journey through the night of the universe that is forever silent with a high metallic hum. Enclosed in time within the rocket, the ship itself surrounded by timelessness, which is in turn framed by the boundaries of the cinema screen, the last men and women and children of Earth watch the asteroids, the stream of cosmic dust, the barren planets drift past the portholes like luminous flowers at once beautiful and monstrous, floating in the ocean of space. The traveler search the night for another world
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The Messages in Art Artists have long been known to throw subtle messages into their pieces of art. One way of doing this is an artist taking an event that is part of history and making a slight change in it to show something that they feel is valuable. A perfect example of this is the painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. The artist Emanuel Leutze took the negative space in this painting and turned it into a day sky, with a shining sun. Historically, however, this event didn’t happen during
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Some may question the legality of the current carding policy. Some argue that the policy infringes some of their constitutional rights in Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, such as their violation of their section 8 right against unreasonable search and seizure, as well as their section 9 right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned. Some may even go further and argue that some of their rights defined in the Human Rights Code have been violated, such as their section 1 ( Every person
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so close to this disturbing man, who she had never seen before. Slowly the man took a few careful steps closer towards her, he was no more than three feet from her now and his menacing grin had become even wider. There was a suspicious glint in his dark eyes that made him look even creepier. As he slowly approached her she began to feel more and more afraid with every slight movement he made. She tried to scream but she was frozen, trapped in a nightmare that yelling could not save her from. She
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other IV. Human Nature: a. Human nature in “The Lottery” b. Human nature in “The Most Dangerous Game” c. Human nature in general V. Conclusion: a. Biblical Perspective of both stories b. Final Thoughts The cold wintery nights in contrast with the character Tiny Tim from “A Christmas Carol,” Nemo’s dad in contrast to the vast ocean and entirely too large of a world in the movie Finding Nemo, Adam and Eve in that radiant garden of Eden. All of these characterizations wildly
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afraid to get her hands bloody. At times, in fact, she seemed fascinated by it.” (98). Mary Anne was bold, and not afraid to go out of her comfort zone. As the story progressed, she started becoming one with nature. “Mary Anne just stared out at the dark green mountains to the west. The wilderness seemed to draw her in.” (105). It surprised the soldiers that she was so drastically drawn in.
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This can be seen by Bram Stoker's character of Dracula, the use of a dark setting, Dracula’s unusual abilities and the fact that Dracula is a vampire. But what do I know? How sinister could Dracula actually be? A dark setting can set the mood for the entire story. As we see in Dracula, the dark setting gives off a creepy and scary mood, the perfect mood for evil and vampires. Bram Stoker does a great job of describing the dark setting. Jonathan Harker’s trip to Castle Dracula was very unusual and
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Film Studies Assignment 1: Essay Nowadays, when you question people about the meaning of genre, what is the uses, people might starring at you and confuse especially new generation like generation Y and baby-boomers. Young generations are just concern about the story of a film, who is the actor or actress plays the main character in the film or they just like to watch and no interest to category it. First of all, genre is the method categorized a film based on similarities in the narrative elements
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Sample Excerpt (Fantasy): The night was chilly. I remained still, refusing to shiver. Any movement would be heard by the preternatural prey I stalked. Even my breathing was slow and regulated, so as not to mist in the unnaturally cold air—though my heart wanted to hammer its way out of my chest. My body wanted to fidget, every instinct telling me to move, to do something, preferably to run away, but I waited. Listening. Watching. The chattering noise echoed through the trees, and I knew I had struck
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telling the parts of her life when she is a young adult. In the very begining Lena tells the readers of a time when she was five and a dark side of her mother Gu Ying-ying (Betty St.Clair) sprang from the basement in their Oakland house. The door was barricaded with a chair, chains and key locks. One day she tried to open the door and fell headfirst into the dark basement. That day her mother tells she why she should never open the door again, "He had lived there for a thousand years, and was so
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