Analysis of The Dead Essay

Edgar Allen Poe is a famous poet found in the eighteenth century who loved to write deep, dark, meaningful poems expressing his very inner emotions. Much to believe that “Spirits of the Dead” was written for Poe’s need to accept the fate of death and the struggle to connect with those that have deceased. Firstly, Poe’s mood travels differently as the stanzas progress. The first two expressed tribulations towards death, and slowly moved to enmity, and then lastly Poe accepted the effect death…

Dead Man Walking a movie of a man pleading for his life while on death row. Matthew Poncelet reaches out to a nun, Sister Helen Prejean, for help in his appeal. Sister Helen found an attorney, Hilton Barber, to fight for Matthew’s appeal. At the first appeal for a stay of execution Hilton makes a few very compelling points that make you question the death penalty and how humane it really is. As the movie goes on, it has more moments like that one where you question am I truly for or against the…

Evil Dead is a reboot of the original 1981 movie under the same name. We follow a group of friends supporting a friend of theirs in his attempt to help his drug addict sister detox. To detox the sister the friends journey to a cabin in the middle of the forrest. Things go as far as expected as you possibly can imagine and we sit on the edge of our seats waiting to see how the story unfolds. One thing worth noting is that the movie used no CGI at all everything was practical effects. Between…

Edgar Wright is a really great director who knows how to make people laugh. He is known for his Comedic Cornetto Trilogy, and the movies I will be talking about are “Shaun of the Dead”, and “Hot Fuzz” are the two of them. The scenes display the kind of style he uses in the films, and by using film techniques it helps show the style by how effective it is. Techniques such as music, sound effects, camera work e.g close ups, mid shots, and characters. Wright uses these techniques to grab people’s…

author of And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, in his Nieman Reports article, “Murder Trials and Media Sensationalism,” documents the story of a young child laborer in Atlanta who was mysteriously murdered, and analyzes the resulting newspaper frenzy in which multiple publishers attempted to propel themselves into success by unjustly taking advantage of the sensitive tragedy. These tactics include showing a picture of the victim’s dead body on the…

Mandee Stock’s painting, Ellie, depicts a young Day of the Dead girl. Stock uses acrylic paint on a canvas that is approximately 20x20” as her medium. At first glance, the painting may just appear to be nothing more than another Day of the Dead painting; however, upon closer examination the details turn it into something entirely different. Stock uses techniques such as: implied depth, color, and focal point to emphasize the innocence being lost in the young girl. Without these elements, Stock’s…

storyline, The Walking Dead. For the sake of simplicity I will only be focusing on the first game/season of The Walking Dead as I feel it alone has a very deep and meaningful story without the need for the second game/season. As well as this, it doesn’t rely on fancy game mechanics or beautiful graphics to draw players in, the story is all it needs. I believe that The Walking Dead is the perfect example of a game that’s success is built on its story and narrative. The Walking Dead, created by…

Naemah Aboukarsh English -126 Essay 2 Final 9/26/2017 Liberal Art vs STEM In “The Liberal Arts are Dead: Long Live the Liberal Arts” Whalen states how it’s necessary to studying Liberal Studies, by how it gets readers to think and how to build arguments; He says, “A sound liberal arts education aims precisely to sharpen readers and thinkers in their use of such arguments and amusements. It aims precisely to prepare minds and hearts for a world loud with all manner of persuasion,…

In Malcolm saying he is a “dead butcher” (5.9.41) he says that not only is Macbeth rightfully deceased at this point in the play, but he also describes him as someone who ruthlessly committed acts of murder throughout the story, earning the title entirely. From the very beginning…

Dead End Drive-In is another flick in a long line of random horror films from the 80s that I haven't seen. IT seems there is a good amount out there waiting to be experienced and Arrow Video is bringing them out on Blu-ray for just that purpose alone. Directed by Brian XXX (Night of the Demons 2), Dead End Drive-In came out in XXX and is known as an Ozploitation flick, much in the same line as Mad Max. It delivers a message on the downfall society and the feuding between the haves and the…