A golden, whitish light pierces the grayish-teal sky as if it were thread weaving an intricate fabric. The sea flows into a liquid swirl of silvers, blues, and grays. This purposeful contrast between the dark, empty town and the rich, vibrant water and sky adds to the photograph’s unusual perspective, making it seem as if the viewer were looking at human civilization through the eyes of someone more sympathetic to nature than the average technology-minded human being. The work suggests how completely the majesty of nature can overshadow many human accomplishments.…
“One Night The Moon” a film directed by Rachel Perkins explores some of the universal themes such as Power, distinctive voices, and racism to demonstrate how they define society. Kevin Rudd’s sorry speech addressing similar themes demonstrates how much the Australian attitude changed since the setting of One Night The Moon and how abused the power of the government truly was. Perkins use of camera shots along with Rudd’s factual and emotional words brings both texts to life. Settings can change and shape the moods of certain experiences. In the opening scene of One Night The Moon the audience is introduced to a confronting, wide, long shot of a family riding through out back Australia on a horse and cart.…
Night written by Elie Wiesel and The Believer directed by Henry Bean, are different in terms of period of time and conflict, however they do share a number of similarities. The novel, Night, is based on a young innocent Jewish boy named Eliezer Wiesel who is very devoted his religion. After facing the many struggles from Nazis and other Jewish people, his beliefs and attitudes changed drastically, and he no longer believed in a Higher authority of God. He lost his belief in God and in his own identity. Although things have changed, the love and affection he had for his father did not, even to the least bit.…
Literate Arts can be fine for explaining a variety of historical, crucial events. Richard E. Miller, author of The Dark Night of The Soul employs texts to display how the literate arts can be beneficial for emphasizing the importance of historical catastrophic events. Moreover, Miller employed a variety of “how,” and “why” questions and how to respond to them in his writing to the public to engage them in a conversation and question their views on the literate arts. Furthermore, Miller asks questions about historical events that have happened over time and probably impacted billions of civilians, which in my opinion is one thing the literate arts is excellent at describing.…
When reading Night by Elie Wiesel and watching the “Save the Children” advert, both pieces use of powerful imagery like the way the little girl faces throughout the video and the first look at the horrors of a concentration camp. A theme that is present in both works is don’t ignore suffering just because it isn’t happening to you. Wiesel chooses to illuminate the theme through giving his reader a sense of being in the moment he experienced. Wiesel has just been taken from his home and is being transported to a concentration camp in a covered car.…
Viewing the art exhibit “The era of Anthropocene” revealed a new perspective on the events that occurred because of global warming. A painting that focused on disappearing identities is Raymond Biojosly’s piece ‘Res Gas’, which depicts landscapes of Indigenous neighbourhoods. What makes this painting distinctive is that Biojosly used a canvas that reacts with sunlight, therefore causing the image on the paper to slowly disappear. The importance of this piece is to highlight the actuality that if we keep ignoring climate change and its accountability for progressively deteriorating…
Respected for his artistic efforts, Lewis had that special quality the French called auteur when making a picture truly in his vision. Lewis was a chameleon with each film he directed and still managed to input his style while maintaining the mood of the characters in the story and designing the scenery to fit the tempo of the film, as Hirsch recognizes, “Lewis shifts his own style to accommodate the style of his characters and their setting. The detective in So Dark the Night, on the surface, is sedate and implacable, a man of absolutely sober deportment; and the film’s own measured manner echoes the character’s. The fugitive couple in Gun Crazy have a very different rhythm. The woman, who goads the man into a life of crime, is wildly impulsive, forever on the run; to capture her essential spirit.…
In the poem Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford a quick overview is that it gets into a man driving on a curvy road along a mountain side at night, then sees a dead deer on the road and gets out of his car and throws it into the river. The poem itself is exceedingly detailed and finds a way of pulling different emotions out of the reader, while also having different meanings to different people. My secondary source was by Terry Fairchild, who did an analysis on the poem traveling Through the Dark by William Stafford. Terry Fairchild believes that the meaning of the poem is about the wretchedness that accompanies each traveler on the long journey of life toward the inevitability of death.…
Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s The Time: Night is, for lack of a better phrase, a family novel in that it delves into familial relationships specifically regarding motherhood. Petrushevskaia explores three generations of women: The grandmother Sima, mother Anna, and daughter Alyona. Delving into manic hysteria, Anna’s situation portrays a cyclical view of history wherein Anna’s life repeats that of Sima; leaving us to assume that Alyona will also follow suit. Anna’s crazed view on motherhood and the relationship portrayed between the daughters appears bleak as the cyclical nature of history negates a possible utopia.…
Elie’s loss of head faith is cemented in his quote on page 87, “And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom I no longer believed.” (M). This cements it because he is fighting himself not to believe. His heart wanted to pray and pray it did showing that he still believed in his heart. However, he writes “in spite of myself” that means in his head he did not want to pray and he wishes that he does not.…
It Makes Sense Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Night-time has one reoccurring theme that he has highlighted throughout the novel, Logic. He illustrates this by his sentence structure and by showing the way Christopher, the protagonist, processes everything by using and needing concrete facts or patterns and various structures to justify his different conclusions he arrives at throughout the novel, also on how each chapter is labeled with prime numbers. Haddon does not do anything without a purpose in this novel.…
Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of “Our Vanishing Night”, explains exactly why light pollution has spread. "We are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light” (Klinkenborg pg.478). He explains that humans have filled the night with light, so we have an easier time adapting to the darkness. However, with this comes consequences with our actions. Klinkenborg is effective when persuading the audience that light pollution is a problem.…
“A prolonged whistle split the air. The wheels began to grind. We were on our way.” (20) This is the moment where everything changes.…
Out of Darkness II When Jesus encountered the powers of darkness oppressing a person, the oppressing spirits would often speak or identify themselves, recognizing the presence of His authority over them. St. Mark writes an eye witness report of spirits speaking out of a man from Gerasenes and the extra human strength they exerted through him. The man was drawn toward Jesus in his humanness, and, at the same time being, repelled away from Jesus because of the oppression of darkness at work within Him. He ran toward Jesus, cutting himself at the same time. He fell on his knees in front of Jesus, and at the same time…
Essentialism ideologies are the beliefs that certain categories or groups of people have intrinsic, or “natural”, characteristics or dispositions (Ferguson). These beliefs are encapsulated in society giving unspoken power to the “norm” enabling the belittlement of the “unnatural” groups. This central concept is what promotes systemic racism, sexism, homophobia, and heteronormativity. These social institutions are what allow for the reoccurrence of unjust treatment towards these “subordinate” groups in all sectors of society.…