...bog56269.app.qxd 7/23/03 1:01 PM Page A-1 APPENDIX Writing a Film Analysis Films are made to be seen and heard, to appeal to our visual and aural senses. Like any art form, however, films are also meant to be felt and understood, to appeal to our emotions and minds. One of the best ways to determine whether a film has succeeded in any or all of these goals is to analyze the elements that make up the whole work. To write an analysis of a film, you must study the film carefully. Your critical analysis should be derived from your personal encounter with the film, not from published criticism. Access to a videocassette recorder or DVD player is essential if you are going to perform a critical analysis of any depth. It is not enough to like or dislike the movie; you must determine why it succeeds or fails in reaching out and encompassing the viewer. The first step is to view the film in its entirety. From this viewing you can get an initial reaction to the many parts of the film that you will have to explore in more depth. When you first view the film, it is best not to try to take notes or separate the parts of the film; you should be familiar with the textbook in order to know what to look for. After you have formulated a thesis and have begun the process of supporting that thesis, you should view the film at least once more in its entirety and two or three times in segments in order to review scenes of major importance. The thesis statement is the element around which to...
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...Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, The Joads family shows traditional gender roles deteriorating as they travel to California during the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck explores the emblematic thoughts of gender at the time, by restating and challenging them. During the Great Depression, it was prevalent that the male figure was the head of the family, in charge of working, making major decisions, and overall supporting the family. However, women were perceived to be domesticated in their house, doing household chores, like cooking and cleaning, and bearing and taking care of the children. Nevertheless, in The Grapes of Wrath, the author John Steinbeck defies these roles that were stereotyped, by illustrating the development of the...
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...1900- 1906-Literature- The Jungle by. Upton Sinclair Event-The Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which eventually led to the FDA of 1930. Connection- The concerns of health violations and unsanitary practices-in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century. 1904-Literature- The History of Standard Oil by Ida Tarbell Event- Hastening of the break up of Standard Oil which happened in 1911 because they violated the Sherman Anti-trust Act. Connection- The muckraking of large businesses that attempted to gain monopolies of various industries because of the lack of strong anti-trust laws. 1910- 1911-1912-Literature-What Every Mother Should Know by.Margaret Sanger Event- Opening of the...
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...Born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck never finished college and instead as his intended profession he worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His novel published in 1939,The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He died in New York City in 1968 (Biography.com editors. "John Steinbeck Biographies." the biography.comwebsites, A&E Television Networks, 2016, biography.com. Accessed 13 Nov....
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...In the article, “Superman and Me,” Sherman Alexie learns to read with a Superman comic book. His love for books began when he was thinking about his father having lots of books. Alexie’s father was one of the few Indians that actually went to a Catholic School and knew how to read. As said in the text, “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well. He read with equal parts joy and desperation,” is a quote that shows he later on loved books for what they were. This also shows that Alexie went against what was expected and learned to read. At first he didn’t know anything about words or paragraphs, but he looked at the pictures in the comic book to figure out what Superman was saying....
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...Printess Wardlaw Instructor Sherry Beasley English 100 September 30, 2015 Short Writing Assignment 1 In Sherman Alexie’s “Superman and Me”, he’s a Spokane Indian boy that found a love in reading books. Alexie was one of the Indian that didn’t live to the expectation of being an uneducated Indian. He later realized that his father was the reason for his success because he inspired him to do as him when he picked up his first book. Alexie was one of six children his mom and dad had to rise on a minimum wage job in an Indian reservation. They were poor but in the reservation they were middle class because they’re father was educated and most Indians didn’t even have that. He said he had “an older brother, a sister who was deceased, two younger twin sisters and an adopted younger brother” (89). Alexie’s father was the inspiration to his life because of this, being that he was an avid reader. Books were the only thing that Alexie’s family really had an abundance of so he wanting to follow his father he felt it was perfect to read. Before Alexie found his love for reading; he discovered what a paragraph was. And this is all he needed to split the world he knew up into an exquisite story. Initially, Alexie seen things around him in paragraphs like the Indian reservation, his family his school. Purpose being he had no idea what a paragraph meant but he knew it “was a fence that held words” (89) extracting from his passage. Then he picked up his first book he could remotely...
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...In the novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck focuses on how the Joad family faced struggles while moving to the West. Rose of Sharon is Pa and Ma’s daughter who is expecting a baby with Callie. Throughout the novel the reader gets to see that Rose of Sharon is an important character because she has changed dramatically. Rose of Sharon went from being a selfish and dreamy girl to a matured woman. Rose of Sharon has always only cared for herself. She always dreamed about having her family together and having a good life. She never really wanted to be around other people and liked to complain: “she [is] pleased with herself, and she complains about things that [do not] matter” (129). Rose likes to complain a lot to Connie about how she needs him to do demanding...
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...Compare and Contrast Sherman Alexie’s Story with My Experience Every people may have their own favorite book when they were young. It could be a bedtime story, fable, or novel. This would pretty much affect their lives in a good or bad way. In Sherman Alexie’s essay, “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, he simply explained about himself as an Indian kid who loved to read even he lived with low standard of living. Sherman’s dad had always spent his extra money to get new books for him. However, Sherman was different with most of Indian people in his age, because he read books that quite difficult for kids in his age at that time, such as “Grapes of Wrath”. He read everywhere and he believed that he could save his life by reading books. Based on Sherman’s childhood, I realize that reading a book could influence someone’s life, enrich someone’s knowledge and lead them to be a successful person. In his essay, Sherman tells us that non-Indian people mostly would underestimate Indian kids. Therefore, Sherman proves that they are wrong. He struggled with his lives and tried to read everywhere, because “(he) was trying to save (his) lives”. Ultimately, he becomes a successful writer instead of pediatrician. He writes books and teaches creative writing to Indian kids. According to Sherman’s experience, I feel that we have got common things. When I was a kid, I used to read a novel by Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”. The story tells us about a man who has to understand every...
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...The Great Depression, while many first think affected the United States, largely affected the entire world economy. Every country that had direct or even indirect ties suffered as a result of America’s collapsing economy. Discussed below are some of the countries affected by the Depression as well as economic changes after the Great Depression. One of the countries most affected by the Great Depression was the United Kingdom. Some even argue that the United Kingdom slid into their Great Depression, called the Great Slump, right around 1918. This year is important, as World War I had just ended. Britain was suffering the turmoil of the war and never fully recovered by the time the Great Depression had hit the United States. Britain heavily relied on exports to other countries. When other countries’ economies took a nosedive, then Britain could not export the numbers that they wanted. As a result, Britain was hit extra hard by the time the Depression hit in the late 1920’s. Unemployed citizens went from an initial one million to just over 2.5 million during the Depression. Some cities saw unemployment rates as high as 70%. These rates began to turn back to normal around 1935 and further fell each year. The outbreak of World War II basically caused the unemployment rate to return to normal, as men were needed to fight the newly developing war. Another country that suffered just as much as the United Kingdom had was France. Causes of their downward spiral were due to an underdeveloped...
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...(1929-1941): FROM THE STOCK MARKET CRASH TO WORLD WAR II I. IMPACT ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A. HOMELESS AMERICANS 1. HOOVERVILLES - SHANTYTOWNS BUILT OF SCRAP MATERIALS BY THE HOMELESS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF MANY CITIES 2. HOBOS - OVER 1 MILLION MEN AND CHILDREN WANDERING THE RAILS FOR WORK 3. BREAD LINES & SOUP KITCHENS - ATTEMPT TO END HUNGER AMONG HOMELESS B. FARMERS 1. 1929-32 - 400,000 FARMS LOST TO FORECLOSURES 2. DUST BOWL - DRAUGHT AFFECTS THE PLAINS FROM CANADA TO MEXICO; KANSAS, TEXAS & OKLAHOMA HARDEST HIT; ONE STORM HAD A CLOUD 3 MILES HIGH WITH WINDS THAT BLEW OVER 100 MPH FOR 5 DAYS ACROSS THE US TO THE ATLANTIC 3. OKIES MIGRATION TO CALIFORNIA - JOHN STEINBECK’S THE GRAPES OF WRATH - WOODY GUTHRIE’S DUST BOWL BALLADS C. VETERANS 1. BONUS ARMY - WWI VETERANS WANT CASH VALUE OF INSURANCE POLICY NOW NOT IN 1945; 17,000 MARCH ON DC CONGRESS VOTES DOWN BILL & 2,000 WON’T LEAVE; MacARTHUR & IKE USE ARMY AND GAS TO REMOVE VETS; 11 MONTH OLD IS KILLED AND AN 8 YEAR OLD IS BLINDED; BAD PR FOR HOOVER D. WOMEN 1. MARRIED WOMEN HAD TROUBLE FINDING EMPLOYMENT - MARRIAGES DECLINE 2. FRANCES PERKINS BECOMES THE FIRST FEMALE CABINET MEMBER (LABOR) E. CHILDREN 1. CHILD WELFARE SERVICES CUT BY STATES 2. MANY SCHOOL CLOSINGS 3. BREAD LINES AND SOUP KITCHENS F. WORKERS 1. BUSINESS FAILURES - 1929-32 85,000 BUSINESSES CLOSE; 2. UNEMPLOYMENT - 100,000 LOSE...
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...Romanticism and Realism Cheryl Hert Western Governors University Romanticism vs. Realism The French Revolution brought about enormous change in the world. With the collapse of the absolute monarchy, the rules of society began to shift in favor of the common people. Under the new laws writers and artists were given a considerable amount of freedom to express themselves which did well to pave the way to set a high standard for literature (Gregory, 1915). During the time following the French Revolution, two very different styles of Art were formed; Romanticism emerged in 1820 and lasted until 1865. Realism then took over in 1865 and lasted until 1914. Although the two have very different characteristics, they both share the same beliefs in liberalism and the dignity of the common man. Romanticism evolved at the end of the 18th century as a reaction to the classical, formal compositions of Neoclassicism. Neoclassicism was based on reason, tradition, rules and order. Romantics believed the individual was more important than society, and with the Age of Industrialism upon them, they began to revolt against the conventional beliefs. Romantics viewed industrialization as an attack on humankind as well as Mother Nature. They believed that the industrial revolution was changing the natural order of man, who belonged in the country (Brown, n.d.). Romanticism had no “laws or rules” to follow. Romantic artist preferred emotion over reason,...
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...THE COST OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM: CENSORSHIP vs. LIBERALISM IN HOLLYWOOD, 1940 – 1960 Destiny Adams History 734 – Seminar in American History Dr. Wintz – Texas Southern University Spring 2009 Table of Contents Part One 1.1 – Introduction – p. 3 1.2 – Social and Political Climate pp. 3-11 1.3 – Production Code Resolutions pp.11-15 Part Two 2.1- Production Codes – I, II, III and IV pp.16 2.2 – Production Codes V, VI, VII and VIII pp.17-18 2.3 - Production Codes IX, X, XI and XII pp.18 Part Three 3.1- Hollywood and Film making – 1940-1949 pp.18-21 3.2- Movies – Awarded, Nominated, Not Nominated pp.21 Part Four 4.1- Hollywood and Film making – 1950-1959 pp.22-26 4.2- Movies – Awarded, Nominated, Not Nominated pp.26 Part Five 5.1- Synopsis of Film making in the 1960’s – New Era pp. 27-28 5.2- Conclusion pp.28-29 The Red Scare of 1917-1920, was the primary influence for the emergence of censorship through McCarthyism and Anti- Socialist sentiments in filmmaking during 1940-1960. McCarthyism and three international wars enhanced Anti – Communist resentments within the United States. A brief emergence of Socialist organizations in America heightened the fervor of conservative versus liberal views within cinematography. Motion Movie producers and Distributors, in Hollywood, California were heavily encouraged to influence film directors, screenwriters and actors by incorporating strict codes within their artistic expression...
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...techniques were having on the Nation’s ability to provide for her people. With the bumper and loss cycle active during the mid-twenties Wallace foresaw that a great collapse both in the agriculture market and farmer solvency was due to occur, and since half of Americans worked in some form of agri-work it would be devastating to the country. He was correct. The bust of 1929 broke the back of the Nation’s breadbasket and widespread poverty was soon upon America. In less than 3 years, American farmers lost over half of their income, leading to back repossessions and a mass exodus from the agri states to the big cities where work might be found. This phenomenon was dramatically played out in Steinbeck’s great novel of the depression, The Grapes of Wrath. Matters son became desperate, and farmers held mass rallies, threatened work stoppages and the withholding of staples such as milk, corn and pork products if outstanding issues with banks and price fixing were not rendered with “legislative Justice”. At this point is where Henry Wallace stepped in with intelligence and wisdom to solve the crisis. With better management and an extension of strategic relief such as farm subsidies to farmers he was able to defuse the growing rebellion with his innovative ideas. This so impressed FDR that he made Wallace agriculture secretary in 1933. During his tenure, Wallace created several programs to manage and increase food production, but his most important...
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...towards censorship when the 1748 novel Fanny Hill was banned for containing offensive and vulgar language as well as detailing the less than glamorous life of a prostitute. The tradition of removing books from schools for their questionable content has carried on into the twenty first century with the banning of several extremely popular books such as Harry Potter, for its use of witchcraft as a key plot point, The Hunger Games, for its graphic descriptions of children slaying one another on live television, and even the widespread elementary boy’s books Captain Underpants, for its use of bathroom humor frequently throughout the series. Not only these books, but also beloved classics such as The Scarlett Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Great Gatsby have all been removed from the curriculum of many schools in order to shelter students from the taboo topics they discuss, such as racial prejudice, adultery, and alcoholism. Many concerned Americans have begun to wonder whether or not the government should have the power to control what students read and believe that censorship goes against the very foundations of our nation. While the United States Constitution does clearly state that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press”, does that apply to even the most explicit sexual and racial content? The issue had been consistently justified by courts cases involving racism and violence that many concerned parents believe are caused...
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...One of these people, Elizabeth Campbell, asserts her perspectives throughout her text, The Ethical Teacher, wherein she describes the relationship between ethical knowledge and moral agency, the link between moral dilemmas and ethical knowledge, and the methods of lessening moral tensions in education. Within her book, Campbell (2003) maintains that “ethical knowledge relies on teachers’ understanding and acceptance of moral agency as professional expectations implicit in all aspects of their day-to-day practice” (p. 3). These demands of moral agency are important for students’ learning and development. Consequently, it is essential to understand moral agency. Campbell (2003) declares that moral agency “relates to the exacting ethical standards the teacher as a moral person and a moral professional hold himself or herself to” and “concerns the teacher as a moral educator, model, and exemplar” for students (p. 2). Throughout the text, Campbell explains that teachers must be aware of, understand and accept those demands of moral agency. Furthermore, Campbell (2003) opposes the notion that educators’ ethics “remain embedded in the background of [their] practices,” while endorsing the idea that ethics must “be brought forward, made visible, discussed, debated, and...
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