One of the most unambiguous signs of a mid life crisis is the confrontation of death as a personal event in the future. ... After Lester is shot, he recalls what events flash through his mind in the few seconds following his death. ... It appears to the viewer that the root of Lester's unhappiness is the typical cause of the common mid life crisis, the answer to the question, "Where do I go from here?" ... Lesters acceptance of his own mortality and physical condition is another sign of his progression through a mid life crisis. ... All of these signs validate the argument that Lester b...

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Again the common theme is that the audience is being confused, amused, but also diverted after Zero and The Author make their acquaintance to have dinner and learn the story of a lonely man who seems so small in a wide planimetric shot. ... He seems to never leave the center of the frame in Wes Anderson's planimetric shots unless in conversation with his dearest friends or enemies to whom the audience makes a connection. ... Best illustrated by the shot of the struggle below the mid-thigh to help show the audience the entanglement and struggle between M. ... ZZ soldiers board the train wi...

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A monolith arrives from the sky in the middle of the protohumans in a long shot, where the apes are jumping and praising it out of awe and wonderment. ... Floyd is the only one sitting in a room full of chairs, either in wide angle shots or long shots. ... There is a mid ranged shot toward the beginning of the film where Dr. ... There are many eyeline match shots, as well as reverse shots, of Bowman looking at multiple, aged versions of himself, either eating, lying in bed, looking in the mirror, or dying. ... Deren switches the establishing shots between the paved road by the beach, the downs...

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The French New Wave Movement of the mid twentieth century was an artistic revolution in cinema, but the movement not only made implications in the austere world but also in the worlds of politics and social spheres. ... They were shot in the present day and were applicable to modern issues, unlike the outdated costume dramas churned out by the 'cinéma de papa'" (Graham, 163). ... The article captured the life and times of France's next generation during the mid twentieth century. ... Most historians would claim that the New Wave Cinema movement of the mid twentieth ...

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On the dawn of June 17, 1966, four people were shot and fatally wounded in Paterson, New Jersey. ... He goes on to say: "During the mid-nineteen-sixties, the city was the scene of several racial disorders touched off by charges of discrimination and police brutality. ... By the mid-sixties tensions between the black and Latino neighborhoods and city hall had reached the breaking point. ... In their work, Inside Out: fifty years behind the walls of New Jersey's Trenton Sate Prison, Harry Camissa and Jim Franklin point out several notable facts, such as, Carter and Artis being arrested an...

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Players are remembered for their missed shots, letting their team down when needed most, and most important their weaknesses. ... Her career began in the mid 1920s only into the mid-1940s, ending; just as many racial barriers in American sports began to crumble. ...

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By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... On the 5th of March, 1770, British troops shot, and consequently killed, five members of a rioting crowd in Boston, the then largest colony of New England. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ... The various revenue raising Acts from the mid 1760's to the early 1770's proved to be the most detrimental of strains leading towards the A...

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By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... On the 5th of March, 1770, British troops shot, and consequently killed, five members of a rioting crowd in Boston, the then largest colony of New England. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ... The various revenue raising Acts from the mid 1760's to the early 1770's proved to be the most detrimental of strains leading towards the A...

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Furthermore, it may be the fact that information about the Holocaust was delayed in reaching a mass audience until the mid 1960's and therefore, generations of people have not yet fully come to terms with what occurred. ... The viewer is forced to witness Jews being shot and pyramids of the remains of human corpses. ... According to Solotoroff, as cited by Desser and Friedman (1993) it was not until the mid 1960's that Jewish (rather then American) issues as Israel and the Holocaust entered their work in any substantive manner (pg 8). ...

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Hearts and Minds (1974), is a Peter Davis documentary concerning various perspectives on the influences, circumstances, and the results of the United States of America presence in Vietnam during the mid sixties until the early seventy's. ... As the point has already been visited previously in this paper, Davis, while allowing the subjects being filmed to be un-coached in responses or actions, still imparts a great deal of meaning through the style of shots, filming, and editing he has chosen to use in the film. ... I believe there is a greater deal of footage shot in the style of cin&ea...

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This is still happening today, such as the recent events that have taken place in Ferguson, Missouri over the death of 18-year old Michael Brown; events that have been deemed "race riots" due to the police that shot Brown being white. ... Another example comes from the Independence revolutions in India in the early to mid 1900s to separate itself from rule under the British crown. ...

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However, as a number of studies have shown, juveniles commit a proportionately higher number of violent crimes than members of other age groups, and since the mid-1980's, juvenile offenders have become increasingly violent. ... (A felony assault with a firearm may occur when the offender points a gun at the victim, whether or not any shots were fired or any injury resulted.) ...

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The Puritans were a group of English Protestants who emerged in the mid-to-late 1500's and eventually rose to become affiliated with one of the darkest and most troublesome periods in American history. ... Two dogs were also shot or killed after being suspected of witchcraft. ...

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It wasn't until the mid-1900, that doctors began to search for further into the specific reasoning of why crime was committed. ... During the multiple stab wounds and gun shots, according to the CNN case it was crystal clear murder. ...

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By mid-May, Watutsi soldiers had completed their military operations against the so-called rebels. ... By mid-May, President Micombero had sanctioned a policy of selective genocide of educated Bahutus. ...

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Since the rabbit cells never come into immediate contact with human blood, the shots of spoiling or denial are minimized. ... Conclusion Since its emergence in the mid-1980s, tissue engineering has perpetuated to evolve as an exhilarating and multidisciplinary field aiming to develop biological substitutes to recuperate, supersede or regenerate defective tissues. ...

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He does this because of his superior intelligence and looks down at the feeble intellect displayed by society whereas the hardboiled detective is mid-way between lawful society and the underworld, walking on the brink. ... Philip Marlowe is repeatedly hit on the head with blackjacks or gun barrels, shot at and beaten. ...

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The right of Britain to tax the colonists became a serious issue throughout 1766-mid 1770's. ... However before the Congress could meet again, on the morning of April 19th, 1775 shots were exchanged between colonials and the British soldiers. ...

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During the mid-1970s Isaac Ehrlich found a strong correlation between the number of executions and the murder rate, saying that each execution prevented seven or eight murders in effect (Henderson 259). ... While hanging out with a friend at a convenience store at the age of 16, he developed a wonderment of what it would be like to take a life, so he shot the clerk dead. ...

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Introduction At the end of the 1990s, Ireland remained top of the OECD growth league and had the largest current account surplus in the world. Since 1994, the unofficial birth date of the "Celtic Tiger,"" growth has proceeded at a historically unprecedented 8.6 per cent per year. "An amazing turnar...

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Just a cannon shot away from the Vatican City, it proved a convenient safe haven for the pontiff back in the days when he ran the papal states, the independent nation in Central Italy, and warred with his neighbors. ...

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This is most obvious in the figure of the sarge on the right, who glances away indifferently and checks his musket while the shots are fired, and the line of rather apathetic spectators (fig. 6) and greenery make up a fairly narrow slice of background, separated from the foreground by the high, cool-colored gray wall. ...

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Television Violence Myth Twelve teenagers and one teacher were shot to death and eighteen others were wounded at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. ... Many who reject television violence are persuaded that the violence shown on several programs has actually increased for example, air time for war cartoons jumped from approximately two hours per week in the mid-eighties to forty-three hours a week in the early nineties (Gogna n.pag.). ...

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In the article, "Body Shots: Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders," written by Emily Fox-Kales compares the beauty ideal between certain celebrities of today and the past. ... Body image becomes a major issue as females go through puberty; girls in mid-adolescence frequently report being dissatisfied with weight, fearing further weight gain, and being preoccupied with weight loss (Berk, 2008). ...

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