Subtitle Essays

  • The Lonely Goatherd: An Analysis

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    Lonely Goatherd’, an excerpt from the famous 1965 film: The Sound of Music, with the purpose of critically analysing different aspects in the subtitling process. The subtitles are created specifically for the deaf and hard-of-hearing children. The following three topics are discussed respectively with examples from both the subtitles and the theoretical resources: a briefing on the subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) and how it is applied to this video clip, the strategies used to promote

  • Language Technique In Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness '

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    LANGUAGE TECHNIQUE USED IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS ABSTRACT The nineteenth century has been called "the age of the novel", as the last of the major forms of literature to appear. The novel was one of the most fluent, diverse, and unpredictable of literary forms. It was the dominant literary form which reached its apotheosis in the Last century. The novel may seem modern but is historically related to other literary forms such as drama and the epic. It took many forms when it emerged in

  • Cause And Effect Of Texting Essay

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    In the 21st century, texting has become a common element in the art of communication; its popularity can be based on the increase in communication devices such as cell phones, personal computers, and tablets among others. Social media and social sites are a major contributor to the rapid increase of texting especially among generation Y. According to John McWhorter, a linguistic and writer by profession, texting cannot be entirely classified as a segment of writing, but has developed into quite a

  • Subtitle: Censorship In The United States

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    Justin Brunaugh Anita Gregory ENGL-112-NB July 21, 2023 [Title]: [Subtitle] Imagine living in a world where books are not being banned from libraries. A world where media is not being censored all around us, whether online or in-person. Each year, hundreds of books, articles, news reports, and social-media posts are censored by the government and companies across the United States. Last year, there was over one thousand books that were targeted for censorship in the United States. As these books

  • Self-Objectification Theory Of Jeff Dunham

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    Theoretical Exam of Jeff Dunham I chose the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham. I chose Jeff because I have personally seen him in concert, and I had a wonderful time. When you see him and the show he puts on with his dummies, the show takes a turn into weirdness. This is not only thing that he does in his show. Jeff also talks about his life growing up, marriages, and his family. His dummies, I think, represent anyone in any stage of life, and any background. When I watched Jeff perform, I see him

  • Three Subtitles Of Freedom Determinism And Libertarianism

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    examples of the standard status quo’s are people getting married, having children, staying within same religion (Embree, Monday 19,2015). However, on a daily basis, people wonder if they are truly free. Freedom is classified into three main subtitles. The three subtitles of freedom are determinism, indeterminism and libertarianism. To begin, determinism negates “the possibility of freedom, hence the possibility of personal responsibility” (Palmer, p226). Determinists believe that everything that happens

  • Subtitle In Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant

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    From Cave to Cave. My subtitle for Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel - The Buried Giant. The start is in Plato’s cave. The place where people live bound. With as little knowledge as shadows projected on walls. A world of interdiction and limitation. When one of them goes out, will he believe his eyes or his experience? Ishiguros’s cave is a world enveloped in fog. This mist conquered land as well as time. People don’t remember their history, nor their yesterdays. Yet they are content that way. But

  • The Subtitle Under The Health And Wellness Tab Of UHS

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    The subtitle under the Health and Wellness tab of UHS that I learned more about was depression. Under the subtitle, it defined and explained what depression exactly was and how common it is in general for the population and then in context of college students. It also discusses the many symptoms of depression: loss of pleasure or interests, feelings of agitation, sleep problems, sense of guilt, feelings of hopelessness, and many more. Next, it explains the different types of treatment for depression

  • Colombian Youth Thesis

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    at certain parts of the clip. On a few occasions the subtitles ran over the general upper limit of six seconds, however after implementing techniques such as looking for somewhere to break the subtitle in order to form two subtitles of around 3.5 seconds or condensing the subtitle I still withheld that having a small number of subtitles was the best option. Of course this runs the risk, as research shows, of the viewer re-reading the subtitle and could lead to confusion, in the specific cases where

  • The Osage Firebird Character Analysis

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    problems faced and solved by the main characters, however, in “The Osage Firebird” Sudipta Bardhan provides the reader with background information about the main character, expresses the conflict and the resolution more effectively, and develops the subtitles in a chronological way, which makes the passage easy to keep up with. In paragraphs 1 and 2 Sudipta started out by explaining what background Betty Marie Tallchief came from and how talented she was at ballet. This provides the reader with a foundation

  • Robert Parlberg Attention Whole Foods Shoppers Summary

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    In the infamous prose “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers” Robert Paarlberg, a Harvard international affairs expert divulges on the ongoing warfare with the issue of sustainability. Paarlberg focuses on how the rise in global starvation increases in less developed nations, but it is often ignored by those in developed countries because of their fixation with the green revolution. He asserts many claims as to why Africa and Asia still have high food deprivation rates, which quite contrary to popular

  • The Pros And Cons Of Closed Captioning

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    Spongebob to Max and Ruby, it was just a part of my normal morning routine, but for some reason, my mom always insisted in putting on the subtitles. She claims that she wanted me to “read the words, rather than just listen”, but what I thought were subtitles, were not subtitles at all. What I was really witnessing was Closed Captioning. At first glance subtitles and Closed Captions look very alike, but as you delve deeper into the realm of Closed Captioning, you realize that they have many distinct

  • Jarret Hardin Lifeboat Ethics Summary

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    Garret Hardin effectively communicates his argument to the reader in Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor by providing a metaphor to appeal to the reader’s sense of emotion, providing logos, through the structure of the passage by including subtitles, and examples throughout the passage. Hardin begins the passage with a metaphor to make his statement on foreign aid. He uses the lifeboat as a representation of the wealthy countries, while incorporating the underprivileged countries swimming

  • Informative Essay On Closed Captioning

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    being spoken. Captioning is important so that deaf and hard of hearing individuals can enjoy and understand dialogue in movies and tv shows just as hearing people do. Many people know about captioning through sites like Netflix or YouTube. Those are subtitles which are mainly for hearing people because they don't normally show background noise like mentioned before (doors,footsteps, etc.). They also have more languages available, only

  • Films In Medieval Times Essay

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    men spoke French, and in church Latin was used. Since they cannot use subtitles during the entire film, characters speak the viewer 's language. Some rituals in some scenes are shown through subtitles. In The Name of the Rose (1986) we can see that subtitles are used while they are chanting and while a monk reads the Bible in their meal time. In at the beginning of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) makers ridicule subtitle feature of films writing irrelevant and humorous things like Wik Also

  • Fan Subs: A Brief History Of Anime

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    changed the outcome and plot of the anime. Luckily, this actually incited the creation of "Fan Subs." Even in 2016 Fan Subs are still current and ongoing and have gained a large popularity among Subtitle fans. What the community calls fan subbing is precisely what the name says, it's fans creating the subtitles for anime either by learning Japanese by themselves or taking classes to learn all that is necessary to create the

  • Summary Of Cynthia Ozick's Essay 'On Excellence'

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    In Simson L. Garfinkle’s essay, “Wikipedia and the Meaning of Truth,” Garfinkle uses a subtitle stating, “ Why the online encyclopedia’s epistemology should worry those who care about traditional notions of accuracy” (244). The subtitle is usually used, as explanatory title for the work the reader will read. In this case, it’s providing the purpose of the essay, which carries the reader to think further into what

  • Grit: Perseverance And Passion For Long-Term Goals

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    essential as intelligence.” (Hanford) The paragraphs of following subtitle briefly explain Duckmore`s test and the usage of Duckmore`s scaling of grit. And she explained that both examples from West point and National Spelling Bee shows grit matters more than intelligence.(Hanford) By all those examples from two vastly different writing genre, Duckmore`s academic essay provided the topic with full development of structure and subtitles support to connect all her ideas, while Hanford compressed all Duckmore`s

  • Pros And Cons Of Updating America

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    authority for the regulation and management of hazardous waste, leaving the regulation and management of non-hazardous waste to individual states. Solid waste management is addressed in more detail in Subtitle D of the RCRA although the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority is limited. Subtitle D includes provisions for state and local governments to receive financial and technical assistance to update waste removal infrastructure. Due to budget cuts, this assistance ended in

  • Zunes Ethos Pathos Logos Analysis

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    Logos Based on my understanding, Zunes does a great job stating his logos using the title and the subtitle. There are 10 things that Zunes would like to go over with readers that everyone in the world should be aware of, but often not. Therefore, a particular introductory paragraph that that arguments have may not be needed. The title and the subtitle are informative and clear. Ethos It is noted in the end of the article, that the author is an associate professor of politics and chair of