Is it possible for two teenagers to travel the world, evade killers, and find their father that's nowhere to be found? In this book anything is possible. The title of the book is Sharp shot. The author of this novel is Jack Higgins. I loved this book because it has tons of action, an intense thrill, and has a suspense.…
Comparison and Contrast Essay The stories “Cranes” and “The Sniper” show us the effects of war. The themes of “Cranes” and “The Sniper” are similar due to the war tearing people apart, however, they are different because in “Cranes” the compassion prevails, while in “The Sniper” survival wins over compassion. Both stories themes show us how war reduces human life to nothing and how it tears apart families and friends but that family and friends come first. We see this in “Cranes” when Songsam lets Tokchae escape into the woods.…
The Shot Heard Around the World Who fired the shot that started the revolutionary war? The war, as we all know, was the American Revolution and Great Britain fighting each other. Although, many would argue that the war truly started on the outskirts of the town Lexington, where a standoff took place. On the road going into Lexington, two groups of armed men stood across from each other, the british and the americans.…
It was a nice, sunny but cool morning at Marion Reservoir. I got out of the tent and made a fire so my dad could cook breakfast when he woke up. The birds and squirrels were chirping, my dad came out of the tent and went over by the fire and asked me what I wanted for breakfast I said “bacon.” So he went to the cooler to get the bacon.…
Gina Aine Cathy Jones English 1A, 48354 2/28/16 Reading Response #3 Shootings & Mass Killings in the U.S.: Masculinity, Masculinity, Masculinity In the article, “Shootings” the author Adam Gopnik it is part of everyone life that there always are the risk of being danger where every you go to the shopping malls, the schools, at the political events, in people workplaces, in a movie theater or other different location. No matter the shootings are they always at the school shootings. Life is unpredictable one minute you are on earth and the next you are dead. Our lives are very precious in our every single day and shouldn’t be granted.…
The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Harry Caul, an expert in the field of surveillance, as he becomes obsessed with trying to decipher a distorted audio of a conversation between two people that he thinks are in danger. He is already wracked with guilt after his work on a previous project led to a person's death, and this guilt fuels an obsession to prevent it from happening again. This obsession contributes to a disconnect from reality and Harry's tendency to distance himself from the people in his life. This scene shows Harry's disconnection from others and his obsession with the people in the recorded conversation in a few different ways. It was represented most clearly through the composition of the shots and use of sound throughout the scene.…
The last vestiges of fall had passed and only brown, shriveled leaves remained on the sidewalk. Trees appeared naked, shivering without their blanket of color. Cold air blew through their skinny, lifeless branches, tossing the trees around as though they were mere sticks rather than giants. She shuddered as the chilly wind kissed her brow, leaving a wretched disease of ice and sorrow in its wake. Within this wintry prison there was no joy, there was no warmth, and, above all, there was no diversity.…
In Their Eyes Were Watching God the beginning of the novel plays into the resolution of the story by showing the expectations of the people and showing glimpses of what might happen later in the story. By showing how the story may end at the beginning of the novel allows the reader to engage themselves in the text and try to draw conclusions based on the information provided. The beginning provides a sharp contrast to the end of the novel. The character Janie develops very much from the beginning of the story to the end of it, but that detail isn’t revealed right away. Also the theme is made far more apparent because of the beginnings sharp contrast and foreshadowing.…
By the railroad Corry pulled the gun out of his backpack looking at the wood glow in the sun. He turned around and asked John if it was loaded, he quickly said, “Do you think I’m dumb? Would I carry around a loaded gun?” John says with a grimy smirk on his face. Corry lifted the shiny, red, six-shooter up, still cautious and stared at John.…
A Reflection: The Danger of a Single Story As most people, my story consists of an abundance of struggle, trial and error, and also lessons. These challenges, in addition to the lessons, have brought upon stress, anxiety, and even depression into my life. They have made me question myself to the point of insanity, avoid meeting and accepting new people into my life, and even fail to uphold the bonds I had previously made with both relatives and peers. However, I cannot be defined and bound to the “single story” of my anxiety. There are many more complex stories that represent me even more adequately than the ones that correspond to the struggles I’ve faced; as there are many more stories significant to other various people, places and things…
Ring!!! Ring!!! Sgt. Phillips slowly woke to the blaring sound of his alarm clock. He had to get ready for his shift today.…
The use of close up and head-shot techniques assist in capturing a direct point of view of both character’s body language and facial expressions. These expressions are manufactured to portray a dismal, intimate moment to pull at the audience 's heart strings. Moreover, when Sarah-Jane’s coworker enters she immediately assumes Annie is the maid. Annie identifies herself as Sarah-Janes nanny. Annie’s race allows her to “perform in order to sustain her daughter’s deception” and performance of a white woman.…
American Sniper is definitely one of the most anticipated and controversial films of 2014. The movie is a biopic of the Navy Seal, Chris Kyle. His story is truly amazing and his account of what happened in the Iraq war gets the audience closer to real life battle than anything else. Clint Eastwood did an amazing job depicting the life of Chris Kyle and the stories that were inspired from the book the Kyle wrote. This movie has obviously stuck some sort of chord in the heart of America.…
Film, in general, is a narrative medium, or, at least, a medium of many narrative capacities” (Kuhn). For a film to be a narrative it must present a story with a series of events in ways that imply connections between one event and the next. Narratives must, therefore, have constituent parts, which are also discernibly related; however, the type of relationship may vary greatly. Generally we expect a cause-and-effect relationship: one event has the effect of causing another event, which causes another, and so on. Narratives also require narration, or communication.…
Chazelle depicts Andrew’s intensity through quick camera movements including dolly shots, tracking shots, quick panning that makes the viewer feel they are in the scene with him watching Andrew’s performance. The level of intensity in the cinematography reflects the pure devotion that Andrew has. Chazelle also gives us the audience’s perspective in the theatre showing how the audience’s focus is purely on Andrew. Most of the shots are close up or extreme close ups as the focus is on Andrew, the drums and Fletcher. Chazelle said that he shot the movie as if it was a thriller with suspenseful film techniques such as quick montages of close ups.…