... from homes into homes. Although television was created to better education and communication, it has now turned into a brainwashing system that feeds our minds with images of criminal violence, advertisements, sex, drugs/alcohol and outrageous ways of behaving. I"m not saying that the Television Violence 3 communication and education isn't there, but most of the time it is overseen by this new way ... more than forty studies that have been done by scientists to show that seventy-three percent of individuals who commit crimes in cartoons and children's shows go unpunished in violent scen...

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... music. The music helped create a generation gap between teenagers and their parents since it was aimed more at teenagers than adults. Rock lyrics celebrated sex, drugs, and an alternate lifestyle. (Archer 99) The kids loved the music and again, the parents did not. Woodstock was a giant music ... right movement. Women were unhappy just being housewives and mothers. They formed the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. NOW worked to end sex discrimination and equal employment. Birth control pills were a new pill that women would take on certain days, and had almost a one hundred p...

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... roaming the street and prostituting themselves. In the novel, the hookers were at coffee house. In the movie, the hookers were roaming the street asking the American soldiers to have sex with them for 15 dollars. One of the most similar things in both the novel and the movie would be the women in the war. Private Joker and his platoon ... never shows what they went through before the war, or how they prepared for the war. However, in the movie there are scenes in which they show what the soldiers did to prepare for the war. One of the scenes showed Private Pyle and how he was going craz...

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... film begins at the beginning, showing the recruits at boot camp and shows the recruits follow through to the war. In the beginning scenes where it shows the recruits going through an obstacle course Kubrick edits the scenes so the viewer sees the repetition of physical activities to indicate the endurance needed to make it through boot camp. The boot camp segment ... of the film relentlessly cuts from one activity to another, allowing little time for the viewer to think about what is happening. In this scene Kubrick cuts scenes very fast and showing only short clips of what the men are ...

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... evolved their ideas to match their needs. Though the generations represent two totally different aspects of American culture and history, their revolutions with sex, clothes, and music will serve as foundations for future generations to come. As the years go by between generation and generation, one facet has remained ... pill, there was hardly any worry of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and babies. Whether it's on TV shows, movies, or even music videos, sex has become commercialized in the "90s generation. Unlike the hippie generation, who only had access to the birth contr...

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... Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it, my hair. The "consensus era" had the same reaction to the nonchalant attitude towards sex-they blacklisted all songs that were "offensive." The Doors" song, "Come On Baby Light My Fire," was though to be promoting promiscuity and was banned ... of the sixties than ever before. The difference in opinion between the Fifties and the Sixties regarding sex was remarkable. The fact that popular songs were openly referring sex, let alone sex before marriage was repulsive to the more conservatives. The fact that the hippie generation flaunted their sex...

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... . If the person is very creative and imaginative, reading a book would create a sort of motion picture inside their heads, but for those who need some help to produce characters, and scenes, movies would be a better tool for communicating a story. The Things They Carried is an enchanting war story that is told by Tim O"Brien, who claims that all of the tales ... he eventually chooses) is to embellish himself in the madness of the jungle. We first see how Willard has been adapted to the life in the jungle in the opening scenes of the movie. His narration relates the pain he feels as his a...

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... up the Nung river in a Navy patrol boat,and going into Cambodia to kill a U.S. army Colonel who has gone mad.The French plantation scene is the longest of the new scenes,and the best.Another new scene involves Willard exchanging two drums of oil for his boat crew to spend a couple of hours with the playboy bunnies,the scene is pretty ... pointless,but I don't mind.Other scenes including Willard stealing Kilgore's surf board,which adds much needed laughs in this other wise serious film.The other main addition is of Kurtz reading an article from TIME magazine ... ...

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... my dictionary, "Redux" is defined as a revival or having returned from battle or exile. Director Francis Ford Coppola has taken that meaning to a whole new level. Coppola has inserted a few scenes, including a long segment where U.S. soldiers stop at a French plantation. The sound, remarkable in its day, has even more impact in Walter Murch's restoration. The new soundtrack is full of squealing ... synthesizers and percussive effects by ex-Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. With a remastered soundtrack, original material and reintegrated scenes excised from the original 1979 masterpiece...

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... Easy Pieces looks for some of the psychological reasons for the hero's rootlessness and provides a better understanding of the American drifter than a more sentimental film like Easy Rider. The first scenes of the film show Bobby as a typical oil field worker. He works hard all day for his money and in his free time plays cards, drinks beer, bowls, and watches ... cynicism of the counter-culture movement of the late 1960's. When the four travelers stop at a chain restaurant for lunch, the audience is treated to one of the most memorable scenes of the film. When Bobby tries to order toas...

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... to compare experiences." (Cayton 846). In 1966, women formed the National Organization for Women. A movement was needed because of the unfairness and discrimination by sex in the work place. Women began burning bras to free them themselves from what the felt were injustices toward them. Two types of women's groups appeared ... equal pay for men and women doing the same work. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits job discrimination on the basis of sex as well as on the basis of color, race, national origin, and religion. One of the most violent wars happened in the sixties. ...

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... this generation grew up learning just about how to be free and happy. Most of the time, when thinking back to the sixties, people remember hearing about things such as sex, drugs, and racism. However, what they often tend to overlook is the large emphasis "freedoms" had on the era. This does not just refer to the freedoms already possessed by ... the world for the high of a life time. Haight Ashberry, San Francisco, was once considered hippie central for the world. Here people would just line the streets with drug use, sex, and wild music. In 1967, came the "Summer of Love." This period...

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... shoes Nike Air Force Ones. These particular shoes are a hot buy among teenagers for around 150 dollars. Not only has rappers degraded themselves but also they have degraded the female sex. (For example You aint nothing but a Hoochie Mama, You's a Ho,and You can do it if you put your back into it.) The 1960-1970 was a decade of music that ... as my music changes so did my taste in clothes. I also see that the music I listen to has no real important meaning the majority of music has to do with sex, girls, and relationships. I tend to love the music more than the lyrics. But I see that lyr...

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... the tremendous influence of the music of the sixties, it makes sense that one of the most memorable events of the decade was Woodstock, a three-day celebration of song, drugs, sex, and peace. Held in the Catskills in August 1969, Max Yusgar was paid fifty thousand dollars for the use of his farm. Bands included Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Richie Havens ... the U.S. at the time, and traffic was backed up for literally miles.39 The celebration received a lot of negative feedback from older generations, but other than excessive drug use premarital sex, Woodstock-goers handled themselves very ...

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Go Ask Alice The 1970s were a time of change, a time of revolution. War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. Richard Nixon was in ... good life for herself. Of course, these weren't the only things going on during the seventies. Everyone always thinks of the above mentioned obvious events. I mean, the 70s were the Sex Revolution, and the Drug Revolution, and the Protest Revolution era of time. Everyone knows that. But other things occurred...

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... , the Iran-Contra Scandal. Openly, the U.S supported Sadaam's regime, providing him with nuclear weapons such as mustard gas and satellite imagery of Iranian and Kurdish troop formation while behind the scenes the Reagan Administration sold stolen Pentagon weapons to Iran via Israel at an inflated price. The money, $30 million dollars, from the weapons was then used to fund the death ... ...

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... . Davis portrays the issues and dispositions that Americans knew and he shined light on them in a negative way. This display entwines with the use of pathos. Not only were the scenes historically accurate, they were absolutely heart wrenching to watch. The repetitive emphasis throughout the film on how we hurt Vietnam more than we helped brings us back to the main ... ...

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... Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the haunting voice of The Doors' Jim Morrison painfully croons, "Lost in a wilderness of pain, all the children are insane." These lyrics are coupled with scenes of tumultuous chaos and discordant images of dissolving memories. The scene finally focuses onto the face of a man, and it is realized that these memories are his own. The music ... ...

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... a photo she has seen hundreds of times before. Television gives Sam another look at some situations that her dad must have faced in Vietnam. It has the power to bring scenes of the war into her living room. Sam remembers when her family bought its first color television set. Because her mom became upset when Emmett told his war stories, TV ... ...

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... Cong but you rarely viewed them except as shadowy figures in the jungle or momentarily illuminated by the light of a flare. There were no defined battle lines and the combat scenes lead you to believe that the enemy was everywhere. The line between good and evil was blurred or non-existent in this film. Sergeant Elias was portrayed as a caring, intelligent ... ...

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... Wounded Knee." Throughout the reading of his story one can easily relate the Battle at Wounded Knee to the attack on Iraq that is occurring this year. Black Elk describes scenes that were almost identical to the stories reported on television. During Vietnam, a man with a positive vision, known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech at Riverside Church on the ... ...

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... the shade of big trees. Hoang Dieu Street is quiet. It is named "The Romantic Street", "The Street of Lovers". Many couples like walking on it because of its beautiful scenes. The most beautiful one is Thanh Nien Street. This long street is in the middle of two lakes Ho Tay and Ho Truc Bach. Like other streets in Hanoi, Thanh ... ...

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... blue collar communities all across America. These women were lifesavers, big sisters, mothers and angels. For the women who worked in hospitals, they have never been trained for the agonizing scenes they witnessed from burns to amputations to deaths on a daily basis. These women witnessed firsthand, the horrors and cost of this war. Nurses had to be officers and over the ... ...

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... take an astonishing and horrifying photograph which showed the body of a trishaw driver still upright after his legs had been blown off- (http://members.tripod.com/~greeneland/quiet.htm). It's scenes like these that make you realize just how horrible war really is. Although Fowler is often described as an anti-American, I think that he is more anti-war than anything ... ...

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... is somewhat deceptive for it does not really have an anti-war message as one would expect from a dark, messy, violent film. It does not really help persuade that such scenes must never occur again. Nor does it really make it clear that we must resist war, even if it is accompanied by the seductive speeches of political leaders saying that ... ...

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