Dark Ages

Gotham City. A dark, menacing place where nobody wants to be caught outside after dark. Crooks and Robbers roam the streets the second night falls. No man, woman, or child is safe when the darkness strikes. Gangs and mafias rule the city, and members are seen on every street corner and in every alleyway. Indoors is the safest place to be. That's where most people seem to resort to, except for four young adults at only 14 years of age. Their names? Jack Rector, Ethan Thomas, Logan Gutierrez, and…

James Gordon continues his reign as Gotham's Dark Knight in Detective Comics #49. Peter J. Tomasi provides the script for Fernando Pasarin’s illustrations. The two give us a tale that takes us back to the golden age adventures of the Caped Crusader when he not only dished out a good beating but solved a mystery along the way. In Detective Comics #49, James Gordon is caught up in an cold case from his days on the force. He grapples with the new freedom he has as Batman to investigate the crimes…

style of fiction in the mid 1700s with the novel, The Castle of Otranto. His story concerns all the elements that constitute Gothic literature. The term originated as an expression criticizing the art and architecture of the time, which was decaying, dark, and dismal. At the end of the Victorian period, when Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, the golden times of Gothic Fiction had already passed. It was rather a curious revival of the Gothic genre; the novel stirred the…

however though that may be I wish to combine to the application of vivid colouring from Jesperson 's as a method of emphasis as well as a form of masking the darkness often unseen in a carnival. These bold colours will be accompanied by a background of dark and dull shadowing 's and blurred features of the surroundings as well as the malevolent intentions of the attractions and…

There are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. The first galaxies formed around 13.5 billion years ago after the big bang and the dark ages. NASA states that, “After the Big Bang, the Universe was composed of radiation and subatomic particles.” There are two theories about what happened next. The first theory is that small particles slowly team up and gradually form stars, star clusters, and eventually galaxies. The second theory states that the universe first…

the painting be the focal point for the gothic elements, Wilde creates a major contrast between the painting and the rest of the novel. The setting and everything else in the novel is very familiar and almost boring compared to the painting, which is dark, twisted, wicked, and mysterious. I believe that Wilde had a purpose behind why he had the painting be so different from the rest of the novel. I believe that Wilde created this contrast to draw attention to the painting and the implications…

After reading The Odyssey Book 5-8, it came to my attention that the modern world of today and the classical myths of the past have somewhat different beliefs on what a trickster is all about. The current myth I am going to use come from the movie The Dark Knight(2008), where we are introduced to a trickster known as the Joker. The Joker is a villain who dresses up as a clown and commits crimes. In addition to being a villain he is also consider a criminal mastermind due to his ingenuity when it…

alter ego was connected with his family. He thought if they was family they would be brothers. The narrator was furious with his having the same name because he was a stranger. A name was not the only thing that was the same, but also their height and age was the same too. His alter ego was perfect at playing his part imitating the narrator.He was the protagonist’s antagonist, and did not speak in a whisper anymore. He said, “You have conquered. and I yield. Yet, henceforward art…

His argument is not complete, as we shall see. Attempts to resolve the paradox [edit | edit source text] An attempt at explanation assumes that the universe is not transparent, and the light from distant stars shaded powders, gases and dark orbs, so not a great distance to reach us in the light. In fact, it does not resolve the paradox, because the first law of thermodynamics thermodynamics, according to the energy required to remain so in the intermediate material shall forrósodnia,…

Without any conflict a story-(read: a movie)-is boring. Some people are drawn to the dark motives and actions of the villains and because of this more often than not the villain is more liked than the hero. Movies have transpired to show the hero in a good light that’s enjoyable and believable. But a man’s worth can only ever truly be measured by the weight of those that stand against them. In days of old it was easy enough to throw a black hat on a man and show him shoot a few people and…