Black-and-white films

Kahrs, show both form and content in a quality six-minute and thirty-three second short film. The idea of the film was a bold, yet well designed. The film’s making was complex because it was all hand drawn and it lacks dialogue between anyone during the film, yet it was still about to get its many points and messages out. The man, also known as the “Paper Man” in the film uses the paper to overcome contradiction by throwing paper airplanes at the one he has found love with at first sight. The paper seems to have a consistent role in the entire film. The thesis of this paper is that the content must be made ostensible for the audience to understand…

Dai Sijie. A character who has changed the most over the course of this novel is the Little Seamstress. In the beginning of the book the Seamstress doesn't explore her own interests. She does what she wants most of the time but feels trapped in the life she is living in, she also becomes daring and courageous over the course to the novel. “By the time we arrived the film had already started, and there was only standing room left behind the screen... But the Little Seamstress didn't want to…

throughout the movie from a girl into womanhood. In class we talked about how a woman experiences agency in terms of how her body is read. In this movie, Dawn’s body was always seen as a sex object by herself and others around her. Therefore Dawn obtained agency when she realized the power of her vagina to kill a man. She employs this when she cuts off her brother’s penis, and then you can insinuate she is going to do the same thing to the old man at the end of the movie. Therefore, the agency…

The poem “Woman”, written by Nikki Giovanni, uses several metaphors to describe the journey of a woman and what she feels the man should do but will not do. She describes in many different ways how she wants support from the man, but he is unwilling to give it. In the first stanza, she starts the poem with the woman being a simple, insignificant thing. “She wanted to be a blade of grass amid the fields” (lines 1-2). Grass grows under your feet. Blades of grass are plentiful and ordinary. She…

Meeting with the deathless man in the novel The Tiger’s Wife, I was taken back by his pleasant demeanor. Throughout the novel, there are many variations of how people conceptualize death. From the villagers sacrificing themselves to kill the tiger to the gypsy diggers finding the carcass of a family member, people’s view of death’s importance is diverse. Throughout these groups there is a common fear of death, how it affects others, as well as what will happen to your soul afterwards. Yet, the…

Milun: A Tale of Love and Loss Milun, transcribed and composed by Marie de France, is a love story that intertwines readers into the tragic sequence of events, drama, and imaginable love within the poem. The author, Marie de France, wrote The Lais- twelve short stories written around 1170. Marie de France 's lais, told in octosyllabic, or eight syllable verse, are prominent for their celebration of love, uniqueness of character, and vividness of description – hallmarks of the emerging…

Lust Punished by foxes There are many odd things that happen in this story. It is also very different from other things that we have read in the past. The other fox spirits were handled and treated very differently than the one here. This story is about a man that collects aphrodisiacs as a hobby (Songling, 356-58). There are three characters in this story, four if you count the fox spirit (Songling, 356-58). The characters in this story are the wife, the husband, and the husbands friend…

A nun is usually seen by society as someone who does not follow the normalcies of every day life, especially when it comes to men. They do not rely on men to make them happy, and because of this they are often seen as lonely. Mary E. Freeman Wilkins depicts the decaying love of a couple in “A New England Nun” through a woman who has many habits of a nun. Louisa and Joe, though once happily engaged, have grown too distant over their fourteen years apart. After Joe returns from his long trip, the…

Throughout the course the theme of men versus women is very prominent. Readers see that since the beginning of ancient Greece men and women have been at odds. Men seek superiority as do women. Each unit offered a different view on men versus women. The first time readers will encounter this topic is in unit two. In unit two there are many mentions of men versus women. Men and women are seen as two very different ideas or aspects. The first encounter is the battle in Troy, men would view women…

On February 13th at around 6 in the morning when she was born Jen was with me. For, Jen is all I really had left. They handed me the small delicate newborn baby girl, and I cried. I cried tears of joy. Never in all my life did I ever see a more beautiful baby girl. She had dark brownish-black thick hair. It seemed to be a mix of Aiden’s hair color and my hair color. She had my nose but everything else was a spitting image of Aiden. She doesn’t realize how lucky she really is yet to be blessed…