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    Federico Fellini

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    One of the most influential Italian cinemas film directors was Federico Fellini, who became popular after World War II. The filmography of Fellini included 24 titles; of which won him five Academy Awards including the most Oscars in history for best foreign language film (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Federico Fellini’s influences have became such an integral part of the film industry, that some of his influences are barely even credited to him in todays society such as the word “paparazzi” which originated

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    Federico Fellini

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    Federico Fellini is one of the most important film directors of all time. He created multiple films that expressed the true reality of a Fascist Italy. Italy at the time was under Fascist control, which was similar to that of the Nazi take over in Germany. In his movie 8 ½ Fellini casts Marcello as the lead role, some say that Marcello was portraying a younger version of Fellini. Marcello plays the role of Guido in the film. Guido is a young man who is struggling through a sort of directors block

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    Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca Federico García Lorca was born into an educated bourgeois family in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898. His mother was a teacher and his father a rich farm labourer. He read literature and music at Granada University and in 1919, at the age of 21, he published his first book, Impresiones y Paisaijes, that was inspired by a trip around Spain that he took as part of his degree. That year, Lorca went to Madrid to continue with his studies. He moved into

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    Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poet and dramatist. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift

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    Federico Fellini's Rome

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    “Maybe then reality is something we hate so much that we try to change it with every possibile excuse? Reality? There are only images of it, after all. Man probably uses images in order to fix reality in an acceptable shape, to make it less dangerous and more familiar. It’s a psychic process against which we can do nothing. […]We are enclosed, shuttered within this mystery, which we call the psyche, beyond which we are not permitted to make any suppositions, any affirmations about our existence

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    Have you ever wondered what made you who you are and what you do? Federico Garcia Lorca is a very well known poet that went through a lot of touching events that helped him write poems throughout his era. He developed his poetry through his inspirations from the people around him, showing the themes of love, death and southern Spain culture. He had a special poetic vision and used his own style in his writing. Federico Garcia Lorca is a Spanish poet and dramatist during the twentieth century. He

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    Blood Wedding, by Federico Garcia Lorca

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    Most of the protagonists in “Blood Wedding” such as the mother, bride, and Leonardo do not fulfil the roles they are assigned as they turn into evolved characters at the end of the play. At first they portray their roles just like they are supposed to but then as the play goes on, they face a problem and the solution to the problem is to reject the society and follow their desires. The roles of an archetypal mother in a Spanish society are to stay home, perform domestic work and care about family

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    An Analysis of the Roles of Society and Motifs in Federico Lorca’s Blood Wedding As my understanding was developed in the play Blood Wedding by Federico Lorca, the roles of society and motifs are consistently revealed through the play.These helped develop the themes of cycle of life, the progression of time, choice, and fate. Roles of society such as family inheritance, conflicts, and expectations was emphasized throughout the story.The motifs help foreshadow and connect with

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    Eyes to Illustrate Defiance, Effects of Repression and Confinement, and Foreshadow in Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba Although the human body functions the best when all five senses work, the sense of sight is arguably the most important of the senses. With that intact, it is definitely easier to get by because one will always be aware of the events occurring around him or her. In Federico Garcia Lorca’s “The House of Bernarda Alba”, the motif of eyes and sight is prevalent

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    Marriage is an important theme in the plays, ‘A Doll’s House’ written by Henrik Ibsen, and ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ written by Federico Garcia Lorca. Though the concept of marriage is two people living together through love and companionship, it revolves around the duties and principals put up by the society. Both of these books share anachronistic views of marriage where marriage is not an emotional attachment between two entities but a social engagement between two entities of similar wealth

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    Literature often words complex phenomena, which otherwise possibly remain ignored. One example of such complex phenomena is the coexistence of two contradictory elements, dominance and love. Dominant personalities in Like Water for Chocolate and The House of Bernarda Alba, Mama Elena and Bernarda Alba respectively, do not explicitly display love towards their daughters, but it is revealed by their behaviour and uncharacteristic actions. Some elements of characterization or narrative mode in both

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    Fellini

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    Fellini When Ida and Urbano Fellini bore their first son, Federico, they must have known that he would be far from a calm easygoing person. On the evening of January 20, 1940, the weather at the seaside resort of Rimini on the Adriatic coast of Italy, was not pleasant. There was thunder, lightning, high seas, winds, and heavy rains; quite a setting for the entrance of one who was to be regarded as one of the greatest film directors in history. Urbano was prominent salesman of confectionaries

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    The Movie Amarcord

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    The movie Amarcord was directed by Federico Fellini and shot in 1974. The setting of the story is a small town in Italy during the time period of the 1930’s. In my research, I discovered that Mr. Fellini based most of his movies on his life experiences. The town depicted in this movie is Rimini, his home town. He was a well known director who was not afraid to express his characters’ emotions and actions in bizarre or unorthodox ways. The scene I watched opens with a young man, Titta, stopping by

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    Dali

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    his father then married his mother’s sister. Before this, Dali painted gorgeous landscapes and portraits, but now he begins to paint his “tormented soul.” In 1921, Dali began to attend the University Residence of Madrid. There, he met friends like Federico Garcia Lorca (a famous poet). Lorca was gay and fell in love with Dali, who was immature sexually at this point in his life and scared of gay relations, but the two remained close for many years afterwards. One year after he started at the University

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    Microprocessors Change the World

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    communication industries" (mslater.com) Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor (Intel), and Masatoshi Shima of Busicom worked together to “led the design and development of the first commercial microprocessor.”(inventors.about.com) Those working on the MCS-4 project created a chip that was capable of many functions such as receiving, transmitting, and interpreting the data required for effective operation. In 1970, an assigned worker of Busicom assisted Federico Faggin with the design of the 4004 chips

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    Fellini's 8 1/2

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    his film as a comedy. Anyone who has seen 8 ½ cannot help but laugh at the eclectic and satirical humor that imbues Fellini’s work, but ultimately the feature does not come off as comic,” (Horak). While certain critics (such as Horak) argue that Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) evokes partial tragedy, one could dually aver that the film epitomizes a classical, “bathos” model; everything within the work, even the dramatic elements, registers as comedic. In similar vain to The Satyricon, Fellini’s 8 ½

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    Although Federico García Lorca is no longer with us today, his impact on the poetic world has made him a well-renowned Spanish poet of his time (bio.). Lorca grew up close to the city of Granada, Spain (Stainton). He is most famous for his Romancero gitano, Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, and his popular plays (Stainton). As Lorca grew older the problems he underwent in respect to his personal life affected both his poetic style and his themes (PoemHunter.com). Lorca’s homosexuality and his failure

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    Microprocessors Change the World

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    impacts on "political upheavals worldwide, as well as the radical reconstructing of the publishing, entertainment, and communications industries" (mslater.com) Federico Faggin, Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, and Stanley Mazor worked together to lead the design and development of the first commercial microprocessor in November 1971, the Intel 4004. Federico Faggin was born in Vicenza, Italy on December 1, 1941. In 1965, he received a doctorate in physics from the University of Padua. In 1968, Faggin immigrated

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    Paparazzi Essay

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    photos of celebrities and their families. Before I get into all of the horrible things the paparazzi has done, let me enlighten you on how the paparazzi came to be. Before the term paparazzo was coined in Italy, by an Italian film director named Federico Fellini, people saw the paparazzi as simple press photographers. In 1960 Fellini was directing a movie called “La Dolce Vita”, and in his movie there was a character who was a press photographer named Paparazzo. In Greg Brian’s article, a published

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    The Explorations of Structure

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    Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini rejected the idea of realist films and sought to explore the unknown and fantastical. In 1963, Fellini created 8½, a film about a filmmaker plagued by the decisions of his own creativity. Utilizing contrasted mise-en-scene and the juxtaposition of reality and fantastical sequences, 8½ effectively captures the spirit of artists as they pursue new projects but are pressured by their creative expectations. As the film’s non-linear structure evolves, Federico Fellini illustrates

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