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    and “It’s a Wonderful Life”‚ who stood on a bridge ready to jump the night of Christmas Eve; contemplating how to tragically ending his life until an Angel came to save him. He wished that he had never been born instead of taking his own life and the Angel granted his wish. The story “The Greatest Gift” was written by Philip Van Doren Stern and Frank Capra directed a film based on it. The film ended up winning a Golden Globe for Best Director - Motion Picture. “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released

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    movie‚ It’s a Wonderful Life‚ has the protagonist named George Bailey. In this story line‚ God is talking to one of his angels and He tells this angel that his job is to prevent this man from killing himself and to save him. God then goes and shows this angel part of George’s life that was very significant. In the end‚ we see George Bailey at present time and we see that he is at one of his lowest points ever. Throughout the movie‚ the audience gets to perceive George’s dilemma in life. Since he

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    In the movie Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life‚ a particular ironic spectator position exists that deviates from the original Frank Capra Christmas classic film of the same title. This type of position can be related back to the single-focus narrative discussion in Rick Altman’s Theory of Narrative‚ and the three aspects of narrative schema discussed in David Bordwell’s Narration in the Fiction Film. These discussions can help us better understand the deviations that director Peter Capaldi wanted

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    It’s A Wonderful Life was directed‚ produced‚ and written by Italian-American film director Frank Capra (1897 - 1991). “Born in Italy and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five‚ his rags-to-riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the “American dream personified.” (Wikipedia). Capra’s main goal for making the film It’s A Wonderful Life was to create “a celebration of the lives and dreams of America’s ordinary citizens‚ who tried the best they could do the right thing

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    each American taking their own view on how our culture pursues materialistic self-interest wither positively or negatively we see this contrast in Morris Berman’s book Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline‚ Frank Capra’s movie It’s a Wonderful Life and in Chuck Palahniuk’s movie Fight Club. Each of them giving us a different perspective on how they portray American‘s view on how we feel a need of materialistic items in our lives. Each piece we have looked at wither its Capra’s conflict of

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    It’s a Wonderful Life‚ needed such a long exposition to show‚ George Bailey that he is loved and wanted by others. On Christmas eve‚ George Bailey wishes that he was never born. Clarence‚ an angel‚ is sent to George Bailey to show how the world would have been without him. For example in one of the very first scenes of the movie‚ Harry Bailey‚ George’s younger brother‚ falls into ice water nearly dying. George jumps in immediately to rescue his brother. Harry would have died that day if there was

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    all of his films portray that being a great example for auteur theory. Though some of his films show these morales more forth right than others‚ all of them contain a bit of Capra somewhere‚ or in one of the characters. In Capra’s films "It’s a Wonderful Life" and "Pocketful of Miracles" there are many similarities and differences between Capra’s characters‚ and thematic elements. Though Capra is known for having very wholesome‚ American‚ do-gooders as his main men‚ this film goes slightly off course

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    THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION DEFINED The fundamental law of a state which organizes the government by distributing ‚ regulating and limiting legislative‚ executive and judicial powers‚ guarantees individual rights and freedoms and prescribes the manner of the exercise of sovereign powers State – a COMMUNITY OF PERSONS more or less numerous‚ permanently occupying a definite portion of TERRITORY possessing an organized GOVERNMENT and enjoying SOVEREIGNTY Government – totality

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    Wonderful Life” Science has been around us since the beginning of times. In the book “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History” written by Stephen Jay Gould‚ attempts to tackle one of the broadest issues that since can address‚ the nature of history itself. Gould’s main focus is on limestone quarry high in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale. “Wonderful life” teaches the reader about animals and the evolution of our understanding of these animals’ relationships to

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    sudden surprise of her living husband. I believe that a heart condition is not completely to blame‚ as Mrs. Mallard was beginning to visualize and enjoy a future of free life without the governing hands of her husband. The site of Mr. Mallard stunned her‚ and forever killed away the illusions she had just dreamed up of her new life. As the news of her husband’s death initially had her sobbing by the window‚ slowly she began to see a different picture coming to mind. "She was beginning to recognize

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