Elevator

The Apartment Film has a specific structure that creates meaning out of a series of photographs. This structure uses a specific language to create a narrative that the spectator should be able to understand. Christian Metz believes that through denotation a stronger meaning can be derived from the connotation. The study of connotation is that it is always symbolic in its nature, while denotation is the literal sense of the film. Connotative meaning should extend over the denotative meaning…

cream bar on the ship after we saw our rooms that is where I wanted to go. It was finally our turn as we got on it was scary. When the glass elevator took off I watched the floor. The base of the lobby getting smaller and smaller going up to the suites. I saw where the elevator stopped I was amazed at how small the lobby looked from up here. We got off the elevator and started walking towards our rooms. We stopped at room B226 opened the door. As I enter the room I saw that my sister and I…

and buttons throughout daily life all have many forms of placebo. Placebo is found everywhere in your life, in people's medicine or medical treatments, elevator buttons, cross-walk buttons, and even thermostats are all used as placebos in people's daily lives to make them feel like they have a better sense of control. First of all, certain elevator buttons and crosswalk buttons…

the black box, believed to be finished by James Fulton (63), is treated as a messiah, a panache to every problem every character faces. The protagonist of the book, Lila Mae, is a colored female Intuitionist elevator inspector with a perfect record. However, after her inspection, the elevator Number Eleven falls into a “total freefall [which] is a physical impossibility” (35). The fall damages Lila Mae’s reputation as well as reputation of those who identifies with her: Intuitionists and colored…

is a name that the men in the narrative call the elevator cat in the mine (143), and it is unmistakable that the car would impact those who would ride it as the car earns such a title. Distinctly, this “cage” does impact Billy’s father, and is apparent when he scolds Billy and Gene: “you’ll [Gene] end up like your old man, a monkey in a cage!”(143); he constantly berates himself and equates himself to a monkey because of his work; riding the elevator car up and down the mine. However, this…

5,000 miles from our island home, we were catching the bus to a museum. We already visited war memorials and such, but today we were scheduled to see what would be the most impactful place of the trip. The overall energy of our group was rather low. As well as being tired we were dreading the emotional blow to come. Although we never covered the Holocaust in class, we all had a cursory understanding of what happened and therefore were unsure how well we would handle this museum. The bus skidded…

push me down a hallway. He then pulled me up by an elevator. Turning me around to show me there was an open door with an Exit sign on it. “You know I love the mountain air up here at night. You want to head out, take a stroll, go ahead I’ll wait here. Go on, run free. I’m in no hurry. No? Alright. Nose to the grindstone, I like that. Okay then. Right this way.” Trager said. He then pushed me into the elevator and we rode up. As we exited the elevator, he then continued to push me as he followed…

The corruption and greed that can come with absolute power is not only demonstrated in the careful word choices, but from the imagery of tangible and moving items. Human life brought to an end. An elevator that stops can restart. Corporations and governments, both responsible to the people they serve; represent how their corruptive power led to fall all over the planet. The power within Cloud Atlas is most moving because of how it transpires through…

escape. A few women were able to escape, but from the crowding of the ladder and weight it soon gave way and many of the women fell to their deaths. Others tried the elevators, and when the first elevator made its way up many of the women rushed in and packed it quickly. As the elevator went down, some women were pushed into the elevator shaft and fell to their death. As time went on the flames and heat got worse, the fabric and machines aided to the fire. The last resort of the women was to try…

The day before my birthday, October 25th, my girlfriend and I made the decision to attend just one of the many parks that belong to the Disney Realm. The happiest place on earth. Walking onto Hollywood Boulevard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios was just the beginning of all my excitement as we walked towards the Crossroad of the World to acquire a locker key; I couldn’t help but look around in amazement. It was a bright and sunny day, the shops all lined at the edges of the streets greeted us with…