A Double Life

This essay will provide an overview of a clip from the beginning of the movie Double Indemnity. The clip has a runtime of two minutes and thirty-three seconds and contains five shots in total. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of each shot in the clip. It will examine the types of camera angles used, the lighting direction and the composition of objects and figures on the screen. The elevator encounter between Walter Neff and the Watchman in the first scene is a two-shot captured at…

Violins are the most popular and the most well known instrument in the strings orchestra. This often leads to some people thinking of every strings instrument in terms of the violin. For example, a cello is a “big violin.” Lots of strings players who don't play the violin are often enraged by comments like these, but how close are cellos to violins? Cellos are actually very similar to violins, as their alias suggests, but violins and cellos are also very different. Violins, for starters, are…

Throughout the timeline of Music, There has been many different genres and styles created by Musicians, throughout this timeline we received the 20th Century genre of Impressionism. The genre focuses on conveying emotions and moods behind a pacific event or a reflection on how the composer is feeling, an example of Impressionism genre that gives the audience the feel of emotion is Krzytof Penderecki’s Impressionism piece Thernody for the Victims of Hiroshima, which he has transformed the…

The idea of a String Methods class in undergraduate study is to explore the different approaches that happen around the world. There will be some methods more renowned than others, and of course, those will prevail and outshine the rest. However, this class will go into specific details of the classical instruments like Violin, Viola, Cello, and String Bass and how they are used throughout these String Methods. Consequently, these string instruments play a huge role in the music world around us;…

performers as his henchmen that I knew would be able to handle the pressure of working around an a grade actor like Hugh. How did Sharlto Copley’s suit factor into your stunt coordination? Both Sharlto and his Stunt double Ian Stock had a lyca suit on with various plastic pieces added to create the size and shape of the droids. These plastic pieces made it difficult to move and or Fall with, so for some of the sequences we either removed them or had foam ones…

In an ever changing world, there are some things that will forever seem to be the same; the sky has been and shall be blue, people have and will constantly fall in and out of love, the fear of the unknown has been experienced by many, and many more will experience such a feeling, and an orchestra has always been seated that way it has - string instruments in the front with brass, woodwinds, and percussion in the back. Various things that function in a certain way, and continue to function in…

Technological advances have prolonged human life and changed not only what it means to practice medicine, but what it means to be alive. In some cases, patients turn to their physicians to assist them in dying. The purpose of this essay is not to promote physician aid in dying or even provide a stance on the subject. Rather, the purpose is to question the moral distinction between physician aid in dying and the doctrine of double effect. Through defining these two terms and analyzing medical…

criticism that is valid, and is that his account of history is wrong. For instance, he argues that the west’s remarkable advantage over the rest was “the power to double human life expectancy through the killer application, modern medicine” (Ferguson, 2011). Ferguson goes further on to say, “In nearly all Asian and African countries, life expectancy began to improve before the end of colonial rule” (Ferguson, 2011). Furthermore, the general critique was that he had selected the facts that…

When not in the transcendent state life must then be dominated by the lower self, wherein we surrender to the self-programmed habitual reaction to events and circumstances. In daily life, then, when we do not know what to do we look to others for direction. The lower self is always looking for the reassurance that all is well. When not established in the transcendent…

corruption ran deep into the government, and every official had suspicions about the others leaking information to the enemy. People were afraid, distrustful, and would resort to anything to save themselves. This is exactly what made Juan Pujol Garcia, a double agent for the MI5, so special in the eyes of others. He was a role model in both his actions and words, and was a beacon of hope for those…