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The paper includes a discussion of award winning journalism and an analysis of William Faulkner's "A Rose for Miss Emily".

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"Aly Colon is the editor of Best Newspaper Writing in which various genres of newspaper writing are presented, along with an identification of those examples of best elements in each category. For this assignment, the category of commentary column writing was selected Colon, identified in his text writings by M. J. Wilde, a columnist for The Albuquerque Tribune. These columns present a combination of commentary on local current events and human interest stories of a personal nature. Presented below is a selection of six..."

Tags:William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily, journalism

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"How Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has changed America" is a six page essay based on Al Gore's award winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth." The paper talks about how Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is a critical success and has been incredibly relevant to the current landscape of progressive politics and world conservationism.

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How Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth has changed America Our world is in a bind. More and more, we hear, read and watch studies that show the detrimental affects our everyday lifestyles have on our earth. Though much of the media coverage pertaining to environmental issues seem scary, there was constant debate about the viability and factuality of these studies. Since the turn of the century, America had been couched in a conservative presidential administration and the focus of the nation's worries and efforts were concentrated on foreign policy, homeland security and the war on terror. In 2006, however, the American people got a wake up call. This call would ask the American people for an

Tags:gore, global, warming

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This paper explains that film editor Verna Fields, who won the Academy Award for film editing for "Jaws" and was a Universal Studios' Feature Productions Vice President, is one of the few women during her lifetime ever to reach a position of power in the American film industry. Next, the author follows Fields' climb to power in television and in Hollywood, while being a single mother that gave her the nickname "mother cutter". The paper includes a review of Fields' editing wisdom especially the use the old method of cutting called "cut and log".

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"Born Verna Hellman, on March 21, 1918, in St. Louis, Missouri, while still a minor, she moved to Hollywood with her family to further her father's screen writing career. How Fields got into the film industry is an unusual story. It was in the mid 1940s. She was just hanging out on a studio lot with a girl friend whose boyfriend worked there. That's how she met an assistant editor who she liked and wanted to meet again. So she just kept on hanging around. When Fritz Lang needed an assistant sound editor, he remembered that young "girl always hanging around"."

Tags:sound, invisible, technician, establishment, anticipation

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This paper discusses how looking at the recipients for the major film and television awards for 2006 reveals distinct trends. It looks at how history has clarified many of the trends that help determine which actors and which films win awards and how nominated movies are almost always big budget, large scale productions. It also examines how critics and motion picture academies tend to like films about overcoming obstacles: including war, racism, and physical or mental disabilities and how audiences and critics alike are fascinated with unique and exceptional individuals, whether disabled or celebrity.

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"Film awards may serve as cultural barometers and as reflections of current consciousness and cultural ideals. Helen Mirren's portrayal of Queen Elizabeth humanizes one of the most emotionally distant public leaders. Audiences want to see their heroes and nemeses humanized. Superhero movies are fun but their impact on human consciousness is minimal. We want to watch strong characters grapple with tough decisions and survive against the odds. Films depicting legal battles against major corporations denote the victory of the little man: a favorite American theme. We want to see intense suffering turned into personal triumph, which is integral to the mythos of our culture."

Tags:productions, motion, picture, oscar, academy

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This paper provides a biography of the life and work of award winning author Michael Cunningham. It looks at how his political and sexual ideas influenced his writing and gradually led to his acceptance as a novelist.

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Biography Michael Cunningham
Cunningham's Novels
Cunningham's Uncollected Fiction
Cunningham's Uncollected Nonfiction
Other
Awards
Media
Interviews
Praise for Cunningham
Critical Essays and Literary Reviews

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"Golden States is a coming-of-age novel, wherein the central character is concerned with asserting his manhood. At the same time that David watches his body transform through puberty, he faces a challenge to his protection of his family when Janet's fiance appears at the house and eventually convinces her to return with him to San Francisco. In response to this threat to his family's unity, David sets out in the middle of the night on a quest to travel to San Francisco and bring his sister back with him. Armed with his mother's gun, he crosses the freeway and buys a bus ticket. On the way to San Francisco he encounters many obstacles, including being nearly seduced by a man who gives him a lift, and eventually being taken into police custody as a runaway. Though he is unsuccessful in retrieving his sister, he does triumph in chasing one of the coyotes away from the yard. This achievement, it appears, is a small victory. "

Tags:Golden, States, Flesh, and, Blood, Land's, End, Provincetown, Specimen, Days, Dossier

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This paper presents a detailed examination of the voting procedures for the Tony Awards. The writer explores the history and the current procedure and provides the winning entries from a recent award ceremony.

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"For almost every genre in the entertainment field there is an award available. The rock industry has the MTV awards, the country field as the CMT awards, and the actors on film have their Emmy awards. The theater also has an award that its participants can be nominated for. The Tony Award is considered to be a prestigious honor for anyone involved in the world of theater. The Tony Awards are decided through a voting process that has a long history behind it."

Tags:theatre

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This paper explains that this classic short film "The Red Balloon" is about a lonely Parisian boy who is befriended by a large red balloon, which seems to have a will and mind of its own and basically refuses to be abandoned by the boy. The author points out that, although on the surface, this film may appear to be rather pointless, there is an underlying theme that is intended to inspire imagination and thought on a deeper level. This paper stresses that the film has no dialogue; thus, the actors' abilities especially the ability of the director's son, Pascal, is exceptionally good.

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"Tom Keogh notes that as with Lamorisse's preceding short film, the 1952 "White Mane," the French director took home a grand prize from the Cannes Film Festival for "The Red Balloon," and also won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Through the years there have been both pro and con pieces of film criticism written concerning the aesthetics of this movie, however, there is no doubt that Lamorisse created a very sensitive allegorical film that never fails to spur dialogue among viewers of any age."

Tags:classic, music, commitment, cinematography, political

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Examines the social realities of class distinctions under emerging Fascism. Discusses the movie as a neo-realist film, how the characters develop through tragic circumstances, and the film as a study of Jews in Italy.

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"The nature of film as a cultural medium allows the audience to feel a sense of control over the images being projected. The audience, as spectators, feels a sense of privilege within their position in the screening room and thus they feel a sense of ..."

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An examination of the wealth of symbolism in the movie "American Beauty." The writer shows that one of the main motifs of film is the exposure of the American dream for what it truly is--a pursuit of happiness through material objects. It examines the various characters and how they represent and symbolize this false dream, as exposed through the life and transformation of the main character, Lester Burnham.

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"Winner of 5 Academy Awards, American Beauty captivated audiences with its stunning screenplay and cinematography and its stellar acting. Sam Mendes executed Alan Ball's script with flair, and the film is accompanied by an indispensable score that accentuates its darkly humorous mood. The title of Sam Mendes' 1999 film American Beauty seems slightly ambiguous, as it refers to a multitude of meanings and symbols in the picture. However, the theme of beauty, and specifically American beauty, emerges through all of the main characters in the movie. The American Beauty could be the sultry teen Angela, the epitome of blond American sex appeal. Carolyn's obsessive tending her rose garden is a pervasive and double-sided symbol of beauty, as her flowers are a thin cover for the ugliness in her life. Perhaps the greatest messenger of beauty in the film is Ricky Fitts, the eccentric pot-smoking teenager who through his camera lens perceives beauty everywhere he looks, so much beauty that he feels his "heart is going to cave in." Regardless, beauty is found everywhere in this film and is portrayed by various characters, symbols, and scenes."

Tags:lester, burnham, dream, materialism

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss and compare the play "Angels in America," by Tony Kushner. Specifically the paper discusses who are the angels, how do they affect the play and what do they symbolize? The different characters and their roles are detailed, as are the different events that shape their lives. The author also explores Kushner's use of magic and how it is threaded throughout the play.

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"Later, in the second play, one of the characters equates angels to "powerful bureaucrats, they have no imagination, they can do anything but they can't invent, create, they're sort of fabulous and dull all at once" (Kushner). Thus, the angels can stand for anything and everything that is happening to America. Consistently, the characters say how hard it is to live in America. They are referring to how difficult it is to fit into society when you are different - a Mormon, gay, black, or sick. Angels in America are the ones who know how hard it is to live here, and do it day after day."

Tags:aids, hiv, human, death, angel, society, future, impressions, hope, courage, magic, moments, lesson, moral