Bookends

For the first period, Technology and Environmental Transformations, the major event that acted as a bookend was the development and interactions of early agricultural, pastoral, and urban societies. This event enabled core and foundational civilizations to develop in many different places around the world where they grew to be dependent on agriculture. The first states began to arise within these established civilizations, and culture helped unify the state through many key aspects, like law, language

Film Analysis of “The Graduate” The 1967 film by Mike Nicoles “The Graduate” is about Benjamin Braddock, a recent college graduate, who is at a crossroads in his life. He is caught between adolescence and adulthood searching for the meaning of his upper middle class suburban world of his parents. He then began a sexual relationship with the wife of his father’s business partner, Mrs. Robinson. Uncomfortable with his sexuality, Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson continue an affair during which she asked

Analysis of 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkel In expressive arts we are studing the topics the 60’s. We listened to the song “7 O'clock News/Silent Night” Simon and Garfunkel. In 1956, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were juniors at Forest Hills High School in New York City. They began playing together as a group called Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis and Garfunkel as Tom Graph, so called because he always liked to track hits on the pop charts

In The Graduate, the director, Mike Nichols’, emphasizes the mysterious tone of the film with his overuse of lighting, camera angles, and shadows. The uncertainty Benjamin Braddock feels can be seen right from the start as he stands on the moving sidewalk at the airport. He is positioned at the right hand side of the screen moving forward. You can see a large area to the left where the credits appear. I think the director chose this technique for the opening credits to symbolize how this graduate

The Graduate and Plastics   The Graduate is a 1967 film directed by Mike Nichols who won an Oscar for his direction.  This hit of the 60's focuses on the development and the maturing of the ultra-naïve college graduate Benjamin Braddock.  This movie is about "just one word...Plastics."  Mr. McQuire sums up this entire movie when he tells Ben that there is "a great future in plastics."  In this film the relationships, except the one between Ben and Elaine, are like

Opening credits/surrounding shots: The film opens to a close-up on Benjamin, his face plain and without emotion; the shot unnaturally zooms out and establishes that our protagonist is on a crowded airplane. Director Mike Nichols uses natural lighting, placing little emphasis on Ben. Typically, films accentuate their protagonists through lighting; The Graduate — in addition to pairing a monotone airline voice with his close-up — abstains from drawing attention to Ben in order to imply that he lives

In the movie the graduate there is glass throughout the movie and places for reasons the viewer must way. in the case when he goes to call Ms. Robinson because he is not sure what to do after the little incident at her house after the party. He is doubt thought out the movie, but he does the affair with her because he doesn't know what to do and that is they only thing that he can think of. Another incident is when Ben starts dating the Ms. Robinson daughter Elaine after she told him “Don't you ever

Congratulating The Graduate Mike Nichols’s 1967 film, The Graduate, which is based on Charles Webb’s 1963 novel of the same name, focuses on the conflicts, both internally and externally, of a young college graduate who seems to have no clear purpose in life. The struggles this young protagonist faces in the film and how he deals with them, reflect a time when there was great change in the minds of the younger generation, which was of course, the sixties. During this era, these young individuals

When you think of winter what do you usually think about? I think about the freezing temperatures, the ice, and the snow. However, in literature winter can be symbolic of many things. The dark, sadness, old age, and death are just some of the things winter can symbolize in literature. The songs “California dreamin’” by the Mamas and Papas and “A hazy shade of winter” by Simon and Garfunkel are both about winter but mean very different things. Foster’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor will

The characterization of Benjamin Braddock is apparent through the main focus of the 1967 coming of age film, The Graduate. The point of view, cinematography, score and less so the dialog gives the audience a detailed look into not only who Benjamin is as a person, but also the challenges he faces throughout the film. The film focuses on the perspective of Ben himself, never really giving the audience a chance to watch much else of anything, really. Occasionally, the camera angle is intended to