The style of the documentary helped emphasise the issues in most instances, as well as structure it. ... The film utilised many stylistic and dynamic elements which was unlike conventional documentary approach. ... His film also enabled a broader acceptance of what a documentary should constitute, by using narrative and fictive elements such as music, stylistic elements, editing, and even re-enactments. ... The viewer is confused as to who the innocent party is at the beginning, since all the stylistic elements favour both Randall Adams, and David Harris. ... Through stylistic, and narrative e...

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Taking into account all of the stylistic and compositional elements that appear in the piece, Samson Captured by the Philistines can be most likely classified within the artistic period of the Italian Baroque. ... Again we look to the focal point of the painting to distill other elements of style. ... The diagonal then ironically leads to the traitor Delilah attempting to help Samson from the ambush. Other stylistic elements highlight the emphasis of its Baroque categorization, which include the use of a vibrant color palette on the clothes of Delilah. The elements of light and movement work t...

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The American Revolution was successful due to many key elements and individual. ... One of the reasons that his speeches were so effective was that he used a variety of stylistic devices. These stylistic devises include allusion, simile, metaphor, and repetition. ... The final stylistic device that Henry uses is repetition. ... There were many key figures that helped the Patriots build momentum prior to the start of the American Revolutionary War, but Patrick Henry was one of the most influential. ...

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By examining three films of Ray, (They Live by night, On Dangerous Ground, and Rebel Without a Cause), one might conclude that the key idea of the dysfunctional family helps drives each stylistic aspect of all three films. ... To help the theme of dysfunctional families come across Ray uses other elements of the film. ... Both are eager to help the occupants of their inn. ... Although, many film noir elements can be seen in Nicholas Ray's films. ... By using common, stylistic traits in each film, Ray creates an artistic universe. ...

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For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. ... Film Genres are made up of many elements with the most dominant dimensions Conventions, Formulas, and Expectation, which are uses to identify certain genres and distinguish them from others. Conventions are the properties or features that identify a genre, Formulas are the patterns for developing stories in a particular genre, and Expectations describe a v...

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This essay will highlight some of the aesthetic differences of Indian and Western art, from a technical, stylistic and symbolic point of view. ... Stylistically and symbolically, narrative representation of Indian art is also a world away from that of the western world. ... Artists and viewers alike are brought up having similar ebullience in expression and the understanding of the concept of illusion through illusory elements (Maya). ... Throughout Indian art, there are symbolic staples that help define its purpose. ... It has also helped shaped the judgement, attitude, understanding and emot...

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Three kind of brand attributes: corporate and brand history and core competencies, product and stylistic identity and visual identity. ... Stylistic identity defines the long term stylistic codes belonging to a brand (forms, colors, materials, product categories). ... Clearly, a strong consistency among stylistic identity and visual identity must exist in order to build a strong brand. Nevertheless stylistic identity and visual identity do not have to become a jail where the brand ages and looses relevance for its target. ... And it is not always true that going back to the roots "...

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Many of the thematic elements in "Taxi Driver" are borrowed from other movies which exhibit distinct film noir qualities. ... This disillusionment developed stylistically after American audiences sought a grittier, grimier reality than that featured in the studio-based productions of the thirties. ... The notion that America perhaps was not worth the effort lurks beneath the surface of many films noir, but this disillusionment becomes even more apparent in "Taxi Driver," both thematically and stylistically. ... Schrader argues that World War Two helped to generate the kind of cynicism, which ...

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There are many different works of art that have different stylistic periods. ... Both Rembrandt and Snyders worked in the Baroque stylistic period, which took place in Europe. ... Zacharias slowly moves down the stairs, while a young boy helps him, then on the other side you see Joseph as he climbs up the hill leading his donkey; these two figures are related by a several gestures that give the image more softness and fluidity. ... The figures are arranged parallel to the picture plane, and the vertical and horizontal elements stabilize the composition in the classicizing manner that...

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They use different instruments and have different ways of creating music; thus; they achieve stylistic differences. ... Music is used therapeutically to help physically or mentally challenged people. ... Among other purposes, music therapists use music to help people of all ages improve their self-esteem, find joy in self-expression, achieve elements of success through music, and find better ways of interacting socially with others. ...

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They use different instruments and have different ways of creating music; thus; they achieve stylistic differences. ... Music is used therapeutically to help physically or mentally challenged people. ... Among other purposes, music therapists use music to help people of all ages improve their self-esteem, find joy in self-expression, achieve elements of success through music, and find better ways of interacting socially with others. ...

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"Be not as Hermod" The fragment between lines 1724-1769 of Burton Raffel's translation of Beowulf includes many important elements of Anglo Saxon culture and epic poem characteristics. ... The text starts off by making great use of most of the Anglo Saxon stylistic traits. ... It is true that he embodies all the attributes valued by his society, has helped a community from a danger he was not concern about and has not asked for any reward but the ones that were given to him. ...

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Diversity and culture were the key elements to the different styles of many designs. ... Technical Discipline is "a thorough understanding of printing techniques and careful constructions of the visual elements."" ... In 1858, he helped to establish the Masuda Tadashi Design Institute. ... He rejected what he called "dehumanized forms- and advocates graphic design with "stylistic durability to survive beyond its time."" ... In his designs, he used the elements of fun and play. ...

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Cropsey employs a variety of artistic techniques to create realistic and stylistic elements. ... The large cloud hovering over the valley helps to frame the entire scene by providing an upper bound to the sky. ... One of the most important elements of The Old Homestead, Wyoming Valley is its lighting and how it affects the other objects in the painting. ...

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He wants to show that a society that exalts the lowest common denominator (the homely, the stupid, and the mediocre) by handicapping all those with talent, intellect, and beauty, can never help those with natural disabilities. ... Democratic institutions help to control people's baser natures, but even the most well-meaning behavior can create new problems. ... While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist "one who creates a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderla...

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One can see that this song is one of the elements behind the commercial success of the film as an international hit. ... Besides, Horner was deeply interested to inculcate electronic elements to film music. ... This proves that sound effect is one of the elements behind the success of the film Titanic. ... This helped him to realize that low budgeted films do not help the director to be independent. From a different angle of view, his career as a miniature-model maker helped him to be a perfectionist. ...

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With his careful use of stylistic elements such as visual imagery, simplistic details, and diction, Twain paints the image of a newly free Huckleberry while balancing his feelings and actions upon realizing the desolation of his situation. ... There is no other rationality for his adamant choice to help free Jim at this point. ...

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I will be supporting the assertion that we see a naive attitude towards criminality and law through the clever examples of cinematography, mis-en-scene, sound and other elements of stylistic choices made by Scorsese in this specific scene. ... The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing, including costumes – characters expensive clothing; props – the Cadillac, a very American car which helps establish a time period; lighting – (in this scene) the road lights and lighting from people's homes, again referring to the calm and relaxed mood; and setting – ...

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The Sagas of Icelanders have also been known, rather imprecisely, as Icelandic Family Sagas. They constitute the best-known grouping within the richly diverse range of Icelandic Sagas (see the separate essay Icelandic Sagas in The Literary Encyclopedia). There are some forty in total (this being, fo...

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So, I believe Chagall may have used visual memory to help produce the colorful aspect in his works. ... He incorporated multiple elements from the visual memory of his youth. ... All the combined elements definitely show implied mass, they give the illusion of being massive. ... The various different elements and principles I described combine to form visual unity, personally the complete painting shows the life of the woman incorporating her culture, community, region, family and life experiences. After finding the aesthetic qualities within the paining, I found that identifying the unique s...

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"He not only helped spawn an entire extreme genre around gore and technical guitar wizardry, but like horror movies sometimes do, 'Death' also challenged our notions of life" (Gotrich, 2011). He is credited by many as the "godfather of death metal music" (Renda, 1999) and "showed the foresight and courage to not only help create the rules of death metal, but to demonstrate how to break them" (von Nagel, 2011). ... 'Morbid Angel's' Pete Sandoval developed the previously established technique of blast beat drumming by aligning it to a time signature (Ekeroth, ...

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Ability, temperament, and dynamic traits are seen as capturing the major stable elements of personality. ... Temperament traits relate to the emotional life of the person, the stylistic quality of behavior, the behavior of a person that vary from individual to individual. ... Factor analysis assumes that behaviors that covary across individuals are related but independent of others, thereby determining the units or natural elements in personality structure. ...

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In fact "It's stylistic scope is too broad to be encompassed by any single definition" (Groliers Encyclopaedia). ... Many elements of African American music have been a continuing source of influence on rock music. ... Heavy metal bands were given a huge boost by video clips, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson, Prince and Boy George. ...

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It came to the point where it was obvious that the man needed help. ... But it didn't last and we had to get help again. ... He needs help and is getting it. ... His drawings also were different in the way he approached them stylistically; some were very accurately drawn showing crisp edges, finished delicately. ... There was something else, a strong bond with the elements. ...

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The technical and stylistic devices in the theater of India, China, and Japan are used to entertain and enlighten the audience member. ... Poetry and song are used to help convey the different rasas. ... In addition to adding to the poetic form of the play, these images also help to create a pleasing aesthetic imagery that is usually lacking on the stage itself. ... Isolation and mortality are the main themes of the play, and the actor communicates this with the help of a lyrical script. ... The actors meditate on the character they are playing, and this helps them to become the figure they...

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