...HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde The prince in the story is no living prince. He is the statue of a dead prince decorated with gold leaves and precious stones. He is known as the Happy Prince because there is a smile on his lips. But the smile gradually gives way to tears. The Happy Prince cannot help crying over the scenes of misery in the houses of the poor. He decides to help them with his gold leaves and costly stones. The little swallow acts as his messenger, and he gives away all his wealth. The Swallow was on his way back to his homeland when the prince had detained him to help the poor. He still wished to go back but now it was too late. The intense cold killed him. Thus the little swallow lost his life in helping the poor. His death broke the prince’s heart. So the swallow and the prince perished for a noble cause. But their death was not the end. It made them immortal. That is why the angel selected the dead swallow and the lifeless heart of the prince as the noblest things on earth. Haircut by Ring Lardner The narrator of the story is the town barber, who talks about a man by the name of Jim Kendall. Jim was a man who played cruel pranks on children and adults. Jim goes hunting with a 10-year old mentally handicapped child. When it is discovered that Jim was shot, many people in the town believed that it was an accident, although the author of the story indicates that the shooting was planned by the child, who had been tormented by Jim and wanted to get revenge...
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...the reader is aware that a death has just occurred, “Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come,” (l 4). This understanding, as well as the desire to stop or prevent noise alerts the reader that the poem is going to be depressing. However, the poem involves two deaths instead of one, “Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead/ Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,” (l 5-6). The capitalization of the words “He Is Dead” grasps the reader’s attention. He is generally capitalized when referring to God without saying His name. Also, the fact that it contrasts to the popular statement “He Is Risen” gives light on the statement’s connotation. Other connotations that arise in the poem are when the speaker is stating what the dead meant to him/her, “He was my North, my South, my East and West,/ My working week and my Sunday rest, /My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song,/ I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong,” (l 9-12). The remark that the dead man was everywhere to the speaker resembles the idea that God is everywhere. The statement that the deceased was the speaker’s Sunday rest as well as his/her working week also gives note to religious concepts. The idea that one should rest on Sundays, the Sabbath, as well as attend church makes God the sole purpose of...
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...September 29, 1955 a man by the name of Phillip Citroen told a former member of his base that while he was working for a railroad company, he had met an individual who strongly resembled and claimed to be Adolf Hitler. Citroen had met this individual at a place called "Residencies Coloniales" in Tunja, Colombia. Citroen also showed his coworkers an picture of him and the alleged Hitler. This image was borrowed for a few hours to be reproduced, but unfortunately the negatives were too poor to be copied, and the photo was returned and was no longer easily gainable again. There has been many counts of German Nazi soldiers that have used dead soldiers that looked similar to themselves and dressed them with their clothing to make it seem as if they were dead and escaped to South America, many believe that Hitler did this same thing. But the Soviets and then the Russian Federation claim to have the remains of Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun. But...
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...Magic Realism in Francis’s Journey to the Past In the novel Ironweed by William Kennedy, the protagonist, Francis Phelan, is constantly trying to escape his past. He leaves the town he lives in to avoid dealing with problems and decisions he made years before. Unfortunately for Francis, a man named William Faulkner once said “the past is not dead. In fact, it is not even the past.” Many people go through life not realizing how much the past truly does affect them. However, running from the past is inevitable and will always find its way back into one’s life. One can see how William Kennedy used magic realism by making the living and the dead coexist. Not only did the dead walk among the living, but they were able to converse with one another. Francis’ infant son, Gerald, was only thirteen days old when he accidentally slipped out of his diaper. When the baby hit the linoleum floor, he broke his neck bone and died. Francis only drank a few beers when he dropped the child and he never forgave himself for the death of his baby boy. The memory haunted him and eventually led to Francis’ fleeing of the town. Years later, he returns and finds himself a job working at a cemetery. When he approaches Gerald’s grave, the memories from his past hit him hard. He talks to the grass and shows the deep sympathy and guilt that he feels. Kennedy uses elements of magic realism by allowing Francis to express his emotions with Gerald and by giving Gerald the ability to respond back. Oddly enough...
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...Sarah Fiore Mr. Hallmark English Comp 1 3/18/2014 Source Summary Living to Work Sayers, Dorothy, Living to Work. Dorothy Sayers was displaying her views on the working people of the world as she sees it. She believes that out of all these people there are only two groups to be classified in; the people who live to work and the people who work to live. Her purpose in writing this was to convey how she feels about the much divided classes of work. The theme of this essay is the attitude the masses have towards work in the modern era. The work to live group hates the mundane jobs they occupy while the other group, the living to work category, love the occupation they chose for they are able to gain a sense of completion from their crafts. In class we are focusing on the future jobs that we have in mind and the life that will be a head of us. In this story we are able to see two different types of work and taking that into consideration apply that to what we have planned for ourselves. Do we want to take a career for money, love or convince? My first thoughts during and after reading were that this author believed there to be no grey lines. That there are the ones that hate and the ones that love their work. That the society sees a successful job as one that makes one wealthy, not one that that being moral comfort. That the world has become obsessed with the idea of success being something that gains money or fame, not something that will help others directly or works...
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...John Ford’s The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is one of the greatest American films ever made, and certainly John Ford’s best, the only challenger to this title potentially being the quintessential western inversion, The Searchers. Many would classify The Man who Shot Liberty Valance as a western, and they, at first glance, would be correct to assume so: John Wayne, a gun fight, and a setting of the western territories. At further watchings, however, one can clearly see that The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is lacks the devices defining a film as a western, and shows the death of the “John Ford Western”: this is shown through the setting, the shots, and the overall plot and theme of the film. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is about Ransom...
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...Three Principles of Faith Beneficial to Life In a recent study of Jewish faith the class of religion from Strayers University found out that they had thirteen principles. With the religion professor instructions the class increasingly discover new things about the different kinds of religions and beliefs. One of the things that the class professor asked was to identify themselves with three of this principles and indicate how they could apply them to their lives. Soon students began working on their assignments for that week. The student who is writing this article, had an encounter with her own faith. The student did not have any credibility in the Jewish faith. She was surprised to see how this religion resembled to the belief that she was taught by her parents, but that teaching had not too much substantial validity for her either. Science and knowledge sometimes destroy faith. This was a task she had to do, so she forced herself to apply these principles to her life in one way or another. For her, there was no doubt of the existence of a Creator, so the principle number one was not so difficult for her to choose. The other two were not that easy. The next thing she chose was the principle number eleven, that was the belief in a divine reward and retribution and the other one was number thirteen, that was the belief in the resurrection after death (Maimonides, 2013). Here is explained in more detail how this controversial paradox made sense in the distinguished...
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... 7th Seven years after the death of his business partner Jacob Marley, a man named Ebenezer Scrooge is working in his office. He hates happiness, love, family, generosity, Christmas, and probably also puppies. When his nephew Fred invites him over to Christmas dinner, Scrooge yells at him and rejects. Scrooge then tells off the people collecting charity donations, and grumbles and complains that the fact that his clerk Bob Cratchit gets a paid day off for Christmas. That night, he is haunted by Marley's ghost, which warns Scrooge that the dead who led bad lives are forced to roam around and not be at peace. The ghost also claims that three other ghosts are going to appear to Scrooge, and leaves after telling Scrooge to change his life before it's too late. Scrooge changes, but sure enough he soon get a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past. This spirit takes him on a tour of his childhood memories and Scrooge quickly starts crying when he remembers himself as a neglected boy. The past also features scenes from Scrooge's young adulthood, when he transforms into the greedy miser that he ends up being after rejecting his fiancée and not learning the lessons of hospitality taught by Fezziwig, the man he was apprenticed to. Now it's time for the Ghost of Christmas Present, which flies him around the country to show how pretty much every other human is making the most of the season...
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...Cody Costa English 2110-WW1 Unit 12 4/29/2015 Journal 12 The reading in Unit 12 was a work call, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” which was written by the American author Herman Melville. This short story is about an older lawyer from New York who is also the narrator, who is telling a story about a strange man he used to know. The man’s name is Bartleby, and the lawyer hired him for work. Both the narrator and Bartleby are inscrutable throughout the entire story. It is hard to understand or interpret the thoughts and ideas of these two men. Also because they are both so inscrutable they sometime don’t even understand each other. After reading “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, many people wonder if the narrator, the old lawyer, understands Bartleby’s character. Bartleby’s character begins to fall of more and more until the very end of the story until his death. The narrator did understand him at first when he is first hired. After initially hired Bartleby is doing a great volume of work while also producing great quality work. Later on the narrator asked him to do something else and this is the moment when the understanding of Bartleby by the narrator stopped. When asked this, Bartleby responded with his famous response, “I would prefer not.” Throughout the rest of the story no matter how hard the narrator tried to get through to him he just could not. The narrator states that nothing makes him as angry as a person that is, “passive resistance.” When...
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