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films, is known for his auteur style that has a strong nightmare like feel. Through the analysis of the films Blade Runner (1982) and Alien (1979), Scott embeds his own ideology of our future being ‘grim, dark and polluted’ (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018) through various film techniques, that expressively show his auteur style. Ridley Scott was born in 1937, before the major modernisation period. This would suggest why he chose to direct films relating to a dark future. He…

to help preserve them, The Jars are then placed in special places around a tomb, usually within Canopic chests (chests that contain more than one canopic jars). The earliest canopic jars were found during the old kingdom (c. 2575 - 2130). [Encyclopædia Britannica, 2008} These early jars had very simple lids, in complete contrast to the new kingdom's jars. The jars of the middle kingdom had lids that…

Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft raised the question in A Vindication of the Rights of Women, “If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” (Chap. III. Para. 34). She notes that women were taught to rely solely upon men for their livelihood, and to submit to their ideas, but she question is where it stops. In the 1700s, the education and social…

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 22 Mar. 2012. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky/71483. Accessed 26 Sep. 2017. “Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 19 Feb. 2015,…

Nintendo is the oldest gaming console company in the world. Nintendo has evolved in many ways, its games, graphics, gaming consoles and its accessories. Nintendo is considered the first gaming company in the world. Nintendo is one of the oldest companies in the world. It has now been 120 years and counting! Nintendo is one of the most beloved company in the world for many reasons. Nintendo started off very small as a company. The company that would become “Nintendo” was founded in 1889 by…

Hans Christian Andersen once said, “where words fail, music speaks.” I believe if we could speak with any of the composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic periods that they would say the same also. One of the composers from the Romantic period whom I believe would agree with this statement is Bedřich Smetana. He, along with many other composers, have a way of speaking through their compositions. Bedřich Smetana was born on March 2, 1824 and died on May 12th, 1884.…

The Ghost Dance is a Native American religion that was instituted in the nineteenth century by a member of the Paiute tribe , Wovoka (Bowker , The Columbia Encyclopedia). The Ghost Dance Religion itself was a ritual for a peaceful end of the Western expansion and the Native Americans to get their land back . The actual dance ritual only lasted five days (each night of each day except for on the last day it was from the night until morning) (The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions).…

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Executive Summary: Carl Menger was an prelovent Austrian economist in the late 19th Century. He came for a fairly wealthy family and had vast access to academia given his father was a lawyer. Menger grew in economics while reporting on the market and later went on to take what he learned as a reporter to conclude his own theories on the economy. He developed the modern day explanation of money and came to describe marginal analysis and marginal utility. His ideas are complementary to the…

Rebecca Wilson 11/6/17 Humanities II The Keno Future Revolutions cause whole societies to call to question all they know of as their everyday. They can change the way people view their government, and affect their manner of working. Revolutionaries are those who voice these opinions. Vertov’s Manifesto and the Kino Eye’s vision was came up with after the Russian civil war, when their government was in constant upheaval. Their vision for film translates into a vision for life, a vision for a…