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the movie Edward Scissorhands, for example, when Peg found Edward Burton made the audience feel scared for her as she walked up the long dark staircase. Tim…

“An Ant Enclosed in a Circle”: The function of space and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night “However, I cannot escape myself, and being a narrator who also existed on the periphery of the events, in am bound to be present. I have my own laments and much to tell about myself. It is my intent, however, to refrain from inserting myself too forcefully.” This is a quote from the character Tyler in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. This shows Tyler’s character in his conscious…

parents would send their recently inoculated children to stay the whole time they exhibited symptoms. This method wasn 't the most ideal, which motivated scientist to create a more effective way to prevent smallpox. An English physician and scientist, Edward Jenner is known as the pioneer of the smallpox vaccination. Jenner discovered that milkmaids (women who collected milk from cows) were immune to smallpox without contracting the virus. After talking to the women, he figured out that the…

rarely venture to the surface and if they are seen then it is likely that pumping of water has pushed them upward away from their habitat.4 this organism shares it water with humans and thus we affect its quality life. Our tendency to over pump the Edward aquifer is a threat to their habitat.8 The over pumping of water lowers the water level of the aquifer which can reduce the size of the Texas Blind Salamanders environment, and can even enable salt water to enter into the fresh water areas…

This paper deals with the travel narratives and to what extent they fall in the category of Orientalist discourse, that Edward Said criticizes. Basically on the way travel narratives have described the Middle East and to what extent they were partial to the origins as Easterners. Edward Said states his interest on the Orientalism when he discovered the big difference between the Middle East where he lived and grew and the image of the Middle East in the eyes of the Eastern. Before he…

Edward Hoppers paintings always tell a story. ‘Office at night’ is no different. In the painting created in 1940, Edward Hopper leaves the viewer wondering what truly is going on in the somewhat mysterious situation. While some might only see two people having a regular night in the office, the many clues given in the painting leaves one’s mind wondering – is there something immoral going on? The open window, mysterious lighting, and the facial expressions of both individuals suggest a deeper…

charisma is portrayed through his movies, such as Edward Scissorhands and Alice in Wonderland. The main characters in the movies have the appearance and aspects of an outcast; therefore, they stand out in their society. Tim Burton uses misfit characters to show that people should embrace their unique attributes. Non-diegetic music is used to create the effect of innocence on the characters who do not fit into their society. In the scene where Edward is spotted carving an ice sculpture of an…

Renowned for his ongoing series “Salad Fingers”, David Firth delivers yet another mind-twisting short film, “Cream.” The majority of the film is written, acted, and animated by the talent of Firth himself. However, for this project he is joined by musician Steven Ellison, whose artist name is Flying Lotus. Ellison contributed parts of the soundtrack and a few lines of background characters. This partnership yielded a nightmarish yet mesmerizing product that is sure to send viewers on a…

observed that milkmaids became infected with cowpox, but not smallpox when smallpox outbreaks occurred in the community (Stern & Markel, 2005). Edward Jenner decided to test this observation using cowpox (Stern & Markel, 2005). In 1796, Jenner took pus from a cowpox lesion and inoculated James Phipps, who was eight years old at the time (Stern & Markel, 2005). Edward Jenner inoculated Phipps with smallpox several weeks after the inoculation of cowpox and Phipps never contracted smallpox (Stern &…

Tiffin makes a comparative study of the use of colonial motifs in The Cat and Shakespeare and The Double Hook. In her comments on Rao’s book, she says that both the title and the concerns of the novel points at a political purpose is jumbled up with a philosophical theme. Further in the course of her article, she asks whether the book can be called a postcolonial text. Because it displays that “the community, its beliefs and rituals are in no sense disrupted by the history of British colonialism…