...Mulwray hires private investigator J.J. Gittes to do reconnaissance on her husband Hollis Mulwray, who is the chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water. Gittes follows him—hears him publicly oppose the building of a reservoir at a hearing—and takes pictures of him with another lady which are published on the front page of the newspaper. When he returns to his office, he is met by a lady who angrily tells him that she is the real Evelyn Mulwray and that she is filing a lawsuit. Mr. Gittes decides that whomever set him up was targeting Hollis Mulwray. Before he can question the Mr. Mulwray, Lieutenant Escobar finds Mr. Mulwray’s dead body. The cause of death was drowning. Suspicious of foul play, Mr. Gittes investigates further and discovers that although large quantities of water are dumped from the reservoir every night the land is dry. Gittes is confronted by the Water Department Security Chief Claude Mulvihill accompanied by another man who cuts Mr. Gittes’ nose. He returns to his office and receives a call from Ida Sessions, the lady who initially portrayed herself as Mrs. Mulwray. She is too scared to identify who employed her, but submits to Mr. Gittes that the name of one of the people involved is in the obituary section of the newspaper....
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...Classic noir films reinforce the myth of the private eye; a hard-boiled detective, able to restore order, solve the crime, and ensure justice prevails. Chinatown challenges this myth, reversing genre and stylistic conventions through the protagonist Jake Gittes, a private eye unable to control the crimes his sleuthing unveils. Gittes dresses stylishly in crisp white suits, differing from the trademark trench coat and fedora of his stylistic predecessors, and enters the film with an air of confidence. However, Gittes’ plush chambers and immaculate suit mask an essential vulgarity, betrayed Gittes pleasure in the racist joke about Chinese love-making (Spicer 2001, p.139). Although Gittes is a competent detective, he is forced to confront his own limitations, failing to protect the victims of the narrative and watching helplessly as the criminal remains at large. “As saviour and restorer of the moral order, he is a complete washout, a genre first” (Hirsch 1999, p.151). However, while less capable and...
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...GITTES He owned the water department? SECRETARY Yes. GITTES He owned the entire water supply for the city? SECRETARY Yes. GITTES How did they get it away from him? SECRETARY Mr. Mulwray felt the public should own the display. The water. If you'll just read the display. GITTES Mulwray? I thought you said Cross owned the department. SECRETARY Along with Mr. Mulwray. GITTES They were partners. SECRETARY Yes. Yes, they were...
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...Evelyn Mulwray who we are introduced to by name in one of the first scenes but only meet in person later on is depicted as a cold, beautiful and woman full of hidden agenda’s. Her title as femme fatale only grows with the details of her appearance such as the red lipstick and sophisticated manner of being. She seems calm, cool and collected when we first meet her showing a clear dominance over the situation when she first encounters J.J Gittes. Her manipulative nature is only beginning to be visible when the police start to investigate further into her husbands murder. She quickly makes use of Gittes and his obsessive nature lying to the police and scheming in order to get them off the case. She casually states, “Shall I send you a chacek,...
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...Evelyn Cross was one of the most important characters in Chinatown because of her knowledge of the overall situation that Mr. Gittes was trying to figure out. Probably the strongest words Evelyn Cross claimed is, “…she’s my sister, she’s my daughter…” That scene changed the point of view the film and the situation, it changed Mr. Gittes from wanted to take Evelyn Cross behind bars to want to protect her by helping her run away from her father. That symbolizes the difference in characters because in the other film, most of the parts that feature Jane are romanticized. How the characters acted in the cities were not a surprise but not completely expected, although the films were based on different periods of time, the cities were given similar characteristics but not similar appearances. It’s what is to be expected from the time they...
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...Emilie Durkheim Klassikernes teorier =høy grad påvirket og uttrykk for politiske og moralske konflikter, økonomiske prosesser og ideologiske strømninger i 19 – århundre. Durkheims sosiologi er preget av spenningen mellom vitenskap og moral, politikk og ideologi. Aner et moralsk reformperspektiv i mange av hans vitenskapelige arbeider. Generelle faglige mål = avklare betingelser for et stabilt, velfungerende , moderne samfunn. Mente = formulere riktige og vitenskapelige baserte forslag til løsninger på tidens alvorligste problemer. Deltok i tidens viktigste politiske konflikt = støttet ideen om liberal og demokratisk statsforfatning, utvikling av velferdsstaten og regulering av kapitalistiske økonomi. Durkheims sosiologi = dype røtter i fransk historie og åndsliv. Viktigste forløperen var August Comte. Sosiologiens grunnlag: Metodologi og sosial virkelighet Inspirert av Comtes tanker = sosiologien studerte en særlig objektiv virkelighet. Virkeligheten har en hierarkisk struktur = adskilte organisasjonsnivåer, og hvert nivå styrt av egne spesifikke lover = sosiale nivå med selvstendige lovmessigheter. Bekjempe individuelle teorier = teorier kun om individer og dets egenskaper. Søker påvise at sosiale mønstre og institusjoner ikke alene forklares ut fra egenskaper ved enkeltindivider. Selvmord = ikke kunne forstås som resultat av mengde uavhengige individer følelser, men at det finnes overindividuelle årsaker eller krefter = påvirker selvmordstilbøyeligheten. Sosiologiens...
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...The movie is talk about the story of the nefarious Owens Valley 'Rape' and scandalous San Fernando Valley land-grab by speculators. The film's character, Hollis Mulwray, was loosely derived from LA's real-life water engineer William Mulholland the General Manager of LA's Bureau of Water Works and Supply, who orchestrated the purchase of water rights and the piping of water from the High Sierras into Los Angeles by an aqueduct that flowed through the now-valuable San Fernando Valley north of LA. The investigation of a routine story by a detective uncovers secrets under many layers, facades, red herrings, and networks of corruption, conspiracy and deception. The film contains numerous plot reversals and twists (many of which regard the private...
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...GovernanceMetrics International ® Pioneering Accountability Ratings Low Rated Corporation 400 Main Street Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18706 United States (USA) www.lowratedco.com Global Rating Home Market Board Accountability 3.0 1.5 Financial Disclosure and Internal Controls 6.5 5.0 Shareholder Rights 3.0 1.5 5.5 2.5 1.5 1.5 Corporate Behavior Governance Contact 1.0 Market for Control NASDAQ (LRCA) $455.64M Personal Goods Delaware 2.0 Remuneration Primary Listing Market Cap Market Sector Incorporated Overall Rating 3.0 3.5 Mr. James Johnson, 1 234 312 4567 Vice President - Finance, Chief Administrative Officer and Secretary Rating History Relative to Industry Peers - Low Rated Corporation overall global rating - Average overall global rating for all companies in the Personal Goods sector rated by GMI (82 companies) - Highest overall global ratings in this sector - Lowest overall global ratings in this sector 10.0 9.0 8.0 7.0 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 Feb Aug Feb June Sep Dec Mar June Sep Dec Mar June Sep Dec Mar June Sep Dec Mar June Sep 2005 2005 2006 2006 2006 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2008 2008 2008 2008 2009 2009 2009 2009 2010 2010 2010 How to Interpret GMI Ratings All companies rated by GMI are scored on a scale of 1.0 (lowest) to 10.0 (highest). All company ratings are calculated relative either to other rated companies in the same region or country...
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...Samfundsfags aflevering – Vælgeradfærd i det moderne samfund 2) Undersøg i hvor høj grad Socialistisk Folkepartis (SF) og Dansk Folkepartis (DF) placering i bilag B1 kan understøttes af materialet i bilag B2 og andet statistisk materiale. Først og fremmest kan vi se ud fra bilag 1, at SF er placeret som et venstre orienteret parti, mens DF er et højreorienteret parti. Ud fra bilag 2 kan man understøtte, hvorfor de to partier er placeret, som de er i bilag 1. Ud fra tallene i bilag 2 kan vi se, at Dansk Folkeparti er meget enige omkring, at indvandring udgør en alvorlig trussel for vores nationale egenart fra tabellen lavet af Surveybank.dk i 2005. Dette var dog bare en stikprøve på 2264 adspurgte personer. Faktisk viste stikprøven 64,3 % som stemmer Dansk Folkeparti (går vi ud fra) ud af de 100 % er enige i, at indvandring er en alvorlig trussel. Det er altså ud fra tabellen nemt at se, at DF ligger på højrefløjen, men de er på vej længere ind mod midten. Det kan de 64,3 % også understøtte i og med det ikke er alle DF’s vælgere, som er enige i, at indvandring udgør en stor trussel i forhold til vores nationale egenart. Et hardcore medlem af Dansk Folkeparti ville nok være 100 % enig i, at indvandre udgør en stor trussel. Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF) derimod ligger til venstre kan vi se ud fra bilag B1. Ud fra tabellen i Bilag 2 kan vi da også tydeligt se, hvorfor SF ligger som de gør i Bilag 1. Der er kun 6,8 % af de adspurgte som er enige i, at indvandring udgør en stor...
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...Gitte Michelle Hansen 2b, Engelsk grammatik 1. At the party he wore a black dinner jacket to match his wife’s long silk dress Rettelse: “to wear” er et ureglmæssigt verbum og skal bøjes “to wear, he wore” 2. Never had they seen deadlier accuracy than from the experienced deer hunter. Rettelse: deadlier er 2. grad af deadly, og “more” er også 2. grads markør, derfor skal der ikke være begge og ”more” skal fjernes 3. John always seemed to be the unlucky chap who was forced to do the dishes. Rettelse: “whom” er et forholdord, i denne sætning skal man bruge ”who” som er et henførende stedord. 4. Wally does not see their problem – all he sees is an opportunity for himself to be noticed. Rettelse: “to do” I 3 person I ental, ikke flertal, derfor skal der ikke stå “s” 5. She had wanted to complain about the service, but she decided that it was not worth it after all. Rettelse: skal være kort tillægsform af “to want” da sætningen er førdatid (wanting er lang tillægsform) 6. to my irritation [] the record store i had platted to visit was closed. Rettelse: forkert ordstilling, ”was” skal være efter grundled 7. The father felt confident that, with his new business, his son was nicely set up Rettelse: forkert ordklasse. Nice er et adverbium so beskriver et navneord, her skal der bruges adjektiv da det på engelsk ofte slutter på –ly og beskriver udsagnsord (i dette tilfælde ”set up”) Was suspended: passivt hjælpeudsagnsord i datid. Was...
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...The line separating good from evil disappears in a fog of moral ambiguity. At the peak of its popularity, all of these thematic elements were conveyed visually without color--caught somewhere between the absolutes of black and white. This does not always have to be the case, as Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) demonstrates. The film, shot in color, is set in 1937 in drought stricken Los Angeles. It follows private investigator, J. J. Gittes as he attempts to uncover an adulterous affair at the request of one of his clients. The case is soon complicated by a stolen identity, an apparent murder, and a dangerous cocktail of secrets and lies leading to an unexpected twist. Chinatown breathes new life into the genre of film noir and uses its conventions as a foundation for further thematic...
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...Me and my job as shipfitter My name is Lasse Mosebo I am 19 years old. I live in vindeby and have done so my whole life. I live together with my mum Gitte, my dad Bjarne and my little brother Mathias. But I just got my own apartment in Svendborg and I’m planning to move in next month. Almost every member from my father side of the family have been working with ships, My dad also works with ships and so did almost every member from his side of the family have been working with ships as well. When I was a kid he used to take me along to work and I found it very interesting. So like my dad working with ships and its engines has always been what i wanted to do for a living. Also I feel like it’s a tradition I have to carry out, since my little brother don’t like to get his hands dirty like I do. While he sits on the computer in his spare time I like to spend my spare time working on my boat and its engine. Whenever my friends have trouble with their car or scooter its me they call for help because they don’t know what to do and they know i always want to help them out. I’ve always knew what I wanted to do for a living but after 9th grade I took a 10th grade, not because I needed it but because I could take my education as shipfitter while I took my 10th grade. So it was a win win situation. Then one of my teachers found a internship at Svendborg Motorværksted for me. I was going to be working there for 2 weeks. When my internship was over the boss of Svendborg Motorværksted...
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...Max Kestner fortæller i en artikel, hvordan han mener, at dokumentarfilm aldrig viser virkeligheden som den er. Jeg vil nu diskuterer hans synspunkter. Skildrer dokumentarfilm virkelig sandheden eller er det blot en slags fiktion, som ikke er mere sand end en spillefilm? For Max Kestner er svaret, at dokumentarfilm aldrig viser virkeligheden. Han skriver, at det ikke er meningen at dokumentarfilm skal skildre virkeligheden, for den er uden for vores vinduer og hvis det er den vi vil se kan vi kigge ud af dem. For mig er svaret, at dokumentar film hverken viser sandheden eller virkeligheden, men dog er genren tættere på det virkelige liv end en spille film trods alt er. Det fremgår tydeligt af Max Kestners artikel, hvordan han instruerer sine film i en retning så de bevidst kommer til at fremstå som fiktionsfilm. Han skriver f.eks: ”… at jeg instruerer mine film. For jeg sætter en ære i det. Alle film, også dokumentarffilm er instruerede.” ”Der ikke er nogen væsentlig forskel på det vi kalder fikition, og det, vi kalder dokumentar.” Det virker som om, han er for dybt inde i sin egen måde at instruere dokumentarfilm på, at han helt glemmer værdien af de dokumentarfilm, hvor instruktøren har pillet mindst muligt ved historien og de medvirkende. Max Kestner har ret i, at det er nødvendigt at vælge fra eller til i forhold til alt, når en dokumentarfilm skal laves og på den måde aldrig vil kunne vise virkeligheden hundrede procent. Men med det sagt, tager han ikke højde for...
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...Irene Casillas Professor Gitte Trejo English 1A L10 31 January 2016 Fifth Grade I remember being in 5th grade hearing about a new assignment we were going to begin. It required us to read a book, write a play and act it out in front of a live audience. As we sat to listen to our teacher instruct us as to how we were going to go about this new assignment, I felt overwhelmed, nervous and anxious, because I wasn’t very good at reading nor did I like to stand up in front of people and talk let alone act out a play. Mr. Nicholas, my teacher, gave us our book, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, to look through it and get a feel for the book. Mr. Nicholas was very excited about this new assignment we were about to start that he jumped onto his desk and started acting out scenes from the book. Needless to say that captured our attention. As the days passed and our reading progressed we started to learn that this book in fact was very interesting. Characters started to come to life and scenes became real, we found ourselves immersed in the book. Every day we read Mr. Nicholas would find something new to for us to relate to the story. Mr. Nicholas came one day with a lot of different ingredients and sat them on a table in front us to see. I remember sitting back wondering what he was up to now. We started getting anxious tell Mr. Nicholas finally asked us who had ever been to the snow, a few us raised our hands the others admitted to never have gone. So he told...
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...dagligvarers emballage, og enhver kritik affejes som politisk korrekt hysteri. Mens mange lande har forladt kolonitidens billedkultur, dyrkes nostalgien i Danmark, hvor erindringen om tiden som slavenation er stort set ikkeeksisterende, siger forsker Kultur * Emil Eggert Scherrebeck 3. januar 2015 Kommentarer (157) * Anbefal artikel * Printervenlig version * Send artiklen til en ven * Twitter * Facebook * Jeg kan huske designet, helt fra jeg var barn. Jeg kender også godt plakaterne, og der er jo også kaffedåser. Jeg synes måske, at det er spøjst, at de har bevaret det gamle design. Men jeg tænker slet ikke, at det er racistisk, for sådan har det bare altid været.« Sådan siger Gitte Lyngbo, som Information møder i Irma i Borgergade i København, til spørgsmålet om, hvad hun synes om designet på Cirkel Kaffe. Den med den afrikanske pigeprofil, der går under navnet Cirkelpigen. Hollandske Marjolijn Jakobsen, som vi også møder i Irma, har et lidt andet syn på Cirkelpigen: »Det er for så vidt et attraktivt design. Farverne er flotte og så videre, men måske er det lidt for meget en stereotyp fremstilling af en afrikansk kvinde. Designet minder mig om slaveri og plantager,« siger hun. Det er Mathias Danbolt, som forsker ved Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab på Københavns Universitet, enig med hende i. Han mener, at designet på kolonialvarer som Cirkel Kaffe eller Haribos Skipper Mix kan fortælle os noget om Danmarks...
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