Double Indemnity

The world of crime fiction is much different from the real world. In the classical crime fiction world, characters take on specific archetypes that are central to the genre, and plot devices and storylines are repeated and revamped with each author or director that presents the story. Roles like the femme fatale, the hardboiled detective, the wandering daughter, the sap, and the “big man” or “crime boss” are repeated over and over again to the point where audiences are able to perfectly…

1) The photography effect had a great impact on the way art was viewed in the 19th century. Photography caused a shift to Romanticism, which emerged as a reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It searched for a direct connection to nature rather than subject itself to scientific, industrial rules and regulation. It created an alternate world, one that appreciated the beauty and simplicity of nature, in response to the materialism of the industrialization. This is evident when…

Though gay rights have only recently been legally approved nation-wide, discussions on gender awareness, definitions, and queerness are not new. Whether these topics have been around for thousands of years or just in the last hundred, they have been sighted in many ways over time. One such way is in pop culture: the accumulation of materialistic things, such as fashion, songs, and objects, and the non-materialistic things, such as ideas, beliefs, and values, of a population. Society and pop…

In Media Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something…

CTCS 469: The Genius of Billy Wilder Part 2 of Notebook (due July 1st) Professor: Dr. Drew Casper TA: Isaac Rooks Jinghan Mao Tel: 608-770-1992 5) The Lost Weekend (1945) shows six “noir” style thematic and formal components that are discussed by Professor Casper in his book Postwar Hollywood 1946—1962. First of all, there are two visual narrative flashbacks in the film. According to Casper, the narrative flashback is “an indication not only of the use of the past to explain the present…

The Maternal Role Attainment Theory McEwin and Wills (2011, p. 122) believed that it was Florence Nightingale who pioneered nursing practices which have become a guide for nursing schools and hospitals to develop in the 20th century. That is why theories of nursing were integrated by practicing nurses and academicians throughout the years. To Puchalski (2001), nursing theorists like Roy Callista were the reasons why nursing practices have survived. In fact, both Roy Callista and Robert K.…

Act honestly responsible to duty 2. Knowing the issue and understand the company issue 3. Solve issue occurred and preventing company from incurring debts 4. The directors are preventing the company from insolvent trading. Corporations Act Part 9.4B provides for two types of penal consequences, civil penalties and criminal penalties. Two kinds of civil penalties are prescribed: a pecuniary penalty of up to $200,000 and/or an order banning a person from managing a corporation…