Allan Kardec

OpDoc and Documentary Filmmaking Assessment: In looking at all ten of these OpDocs, it is clear that each filmmaker is intent on depicting the people and places featured in a specific way, but each uses different techniques to achieve a similar goal. OpDocs are different than general documentaries because they focus in on getting the audience to feel a specific way about a given issue. Although other forms of documentary filmmaking may also do that, OpDocs seem to zone in on smaller details that tell the story in a short and impactful way. A common theme in all 10 OpDocs is that the filmmakers often switched between written information popping up on the screen and the people featured telling their stories through dialogue. While the short snippets of information offered by the filmmakers were helpful in giving the audience more information, there were a couple of shorts, such as “Congo: The Road to Ruin” and “Lullaby” that had more of a lasting impact because they were mostly silent and only offered those details at the beginning and end. In allowing the audience to simply watch the stories unfold in front of them without any outside interruption, the scenes taking place feel more authentic and simple. When the documentary starts to feel crowded with outside information, it feels more like work to process the information, rather than a chance to simply feel. A nice thing about documentaries is that they are not nearly as limited in what they can express because they capture…

Mostly, any kind of intellect that brings them closer and more in tune with God is in the highest regard of the perennialist (American Education pages 77-78). Some educational leaders were Jacques Maritain, Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Allan Bloom. Jacques Maritain was a French philosopher who believed that the world could not be understood by just intelligence, but having a relationship with a superior being was the only way to completely understand the entire universe. Maritain…

An exceptional author makes people feel like they are in the book, living the story right there with the characters. They will draw references from their own experiences in life in order to make the stories more relatable, and, therefore, more real. Their stories, though fictional, will make the reader feel powerful and full. Sir Henry Rider Haggard is one such author that makes readers of his books feel empowered. H. Rider Haggard is an amazing author of numerous different genres who writes…

In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom makes the case for what he describes as higher education failing democracy through an emphasis on historicism and relativism. This academic emphasis, for Bloom, creates a paradoxical restrictive freedom in the minds and hearts of students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays…

Installation based art is a relatively recent artistic genre, yet it has arguably become one of the most interesting. The broad-ranged, even somewhat difficult to accurately define, genre has been on the rise since its inception and is used to approach countless topics of discussion and thought. Many artists utilize installation art in hopes of providing a unique view or insight to these topics. Installation art often seems to be favored when tackling a certain topic: human relationships such as…

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for many things: such as being an alcoholic and marrying his cousin, but above all, he is known for his fantastic use of suspense in “The Cask of Amontillado”("Edgar Allan Poe."). Poe successfully achieves this effect of suspense, through his use of irony, specifically dramatic and verbal irony. Irony, in general, can be described as “a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words”…

The literary works of Edgar Allan Poe often focus on characters that suffer from some form of mental or physical illness. In his poems and short stories, Poe uses repetition and extensive description to create a relevant atmosphere for the reader. This is especially evident in Poe 's “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Using a narrator to provide an account through a first person perspective, Poe tells a story of two friends whose sanity becomes exceedingly more questionable as the story…

In Edgar Allan Poe 's short story "The Masque of the Red Death", the plague has devastated Prince Prospero 's kingdom, leaving most of the population dead or infected. The Prince responds to this tragedy by securing himself, and one thousand of the most regal lords and ladies, in a castellated abbey; this their attempt to escape death themselves, however, they are aware that this cannot be done. The dread of this inevitable death is displayed symbolically and through the vivid language used by…

Yellow Wallpaper” might represent the woman herself, trying to escape from her depression and the different patterns on the wallpaper may represent all of the different things going through the woman 's mind, such as her family, her depression, the things she sees, and her writing. Group D A gothic horror story contains supernatural elements, as well as adventure, romance and mystery. Gothic horror is represented in Poe and Shelley in a number of different ways. For example, in “Frankenstein”,…

Edgar Allan Poe constructed two short stories named “The Tale-Tell Heart” and “The Black Cat”. Both of these stories are narrated by very similar men with very interesting lives. Poe was a very smart man and achieved a complete new way of viewing a story by writing these stories in first person to show the emotional instability of the narrators, the way a mad man defends his sanity, and a better understanding of what is actually going on inside their minds. Both of these stories being told in…