Les Diaboliques

The story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Guin illustrates how the city Omelas is a perfect place to live, because of all the fun festivities that occur there, and everybody lives in complete happiness. However, the foundation of the city relies on the misery of a little child that is locked in a small tool closet. Nobody is allowed to free the child, because that would disrupt the city’s utopian society. Most of the citizens have no sympathy for the troubled child, because…

Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin reveals the following message to his audience that in order to be happy what is the prices that society needs to pay in order to be happy. In this society one of the idea was participated. In the story it seem like a perfect community. Ursula Le Guin states, “But there was no king. They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians. I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few”. Basically, Le Guin…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

On January 17th, St. Martinville, Louisiana’s 3rd oldest town, celebrated its bicentennial, beginning a yearlong commemoration of the small city’s storied history. St. Martinville is representative of many of Louisiana’s distinct cultural and geographic histories. Seated on the Bayou Teche, the water highway of over 100 miles has been an essential part of the settlement and commercial development of St. Martinville. The word “teche” may be derived from the Chitimacha word for “snake”, and some…

the eyes moving which shows the potential danger she could be in. The spirals can show the type of attitude or emotions which will be conveyed within the film. The context of the spiral is that even though the film was influenced by the novel ‘les diaboliques’ which was a novel related to a murder case, the film vertigo was related to Alfred Hitchcock as when he was younger he was suffering from phobias which helped influence him to create vertigo which links to spirals as the spirals are a way…

Vertigo is a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height. This feeling translates to the 1958 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled Vertigo, which is based on the novel “D’entre Les Morts” by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film is a romantic story of obsession, manipulation, and fear. In the film, a detective is forced to retire after his acrophobia, fear of heights, and accompanying vertigo causes the death of a fellow…