...In this clip, the cinematographer Conrad Hall discusses a shot from In Cold Blood where the lighting took an particularly expressive function. This shot is a particularly fine example of the expressive power of lighting. This clip is taken from the documentary Visions of Light. Herbert Clutter inspects his ranch on the morning of November 14, 1959. That same morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their daily business, running errands and baking cherry pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a long drive, they pull up to the Clutter home with a shotgun and knife in hand. That morning, the bodies are discovered by Susan Kidwell and another of Nancy's friends. Initially, the police are baffled. Bobby Rupp is a suspect until he passes a lie detector test. Alvin Dewey, the KBI agent in charge of the investigation, thinks that the killer must be someone close to the family. Rumor sets the small town of Holcomb on fire. Hartman's Cafe is the center of numerous theories. Meanwhile, Perry and Dick have returned to Dick's hometown of Olathe. Dick passes some hot checks, and the two flee to Mexico. Perry has always dreamed of finding sunken treasure in Mexico. While the investigation in Kansas begins to methodically follow up dead end leads, Perry and Dick spend some time entertaining a rich German tourist before they run out of money in Mexico City. While packing to return to the states, Perry goes through...
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...A foot swings past my face in a rapid motion, kicking the gun further away. In my reaction I bob down onto my knees and extend one of my legs, swinging it round knocking it off it's feet. I stand up and turn round, I stare back at a dark figure that I had previously kicked. It throws the first punch hitting me square in the face. A rush of pain runs through the side of my jaw, and blood drips from my lips. My jaw throbs and burns in pain, nothing I couldn't handle. I throw punches at its stomach and uppercutting it's jaw, while dodging several punches attempting to hit me. With my exposed fingers I claw at its skin as I swing my hand across its face. Beads of blood form in horizontal lines across its face, where I had previously scratched him. I grab hold of it's shoulders pulling it closer to me, the blood on its cheek remains, but the cut beneath it has healed. I curl my leg around its and use my foot to press down behind the knee, the figure jolts to the side as its leg gives way. I elbow it in the shoulders pushing it further down, and flick my leg back and kicking it in the stomach once...
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...hair at some time in their life, though in certain whales it is present only before birth. | | Mammals are warm-blooded. Their body temperature remains about the same all the time, even though the temperature of their surroundings may change. Birds are also warm-blooded, but animal groups such as fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians are not. | | Mammals have a larger, more well-developed brain than do other animals. Some mammals, such as chimpanzees, dolphins, and especially human beings, are highly intelligent. | | Mammals are able to move around using limbs. | Warm-Blooded Humans are warm-blooded animals, so are all other mammals, to a certain extent, and birds. However warm blood is not really the question, many reptiles have blood far warmer than ours, but only on hot days. In fact, blood temperature is...
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...311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 1 Peer Review CRJ 311 Week 1 DQ 2 Your First Scene CRJ 311 Week 1 Journal You're an Expert! CRJ 311 Week 2 Assignment Conducting Your Own Field Sobriety Test CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 1 Drugs and Scheduling CRJ 311 Week 2 DQ 2 Field Sobriety Tests CRJ 311 Week 2 Journal SANE or Not CRJ 311 Week 3 Assignment Case Study Analysis The Enrique Camarena Case CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 1 Hair Evidence CRJ 311 Week 3 DQ 2 Arson Dogs CRJ 311 Week 3 Journal Professional Painter CRJ 311 Week 4 Assignment What's Your Impression CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 1 Bite Mark Evidence CRJ 311 Week 4 DQ 2 Fingerprint Evidence CRJ 311 Week 4 Journal Cold Case Investigation CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 1 Blood Patterns CRJ 311 Week 5 DQ 2 DNA Evidence CRJ 311 Week 5 Final Paper CRJ 311 Week 5 Journal Cold Case Investigation ======================================================== CRJ 311 Week 1 Assignment The CSI Effect (Ash) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.crj311nerd.com Read “Fact or Fiction?; The Jury is Still Out on the CSI Effect; A TV-Insprired Interest in Forensics Has Left the Courtroom Vulnerable to Junk Science,” which is located in the ProQuest database in the Ashford Online Library. What is the CSI Effect, and do you believe it is a legitimate concern? In your paper, address the following: Summarize the CSI Effect and evaluate if it is a legitimate concern. Analyze the impact of the CSI Effect in the courtroom. Interpret what prosecutors can...
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...Ashley ran up to her room, grabbed her razor from the hiding place in her dresser. She turned to her mirror, stared at her reflection while she whispered " Look at yourself, you're worthless, pathetic, nobody while ever love you, you will forever be alone." She walked towards the bathroom, tightly gripping her razor in a closed fist. Tears ran down her cheeks as she locked the bathroom door and slithered into the bathtub. She rolled up her black sweatshirt that hid her day old scabbed cuts. She ran her fingers up and down the red cuts on her arm, she pressed down and felt the burn of her many slices. She took the razor and ran the cool metal lightly against her skin, testing her skins resistance against the sharp edge of her razor. She closed her eyes as she dug the razor into her skin, to take the pain away. The crimson red blood flowed as she cried, it seeped through her skin and down her arm. As the blood dribbled down it outlined the aging scars, that gave her skin a light tint of red. She bit her lip and cut another line into her pale wrist, right on top of a blue vein, just to find relief from her everyday problems and pain. But, this time she cut too deep, she tried to find too much relief. Blood spewed from her fresh open wound onto her, her clothes, and into the tub. She sat there watching herself bleed, telling herself she deserved this. Thoughts ran through her mind, who is going to find her? Will anyone even miss her or notice she is gone? Probably not Ashley was just...
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...Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ uses a metaphysical journey through the blurring of landscapes to awaken consciousness and encourage self-reflection. It is through the development of language techniques that both texts critique the importance of maintaining a transcendent connection with nature as a trigger for enlightenment. Connections with the landscape can encourage reflection and revaluation of past injustices. Flame Tree in a Quarry explores the tenuous technological impact of man on nature that can create tension, highlighting the fragility of nature. The title creates a visual image of the lone ‘flame tree’ in a barren landscape ‘the Quarry’ triggering a metaphor about the powerful forces of nature and its fecundity following great destruction....
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...In the 1960s, a time when American views towards crime and punishment were relentless, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood was a shock to society as it challenged the prevailing attitudes towards criminals. Throughout the era, society often demonized criminals and thought that they were unworthy of a second chance. The belief of the time was that these individuals were inherently evil and deserved only the harshest punishment: death. In the context of these perceptions, Capote began his novel about the brutal murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. While conducting his research, Capote got to know the perpetrators of the crime, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Instead of condemning Smith and Hickock as irredeemable monsters, Capote chose to give his readers another perspective on them. By strategically choosing how to...
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...it's not even an answer, just a shrug and a 'mind your own business'. The response is shot back at my reflection as I begin to admire my work. Red locks curl around my now hazel eyes. Red. Yes, a very fitting colour I think. I wondered if I should add anything else, freckles maybe... Redheads normally have freckles don't they? I decided against it. I had them last time. Then again, last time I was a bronzed beach blonde goddess from Florida. And in a matter of hours, I had transformed to a red haired beauty from the breathtakingly magical country that is Scotland. I tried to remember if and where I told him I was from. Knowing me I probably mumbled something nonsensical; the first city to come to my mind when I speak of Scotland. Glasgow. Yes I told him I was from Glasgow. Oh well, it didn't matter anyway, I'm sure that idiot couldn’t care less where I was from. As if on cue, my phone snaps me out of my thoughts and I see my latest's conquest's number flicker on my screen. What was his name? Peter? Simon? Andrew? John? My thumb hovers over the answer button for a second, the presses down, aggressively, and I answer harshly, almost impatient. "Yes?" and he replies, ignoring my obvious rudeness, "I'm outside you building, should I come up or wait down here?" "Wait" I say, as I terminate the call before he could say anything else. Under the scrutiny of my reflection, I glance back in a last examination of my most recent look before leaving, grabbing my black sequin...
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...New York Juicy Couture store closes because of bedbugs Fatu Jeneka Source: http://www.cnn.com Author: Ashley Vanghan Date: 12/01/2010 Summary of paragraph: In NY big stores close because of bedbug. These bedbugs affect many hotels and store in the city. Business owners lost profit due to bedbugs. The store owners close store due to the safety of the customers, store employees and their well-being. The retailer's three other stores in the city were also tested as a precaution, but no bedbugs were found at any of those locations. Bedbug is a wingless blood-sucking insect that grows up to 7 millimeters in length. These bacteria are found in dirty cold places. Bedbugs are increasing in time and are very bad because they get people sick. Reflection Why did you choose this article? The reason why I chose this article is to see the main reason for bedbugs’ being in the store. Another reason is that it was funny and intersecting. Why is the topic in this article important to learn about? This topic is important to learn about because if you keep your home nasty and dirty you have a 100 percent of having bedbugs in your homes. How is the topic of this article controversial? I think this article can be controversial because people will think that the store is not being clean everyday and some people might make that store run out of business with in a heartbeat. Is this topic about something you would like to look into further? If so why? Yes, i really want...
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...Sydney Bourdon Prof. Savage ENGL-250-021 12 April 2024 The American Dream In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is a true crime novel that tells the true story of the brutal murder of the Clutter family in Kansas and the subsequent investigation and even the capture of the killers. Not only does the book connect to a variety of themes, but it also tells a story of the way things occurred at that time. The harrowing account of the Clutter family murders in 1959 in Kansas serves as a stark reflection of the dark underbelly of the American Dream during the 1950s. As the nation basked in post-war prosperity and suburban idealism, the brutal slaying of the seemingly idyllic Clutter family shattered the illusion of safety and security in small-town America....
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...African American man who works a very stressful job. He has been a smoker since he was 17 years old. In the Neighborhood, we learn that Steve’s daughter, Kelsey, has been treated several times for allergies and chronic coughing. I chose to take a closer look at Kelsey, for my vulnerable population. She is vulnerable because she is an African American child who has been diagnosed with Asthma. She has no control over the circumstances that could have contributed to her diagnosis of asthma. She is unable to control her exposure to second hand smoke from her father, who has tried multiple times to quit. Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke can have more ear infections, cough and colds, respiratory problems, pneumonia and tooth decay. According to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute “Asthma is a complex chronic inflammatory...
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...They Did Not Expect This - Vernon Scannell They did not expect this. Being neither wise nor brave And wearing only the beauty of youth's season They took the first turning quite unquestioningly And walked quickly without looking back even once. It was of course the wrong turning. First they were nagged By a small wind that tugged at their clothing like a dog; Then the rain began and there was no shelter anywhere, Only the street and the rows of houses stern as soldiers. Though the blood chilled, the endearing word burnt the tongue. There were no parks or gardens or public houses: Midnight settled and the rain paused leaving the city Enormous and still like a great sleeping seal. At last they found accommodation in a cold Furnished room where they quickly learnt to believe in ghosts; They had their hope stuffed and put on the mantelpiece But found, after a while, that they did not notice it. While she spends many hours looking in the bottoms of teacups He reads much about association football And waits for the marvellous envelope to fall: Their eyes are strangers and they rarely speak. They did not expect this. * Wr – “They did not expect this.” – Link to ‘Meeting point’, by Louis MacNeice - * “Only the beauty of youth’s season” – Quickly changing, fading, naïve * “By a small wind that tugged at their clothing like a dog” – Pathetic fallacy? * “There were no parks or gardens or public houses” – Power of 3 –...
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...The narrator grew a disliking towards the old man, he believed his eye was like a vulture, which placed a cold feeling upon his skin and through his veins with every glance it made at him. “When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye a cold feeling went up and down my back; even my blood became cold” (Poe 64). Correspondingly one can infer that both the eye and the beating heart share common traits and both symbolize the theme of sin and guilt. Because the eye is like a vulture, which is a bird that feeds upon the sick and dead, it stands as a symbol of guilt because similarly guilt is a burden that eats away at the conscience, which directly connects the eye to the beating heart. The old man’s eye taunted the narrator; it was a constant reminder of who the narrator truly was that he longed to get rid of. Upon every night around twelve the narrator cautiously watched the old man, there outside his bedroom door he wished to kill the innocent man to close his evil eye at once. “And so, I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever” (Poe 65). This indicates how the narrator had gone mad and could no longer withstand the constant reminder of the identity he was ashamed of. Oddly, the narrator once love the old man, but something about his eye reminded him of the past. According to Kachur, the old man stands as a reflection of the narrator’s character and other identity that he wishes to conceal. “An understanding of the old man as an abusive...
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...3.2.3. Collocation As one of seven categories of meaning, Leech (1974: 20) defines collocative meaning as “the associations a word acquires on account of the meaning of words which tend to occur in its environment”. Leech exemplifies ‘pretty’ and ‘handsome’ and the collocates of each. These words share the common grounds of ‘good looking’, but they are differentiated by the range of nouns with which they are likely to co-occur. ‘Pretty’ collocates with ‘girl’, ‘boy’, woman’, ‘flower’, while ‘handsome’ collocates with ‘boy’, ‘man’, ‘vessel’, etc. Baker (1992: 47) states that “collocations are often semantically arbitrary co-occurrence restrictions which do not follow logically from the propositional meaning of the word”. She says that the propositional (denotative) meaning of a word does not always determine the collocational patterning. For example, English speakers typically ‘pay a visit’ but less typically ‘make a visit’ and they do not ‘perform a visit’. Another example of collocation in English is ‘rancid’ and ‘addled’. Though the two words have the same denotative meaning, they have different collocational patterning. ‘Addled’ collocates with ‘eggs’, while ‘rancid’ collocates with ‘butter’ (ibid: 47). As the previous examples show collocation is not merely a matter of association of ideas, but as Bollinger, quoted in Emery (1991: 59) says: “a collocation may involve normal senses of all the words in a string but without the easy possibility of substituting some other word...
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...Health History Biographical Data Patient: JT is a 69-year-old female who resides in Joliet, Illinois Date of Birth: July 30, 1946 Occupation: retired as a data entry clerk Marital Status: Divorced Race: Caucasian Religious Orientation: Roman Catholic and attends church every Sunday Education: High School Graduate (4th Year) and graduated from a trade school where she studied data entry Present Health Issue Patient stated “that she has been feeling dizzy and light headed lately” She fell two days ago Past Medical History Patient reports that she had whooping cough and chronic ear infections at a young age, but cannot remember the exact ages. Patient reports no major accidents. Patient reported that she had Gallbladder surgery in 1976, Carpal tunnel surgery in both wrists in 2013, had bunions removed off both feet about 7 years ago and had pituitary gland surgery three time over a 10-year span. The patient cannot remember all of her immunization as a child, but does receive the flu every year for the last 20 years and received the shingles immunization in 2006. Patient went through menopause at 45 years old. Social History Patient lives alone. Patient has 3 sons that live with in a 30-mile radius. Patient stated that she is lonely at times and is currently taking medication for depression. Patient stated, “she does not have thoughts of hurting herself” Patient ambulates without any assistance. Patient does drive and wears a seat belt Patient does not...
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