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    Girl by the Roadside The Girl by the Roadside is a 1917 Bluebird Photoplay adaptation of a Varick Vanardy’s novel of the same name. This moralizing crime drama was presented by seasoned veterans of the film industry, including director, Theodore Marston, a former theater actor and who transitioned to film and directed several crime dramas such as 1918’s Beyond the Law, and starring one of Universal’s most popular actresses, Violet Mersereau, whose career spanned eighteen years from 1908-1926. The Girl

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    The researchers make use case methodology in the motion picture industry. The pre-release and post-release reception of two Indian feature films, Queen and Gulaab Gang, was studied. To gain insights and answer to the research question, the researchers used consumer satisfaction theory to examine online comments and reviews generated by users over the lifetime of both films. Text

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    Rise of American Theaters And Consumerist Desires In the early twentieth century movies signified modernity by becoming the most prevalent medium of culture in the United States in a period of time where the social makeup was shifting from a predominantly middle class to working class neighborhoods that were made up of many different communities. As a direct consequence, nickelodeons, temporary storefront theaters, and vaudeville programs all flourished in the working class districts. By the late

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    music, radio programs, watch movies, films, talk to native speakers or even travel aboard are good way to learn English. But what is the most interesting way to learn English? If you are tired of going to classes or reading books, there is nothing better than learning English through movies and film. Learning a foreign language is already a hard task. And the culture is different from your own. So I want to show you that learning English with movies and films will not only help you learn

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    Film Review: Bhaji on the Beach Introduction Bhaji is an Indian snack food whose identity has been "Westernized" in the British Isles. Director Gurinder Chadha has chosen bhaji as a metaphor for the lives of the women in this, her first feature film. Although Indian by birth, the characters, especially those of the younger generation, has been in large part, shaped by the culture of England, the country in which they live. Bhaji on the Beach not only examines this cross-cultural conflict, but

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    Man On Fire

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    My friend has been getting really into drugs lately and I am very worried about her and feel as if we are drifting apart and aren’t as close as we used to be. Angela, 17 Hey Angela thank you for writing to me, sorry to hear this. It’s good that you care about your friend. I’ve had friends in my life that have gone through the same thing and it’s a really hard thing to watch but there’s a couple things you can do. There are many ways to overcome this

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    family are sacred. This state of affair, as Orlando declares, represented a clear impediment regarding the thematic dimension of both Moroccan films and literature. With regards to its development, Orlando explains that Moroccan cinema differed significantly from that of its neighboring nations because the sociopolitical circumstances were not similar. The films made at the time of independence were mere propaganda and tried to respond to “different ministries which also commissioned newsreels designed

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    Interest Point Detectors

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    to measure the driver’s alertness is to track his/her eyes in the given image sequence. Eye detection is an active research area in computer vision. Applications can range from face detection to biometrics. Canthus (Eye corners) is a very stable feature that can be constantly detected from a facial image irrespective of the eye status or gaze direction. Canthus is initially defined and treated as a corner (interest point). Interest point detectors like Harris and SUSAN are being studied and discussed

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    Eye opening moments are far and few between. In that one moment, your entire perspective shatters and you realize that what you thought you knew, you didn 't know at all. After the suicide of my best friend, I realized how dangerous addiction could be, but I still couldn 't fully understand it. I went two years after his death constantly wondering what he really experienced. Talking to our mutual friends, his little sister, and his parents reminded me of how kind and happy Conner had been. Not until

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    Cleft Lip

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    Introduction Cleft lip is formed when a baby’s nose and mouth do not form properly in the womb. These children are born with deformations to the mouth and nose. There are four main types of cleft lip that involve incomplete single and double clefts and also complete single and double clefts that cause deformations completely into the child’s nose. This can cause complications for the child to eat and breathe properly, but a series of surgeries can fix this complication. The cleft lip is basically

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