For this 3-5 page essay (Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1 inch margins), you will focus on ONE of the FOUR movies we recently watched and discussed in its historical context: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Man with a Movie Camera, The Battleship Potemkin (if you have watched the whole thing), Un Chien Andoulu or Rules of the Game (although you may use other films as evidence to support your thesis). Part of our goal in this class is to reflect on the national and international forces influencing the development of film’s language and messages. Your goal is to discuss how your chosen film’s formal structural patterns, technical developments and/or meanings relate to its historical and/or material and/or economic and/or political circumstances. In what ways does the way the film presents its story (the structure of its plot, its mise-en-scène, settings, character, editing, camera work, sound) work with what its story says, and how does that, in turn, relate to the context in which it was created and exhibited?
Your paper must include at least one detailed close reading of a single scene working as evidence in support of your thesis. Always remember that film is a VISUAL medium, and close readings ought to include interpretations of the relationship between visual/cinematographic strategies and the themes of the film you’ve chosen to focus on.
I encourage you to support your readings with secondary research and citations. You are welcome to use any of the readings from class, including the textbook, as well as independent research (remember our research guide! https://guides.stetson.edu/filmLinks to an external site.). Be sure to cite research using MLA formatting.
An A paper will have an original thesis (an interpretation of the film against which reasonable people might offer counterarguments or alternative interpretations); it will provide appropriate, properly-cited evidence in establishing its context and supporting its interpretations, and its close reading will go beyond narrative-driven evidence, taking into account cinematographic elements (the stuff we learn about in class: composition, sound, editing, camera angles, etc). Your goal is not to discuss WHAT happened, but to offer a unified explanation and interpretation of the primary effect and/or meaning the film or the film’s technique generates.
Breakdown:
Format: 1 inch margins, 12pt Times New Roman font, 3-5 pages (min/max), an effective title
Goal: Discuss how your chosen film’s formal structural patterns, technical strategies and/or meanings relate to its historical/material/economic/political circumstances (you don’t have to fit ALL of these issues/approaches in your paper – but the result should in some way address form, meaning, and context).
Required Elements:
A genuine thesis addressing form, meaning, and context
One detailed, close reading of a single scene
Visual/cinematographic interpretations
Category: English
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“The Intersection of Form, Meaning, and Context: A Close Reading of [chosen film]”
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Title: “Exploring Ancient Cultures: A Research Report on Egyptian Culture and Dance” Introduction: Egyptian culture and dance have a rich history that dates back to 3000 B.C. This ancient civilization has left a lasting impact
You will select one of the following Ancient Cultures upon which to write a brief research report (This must NOT be the same dance form as your Favorite Dance Form):
Egyptian Culture and Dance (from 3000 B.C. – 0)
Greek Culture and Dance (450 B.C. – 0)
Roman Culture and Dance (100 B.C. – 400 A.D.)
1. Use the learning module material, and conduct an online search of the assigned culture. Summarize (in your own words) what you learned under each of the following headings:
What is unique about the culture you research?
What did the culture you research accomplish in the arts and science?
What was their belief system (religion, mythology, philosophy)?
What did the culture you research teach to the Western world?
Why did the people of the culture you research dance/or perform dance rituals?
What place did dance take in their culture?
Conclusion: Compare and Contrast
How can you relate what you learned to our culture today?
How can you relate their dance style to the favorite dance form you discussed in your “Journal”?
Can you find similarities in the reasons why they danced?
Similarities in the political aspects of their dance?
2. Please include:
A Brief description and definition of your dance form;
A brief discussion of its origins;
A brief outline of its development through the ages;
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Quotes from “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” “A Winter’s Welcome: A Mysterious Encounter Behind the Iron Gates” “The Unexpected Hospitality”
Instructions will be uploaded laRead ″The Courtship of Mr. Lyon
Links to an external site.″ and collect at least two quotes for your essay from the story. Turn in both quotes as complete sentences including context which identifies the speaker and audience, as well as in-text citations which identify the source. When to use in-text citation:
when you quote
when you paraphrase
when you refer to a plot point in a story (novel, short story, narrative article)
when you write anything you didn′t know before you read it
Where to add in-text citation:
at the end of the sentence which contains the quoted or otherwise cited material–even if the sentence goes on after the quoted material
after the quotation marks
before the period
How to cite in MLA format:
If you have both, use the author′s last name and page number. If you are using websites, just use the author′s last name.
For the two sources by the same author in this unit, if you are using websites, use (Carter Courtship) and (Carter Tiger) to differentiate. If you are using the book, the page numbers will make the differentiation clear.
If you are using the book, there should be nothing between the last name and page number but a space (No comma, no p., no pp., no pg. Do not ″p″ all over your paper.)
You must also include context in the sentence. The context should show:
Who is speaking (The Beast said, . . .)
If possible, to whom (The Beast reminded Belle, . . .)
As needed, clarifying details (Notice how in the example below the context shows Beauty is worried about her father, identifying the ″he″ mentioned in the quoted material.)
For our purposes, there is always a comma at the end of context before the quote.
Example: Beauty thought to herself, ″The roads are bad. I hope he′ll be safe″ (Carter).
(context) (quote) (citation)
(Note for those using screen readers: the phrase ″Beauty thought to herself,″ is in red, as is its label ″context″. The quote ″The roads are bad. I hope he′ll be safe″ are in blue, as is their label ″quote″. The citation ″(Carter).″ is in purple, as is its label ″citation″.)
You Need To Know:
You cannot use the quote above. For one thing, it will not work well for your essay.
The color coding above only exists to show you the three parts of the quote sentence: context, quote, and citation. Please do not color code your quote sentences.
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ANGELA CARTER-THE COURTSHIP OF MR. LYONS
Outside her kitchen window, the hedgerow glistened as if the snow possessed a light of its own; when the sky darkened towards evening, an unearthly, reflected pallor remained behind upon the winter′s landscape, while still the soft flakes floated down. This lovely girl, whose skin possesses that same, inner light so you would have thought she, too, was made all of snow, pauses in her chores in the mean kitchen to look out at the country road. Nothing has passed that way all day; the road is white and unmarked as a spilled bolt of bridal satin.
Father said he would be home before nightfall.
The snow brought down all the telephone wires; he couldn′t have called, even with the best of news.
The roads are bad. I hope he′ll be safe.
But the old car stuck fast in a rut, wouldn′t budge an inch; the engine whirred, coughed and died and he was far from home. Ruined, once; then ruined again, as he had learnt from his lawyers that very morning; at the conclusion of the lengthy, slow attempt to restore his fortunes, he had turned out his pockets to find the cash for petrol to take him home. And not even enough money left over to buy his Beauty, his girl-child, his pet, the one white rose she said she wanted; the only gift she wanted, no matter how the case went, how rich he might once again be. She had asked for so little and he had not been able to give it to her. He cursed the useless car, the last straw that broke his spirit; then, nothing for it but to fasten his old sheepskin coat around him, abandon the heap of metal and set off down the snow-filled lane to look for help.
Behind wrought iron gates, a short, snowy drive performed a reticent flourish before a miniature, perfect, Palladian house that seemed to hide itself shyly behind snow-laden skirts of an antique cypress. It was almost night; that house, with its sweet, retiring melancholy grace, would have seemed deserted but for a light that flickered in an upstairs window, so vague it might have been the reflection of a star, if any stars could have penetrated the snow that whirled yet more thickly. Chilled through, he pressed the latch of the gate and saw, with a pang, how, on the withered ghost of a tangle of thorns, there clung, still, the faded rag of a white rose.
The gate clanged loudly shut behind him; too loudly. For an instant, that reverberating clang seemed final, emphatic, ominous as if the gate, now closed, barred all within it from the world outside the walled, wintry garden. And, from a distance, though from what distance he could not tell, he heard the most singular sound in the world: a great roaring, as of a beast of prey.
In too much need to allow himself to be intimidated, he squared up to the mahogany door. This door was equipped with a knocker in the shape of a lion′s head, with a ring through the nose; as he raised his hand towards it, it came to him this lion′s head was not, as he had thought at first, made of brass, but, instead, of solid gold. Before, however, he could announce his presence, the door swung silently inward on well-oiled hinges and he saw a white hall where the candles of a great chandelier cast their benign light upon so many, many flowers in great, free-standing jars of crystal that it seemed the whole of spring drew him into its warmth with a profound intake of perfumed breath. Yet there was no living person in the hall.
The door behind him closed as silently as it had opened, yet, this time, he felt no fear although he knew by the pervasive atmosphere of a suspension of reality that he had entered a place of privilege where all the laws of the world he knew need not necessarily apply, for the very rich are often very eccentric and the house was plainly that of an exceedingly wealthy man. As it was, when nobody came to help him with his coat, he took it off himself. At that, the crystals of the chandelier tinkled a little, as if emitting a pleased chuckle, and the door of a cloakroom opened of its own accord. There were, however, no clothes at all in this cloakroom, not even the statutory country-house garden mackintosh to greet his own squirearchal sheepskin, but, when he emerged again into the hall, he found a greeting waiting for him at last–there was, of all things, a liver and white King Charles spaniel crouched, with head intelligently cocked, on the Kelim runner. It gave him further, comforting proof of his unseen host′s wealth and eccentricity to see the dog wore, in place of a collar, a diamond necklace.
The dog sprang to its feet in welcome and busily shepherded him (how amusing!) to a snug little leather-panelled study on the first floor, where a low table was drawn up to a roaring log fire. On the table, a silver tray; round the neck of the whisky decanter, a silver tag with the legend: Drink me, while the cover of the silver dish was engraved with the exhortation: Eat me, in a flowing hand. This dish contained sandwiches of thick-cut roast beef, still bloody. He drank the one with soda and ate the other with some excellent mustard thoughtfully provided in a stoneware pot, and, when the spaniel saw to it he had served himself, she trotted off about her own business.
All that remained to make Beauty′s father entirely comfortable was to find, in a curtained recess, not only a telephone but the card of a garage that advertised a twenty-four-hour rescue service; a couple of calls later and he had confirmed, thank God, there was no serious trouble, only the car′s age and the cold weather … could he pick it up from the village in an hour? And directions to the village, but half a mile away, were supplied, in a new tone of deference, as soon as he described the house from where he was calling.
And he was disconcerted but, in his impecunious circumstances, relieved to hear the bill would go on his hospitable if absent host′s account; no question, assured the mechanic. It was the master′s custom.
Time for another whisky as he tried, unsuccessfully, to call Beauty and tell her he would be late; but the lines were still down, although, miraculously, the storm had cleared as the moon rose and now a glance between the velvet curtains revealed a landscape as of ivory with an inlay of silver. Then the spaniel appeared again, with his hat in her careful mouth, prettily wagging her tail, as if to tell him it was time to be gone, that this magical hospitality was over. -
The Importance of Avoiding Personal Pronouns and Properly Citing Sources in Academic Writing
don’t use “we”
make sure paragraphs cite a source and use PIE format
each body paragraph should include topic sentence APPEARS AT VEGINNING
then support that point with cited examples and explain what u mean and how this connects with ur thesis
don’t use too many indents on small paragraphs
do not address the reader
give credentials to sources to show readers why they should believe them
don’t being a body paragraph with a quote
make clear distinctions between you and the ideas of others
use quote sandwiches
before adding in a quote, introduce it was a singal phrase including the source(usually an author) and a reporting verb
do not use author of the source article as support in your body paragraphs
avoid sentence fragments
when saying “this idea” say what idea it is first
background info should be in the summary of the source article in the introductory paragraph
big calls belong in conclusion not in first body paragraph
avoid gramatical errors
avoid passive voice
be clear and concise with sentences
CONNECT HOOK TO SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE ARTICLE
the summary should include title and the authors name in first or second sentence
avoid quoting in summary
do not include opinions in summary
write the summary as though you were writing it for a reader who is unfamiliar with the text -
“Simple Solutions: Customized Writing Assistance for English Language Learners”
Can you just choose one of them and do it for me by simply way because my English is not very good my teacher will know
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Title: The Power of Family in “The Grapes of Wrath”
A. Heading & Title: Please head your paper and
title it according to MLA. If you need a refresher on how to head your
paper correctly, please review the previous section in the module.
B. Paragraph 1: In the first paragraph, you must summarize the story and introduce your thesis.
Introduce Story: Start the paragraph by introducing the story. Include the full name of the writer and the full title of the story.
Summarize: Then, you must briefly summarize the
story. The summary should be brief. It should focus on the main events
of the story. The summary should be between three to four sentences.
Thesis: The thesis is the last sentence of your
first paragraph. It needs to answer the prompt question you selected. It
should not just tell me what happened in the story.
C. Paragraph 2: In the second paragraph, you will develop the argument in the thesis by doing some critical analysis. There are six key elements you must include in the second paragraph:
Topic Sentence: The topic sentence is the first sentence. It connects to or repeats the idea in your thesis from paragraph 1.
Citation 1: This is a citation from the text that
supports your thesis. Go back to your story and find a citation that
supports the argument you are making in your thesis. What is a citation?
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Lesson Plan: Introduction to Present Simple for Beginning Level Students Lesson Aim/Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to use the present simple tense to describe habitual actions in their daily lives. Assumptions: – Students
I need someone to create a full lesson plan to follow these objectivesLesson aim(s)/objective(s) for students to learn that day
Assumptions on topics such as student background knowledge, language skills, and/or interest as it relates to your lesson plan
A summary of any anticipated problems your students may face and possible solutions
Worksheets, visuals, or prompts that you create or modify (attach and cite any sources)
Clear instructions to students and role of the teacher
Time estimates for each stage
Desсrіption of one or two methods of gram
#1: Present Simple (beginning level)
Teach how the present simple can be used to describe habitual actions in one’s life (e.g. “I take the bus to school every day.”) You can assume that students have already been introduced to some basic verbs and nouns to describe common daily routines.mar assessment that could follow your lesson plan.
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“Experienced and Multilingual Candidate with Strong Leadership and Event Planning Skills”
These two paragraphs are for my work resume. Please rewrite and eddit them in a proper
language so I can submit them to those company that I’m apprying.
I’ve always wanted to work overseas, so I’ve been studying English and Chinese myself. I studied on my own and passed HSK level 6 with almost a perfect score. I got a score of 33 on the ACT. I majored in economics at university and eventually graduated with an Economics degree. In addition to economics, I have also worked as a TA to assist students studying Chinese and Japanese. Other than studies, I was elected as a Vice President of CSSA and has hosted and successfully organized numerous events. What really left an impression on me was the poker tournament that I myself proposed and held in collaboration with a local poker club. The three-day tournament was also a place for global students to communicate and international exchange, attracting not only Asian students but also over 200 people from 11 countries around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea, and China.etc… A part of the entry fee was donated to FOR THE KIDS®, a charity supporting children affected by cancer and their families, and the result was a mutual benefit that also raised the profile of the local poker club.
I have lived in Shanghai since I was a child. At the time, I was attending a global school that had students from all over the world, and that’s when I started to become interested in different cultures and languages. Having lived in Shanghai for eight years, I speak Chinese like a native speaker. After high school, I decided to go to America myself and I majored in economics. In addition to my basic language skills of Japanese, Chinese, and English, I believe that my strengths are my ability to adapt flexibly to any new environment and my communication skills. Although I had to change schools many times due to family circumstances and lived in various countries, I was able to quickly get to know everyone and gain their trust. My university has few Japanese students, and the only Asian student council is CSSA (Chinese Students and Scholars Association), and as a special case, I was appointed as the first Japanese vice president.I believe that listening intently to everyone’s opinions and making many successful events such as the New Year Festival and Sing!China led to the results. In high school, I lived in a dormitory, and in my senior year, I was chosen to be the dormitory leader administrator. Students from 13 countries around the world, including Vietnam, India, Spain, and Chin etc.., gathered in the dormitory, and as it was their first time living in a foreign country away from their parents, they were anxious, and there were constant conflicts due to cultural differences. I was able to use my experience living in a new, foreign environment to support the students and bring everyone together. -
Title: Exploring the Foundations of Bioethics: An Analysis of Normative and Alternative Ethical Theories and their Application to Bioethical Issues.
Essay Questions from Foundations of Bioethics
What is bioethics?
What is the difference between teleological and deontological normative ethical
theories. Our text provided an overview of five normative ethical theories and three other alternative ethical theories. The normative theories were: act and rule utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, W.D. Ross’ deontology, Rawls’ theory of justice, and Major Moral Principles. The alternative theories were: virtue ethics, care, and feminist ethics. For each of these theories, provide the following analysis:
What are the major tenets of each theory? On what basis do they distinguish good (right) from bad (wrong) actions, behavior?
What are the major advantages and disadvantages to each theory?
How does each theory relate to bioethical issues? Be able to apply solutions to
case studies through the theories.
Be able to define the nature and scope of autonomy and paternalism and explain how they relate to common issues in bioethics. -
“The Devastating Impact of Cyberbullying on Teenagers: Exploring Causes, Effects, and Solutions”
Topic: effect of cyberbullying on teenager. Use three research:( 3 sources) structure example: Paragraph 1: catch attention (statistics, anecdotes work well) 5-6 sentences Paragraph 2: The topic of the paper is (state the tittle) 5-6 sentences. The topic of this paper is in three-fold. one ——– two——– three. paragraph 3: This explains how the paper is organized. (The paper proceeds as follows. It is divided into three parts. Part one will———-. Part two ————) paragraph 4: Transition to body of paper. ( now I turn to part one. Part one will answer three questions, state the question and answer each question in order). paragraph 5: the conclusion