...Mad Men Season 1 Episode 1 has many scenes, which convey different themes in the show. One scene in particular depicts non-Jewish characters, discussing Jews. The scene, which takes place between Don Draper and Roger Sterling in Draper’s office, was one that really caught my attention. I was a bit annoyed by the conversation that took place between Draper and Sterling. Clearly these men are not Jewish, yet they are carrying on about Jews like it is some bad thing to be a Jew. “Have we ever hired any Jews?” -Sterling “Not on my watch.”- Draper “Sorry most of the Jewish guys work for the Jewish firms.”- Draper “I know, … make them feel more comfortable.”- Sterling “Want me to run down to the Deli and grab somebody?”- Draper The pieces of dialogue above are excerpts from their conversation. When Draper says, “Not on my watch,” it is clear that he is attaching a negative connotation to being Jewish. Then, he highlights a Jewish stereotype when he asks if he should, “run down to the deli and find one.” In this time period of the late 50’s and early 60’s Jews were not well liked, especially by wealthy Christian businessmen. There is a vivid attitude that is shown towards Jews throughout the entire series of Mad Men. The fact that the men don’t even know if they have any Jews working there is insulting. Later in the episode, Sterling gets a Jew from the mailroom to sit in on the client meeting to “make them feel more comfortable.” Overall, the negative connotation that...
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...drama series Providence.[15][16] Hamm made his feature film debut in Clint Eastwood's 2000 space adventure Space Cowboys. His role consisted of one line. More substantial roles followed in the independent comedy Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)[17] and the war film We Were Soldiers (2002).[18] Hamm played the recurring role of police inspector Nate Basso on Lifetime's television series The Division from 2002 to 2004.[15][16] Other television appearances included roles in What About Brian, CSI: Miami, Related, Numb3rs, The Unit, and The Sarah Silverman Program.[15][16] [edit] Breakthrough role Hamm's breakthrough role came in 2007 when he was chosen from more than 80 candidates[14] to portray protagonist Don Draper in AMC's drama series Mad Men, despite...
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...Mad Men, an American period drama has become a pop culture phenomenon. The critically acclaimed television series has been awarded numerous Emmys and Golden Globes for each of its five seasons but more significantly it has established a new craze for 1960s cocktail culture. Along with its influence on fashion and furniture design, the show reveals the perception of hard-drinking, chain-smoking advertising men of the early 1960s and their interaction with male chauvinism, adultery, homophobia, racism, sexual banter, and capitalism. Mad Men primarily receives two different types of pertinent criticism. A portion of the critics allot their reviews on the alternating moods and collective mores of a generation. The other half of the critics deliver acclamation for period-detailed set designs, historically accurate costume conception, nostalgic visual style, and authentic product placement. The series’ influence on contemporary culture can be seen all over the map. In 2008, Michael Kor’s clothing line made its debut on the cat walk of New York’s Fashion Week and consisted of slim suits, skinny ties, pencil skirts and pearls. The reviews thanked the characters, Don Draper and his on show office manager, Joan Halloway, for bringing these desired wardrobe trends to the closets of consumers (Stoddart, 2011). Marc Jacob’s Fall 2010 of “reconstructed femininity” was inspired by the series and emphasized Jacob’s line of corseted breasts, bare legs, bare arms, and womanly hips under...
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...On the AMC hit television show, Mad Men, the main character Don Draper spoke very powerful words when he said, “People tell you who they are but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.”. The main character of the novel written by Craig Silvey titled, Jasper Jones dealt with the troubles of, as Don Draper said, people ignoring who somebody is simply because we want them to be who we want. Set in 1965 in a small West Australian town called Corrigan, main character, Charlie Butkin is faced with the fear of being drafted into war with Vietnam and seeing his friends treated poorly by others because of racism. The novel kick starts, however, when Charlie is interrupted by Jason Jones tapping on his window asking Charlie for help with “finding” the Shire President's daughter, Laura Wishart. On the night that Jasper knocked on Charlie's window he asked for help, but what Charlie did not realize was that it would change his life. Jasper took Charlie to his secret hideout and showed him his darkest secret, which was the Shire President's daughter Laura Wishart hanging from a tree. Jasper had only found the corpse and was seeking the help of Charlie in finding who was responsible for the murder. In chapter 2, we are introduced to Eliza Wishart, the sister of Laura, who is Charlie's secret crush. Another character introduced is Jeffery Lu, one of Charlie's friends who had been experiencing racism because he as Vietnamese. Eliza, along with Jeffery Lu accompany Charlie...
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...Mad Men is a television series narrating the life of a creative director named Don Harper at Sterling/Cooper advertising agency on the Madison Avenue in the 60s. From the first episode, the show tries to undertake the American society and culture-specific characteristics such as sexism, feminism, racism, and adultery. When Peggy Olson is introduced to her new workplace at Sterling/Cooper, we witness that all of her executives are male, on the other hand, employees with lowest salaries, for instance, the typists and secretaries are all females. The point that men are making less complicated machines for women is mentioned and also self-acknowledged by the female gender. The men also expected the CEO of the other company to be a man. Peggy...
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...narrative in television has been a major success in recent years. Shows like Dexter (2006-2013), Mad Men (2007-2015), and Breaking Bad(2008-2013) all feature the anti-hero and have been critically acclaimed and loved by viewers in America. Each of these T.V. shows’ success has been measured by user reviews, user ratings, Golden Globe awards and/or nominations, and Emmy awards and/or nominations. By definition, the anti-hero is a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes. (Oxford Dictionaries) How then has this hero without heroic attributes been so popular in our culture? The anti-hero has been popular in recent years because viewers can relate to him, are able to perform moral...
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...Frankenstein This is an extract from a roman, written by a woman named Mary Shelly. The story is about a man named Victor Frankenstein who is trying to develop a new scientific discovery. He completes his mission and creates a monster. This monster is getting ostracized because of his looks. When Mary Shelly started writing “Frankenstein” she was only 19 years old, and she had just lost an unborn child. That made her think about scientists, who were able to regain life. In this essay I will focus on Victor, as a mad scientist, his responsibility, his self-confidence and my own opinion on Victors morals and personality. In this extract of Frankenstein written by Mary Shelly, she shows us that Victor Frankenstein is a mad scientist by using long descripting sentences to describe how Frankenstein get’s sick in his passion to accomplish his mission. For example “Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree;” By writing this, she gives us a chance to understand Victor’s eagerness to complete what he thinks is his duty for mankind. He works while he is sick. A part from that, Mary Shelly also describes how Victor get’s and furnished his materials from a slaughterhouse and a dissecting room. “The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials;” once again by writing this, she shows that he will do almost anything to complete his duty. All from breaking in to a slaughterhouse and steel and use materials, to...
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...Mad Men, a critically acclaimed US television series set in a Madison Avenue Advertising agency in the 1960’s compares the ideas of feminism to Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” Parker Molloy says “Mad Men portrays a world where sexism runs wild, where women are expected to care for the home and children, and where the very idea of questioning a man is seen as a radical act” (Molloy). One might wonder how Mad Men can be seen as a feministic show while being portrayed in an era where Women's rights weren't exactly society's priorities. However One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (OTCN) is set in the same time period. Women are treated equally as unfair. In fact, throughout the book so far, we have only seen one woman in power. This...
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...successfully it into a cartoon in 1951. In this video clip we can see Alice seeing Mad Hatter and March Hare in a tea party, all though there are many chairs and tables, there were no one except them. Alice also wanted to join the tea party with them, but when Mad Hatter and March Hare saw her, they said her that’s there's no room for her ,although there were plenty of space .Then Alice apologized and said she enjoyed very much their singing and praised March Hare and Mad Hatter. Then they accepted her in to the party, Alice said it's a very enjoyable Birthday Party, but then said it's not a birthday party, but an unbirthday party, but Alice didn’t understand it, then they explained her what's an unbirthday is. Then they got to know that it's an unbirthday of Alice too. So, they celebrate it by singing a song. Then Mad hatter takes out a cake out of his hat. When Alice blew the candle, it goes p like a firework, and Dormouse comes out of it and he’s falling with the aid of a little umbrella, singing Twinkle,Twinkle. By watching this video, we can obviously see that how successful Disney was, converting the novel into a cartoon. The expressions and acts of the characters that can be seen it this video,show us a great humor which sometimes we can’t get by reading a text. We can also see many nonsense and unrealistic things, such as dancing tea pots, creating a cake out of a hat etc and the way Mad hatter and March Hare talk is simply...
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...Sarah Bonkowski Brian Heaney ENG 1112 August 26, 2014 Mad World The song Mad World by Gary Jules is about existence. He realizes that there is no point in existence and that life is just very trivial. Gary Jules sees the world as worn out, dry, and wonders if its really worth it. Children are completely oblivious to the outside world. During the time when a child feels so excited about an event that an adult finds almost insignificant, they display true ignorance and obliviousness. The singer yearns to be a child and have such mentalities, but as he cannot, he sees no reason to exist. Lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world. He starts the song off with “All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, worn out faces. Bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere, going nowhere. Their tears are filling up their glasses. No expression, no expression. Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow, no tomorrow, no tomorrow” (line 1-8). The familiar faces, worn out places, and worn out faces indicate that he has seen all their is to see, and that to him, all faces look the same, worn out and tired of life. If one considers the commute from home to work, at the end of the day its just the same cycle over again the next day. He continues to wonder where life is really going. When he sings bright and early for their daily races, going nowhere, he means the daily races...
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...Xxxxxxx 1 xxx xxxxxx DRAFT xxxxx xxxxxx Composition and Literature February 3, 2016 Want a good laugh? Want to retreat from the seriousness of life? If so, read The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a rabbit down a hole and escapes to a crazy world full of talking animals, living playing cards and disappearing smiling cats. Often literature that is so far off from real life, it trying to symbolize problems with the real world. maybe not. If Lewis Carroll doing this in Alice? Perhaps, but The popular scene in chapter 5 at the Mad Hatter’s tea party shows 3 themes that could symbolize something in real life. Three possible symbolic themes from the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party include: nonsense, rudeness, and meanness. Nonsense is used without the book, but at the tea party. Toward the end of the party the March Hare tells Alice to take the some more tea. She replies that she can’t take more because she hasn’t had any yet. The Hatter jumps in and replies “ You can’t take less, it is very easy to take more than nothing.” That was obviously a nonsense statement. Another nonsense part of the tea party is when they are talking about the purpose of a watch. After Alice points out how strange March Hare’s watch is in that is tells the day of the month but not the time, the Hatter jumps in and asks “Why should it? Does your watch tell what year it is?” Alice tries to explain that a year lasts a long time and you...
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...Australian films. According to Film History: An Introduction, a textbook by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, “The AFC helped finance about fifty features in its first five years, out performing its European counterparts by recovering about 38 percent of its investments.” The era of films made during the 1970’s and 1980’s as a result of the AFC’s funding have been referred to as Australia’s New Wave of cinema in which filmmakers made some of the most memorable and influential films of all time. Around the same time, two young ambitious Australian filmmakers, George Miller and Byron Kennedy, formed a partnership that would bring Australian cinema to the top of the box office without the help of government funding. Their breakthrough film, Mad Max (1978), directed by...
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...interview telling officers that he shot both men after he came home from school. Vincent Romero and Tim Romans were found dead in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Vincent Romero and Tim Romans were found dead in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Authorities released the tape Tuesday. The boy, sitting cross-legged in an overstuffed armchair, initially denied involvement in the shootings but later said he shot his already wounded father "because he was suffering." The two officers questioning the boy press him to tell the truth, with one saying at one point, "If you're not honest with me, if you're not truthful, it's not going to look good." The boy later appears to admit to shooting his father, saying, "After I shot him once he was still moving, I think I shot him again." He says on the tape he shot both men twice. Police released the first 12 minutes of the tape, which did not include the alleged confession, earlier Tuesday and released the remainder of the tape late Tuesday afternoon. Video Watch police interrogate the boy » The boy is charged with killing his father, Vincent Romero, 29, along with Tim Romans, 39, a man who rented a room in Romero's home in St. Johns, Arizona. Police have said the boy confessed to shooting the men with a .22-caliber handgun. At the end of the footage, the boy buries his face in his jacket as one officer asks, "You OK, sweetie?" The officers ask whether the boy was mad at his father, but the answer is not audible...
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...Joshua Gutzmer Mr. Phinizy English 10 November 12, 2014 Synthesis Essay The supermom syndrome has jumped genders. Now it is working men who want to be great fathers. What has changed to make the working dad’s life more stressful? Balancing responsibilities, goals, and a personal life is a struggle for many people, but the most important priorities in life such as family should not be neglected. In “Double Daddy”, societies expectation of dads are to work, make money, and tend to their kids needs weather it is taking your son to practice or spending time while taking your daughter to her recital. In the text Double Daddy, the phenomenon of daddy stress affects the executive office to the rank and file, and a growing number of single dads may feel it most. Married fathers are hardly immune. This supports the idea of society’s expectation of fathers, because dads are to work and make money, not necessarily to worry about their kids until work is done. Fathers should worry financially...
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...from itself." Act 4 Edmund speaks of his feelings as he walked home in the fog. 7. "I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky." Act 4 Edmund tells his father about the ecstasy of some of his experiences at sea. 8. "For a second you see-and seeing the secret are the secret. For a second there is meaning." Act 4 Edmund talks about the meaning of his peak experiences at sea. 9. "Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got-nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if more of the suckers won't admit it." Act 4 Jamie finally confesses the truth about his own life. 10. "The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!" Act 4 Jamie's sardonic remark when his mother enters the room, apparently unaware of her...
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