Cranes

During the summer of 2013, I was employed by the Dow Chemical Company as a Maintenance and Reliability Engineer. I was located in Deer Park, Texas at their acrylates facility. My time there was only for the summer, which meant I was limited to thirteen weeks to complete my projects. The main project that I worked on while employed there was to install a filtration system for the circulator pumps. There are over sixty pumps throughout the site and they were all failing at different times due to…

during battle, Henry ran away like coward. “He too, threw down his gun and fled. There was no shame in his face. He ran like a rabbit” (Crane 39). 3. Then towards the middle of the book, Henry encounters a tattered man who needs a friend to talk to and is in great pain from the wounds on his body. Eventually, Henry abandons the tattered man for his own good (Crane 59-66). 4. Then on Henry’s way back to the regiment, he gets hit by one of his fellow soldiers riffle and the “loud soldier”…

Psycho is a classic among the entire horror movie genre with many memorable iconic scenes by the only Alfred Hitchcock in the history of Cinema. Tense, horrific and a superb lesson in filmmaking, it offers complex characters and revealing dialogue with a huge regard for details. Psycho also features glorious use of mise-en-scene, a fancy French term for all of the visual elements in the frame used to infer meaning. Hitchcock famously uses this concept in the parlor scene, where Marion and Norman…

which states “Ancient Egyptians built the tombs to honor their Pharaohs- the kings whom they believed to be gods.”(Crane 103) This shows…

The development of America is captured in both factual and fictional stories. The characters in the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are specifically shaped to represent well-thought attributes of America. The author of sleepy hollow uses characters to expound on the development of young America. Washington Irving is reflected as the father of American short story. His inscription depicts the invention of the American myths that deal with ancestors, heroes, and mystical beings that are an essential…

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park is historical fiction because it takes place in 12th century Korea. Tree-Ear is an orphan who lives with his friend Crane-Man, who is disabled because of his leg. Tree-Ear has always been interested in pottery and he discovers Min who is a master potter which makes Tree-Ear very interested. One day when Tree-Ear sneaks into Min’s house and finds his pottery, he can’t help but touch it. As he is holding the beautiful pottery, Min walks in. This startles Tree-Ear…

Intro Paragraph “One person's craziness is another person’s reality” Tim burton says this everytime he describes himself or one of his movies. This is an interesting concept on his movies because he is explaining how what one person thinks, but it someone else. This is just one of the few things that make Tim Burton and his movies so interesting, but the number one thing is something any director can use. The number one thing he does to make his movies, like Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the…

Richard. In the quote “He handed me my money, more than I had earned for that week,” I thought that stood out to me the most in chapter 9. This stood out to me the most because Mr. Crance didn't have to give Richard extra money but he did anyways. Mr. Crane did it out of kindness because he’s been to the North before and he knows how different it is from the South. So for a white…

at the lifeless body of his own brother. “War is Kind” on the other hand, is a poem by Stephen Crane about how people shouldn’t get so upset over war because everyone dies in the end. All lost lives will not come back and there is…

murdered on screen is startling, but it’s even more startling when the audience does not expect it to happen. Psycho, a film by Alfred Hitchcock is an American classic, because of one specific scene, the scene where Marion Crane is stabbed to death in the shower. Psycho starts with Crane stealing the money of a client at the bank she works at, and leaving town to give the money to her boyfriend. On the way, she stops at Bates Motel to stay the night. At the hotel, she meets the owner Norman…