Albert S Humphrey

A Television is an important tool that can be found in almost all American households. Many people use TV’s for various reasons, but most enjoy watching something that will draw them away from their everyday life for a couple of hours. With technology drastically changing over time, it is easier for a person to gain access to their favorite TV shows. Viewers have the ability to watch their shows on any piece of technology at any given time, ranging from a computer to a Netflix app on a phone.…

Hass looks at how intellect mutes or distances a person from the meaning of sacrifice and how it leads to feelings of power and comfort. Faced with a palpable or immediate sacrifice, in this case life or death or the loss of a job, the individual 's rendered vulnerable and powerless; however, Hass finds that while sacrifice necessarily creates an uncomfortable and unjust power dynamic, knowledge and understanding can prepare an individual to feel merely affronted rather than harmed when called…

he did “as little as possible” in Chinatown, his restrained efforts paint him as either a lazy or incompetent man, and unlikely to be what Chandler would consider the best (Polanski). It seems that after his opening line, “All right, Curly. Enough 's enough. You can 't eat the Venetian blinds,” his attempts at verbal superiority don’t quite land (Polanski). Curly may have been an unfair match, as a financially insecure and distraught client, but when Lou Escobar’s partner asks Jake how he…

1. Hofstadter 18-21 Richard Hakluyt “Discourse of the Western Planting” The passage depicts the arguments that Richard Hakluyt makes to convince the Queen of England to support Sir Walter Raleigh's and Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s colonization efforts. Through the passage, Hakluyt brings up the religion, economy, and power. He stresses that the colonies can be used as tools to convert Indians to Christianity, which has now been reformed due to the Protestant Reformation. Hakluyt also states that…

1878 saw American dance pioneer Isadora Duncan rebelling against the normality of traditional ballet technique in order to create her own revolutionary style of dance technique and performance. Jean Morrison Brown, a previous professor of dance at the University of New Hampshire stated about Duncan: “A feminist in the most contemporary sense of the word and a radical whose rebellion, particularly against ballet, was complete and far-reaching …” (Brown, 1998, pg. 7) She believed that dance…

Dance has long been a medium that represents American culture that is constantly evolving and Martha Graham and Frank Gatson Jr. are two of many choreographers that helped developing modern dancing in America. After watching a lot of videos on how different type of dances emerged in America, I found Martha Graham’s work appealed to me the most because of her expressiveness and intensity in movements. Brought up by a father who was a psychiatrist, her first lesson of dancing was, “Movement never…

Casablanca is an American Romantic film that was produced in 1942 whose setting is during the Second World War. The film centers on an American soldier who is at crossroads of choosing between the love he has for a lady and assisting the husband to the lady who is a leader of the Czech Resistance to escape from Casablanca, a city in Morocco controlled by the Vichy in order for him to persist in fighting the Nazis. The film begins with the image of a globe that is spinning and the French…

Casablanca is a movie that sets place in 1941. This is a significance date during World War 2. During this period Casablanca in Morocco that was French ruled. In 1940, France had surrendered and signed a peace treaty with Germany. In this treaty, Germany would occupy northern regions of France, including Paris and the French territories of North Africa. During this time in World War 2; many people wanted to Europe and seek refuge elsewhere. Casablanca, which is located in Morocco, was under the…

Martha Graham preceded to transform dance with her style, originality and new ideas. Martha was a modern dancer and choreographer. Who way of dance has been influence and compared with Picasso. Martha first started teaching dance in 1926 her first group of people had been sucked into her creative style and technique. After the first lesson she started Martha Graham Studio so that all dancers influenced by her can be under her watchful eye. The National Association of Schools of dance adopted…

Martha Graham was and still is a renowned modern Dance pioneer of her time, a woman who made a remarkable impact on dance. She was a visionary for dance in the 1900’s challenging the world of classical ballet with its gracefully structured moves and its fairy tale performances. To Graham ballet did not represent the world she lived in so she created her own style and technique known as “the Graham technique.” She dedicated her life to this new modern style of dance which she herself performed…