...wrecked off the coast, what the new trader is up to, and what he is trying to find, by Will Hobbs. And Then There Were None, a novel about ten people who are stranded by themselves on an island with no way back to the mainland, by Agatha Christie. Both books are great mystery books that will keep readers intrigued and always thinking, but one is much better. Overall, Ghost Canoe is a better mystery than And Then There Were None. First, Ghost Canoe used setting to create an eerie feeling. The setting of this book plays a major roll in the Makah Village. The Makah Village is located on a peninsula, surrounded by the harsh Pacific Ocean on one side and a deep, dark, and unknown forest on the other side. "It was eerily quiet as he walked on the spongy forest floor...
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...more because none of it makes sense. You just want the answers which makes the suspense high and the confusions even higher. The ending was in no way satisfying. First of all, the ending is in the beginning and the middle is the end which just really messes with your mind. The ending leaves you with so many unanswered questions and makes you angry because Nolan left so many things unclear. The narrative structure in Memento is a cut up timeline. This movies timeline is so messed up and intertwined. The beginning is the end the end is the middle, along with the fact that we go back in time and forward with flashbacks and nonlinear scenes. Although this makes the movie very confusing it compliments it because it replicates Lenny’s mind and how he sees the world, which really adds to the film. The pacing is pretty fast because of all the short out of order scenes. They are cut quickly and shown fast. When we switch from color to black and white clips it really paces the movie pretty quick because there is so much jumping in and out of scenes. Also all the conversations the characters have are short and to the point which leads to other events faster. Going back to the Natalie scene where she insults Lenny, she gets to the argument fast and that leads to him punching her. It all happens fast but that's what adds to the suspense and mood. We would not want it to be a slow boring drama because that does not fit the plot. There are also example of TV in the movie. There were segments that...
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...Horror BOO! Did that scare you? I wouldn’t think so, but I do think that you have been scared by some horror movies before. Horror movies have used a wide range of techniques to stand out amongst all of the other types of movies. There are quite a few horror movies and their style has changed throughout the years. Many things have changed except for the techniques used within them, and trust me there are quite a few, and all of these techniques can show why horror is so much more different than other genres. Each era of horror has had a different way of expressing itself. There were many subgenres. Horror had started off as any normal movie genre should, literature. Things like Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By this time, the genre...
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...research on horror films, but looking at a specific part under ‘approaching the media’, which is genre and looking at three objectives to complete this: * How genre is represented * How the genre concept works in Teen Slasher films * The key genre conventions used in films. The three films that would help me conduct this research and meet my aims are Candyman, Friday the 13th and a nightmare on Elm Street. By looking at these films, I would be able to see whether all the elements that come under genre is applied e.g. iconography, setting etc. The creation of horror films was done to make people scared and frightened but also tap into our hidden fears. This could be done by looking at the most common thing that scare people. For example, The fly, David Cronenberg was based on the idea of people being scared to get sick/diseases. The word “genre” comes from the French word meaning type or category. Genres only began to develop due to getting inside help form studio the repeated patterns the audience tend to like. However, there is not just one type as there as hybrids. The stages of genre begins with primitive where the patterns are...
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...Crossing The short story, ‘Crossing’, is written by Mark Slouka in 2009, and takes up father and son relationship together with man vs. nature. From the beginning of time fathers have taken their sons on camping trips or similar to pass on their knowledge about how to conquer Mother Nature. But more important it binds them closer together, and this is exactly these two purposes the father here wishes to obtain. Through a third person limited narrator the reader is presented to a father who has a hard time in life after a divorce from his wife. Therefore he is now determined to find something that matters and has set his heart on maintaining a strong and sound relationship to his young son, ‘when he looked at her she shook her head and looked away and at that moment he thought, maybe – maybe he could make this right’(19-20). He believes that they can bond through male-things, things the son cannot do with his mother. By choosing something he himself did with his father he makes it more ritually and secret, it is something only father and son share. As the narrator only knows what the main character, the father, thinks, feels and recalls, it is naturally told from his point of view. We get glimpse of the things that he struggles with, ‘he hadn’t been happy in a while’ (5). By using this narrative technique Slouka brings us closer to the father, and the readers feel and experience his pain first-hand, consequently the readers also want him to succeed. Because of the limited...
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...Fernando Meirelles’ City of God transcends the typical gangster film dynamic. All of the gangsters, or “hoods” as they are referred to in this film, are no older than late teens or early twenties. Seen through the eyes of a young teenager attempting to become a photographer in the hoods of Rio de Janeiro, the film concentrates on the emergence, rise, war, and collapse of the infamous hood Li’l Zé. For the majority of the film Li’l Zé stands as the smartest and most powerful hood in the slums. This is pervasive not only in his dominance, but also during Li’l Zé’s climb to the top. One of the most significant scenes of this film is the transformation of Li’l Dice into Li’l Zé. Early in the film Li’l Dice stands look-out at the motel hold-up, but the viewer remains uninformed what happened to him until about twenty minutes later in the film when Li’l Zé’s story is revealed. These two points of the film are separated by the conclusion of the story of the Tender Trio. For this essay I will examine the filmmaking significance of splitting the introduction and conclusion of this scene by over twenty minutes. The first portion of this sequence begins with Li’l Dice as a young child of no more than ten years old giving a brilliant criminal idea to the Tender Trio. Li’l Dice is then told against his desire that he is not allowed to take part in the plan, but instead must stand guard and shoot out a window if the police show up as to warn Clipper, Shaggy and Goose. The shot of...
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...Psychoanalytic Theory And Reading Of Cultural Products Film Studies Essay ukessays.com /essays/film-studies/psychoanalytic-theory-and-reading-of-cultural-products-filmstudies-essay.php The main concept of this essay is to point out how psychoanalytic theory could be used as a method of understanding and analyzing cultural products. The most valid approach for this is to observe how the cinema integrates psychoanalytical theories into specific film concepts. For this reason a Hitchcock film is used as an example, for it a common fact that there are many Freudian aspects in his movies. Specifically, Psycho is regarded by many film theorists and historians as the first “psychoanalytic thriller” (Kaganski as cited in Boulton, 2010). As implied by the title of the film, it is a movie whose plot is based on the Freudian Oedipus complex theory. First of all, it is noteworthy how the cinema developed a strong connection to psychoanalytic theories over the years. What is also interesting is the way in which a movie could be interpreted as a desire or a dreaming process. Moreover, in the second part of the essay, the correlation which Psycho has with psychoanalytical procedure is explored, in an effort to discover its kind and if it is actually the first psychoanalytic movie. Following a short presentation of the main plot, it is necessary to examine the nature of the Oedipus complex and how it is applied to the movie. Despite the fact that it remains the central psychoanalytic idea in...
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...well. One can completely be sad only on the inside but on the outside normal or they can completely show their sadness. It shows one passion for the lost one. For example, a lady has coffee with a friend at a common place for many year she’ll associate that place with the person. If that person were to die that coffee place would be a reminder of that person. The lady could cry from just seeing the coffee shop, or she could be happy for seeing that coffee shop. The cry or happiness reveals her relationship with the person who passed. She could be crying because she regret saying something to the person or not saying something. She could be remembering the good times she had with that person as well, it could remind her of the person. Hamlet is the same way. Hamlet is dealing with grief his own way. Shakespeare is showing Hamlet as a person who isn’t getting along with anybody. Everybody has their own way of dealing with grief. Everybody in the play tells Hamlet to move on and stop grieving, but in reality everybody in the play are in their own stages. Everybody from Gertrude to the Claudius is showing the different stages of grief. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare shows the distinct stages of grief by using successful cause and effect vivid characterization and dramatic suspense. Shakespeare uses dramatic suspense to show the different stages of grief. Hamlet loved his father. In the beginning of the play,...
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...William Faulkner’s captivating story “A Rose for Emily” is a shining example of gothic literature. Faulkner expresses sadness for the love that is not returned, and a drive that Miss Emily Grierson uses to get what she wishes for. He adapts a gloomy and mysterious tone in order to compare Miss Emily’s rejection to young adults today. Faulkner opens his story by expressing the amount of respect that is shown at Miss Emily’s funeral. It is said that the entire town attended this event, but also that some only showed up to see what the inside of her house looked liked because no one had been inside in over ten years. He explains this to show the mysterious appeal of Miss Emily. By explaining the mystery in Miss Emily, he conveys a dark tone that baffles the audience. Faulkner then shifts the story toward explaining what Miss Emily’s house had once looked like. It was a big grim house that was once white. It was the only one left on the street and many believes that it was an abomination to the community. It is evident that Miss Emily and her house are connected in a way. Miss Emily’s family was once one of the most prominent in the town because of the relationship the father had with Colonel Sartoris, but as she grew older the opinions of her social status changed along with her. Her father not only had great power within the community, he also had power over her as well. This authority is shown through the portrait that Faulkner painted in the story: Miss Emily a slender...
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...Critical Thinking: Independent Book Reflection *Use this space to review and consider the choices your author made. Nearly every choice is for a purpose; so reflect on and muse over his/her choices! Write your OWN, brief, yet descriptive plot summary (overall or structure summary for certain nonfiction pieces). The main character Beatrice lives in a future Chicago in where people are divided into factions based upon their personalities. Abnegation, for the selfless, Amity, for the peaceful, Candor, for the honest, Dauntless, for the brave, and Erudite, for the intellectual. When it comes time for the choosing day, Beatrice discovers that she is Divergent, a very special case in where a person is no set faction. After surprising her family with the choice of dauntless, Beatrice is sent into the initiation protocol for the faction. Starting with jumping onto a moving train. From that moving train she then must jump off of that train onto a roof, then down into a pitch black hole. After that part they must go through three initiation trials which she goes through and is injected with this serum thing that the eurdites activate to take control of the dauntless, all except the divergents who are surprisingly revealed to us that four and tris’ (Beatrice’s dauntless name) mother are. Then all of the action starts to kick in. We have death all around us. To get to the final control room to stop this brainwashing experience tris loses her mother and father. But after all that is...
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...own thoughts into the subject, raising questions into science, technology, and religion, providing examples along the way. Contact is a great movie, hitting multiple levels of suspense, action, politics, and intelligence. It deals with the struggles of Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway, who was able to make contact with an alien intelligence near the star Vega. After contact was made, her vindication of the find is short lived when people including the government, Dr. Drumlin (her supervisor), and many others rush in to take control and validate the find. However, it is discovered that the alien’s want us to build a machine that would enable a person to travel to them, which would eventually put the entire world on edge. One connection that immediately popped into my head is the idea of a paradigm. A paradigm “refers to a set of tacit assumptions and beliefs within which research goes on (Google definitions).” In Bucchi’s chapter regarding “Paradigms and Styles of Thought,” he states “According to Kuhn, science does not advance smoothly along a linear path and by gradual approximations to the truth; rather it is characterized by abrupt ‘leaps’ and profound ‘discontinuities’ (Bucchi, 26).” This idea can very much be applied to the film Contact, as it connects with it on so many levels. In the film, society once believed that there was a supreme existence (God), and that humans were the...
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...7 million units. The iPhone 3G sold over a million units on its launch weekend. Clearly, Steve Jobs knows how to launch a product for maximum sales. You might even wonder if you can capture a bit of his magic to kickstart your own promotions. And I believe you can. While Apple’s reputation and sometimes-rabid fanbase obviously plays a large part in the success of their launches, there are also a number of strategies virtually any company can employ to make their own product launch a huge success: 1. Put the Focus on the People, Not the Product Rarely do you hear Steve Jobs talking about the various features of Apple products. Standing on stage, he doesn’t push the speed of the iPhone’s processor or the screen resolution, for example. He knows most people don’t care, and the ones who do can easily find that information on Apple’s website or product literature. Instead, he goes out of his way to emphasize how the product affects you. He talks about how annoying it is to carry both a phone and an MP3 player and how, with an iPhone, you’re condensing them down to one easy-to-carry device. It’s about simplicity, productivity, style — all things he knows people are interested in. And it takes discipline. When you launch a product, everyone in your company is probably excited by the technical specs, and all of the different ways your product pushes the envelope, and it’s easy to assume your customer feels the same way. But they don’t. They care about their problems and...
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...The Gift of the Magi Themes Love "Gift of the Magi" is the story of a poor, young couple whose love for each other is the most important thing in their lives. Such is their love that they're led to sacrifice their most valuable possessions to find Christmas gifts for each other. The warm home they make together contrasts with the drabness of their poverty and the dreary world outside. Their love seems to know no bounds, though Della (the wife) worries about how her sacrifice will affect her husband because of how it affects her looks. If ever there were a story with the message that all you need to be happy is love, this is it. Sacrifice The two main characters in "Gift of the Magi" are a husband and wife who give up their most precious possessions to be able to afford gifts for each other on Christmas Eve. The story seems to be all about sacrifice. We watch Della go through the process of deciding to make the sacrifice and going through with it, only to discover that her husband has made the same sacrifice. The story's narrator assures us that in their willingness to give up all they have, they have proven themselves the wisest of all gift-givers. It might remain unclear, though, exactly what their sacrifice has accomplished, or how it has affected them. Wealth In many ways, "Gift of the Magi" is a story about what it means for something to be valuable. Does something's value lie in how much money it is worth? Or are other things more valuable than money? The main characters...
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...here were many things came into my head when I saw the question "What would you get rid of to improve life in the 21st Century?" However none of them seemed important or exciting enough to be able to write a blog on. But then, after a few seconds I had an epiphany of how much was wrong with this world, obviously there's the obvious things like war and famine etc. but there are also little details that wind me up as well, such as queues; gum under tables; shorts and tops that reveal so much skin the people wearing them may as well wander around naked so everybody sees what they're trying to show in the first place; and then it hit me. The worst thing in this world, the thing everybody hates the thing that kills everybody inside... yes you've guessed it: TV adverts! Getting me started on the words beginning with "t," and "a," is a BAD move (sorry for whoever is reading this, please accept my apology). It annoys me so much that I can rant about it for hours, so I will try to keep this brief so that a) you won't fall asleep half way through and b) i won't break my keyboard whilst typing furiously . So, TV adverts. Where to start? How about their ringtone or theme tunes or whatever type of music it is classified as? Actually, I take that back completely, it is NOT music. An advert that goes "ding, ding, ding, ding," in an annoyingly high pitched "ding?" is not music. (It annoys me as much as high voiced men annoy Miranda, such fun, sorry couldn't resist :D ). In my opinion, it should...
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...the types of questions that will appear in section 2, paper 2 of the English A exam. | 1. Read the following extract carefully and then answer all the questions set on it.Pita panicked. There was nothing he could do. He was trapped. Trapped with hundreds of others. The monster had come and was slowly, surely dragging them from the deep. He swam through the excited crowd to try the bottom. Then he tried the top again. The great monster had encircled them completely. There were millions of holes in its great hands, but none large enough. If only they were a little larger. Pita tried to push himself through one of the holes again. He squeezed and squeezed. Great tails lashed around him. Not only he but against his eyes. If only his head could get through. He pushed again, hard, and the pain quivered through his body.There was nothing he could do. He heard the breakers roaring above now. That meant they were nearing the shore. Pita whipped his tail in fury. The monster was gradually closing its hands. There were cries now above the surface. Below, the monster grated on sand. The shore! They had reached the shore! Frantically, Pita flung himself against one of the tiny holes. He gave a cry as the scales tore from his back - then a cry of joy. He was free! Free!He lunged forward below the surface. Down he sped, rejoicing in his tinyness. If he was only a little bigger, he would have been dying on the shore now. The fateful shore! There had been those who had actually come back from...
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