Ever since film critic Roger Ebert stated that video games were not art, there has been much debate regarding the issue. According to Ebert, art provides instruction about “life, love, disease and death, principles and morality, humor and tragedy” (Reese). Therefore, I believe that games can be art because they can apply to someone personally and emotionally. For example, a very simple game called Passage could make people cry. It uses the freedom of choice and the interpretation of life to make
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Differences in the Christmas Carol Play and Book Have you ever seen the play or watched the movie, A Christmas Carol? For many of you who have done these either of these, you know that the Christmas Carol has an extraordinary plot and consist of very creative characters. The play is very beautiful and has many great points. The book is a classic that every child needs to read. As much as these two version of one of Charles Dickens best piece are similar, they have their differences, too. Both
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hero Batman. The Dark Night puts the social framework of a fictional city to the test. The criminal in the movie named The Joker who dresses like a clown battles Batman physically and by testing the social duty of the City of Gotham. Throughout the film Joker makes pawns of mobsters, civilians, police officers and city officials and uses them to prove his ideological thinking that all people will do terrible things when they are in fear. The Joker’s motive for all he does is to show the world that
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Being a Blonde The social construction about being a blonde has been heard around the world since as early as the 19th century and is still around today. Blonde hair has been and is considered attractive in various European cultures in history and is still seen to be the more appealing hair color. In today’s world, you can find this construction in movies and TV shows like Legally Blonde and Bob’s Burgers, and it’s even portrayed in the music industry with songs like Bridget Mendler’s “I’m a Blonde
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The House Subcommittee and parents of the United States in the 1950s were concerned about how certain types of mass communication media contributed to the rise in juvenile delinquency. Specifically, they were concerned with “crime and horror” comic books, the radio, television, and motion pictures as this forms of entertainment often included acts like murder, robbery, rape, and other activities that were greatly frowned upon in society. Since comic books in particular show this acts in extreme detail
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In history, there are many great villains, and many great heroes, but only one villain can take my number one spot in my favorites list. If I had to choose my favorite villain, it would have to be Antasma from Mario and Luigi Dream Team. He has all the core villain features: A chilling appearance, a horrifying backstory, a gruesome motive, and everything he has done was fueled by greed and evil. Just in his normal form, Antasma is quite a fear in on itself, with his piercing yellow eyes, and his
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While reading America on Film, examples of films that went along with the concepts defined in the text began parading around in my mind. I thought the section about the concept of whiteness, along with the section about African Americans were very informing. Along with watching Melvin Van Peeble’s film, “Baadasssss!”, I was able to recognize and connect definitions that were mentioned in the book along with the film. This film is what started the revolution of Blaxploitation films, which is defined as
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psychological impairments for children. Although the basic idea of this film is simple, the film includes multiple scenes of racism, violence and oppression with an overall theme expressing a derogatory connotation that is not fit for children. The beginning of these unfortunate events starts with Dumbo himself being made fun of. This scene is early in the film setting a direct tone for discrimination for the duration of the film. Dumbo is consistently viewed as an outsider, being mocked and laughed
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In the movie industry since long time ago black actor and actress never been represented properly in the field. Woman actress in that field was only able to play role such as servants, maids, butler, and gardener, such roles was giving to reinforce the pledges of having a white master to uphold their position and create fear and to show the picture of how black people were manipulating by white people and to express that black people are minor. Many male actors around that time, still today those
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DIRECTV Digital photo editing is an unavoidable constant in the life of the average individual. Not only have these altered images made it onto poster boards and magazine covers, it can also be seen on the TV screen. DIRECTV, for instance, is “one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services” claiming to deliver “a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 37 million customers
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