Essays on Toland

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was in a time when Germany was experiencing a grim political and economic condition. The economic depression that hit the world economy during the 1930s had adversely affected the country, that extreme poverty leads the people to near hopelessness. This was in addition to the still fresh and humiliating defeat of the German military in WWI, and historians claimed that the defeat became the fabric that propelled Hitler’s political and military agenda. People were near the brink of helplessness that they believed anyone who convincingly talked about getting them out of their ...

The two passages written by Bordwell and Toland provide the analysis of different aspects of Citizen Kane, one of the most legendary products in the cinema industry. Gregg Toland, an outstanding cinematographer, primarily famous for his work with Orson Welles on the movie Citizen Kane, in the paper “How I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane” makes the analysis of his collaboration with Welles as well as the analysis of major achievements which were made in terms of this collaboration during the shootings of the film (Toland 569). Firstly, he explains the differences between the terms “commandment” and “convention” ...

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Racial and ethnic variations are common in most of the American families. Race and ethnicity is one of the major social factors that could affect the growth and trajectory of adolescent life to adulthood. According to most psychologists, parenting practices and social well-being differs from various ethnic groups or race (Heard, 2007, p. 320). The variations could always affect the development of an adolescent, and it should always be well-thought-out. Adolescent period is a very crucial time since it will eventually affect the development of adult life. Different studies and articles have discussed the effects of race and ethnicity to ...