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3 hours ago · From John Ford's Stagecoach to Howard Hawks’ Red River, the movies constantly resurrected and reshaped the Western genre’s conventions through the clarity of black and white cinematography ...
3 hours ago · 10 Wild Wild West Brings Steampunk to the Old West. Director. Year of Release. IMDb Rating. Barry Sonnenfield. 1999. 4.9/10. Wild Wild West takes place in the aftermath of the Civil War and revolves around the team-up of an Army Captain, James West, and a US Marshal, Artemus Gordon. Both are charged with finding a former Confederate general ...
OP • 1 hr. ago. Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a ...
1 day ago · Buddhist feminism is a movement that seeks to improve the religious, legal, and social status of women within Buddhism. It is an aspect of feminist theology which seeks to advance and understand the equality of men and women morally, socially, spiritually, and in leadership from a Buddhist perspective.
3 hours ago · Abstract. This chapter considers the musical epiphany as a narrative technique in the ego documents of Jo Fourie, South Africa’s first woman ethnomusicologist. Between the 1930s and 1960s, Fourie crisscrossed South Africa in search of boeremusiek. A Dutch immigrant who arrived in the country in 1910, Fourie recounts in her diaries, letters ...
1 day ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.
1 day ago · Synopsis Exposition (books 1–4) A mosaic depicting Odysseus, from the villa of La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain, late 4th–5th centuries AD. The Odyssey begins after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (the subject of the Iliad), from which Odysseus (also known by the Latin variant Ulysses), king of Ithaca, has still not returned because he angered Poseidon, the god of the sea.
