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    Joel’s Imaginary Actions: Spotlighting in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind While music always plays a significant part to convey emotions in film, light can be used just as effectively. The use of a special lighting technique is very noticeable in the memory scenes of Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A major part of Eternal Sunshine is spent inside the protagonist Joel’s mind. He is in the process of deleting his memory of Clementine, who was his girlfriend for two years

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    film is based on such phenomenon and is a great piece of art. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a movie primarily about two lovers namely Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski. Joel, wakes up on Valentine’s Day, skips work, takes a train to Montauk, and meets Clementine. In this film Joel, a soloist meets a girl namely clementine who needs carefulness and love but their relationship ended when Joel came to know that she had erased him from her memory. Joel became sad after being aware of the

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    Montauk is a town located in Long Island, New York. It is the location of many top secret projects, including mind control, time travel, and the creation of black holes. These experiments were based out of an old air force radar station, or more accurately, a vast, underground complex underneath the air force radar station. But these experiments didn’t start in Long Island. They began in Philadelphia in 1943. When this began, it was called the rainbow project. The rainbow project “ was an attempt

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    Montauk Manhattan Project

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    them into automatons which could be introduced into society and controlled easily. The government programs at the Montauk Hind Control Project facilities were the source of major controversy, as data gathered during the experiments became more widely scrutinized. There were rumors of ritualistic abuse, occult practices, and abductee subjects of various ages. The work done at the Montauk Hind facilities made possible the further growth of results gathered within the Phoenix programs and a later finalizing

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    supposed to be an organization of trust and justice, following the law as the creators of them. But, since the government relies on a system of power to function, the need for more power can lead to horrible things. Duncan Cameron is a survivor of the Montauk Project, a secret government run experiment to test the limits and powers of the human mind. The information that he and many others have shared reveals the true intentions of the government, and how far they are willing to go to get it their way

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    My Journey In My Life

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    I just entered 9th grade in Hampton Bays High School. I enjoy playing soccer and I love photography, I think that it’s such a beautiful art. Before I came to Hampton Bays I was from East Hampton. Entered Hampton Bays towards the end of 8th grade. I learned a lot about transferring schools. I learned in many ways from negative to positive. People would always tell me that people in Hampton Bays were nice that I should be happy. That just entered from one ear and left right through the other. Now I

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    Setting ~ Montauk Cabin The Montauk Cabin is an important setting in The Lightning Thief. Not only was it where Percy’s mom met his dad, but at this cabin is also where Percy learns about Grover’s true identity. During an awful storm, Grover arrives at the cabin, with his goat legs fully visible, and informs Percy that he and his mother must leave immediately. On page 43, Percy is in shock when Rick Riordan writes (about Grover), “Because where his feet should be, there were no feet. There were cloven

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    In Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the connections between people and memories become the focal point of a very unique romance. Through the use of new technology, the possibility of erasing memories makes painful relationships disappear like they never happened. The tale of Joel and Clementine allows the audience to rethink and question the process they undergo as beneficial or destructive. Though the process might be helpful in eliminating the pain caused from another

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    work, Willem de Kooning’s Montauk Highway was developing his own version of a greatly charged style alternating powerful iconic image on his canvas. New vanguard showed up in the early 1940s in New York where the artists known as abstract expressionists created a diverse body of work that introduced new directions in art. Escaping from traditional conventions in technique and subject matter, these artists made their works as reflections of their individual soul. Montauk Highway shows viewers an emphasis

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    Fort Mcallister Essay

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    On January 27, 1863 the display USS Montauk, three gunboats, and a mortar schooner again engaged the citadel. Commander John L. Worden of the Montauk shelled the fort for 5 hours at quite a number 1,500-1,800 yards, penetrating and tearing up the parapets, but inflicting no lasting damage or casualties. Likewise, 13 hits scored by means of the

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