Claire Shipman

countries in the world, why are only 4% of the Fortune 500 CEOs women? In “The Confidence Gap”, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman examine the difference in confidence levels between men and women, and how this disparity can change. When ABC News’ Kay and BBC’s Shipman teamed together to write their book Womenomics, which explored positive changes that benefit women, they discovered a common…

Romeo and Juliet Movie Comparison The classic play of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has been turned into a movie which are directed by Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann. These two movies are similar and different in many ways and the directors of each play tried to put their spin on this classic play. There are many scenes which are different and similar but one is Act 5 Scene 3. One difference is that when Romeo came to find Juliet she was in a church while in the newer movie but…

Shakespeare vs Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann, the director of Romeo and Juliet 1996, did a wonderful job at turning the once classical play into a modern film that captivated and amazed the now demanding and uninterested audience. Luhrmann used techniques such as weapons, culture and props to keep the newer generation delighted and intrigued in the significantly monumental playwright of Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare. In the 1996 film, Luhrmann used props such as new weaponry and…

Romeo and Juliet: Play-Text versus Movie Baz Luhrmann made some dramatic decisions, like adding characters, switching the roles of certain characters, and changing the meaning of certain lines when translating Act 1, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet play-text into the 1996 full length film by the same title. In doing so, he made the movie more spontaneous and intense than a play-text can be, because as a film director he is able to utilize the flexibility of taking shot after…

A movie adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968 portrays the original work of the playwright and script. The story is about the tragic, and untimely death of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet . In the following scene the story opens to Act III Scene i with Mercutio and Tybalt. This scene follows the interaction of major characters such as Tybalt, Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio. Throughout this scene, the adaptation was able to interpret the following:…

Claire Danes (Temple) seemed having a wonderful skill to behave a bit silly, but straight forward to her thought. The film viewed Temple’s face was as strange, funny, curious, and some time walking in funny way along with her strange thought. Her thought was also unusual. The film illustrated the picture in her mind that she connected to objects or words while she focused on. She acted a bit silly with funny face when her professor said “shoe.” Then the film viewed her connection with all type…

Over the years several different directors, including Luhrmann and Zeffirelli, have wrote Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in many different interesting ways. This story tells you about a boy and a girl who are in love but they come from two different families. They find each other and they get married. In the end out of the actions of her father, they die in each other arms. Luhrmann and Zeffirelli both present the play of Romeo and Juliet in different way to show the party scene, wedding scene…

If Romeo and Juliet can be summed up in one line, that line would be, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” which perfectly portrays the tragic romance of the two lovers (Shakespeare 33??) Many films since this line has been written have been created in honor of the famous play, such as Zeffirelli’s and Luhrmann's. Zeffirelli's version of the story more accurately portrays Shakespeare’s original intent with setting, dialogue, and costumes identical to those imagined when one reads it. …

as well. Torvald assumes that Nora does not understand financial matters, and he also does not believe it is his place to educate her. However, Hopkins is so enthusiastic in portraying the well meaning decency in Torvald that his demeaning words to Nora lose some of their edge. Hopkins goes out of his way to portray Torvald as misguided, but not malicious, and this is evident in the ways he performs Torvald. For example, for the entirety of the conversation, he remains seated and allows Nora to…

diary, as well as some historical context of these time periods. As it uses the diary as its source, it is reliable. This article first describes the events right before Pepys wrote his diary, when Cromwell died, and the government was unsteady. It then gives an overview of each month Pepys wrote his diary during. Some of the events include the great fire of london, and Pepys’ bladder stone operation. Finally, the article concludes with some events after Pepys stopped writing the diary, such as…