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In this article, the writer discusses the way the elements of style are used in the film "My Darling Clementine" to elucidate its central themes. The writer examines the use of style and the themes of the settlers' civilization of the West, the character of the lone cowboy or fugitive who doesn't fit into the developing social community, and the violent clash between the Clantons and the Earps that exemplify these disparities.

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"The opening credits are highlighted by an upward tilted camera angle that shows the dog-eared boards of a Western signpost that twists with each one. They are starkly etched in ..."

Tags:my, darling, clementine

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This paper discusses the concept of collaborative learning in Linda Darling-Hammond's "The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work".

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"Linda Darling-Hammond's "The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work" focuses on collaborative learning as a means of strengthening critical thoughts and group skill-building in students across educational spectrums. "If the United States is to maintain a healthy democracy, its education system will need to sustain a shared social life and a more ambitious pursuit of human possibility (Darling-Hammond, 31)." Darling-Hammond stressed the importance of learning as less a punitive measure for understanding than a way to..."

Tags:learning, darling, hammond, collaborative

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This paper summarizes the 1946 film "My Darling Clementine" by John Ford. The paper reviews the western film which follows the adventures and personal struggles of drifter Wyatt Earp in his journey into civilization. In particular, the author highlights Earp's personal struggle to avenge his younger brother's death and explains how this becomes a metaphor for the imposition of law and Christian morality upon the American West. The paper also explains how the film depicts an equivocal stand between civilization and chaos.

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"Doc's coughing grows noticeably worse as he talks with Clementine. The noise of the bar fades back, and Doc and the viewer can only focus on Clementine, who shames him with her purity, a purity that is even more intense because of the soft-focused glowing lighting that makes her face seem even more angelic and pale. They engage in a long dialogue in the saloon, the presence of Clementine in such a place seeming increasingly incongruous as the scene wears on. Clementine can only think that Doc has left her because he is sick, and is afraid of burdening her, but Doc's sickness is a metaphor for the sickness of his soul, not just that of his body, although he knows his physical enjoyment has destroyed his body."

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Abstract
In this article, the writer analyzes the classic film "My Darling Clementine". The writer discusses the way in whcih the elements of style are used in the film to elucidate its central themes. The writer looks at the themes of the settlers' civilization of the West, the character of the lone cowboy or fugitive who doesn't fit into the developing social community, and the violent clash between the Clantons and the Earps that exemplify these disparities.

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"In the first scene each of the Earp brothers on the cattle drive is introduced by a low-angle medium shot profiled on horseback against the sky. Somehow the short take, the brief isolation of each one, exposes a premonition of mortality, which is heightened by the ominous arrival of Old Man Clanton and his son Ike hunched over on their buckboard, in a medium shot seen from the back. They, their rig, and their horses are dark figures in the gathering dusk of the hills as Wyatt Earp rides up from the daylight plain to speak to them in low-angled closeup."

Tags:cowboy, duel, Earp, brothers, Old, Man, Clanton

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This paper examines John Ford's Western "My Darling Clementine" (1946) and how in particular the lighting adds to the gritty and harsh nature of the landscape, the town and the characters. It looks at how Ford and his cinematographer actually use lighting and other elements to create a film that falls between the myth and the reality. The lighting suggests a harsh and realistic West, while the isolation of Wyatt Earp in scene after scene sets him apart as a laconic and yet powerful figure.

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"The opening sequences show the use of filters to bring out the sky and the clouds over Monument Valley as the Earps bring their cattle across the valley floor. The lighting through most of this opening sequence evokes the documentary which uses only natural sunlight as a source, adding to the realism of the scene and contributing to the grittiness and harsh look of the landscape. This is not a Western that prettifies the West and its denizens. Instead, Ford approaches the West here as a hard place to live and as a place peopled by hard people. Those who seem to "belong" to this landscape will be contrasted with Clementine, who clearly does not belong, especially in the eyes of Wyatt Earp. "

Tags:western, wyatt, earp, west, landscape

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the short story "The Darling" by Anton Chekhov. Specifically, the paper discusses the characters' point of view and the theme of the work. The paper examines how the story illustrates women's roles in Victorian society, and uses characterization, theme, and point of view to illustrate the confining lives of women and their families. The paper further examines the character of Olga, a sad, even pathetic character who only lives for the men in her life. The writer concludes that Olga's wasted life is a lesson to anyone who allows another to become the center of his or her world and interests.

Outline:
1. Introduction
a. Thesis
2. Background on Chekhov
a. Writing history and life
3. Characters
a. Olga
b. Husbands
4. Themes of the story
a. Women in society
b. Loss and Death
c. A Mother's Love
5. Conclusion

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"Olga (also called Olenka), is the main character of this story and the "darling" referred to in the title. She is an intriguing character full of weaknesses and faults, and yet Chekhov manages to make her sympathetic to the reader somehow. One critic of the story writes, "Tolstoy [...] believed that Chekhov had meant to denigrate his Olga, the buxom, warm-hearted 'darling' who has no opinions except those which she borrows from the current man in her life and who, without some male to worship, withers and grows sluttish, but that he could not help bathing her in sympathy" (Calder 251). Olga is sympathetic for a number of reasons. First, she genuinely seems grieved when she loses her first two husbands."

Tags:Victorian, relationships, Tolstoy, Chekhov, glorify, womanhood, femininity

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This paper examines the different way that Tolstoy and Welty analyzed Chekhov's story. It shows how Tolstoy finds that Chekhov wrote the story with his mind but not with his heart, which comes to assume that he knew how Chekhov felt when writing this story. Welty herself explains the story as if she were fishing, seeking deeper and deeper for meaning and for what the author intended.

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"Tolstoy says that when Chekhov was writing this story, he had in mind a vague image of a new woman and of her equality with man. He says that Chekhov wanted to show what a woman should be by showing what she "ought not to be" (Tolstoy 1557). One problem with Tolstoy's criticism of Chekhov is that he really just disagrees with Chekhov about the role of women, but he makes it seem that Chekhov was not thinking with his heart or he would have come to a different conclusion. He shows what Chekhov said, and then he shows his own bias by stating what the truth is, that the ambitions of a woman must be different from those of a man because a woman's work is very different from the work of a man. Tolstoy says that Chekhov was laboring under the influence of an absurd idea offered by the "fashionable woman movement" of the time, the idea that women can aspire to the same roles as men."

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Analysis of director John Ford's 1946 Western film centering on the lighting. How lighting conveys the theme and mood of the movie. Source of light; dramatic effect. Gives detailed examples of varioius lighting techniques used from several key scenes. How Ford and cinematographer Joseph MacDonald employed lighting and other elements to create a film that falls between the myth and reality.

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"In John Ford's Western My Darling Clementine (1946), the lighting adds to the gritty and harsh nature of the landscape, the town, and the characters. Cinematographer Joseph MacDonald relies heavily on source lighting for dramatic effect. Much of the film is shot with low-key lighting without the use of much fill light for the same purpose. There are also strong signs of the direction of the light, suggesting where the source lies. Day-for-night photography is used for many of the exterior night scenes, giving added dramatic effect and making the night sky appear at times to be on fire.


The film is structured on contrasts, and the low-key lighting similarly creates visual contrasts: The film's theme is the coming of civilization to the West. The western town of Tombstone becomes in Ford's..."

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Discusses Ford's filmic techniques, his organization of images, sound and pacing to create a picture of the Old West and Tombstone, Arizona, and the expressiveness of the three lead actors.

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"This paper is an analysis of John Ford's classic 1946 film, My Darling Clementine. The story climaxes in the fateful showdown at the O.K. Corral between the vicious Ike Clanton gang and the heroic Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Ford's organization of ..."

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This paper discusses the gender roles of women in the films "Red River" and "My Darling Clementine". The paper describes the ways in which the films show some strengths that woman are capable of, but directors Ford and Hawks never really present these women in a serious manner. The paper suggests that the patriarchal domination of the male roles in these films always seem to make laughing stock out of women, as the few women with any kind of power are diminished.

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"Film Studies: Understanding the Patriarchal Domination of Women in the Western Genre In this film study, the role of women within a patriarchal pioneering society is portrayed within the films My Darling Clementine (1946) and Red River (1948). By evaluating the historical background of the old west through cinema, women are often portrayed as submissive to the gun slinging and often more aggressive male roles in these films. By analyzing the way that the women characters are filmed in these westerns, one can realize how misogynistic the overall plot and character construction is presented through their actions and behaviors. In essence, the patriarchal construct of diminishing the power of women is evident within these two films. The role of many westerns in the 1940s reflect the growing family values that America chose to adopt in Hollywood after World War II."

Tags:westerns, feminist, ford