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Attitudes about Vaccination: A Covid-19 Study
Get PDFResearch suggests that mass vaccine acceptance is required for Covid-19 eradication. Unfortunately however, an increasing number of the worldwide population has demonstrated hesitancy towards the Covid-19 vaccine. The present study investigated whether individual Covid-19 vaccine knowledge, general anxiety and feelings about the government pressure to become vaccinated affected one’s vaccine hesitancy. Results indicated that the more negative emotions one felt towards government pressure, the more hesitant they were to become vaccinated. These results suggest that a decrease in government pressure may help to maximize the overall willingness to become vaccinated.These results can hopefully expedite the end of the COVID-19 pandemic
Cannolis, Crime, and the Cost of the American Dream
Get PDFAn hour into Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) is a scene that captures one of the film’s central themes: the cost of American assimilation. The two minute and sixteen seconds revolve around a car ride in which Clemenza and Rocco carry out Paulie’s murder. As a narrative unit, the scene’s three-part trajectory traces the car’s trip from departure to destination – from Clemenza’s driveway to Pauli’s massacre. With Sicilian natives and an automobile, a symbol inextricably linked with American ideals, the drive alludes to an immigrant’s journey from homeland to promised land. Building upon this connection, the scene’s perspective, setting, composition, structure, sound, and cinematography impart a series of insightful but disturbing realities regarding the American dream – a dream destined to become a nightmare. 
Dead Doesn't Mean Gone: The Haunting of Bly Manor as a Neo-Victorian Text
Get PDFThis essay places Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) within the theoretical framework of the neo-Victorian genre. Based on the work of Henry James, The Haunting of Bly Manor figures as the second instalment in Flanagan’s Haunting horror anthology series, exploring the themes of memory and trauma through the Gothic tropes of spectrality and haunting. The essay assesses whether Flanagan’s adaptive decisions constructively engage in a dialogue with the nineteenth-century socio-political structures and their haunting effect on the present. Placing emphasis on the issues of sexuality and class, he relies on the neo-Victorian practice of rendering visible the historically invisible, as well as the genre’s central metaphor of the mirror as a window to the past. The essay therefore considers the extent to which the narrative possibilities Flanagan creates for contemporary re-imaginings of James’s characters utilize the neo-Victorian genre’s subversive potential
Humor Meets Heart: Aesthetic-Driven Transformation in Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
No full textIn John Hughes’ Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, media aesthetics merge with humor theory to create comedy with an emotional impact. During one of the film’s pivotal scenes at the Braidwood Inn, unwilling travel companions Neil Page (Steve Martin) and Del Griffith (John Candy) clash in an argument that transforms both characters for the better. This scene playfully navigates through humor and pain while skillfully using framing, depth of field, and editing to create a comedy classic of the 1980s
Food as Story and Spectacle in Big Night (1996)
Get PDFThis featurette examples how Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott use mise en scene elements to both contrast two competing Italian restaurants as well as to bring together strands of narrative with strands of spectacle in a way that cooperatively creates emotion and resolution in the film
Assessing the Role of Age, Self-Compassion, and Gender Role Orientation in Emotion Regulation
No full textSelf-compassion has been investigated for its influence on emotion regulation, typically focusing on how trait self-compassion influences well-being through increased emotion regulation; the influence of other factors has been less thoroughly investigated. This exploratory study delved into how trait self-compassion, age, and gender role orientation jointly affect emotion regulation. We hypothesized that higher levels of trait self-compassion, and both highly masculine and highly feminine gender role orientations would be linked to fewer problems with emotion regulation, and that increased age would be linked to higher problems with it. Our sample included 112 participants who ranged in age from 19-78 years of age and were predominantly female (67%). Results indicated that both increased levels of trait self-compassion and age reduced problems with emotion regulation, while high scores in gender role orientation did not. These findings strengthen the connection between self-compassion and emotion regulation; and have implications for mental health research. Findings may also illuminate a shift in perceptions of gender-role orientations, suggesting stereotypical traits of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny may not have as much influence on emotion regulation as previously believed. Finally, there may be implications for how education levels affect emotion regulation in aging populations, but further exploration is needed
Organized Clutter: The Precise Composition of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959): The Precise Composition of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
No full textRather than consider set design in realistic terms as the arrangement of décor in space, this essay examines set design as a two-dimensional construct in which the placement of its elements is guided by a pair of underlying geometric grids. The grids, one of which is based upon rabatment, reveal the previously unnoticed precision of the image’s hidden architecture. Overlaying these grids on a frame from The Diary of Anne Frank demonstrates how the film’s set design determines the image’s composition