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Student Name Course Title Institution Date Contempt Film by Jean-Luc Godard 1. What is unusual or specific about the film's style? Godard (Contempt) uses the nature and relation to man as well as societal values on marriage, throughout the film. Nature is represented by the calm Mediterranean and Ms. Bardot represents the theme of marriage in relation to her beauty. The uniqueness of the film also lies on the fact that the camera is strategically kept a distance to create a picture to psychology indifference; there are no close-ups.2. What is Paul's explanation for the fact it took him half an hour to rejoin his wife at the producer's house? What does this foreshadow? After taking up the...

Name Instructor Course Date Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals The book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” by Michael Pollan engages the reader in a discourse that looks at contemporary nutritional problems in America from a natural and historical perspective (Pollan). The nutritional antecedents outlined by Pollan explains the origin of the current nutritional challenges facing human beings especially concerning the need to eat healthily. The background provided by the author demonstrates authority and extensive research on the topic which immediately attracts the attention of the reader (Pollan). Furthermore, the author has written several...

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Trevor Noah’s Narrative Being born as a half cast, Trevor Noah uses the outsider perspective to his advantage. His existence is from a Swiss father and a black South African woman during the Apartheid laws. The laws never allowed mixed-race relationships and therefore, he was termed as biracial. The apartheid laws separated children in the schoolyards since children grouped themselves according to their skin color (Rossing 14). However, Noah did not fit in any of the category having established that he was neither black nor white. Noah was arrested and spend six days in jail for driving a car whose number plates did not match the...

Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Book Review: God of the Oppressed In James Cone’s book, God of the Oppressed, the author describes the past event of the African-American struggle through the harsh reckoning. The book was first inscribed in 1975 providing a revelation on the theological position of the author towards the black theology during the era. Cone uses the book to give his doctrinal stand, experience, and view on the African American position on religion. In the book, the author establishes two distinct social realities to foretell the shaping of his consciousness. The two realities are the black church experience and the socio-political meaning of white people...

Student’s Name: Tutor’s Name: Course: Date Due: Behind Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors is a book review on the issue of church and religion and the impact it has on the social life of people. The author helps the reader to understand the actual cognitive thinking of individuals and select groups who have strong beliefs in Christianity. Ngaire Thomas, who is the author of the book was born at a period when churches were very strict on their beliefs, and this gave her a strong background to makeer arguments. The book is rather compelling in the manner in which issues are presented. The book begins with Ngaire’s Childhood. Due to her religious orientation, she did not have a normal...

Student's Name Professor's NameCourse number Date Abstract 1 Jackson discusses works of various authors in his critics and gives insight on how some of Steinbeck's stories appeared to the audience and reviewers of the time. Jackson considers The Pearl as the most criticized work that Steinbeck wrote. He states that it is one of the most straightforward novels that introduced different ideas hence attracting varied views among the readers. The structure of the story and the beauty that it withholds preserves the reputation of the book making it one of the most widely read among Steinbeck's stories. The storyline develops reasoning towards how a person might look and decide to carry on with his...

Student name Instructor Course Date The Pearl is a novel by John Steinbeck. The novel depicts many themes, but the main theme is greed and corruption. Precisely, greed is what drives Kino is setting the stage for the novel. Kino found a pearl and knows that he will make a lot of cash from it. On the other hand, Juana has a perception that the earl was going to bring them nothing but only harm. Greed The author paints an incredible simplistic portrait of greed in the novel. This is a symbol of evil. It is always corrupt which has brought nothing but sufferings to them. Also, all the competition is in this novel are unhealthy, but most of the people in the novel are motivated by...