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Ever heard of a Japanese samurai who lost their lord or master and wondered around without a home, called a Ronin? John Frankenheimer assembled an international team of freelancing former Cold War intelligence warriors for a final mission in his movie thriller Ronin. The mission: to recover a briefcase with mysterious contents for an unknown customer. The movie takes place in Paris and southern France where alliances are made and transform along with the team members loyalties. The fierce…

In the Maltese Falcon, Hammett builds a detective through the genre of hardboiled fiction and his writing style. Like a boiled egg that has lost all softness. “The writing style is gritty and tough.”(the big read). In the writing a hard boiled detective is a “man at odds with society, whose motivation stems not from monetary reward but from a personal code and the search for truth.”Throughout the novel, Spade’s definition of a detective comes to be a hardboiled hero that isn’t afraid to use…

Raymond Chandler perpetuated his passion of writing, which led him to future success. In the Windy City, Chicago, Illinois, on July 23, 1888, Raymond Chandler was born into the Thornton-Chandler family. Subsequently, Raymond Chandler followed a path and became the first hard -boiled mystery writer, a quite popular style of the modern day suspenseful stories genre. Unfortunately, when he was young, Raymond Chandler’s parents separated. Thus, an adverse atmosphere surrounded Raymond Chandler as a…

Ismael Dembele Week 6 English Language Homework It was a slightly hazy, albeit sunny morning in the south of Los Angeles on that day. Meanwhile, the big story was all over the news; “Global manhunt for wanted criminal continues in Compton, Los Angeles”. Three policemen were shot dead, two airlifted to Mount Zonah (the biggest and safest hospital nearby), and one taken hostage – all by one fierce human being. There was no sign of him for at least a couple hours, but we weren’t going to cease…

The settings portrayed in City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, a novel by Elmore Leonard, and The Maltese Falcon, a detective novel by Dashiell Hammet were closely related while occurring in two cities on complete opposite sides of the country. Both Raymond Cruz and Sam Spade are sharp, old fashioned, and gritty characters. When it comes to the descriptions of these characters and the correlation between them and their respective cities in which they reside, the authors are able to produce…

The Usual Suspects is a Neo-Noir as it shares some of the Film Noir characteristics. Film Noir often deals with moral corruption, and moral corruption is very much present in The Usual Suspects. Dean Keaton is an ex-cop who lived a life of crime and faked his own death to avoid a criminal trial. The main villain, Keyser Soze, is a criminal who killed his own family to prove to a rival gang how merciless he can be. For example, the men robs a taxi that is being used by corrupt NYPD to escort…

Title: Sleepwalker Author: Robert Muchamore Text Type: Extended Text Date Finished: 6/08/2015 Ryan Tong The Sleepwalker is a story about children agents going on a mission to find out why a distressed boy called about a terrorist attack. Lauren and Jake and their guide Mac all go in to interrogate Fahim while trying to earn some information and stop the terrorists. I think the author was trying to show us how terrorist attacks is such a big problem and yet is not dealt well enough and how it…

The Private Detective On the top of high mountain of a town, a detached house surrounded by wide green field which is vintage, its color is very attractive which flash to people eyes make everyone stop for it beauty, it always stand still as a new building although it had been build over 100 years and no one residence there for a very long time and no one ready to step in though specific area as there is a story behind it. People said whoever step in though the area, they will disappear in 3…

Hammett also wrote over 80 short stories in his life time, Hammett also worked in a magazine and later in life became a screenplay writer. Hammett’s short stories, movies and novels has greatly influenced the works as many writers such as Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Robert B. Parker, James Ellroy,…

Experience 11/2014 – Present Self-Employment Chandler, Arizona Math Tutor I helped my students by pointing out mistakes and giving advice on how to avoid mistakes on future tests. Through my teaching and test preparation, they raised their grades. 9/2014 - Present Chandler Unified School District Cafeteria Chandler, Arizona Lunch Crew Working in the cafeteria in my school, making sub sandwiches for students every day, I quickly became one of the cafeteria’s top performing employees due to my…