Billy Joel

shown through three different cinematography components: lighting, camera angles, and composition. Over the course of 107 thrilling minutes, Walter Neff becomes a whole new person due to his relationship with Phyllis. In his film Double Indemnity, Billy Wilder uses cinematography to demonstrate the progression of Walter Neff’s character from a seemingly innocent insurance agent to a criminal. In the beginning of the film, Walter Neff is viewed as a happy and confident insurance agent, and…

With the concept of Schittny’s Invisibility Cloak, a feat as marvelous as that of using extreme distortion to simulate invisibility follows a very strict regime for it to actually become reality. And despite the irony of it, any individual needs an algorithm to cause chaos. The Cloak for instance, is the result of two large electromagnetic fields actively valancing atomic particles in the vicinity of the desired object to move constantly so that light that is directed at them passes through them…

1963, Mr. Vonnegut published Cat’s Cradle. Though it initially sold only about 500 copies, it is widely read today in high school English classes. Mr. Vonnegut shed the label of science-fiction writer with Slaughterhouse-Five. It tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain’s assistant who discovers the horror of war. Slaughterhouse-Five reached No. 1 on best-seller lists, making Mr. Vonnegut a cult hero. Some schools and libraries have banned it because of its sexual content, rough language…

“Maybe it’s a supernatural phenomenon!” Ace encourages from his place across Nami and Vivi. “Aliens could’ve done it!” Luffy chokes on his food. “Mhphh—!” “Don’t do that.” Zoro frowns at Ace as he reached over and pats Luffy’s back. “You’ll get him all excited over nothing.” Ace grins mischievously. “What if she’s an alien herself and she’s come to take over the planet!” Luffy’s arms are going everywhere and he’s babbling nonsense behind all the food in his mouth. Law, who’d been quietly…

A Metaphor for War: Schwarzschild Radius and Black holes Connie Willis communicates that a black hole is akin to war through the use of a number of metaphors in her story Schwarzschild Radius. Schwarzschild Radius is about a World War One veteran, Rottschieben who is recounting his time in the war to a curious college student who wished to know about his time working alongside the physicist that is attributed with the discovery of the Schwarzschild Radius. Willis uses comparisons such as…

Billy Wilder’s classic film from 1944, entitled Double Indemnity displays many of the traditional traits of Film Noir. During the opening scene an extremely dramatic silhouette of a mysterious man on crutches limps towards the viewer. You can’t help but wonder who this character could be. Ultimately Walter Neff betrays his superior, Barton Keys. Keys thinks very highly of Neff and believes he has what it takes to become a great investigator for the insurance company. Neff is an insurance…

Marilyn Monroe is dead. (Dramatic pause) I am Lee Strasberg, Marilyn's acting teacher. I'm delivering this speech because she had no close family whatsoever. Only me. (Gesture to myself) Although my Marilyn had the "perfect life" (hand motions for quotations), it drove her to the extremities of ending it. Her lifeless body was found face-down in her bed on Sunday, August 5, 1962. Monroe had her telephone in one hand, and sleeping pills placed around her body. Marilyn had…

miserably working in horrific mining conditions. He could have easily gotten involved in the rioting and become a bitter person, but dancing gave him something to put his passions into. Dancing gave him an alternate path; it was crazy symbolic when Billy went off to London to attend school and his father and brother are shown being locked in the elevator and sent back into the mines on the same day. Dance made that world of difference for him. Leisure is, in my opinion, a wonderful tool to…

to emphasize the importance of life and significance ofdeath. Kurt Vonnegut uses a mix of social satire, black humor, autobiography and moral philosophy to explain a powerful antiwar message (Vonnegut and Ludwig). Through the characterization of Billy Pilgram and his experiences in World War II, Vonnegut uses his own background from the firebombing of Dresden, Germany to explore the psychological effects of war on the average soldier in Slaughterhouse-Five. The air raid upon Dresden,…

Norma Jeane Mortensen, also known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. In the beginning Marilyn had a rough start at life. She didn’t know her father, and her mother Glady Pearl Bakers developed psychiatric problems and was placed in an institution. Monroe spent a lot of her time in foster care and in an orphanage. In 1937, Doc and Grace Goddard took care of Monroe for only a few years. At seven years old Marilyn was placed back in a foster home where she had…