Almost Famous

reaching town. In the beginning of the film, the eight people all have certain perceptions of one another, as the film progresses the perceptions rapidly change and the film ends with everyone's true intentions revealed. The film starts with a famous bounty hunter, John Ruth, transporting his prisoner ,Daisy Domergue, to the town of Red Rock to hang. Daisy has a bounty of $10,000 on her head and Ruth is weary of everyone he crosses paths with. Ruth uses the Uncertainty Reduction…

love for trapeze arts and magic.From then on he devoted his time to learning and mastering new tricks and dreaming of being on stage one day. Only a few years after Erik moved to New York,he decided to change his name to Harry Houdini after a famous French magician who had a similar name. Harry had to start off at the very bottom. In fact, he first began performing inside a dime museum. He spent time everyday mastering and developing his lock picking skills because…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States, and is one of the most famous. His most well-known acts of leadership are saving America from the Great Depression, and helping the Allies win World War II. Roosevelt and Alexius Comnenus have a lot in common, starting from their early life. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born on the 30th of January, 1882, in New York. Similar to Alexius, he was born to be a leader. His parents were wealthy, and he was privately tutored and sent…

twelfth century, Gothic art and literature in Europe had become very popular, and were soon brought to perfection in the thirteenth century. The first Gothic cathedral was the abbey of Saint-Denis (built around 1140 and 1150 ce); it was inspired by the famous Abbot Suger. This cathedral was burned down twice and without the reconstruction of it, Notre Dame, and all the cathedrals in the future would not have been established the way they were. Saint-Denis started a revolution of cathedrals in…

Hitchcock was a film director from England who moved the United States in 1939. He was famously known as the “Master of Suspense”. Hitchcock’s golden years of his cinema career were from the 1950’s to the 1960’s. During this time, he made various famous films, such as Vertigo, North by the Northwest, and Psycho. When we compare these films it’s hard to find something they might have in common. Each film has different lighting effects, colors, and types of shots. Hitchcock utilizes mise en scène…

movie is all about the famous and everlasting American dream. This film show us how Arthur Agee and William Gates, despite their instability and weaknesses, will demonstrate to the whole world that big dreams came true if you really want it. These two guys will achieve fortune and fame through hard work and sweating and they will demonstrate to the whole world what they are capable of. The film was released in 1994 and it was directed by Steve James. The director spent almost 8 years on this…

The image I analyzed was one of Van Gogh’s most famous, “Starry Night” This painting was created in 1889. The image itself is an oil painting, and is currently located at the Museum of Modern art in New York City. This is image is the view from Van Gogh’s room at an asylum he put himself into and was painted from memory afterwards. At first glance this image automatically creates a sense of calmness. With its dark warm colors and the seemingly flowing lines that create the image itself. This…

demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes. His voice gravelly voice is almost instantly recognizable to most people. He was also skilled at scat singing, a type of singings that uses vocalized sounds and syllables rather than actual lyrics. Though Louis Armstrong is now known as one of the most famous jazz trumpet players ever, he started from humble beginnings. Born and raised in the "notorious"(pp. 232) Storyville district…

racing, swimming, and chariot racing. They also stole most of the Olympic sports. They stole discus, javelin, 100 meter sprint, horse racing, swimming, almost everything. Most rules stayed the same as ancient Greek's rules in sports. The fighting rules were the same. Rome and Greek sports had a lot of similarities. Both of the Civilizations had almost the exact same style of fighting, which was that they both covered their hands with fabric, instead of full boxing gloves, they had the same…

and cheesy lines, almost no one can recollect the valuable information shared that filled their heads at the time. The teacher shared more with their students than just how to recite lines. They taught them how to be comfortable in their own skin, how to pick themselves up again after they fall, all while informing them of the rich history of theater. Between comedy and tragedy, theater is the basis of almost all modern compositions. From the origins of theater, to its ever-famous…