Framing device

VanDamm. Although the microfilm is indeed the driving force behind the picture, what it contains or what it does is never explicitly revealed in the film, only that it contains sensitive government material. Although the microfilm is a mere plot device to the audience, it is much more than that to the film’s…

cinema and the pursuit of the truth. Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa both had clear visions of what they wanted their films to be; however, the two men took different approaches. Welles demonstrated different filming techniques, used a specific framing device and music to broadcast his theme. Kurosawa sought out elements of nature, lighting and the theatrical role of music to clearly communicate his ideas with the audience. Although these films are completely different,…

involves a process of free creation. - Noam Chomsky Chomsky’s quote designates language, but it can also be redirected towards the use of Stylistic Devices, otherwise known as figurative language. These “devices”, have some fixed rules or one may say formulae by the means of which those figurative structures are generated. The structure of the device is fixed, but the means, by which the stylistic effect is created, that one particle with emotional colouring that offers a spectrum of…

Judgement in Crisis Situation This Harvard Business School simulation focuses on the ability to make decisions under pressure. In this simulation, students played the role of a Product Manager at Matterhorn Health dealing with reported high inaccuracy rates in Matterhorn’s newest blood glucose monitor, the GlucoGauge. The GlucoGauge underwent three years in Research and Development and was the company’s most expensive product development to date. While the products performed well in field tests,…

Justice Antonin Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. The Court affirmed the judgment of the lower court, and held that the installation of a GPS tracking device on Jones' vehicle, without a warrant, constituted an unlawful search under the Fourth Amendment. The Court rejected the government's argument that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a person's movement on public thoroughfares and emphasized…

On a recent trip to Paris, I observed how different Parisians way of life differ in comparison to Americans. I imagined lifestyles in other parts of the world and desired to learn more. In my research, I learned that culture effects work and leisure due to the viewpoint of time. Time is beyond a physical phenomenon and is exposed to psychological interpretation. Time is construed cognitive functioning; an individual is to develop and organize thinking to sustain the monitoring of time by being…

Piper’s accident alternates between story-telling and factual presentation. She still uses some similes, but not as many. For instance, she writes, “the ribs of the bins gleamed like jewel facets.” Instead the narration uses other types of rhetorical devices that work in much the same way as a simile. She writes, “For miles upon miles, grain bins pockmarked the landscape, some as wide as sheds, others stadium-large.” This sentence is highly descriptive. She uses a common adjective, “pockmarked”…

relationships in our lives, are the superficial and short lived ones we have with our tech devices. I agree with Jonathan’s point that that amongst a world of techno-consumerism we hide our real selves, and that we portray the version of ourselves that we think is going to be the most likeable. Although I do not agree with the romantic lens in which he writes about this contemporary issue through, framing his argument around the issue of love, and the love we have for our narcissistic selves.…

exploration…and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started…and know the place for the first time”. Continue to ponder these questions while I present to you the following discussion. Distinctively visual is the use of a variety of visual devices often used in an artful manner that encourages the audience to question their own perspective on a particular concept or idea. The film “Run Lola…

1980s, and was seen first and foremost as a threat to national identity. In contrast, the securitization of migration in the United States took place in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, where terrorism became the bases for framing the groundwork for securitizing discourses and practices relative to migration. The securitization of migration is closely tied with the construction of the European Union and Schengen area, as well as with the emergence of new economic…