This is how repetition made a tradition in Veronica Chamber's family: I grew up watching my Catholic mother light candles for every prayer. ... As I grew older, lighting candles was a ritual that I adopted "and now I light a candle almost every night. When I want to treat myself, the candles are lushly scented creations. ... (The Power of Family Rituals) A tradition such as lighting candles, which probably had religious significance to Veronica's mother, can be created just because the act is repeated so often. That Veronica lost the religious meaning of lighting ...

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The opposition of light and dark as symbols for life and death is the foundation upon which much of Shakespeare's Macbeth is built. In Act V Scene V of Macbeth, strong words covey his troubled thoughts to the reader. The tone for Macbeth's speech is set after he hears of the death of his wife, Lady ...

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The opposition of light and dark as symbols for life and death is the foundation upon which much of Shakespeare's Macbeth is built. In Act V Scene V of Macbeth, strong words covey his troubled thoughts to the reader. The tone for Macbeth's speech is set after he hears of the death of his wife, Lady ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

" Life is beautiful" is a deep touch movie about love of a Jewish father for his family (his wife and his son) in Nazi concentration camp. With Jewish father character, there is no wonder Roberto Benigni won the Best Actor and Director Academy Awards for his talent. The first main stage of the mo...

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Analysis of Scenes Camera angles, shots, and lighting In the creation of our script, we included various angle shots to work with for the scenes we were creating. However, during the actual creation of the movie, we found that different angle shots were more effective than those of the ones t...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminates "The Great Gatsby" with light, highlighting the glitz; similarly, the absence of light accentuates the grit of the novel. Sunlight, starlight and moonlight are all plentiful in Nick Carraway's account, but so is twilight – that period of time when the sun has just s...

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The first verse sets the scene. A man is talking to the darkness (put many possible interpretations for darkness here, I'll let you pick one) about a vision he had, and just can't shake. The vision has been "planted in his brain" so it obviously affected him deeply. In this verse you first hear the ...

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Look closer. American Beauty is a black, startling look at the nuclear family in suburban America. Lester and Carolyn Burnham are - on the outside - a perfect husband and wife, with a perfect house, in a perfect neighbourhood. But inside, Lester is a powder keg of depression. The cinematography of C...

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