Anagrams

crime videos. The study also consisted of three phases. In phase one, subjects watched a video of a crime being committed. They were told to play close attention to details in the video. In phase two, subjects worked on three questionnaires and an anagram for at least 8 minutes. Subjects also responded on a 100 point Likert scale from completely uncertain to completely certain. Afterwards, the subjects saw a lineup that had two rows of three pictures. The subjects were informed that the culprit…

Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die, 1984, is an intricate piece combining the world of high art and the low art of advertisement using word play. It is a work containing one hundred words, fifty with “live” following them and fifty with “die,” in neon lights that light up individually, in rows, and then all together, creating visual patterns. The word combinations include actions, emotions, and colors. One Hundred Live and Die uses the game of language to leave the meaning of the work open…

sins with him. From the day onwards he understood the true mantra and ultimate truth of life. Since Ratnakar once being a murderer was not allowed to chant the mantra with the word “ rama” in it, hence Narada asked him to chant “mara” the phonetic anagram of the word Rama. He meditated with so much of devotion and paid no heed to the growing ant – hills around him. Finally a day came when a voice declared his penance successful and gave him the name “Valmiki”…

harmony within the community. Peter Weir in his film, The Truman Show, presented his version of utopia, a town called Seahaven. This essay will analyze the film as a critique of consumerism. The name of the city itself is, as Smicek points out, an anagram of, “as heaven,” that seems to, “replicate a saccharine of 1950 's American suburbia” (33). The main character, Truman, lives in the, “pastiche of Capra-esque small-town picket-fence America,” the suburban paradise with perfect laws,…

The calculations of a DUI for marijuana are that if a person has five or more anagrams of THC per milliliter of blood within their system, they are considered driving under the influence. So instead of a breathalyzer test like when you consume alcohol, for THC police officers would ask you to take a blood test. This is also controversial…

In a parallel universe, there is a world very similar to our own, in which space aliens who are the physical embodiments of gemstones that came to earth in order to create a new colony. As these aliens started their reign, a rebellion started forming, named the Crystal Gems, in order to stop the Homeworld gems from taking over the Earth. Fast forwards five thousand years and we are left with only four remaining crystal gems, one of which is a human gem hybrid. This is the basic premise of the…

fact that they are subjected to ridicule from every aspect. Hip logic poems tackle various issues like crime, rape, and discrimination faced by African American people. When poets describe Hayes, they always refer to him as the poet who is based on anagrams of poetry (Huston,…

Determining the constituents of reality is arguable the genesis of a prevailing acquiescence within society, and this manifests largely as either blind conformity or wistful ignorance. J.M Barrie and The Wachowski Brothers, authors of Peter Pan and The Matrix, respectively, consider how the obvious dichotomy between reality and fantasy in the two texts acts as a metaphor for society and their ability to choose preferential ignorance in times of strife. This idea is extended to incorporate the…

“To be or not to be” wrote William Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. Or did he? For years intellectuals have debated whether Shakespeare really wrote his 154 sonnets and 37 plays (Pruitt). Despite the present-day lack of evidence to prove Shakespeare’s authorship and the myriad theories to the contrary, the balance tips toward concluding that Shakespeare is the one true author of his impactful collection of works. When people start to question the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays they…

“Artists are influenced by Society and other political reasons, the art comes in many forms; as has many perspectives to Social Media’s eye.” There are many different types of artists out there who explore the different sectors of art itself. People who define their art in a way that catches the human eye, It could mean anything really, sadness, anger, happiness, anything, even the most randomest of things, some come out as a comedic way and others take it more seriously. Visual art, or as in…