Four Temperaments

You’re sitting on the couch, on a rainy saturday afternoon while eating a good bowl of popcorn and you are now in the mood to watch a movie. What movie do you watch? Captain America: Civil War is your movie, it is the top superhero movie that has been around since superhero movies started coming out. A plethora of great superhero movies have similarities, but this movie sets itself apart from all the other superhero movies. Captain America and Iron Man have split up into their own teams both…

Traditionally, production of antivenoms have focused on four species believed to be responsible for most deaths: Naja naja, Bungarus caeruleus, Daboia russelii, and Echis carinatus. However, a number of other species that contribute to envenoming in the region have not been considered, and envenoming by these…

Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in the world, is one of the most recognizable literary characters. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legacy has been immortalized many times throughout the years in various small and big screen adaptations. One of the more recent and positively reviewed is the 2009 mystery action flick simply titled Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie. Robert Downey Jr. steps into the shoes of the great detective and is set on the momentous task of hunting down Lord Henry…

In the late 1880’s of Victorian England, one of the most iconic and well-known duo’s was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Throughout his book, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson can be seen as two complete opposites. Their differences are revealed through the roles they play in the book, how they think, and how they change from the beginning to the end of the novel. Even through their hardships and disagreements, Watson and Holmes use their differences to make up the…

Written in 1939 and directed in 1941 respectively, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and The Maltese Falcon by John Huston are iconic in the detective genre for reinventing what it really means to be a detective in the world of literature. Their main characters are a far cry from the Sherlock Holmes and the Philo Vance type of private eye who never make any mistakes and always get the better of the villain. Instead, their detectives are gritty, hardened, and deeply flawed. However, one detective…

Overview of the organization and mission. Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public university that opened in 1899 as the Northern Arizona Normal School. In 1966, it became Northern Arizona University as it is known today. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona with a current enrollment of 30,368. NAU, a doctoral university with higher research activity, offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees across a number of disciplines. A unique quality of the university is the early exposure to…

The words “it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a man!” have become some of the most iconic lines to come from the film industry. Superman and Batman, Iron Man and Spiderman, DC and Marvel have all become very common household names among all age groups. The revival of the superhero genre in the last few years is accredited to amazing performances at the box-office; as well as, the fact that these movies are easy to market and have a great deal of merchandise available to the public. Superhero…

Superhero films are quite popular and can be told over and over again from different points of views. By having these films being remade so many times one is able to observe the evolution of the film. Here one takes note of the evolution of Spider-man and The Amazing Spider-man. The time difference between Spider-man and The Amazing Spider-man is not as great a gap as one would think, however the time difference is large enough for technology to advance enough to make a great impact. The…

miracles? When the roman people couldn’t fully grasp or explain the holiness of Christ and the Bible they depicted it in mosaics covering the entire roman world. Halos were drawn around Christ, the Apostles, and Jesus’s mother Mary to show holiness. The Four Evangelists is a painting on canvas that shows a Catholic Christiana artist’s attempt to illustrate faith or, more specifically the faith of Jesus’ apostles. The only test of his success remains in the viewers own mind and realization.…

Marvel vs. DC style For ages, comic book fans have argued who would win in a fight between the Avengers and the Justice League. Although, these movie franchises make similar superhero movies, the style and success of their movies are very different. Since 2008, when Marvel released Iron Man into their elaborate “marvel cinematic universe”, Marvel has dominated the box office. After the producers at Warner Brothers saw the success that came with Marvel’s movie universe, they tried to begin their…