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Essay Instructions: The assignment: Please note two significant differences between the movie and the novel "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus III.

You will craft an in-depth introduction that introduces and briefly summarizes the novel. Each body paragraph will address a significant difference between the movie and the novel and explain why it is important, and how it changes your perception of the storyline. The fourth paragraph, the conclusion, will reinforce the material raised in your essay.

Essay Instructions: In Night and Fog(1955) and in Hiroshima My Love(1959) the filmmaker Alain Resnais is faced with representing that which cannot be represented.

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Explain what is not represented, why it cannot, and give examples from each film(Night and Fog and Hiroshima My Love) of how the filmmaker implies for the viewer what is un-representable.

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There''s(specific scenes from each film) two young boys in the film somebody killed a boy but we don''t see the killer that''s un-representale..etc...

***Do not use any quot and this paper is NOT a reviewing the film. This is an ARGUEMENT essay. You need to choose two scenes(each two scenes from each film=total 4scenes)from each film and details to construct an arguement about the given topic. ***

Essay Instructions: Short Essay #2

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In the video, ?The Fog of War,? Robert McNamara talks about the political and ethical lessons he learned during his long career, including the Vietnam War. McNamara cites 11 lessons. Please choose any two of the lessons and explain how they could have been applied to the war in Afghanistan or Iraq.

The Fog of War Video
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4

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Essay Instructions: Compare and Contrast THE FOG OF WAR and LORD OF WAR as analyses of what Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against when he urged Americans to beware of the influence of "The military - industrial complex."

Please use as source material:
THE FOG OF WAR (Errol Morris, 2002)
LORD OF WAR (Andrew Niccol,2005)
The Fog of War, Doherty, Thomas
Lord of War, Hamid, Rahul
A Peoples History of The United States, Chapter 21, Zinn Howard