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lighting, giving a more menacing and mysterious mood. The use of lighting also corroborates that Batman is kept a secret, therefore, should be kept in the dark. ‘Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a dark knight’- Lt. James Gordon. In the film, Batman could be seen a protagonist by saving people,…

Frankenstein, “…wasn't expected to be a popular film, much less a breakout role for the unknown actor”, Boris Karloff, also known as Frankenstein (Biography.com). James Whale, and starred Colin Clive and Mae Clarke, which is based on the best-selling novel, Frankenstein, written by Shelley, released Frankenstein in 1931. It is a story of a young scientist trying to create life after one has died and the struggles and drama that come along with that. Even after 86 years, Frankenstein is still…

Firstly, I would like to use the source of “War on Terror” to point out batman “gadgets” and how he is one of the most powerful men of his world. I would like to bring in the idea that batman has all the financial spending power that other people do not have. I will connect this to the notion of the power that others such as villains wish for, but they cannot have. As a result, batman creates a huge advantage among his competitors or villains. Secondly, I wish to discuss and analyze batman…

book that once Victor has spent so much time alone on his creation he has become very ill. Stating himself, “But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment. Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime…

Mason Moore Mr Bergman Sophomore english p1 10 October 2016 Moore pg 1 Heavy metal music is seen as satanic, nonmusical and talentless, but it’s time we drop the stereotype and focus on the real story. Metal fans are not violent as the stereotype portrays them. Most heavy metal bands are not satanic, one of my favorite frontmen is a christian. Also heavy metal is fast paced and difficult…

Sympathizing with the creature first occurs in the scene where he extends his arms toward the light, as if he could grasp it. The creature constantly seeks out innocence as viewed when he pursues Elizabeth. She is viewed as an innocent in her white gown with flowing train, and endless patience for her fiance. Although it is considered a plot hole that the creature would know which room to find her in, it could be viewed that the creature is inherently drawn toward purity. This point is…

Brandon Garcia Professor Preston English 1302.43480 02 February 2016 The Unknown World: A Parallel World Mirrors have always fascinated man. Without mirrors or any reflective surface man would never see how they look like. Mirrors have been thought to contain a separate world behind the reflection. Hand with Reflecting Sphere is a lithograph made by Mauritis Cornelis Escher in the year 1935. Hands with Reflecting Sphere basically shows a hand holding a sphere with a reflective surface against…

Basketball was created by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was created to condition young athletes during cold months.It consisted of a peach basket and a type of soccer ball,but when he made it he only had 13 rules for it.The NBA started on this day in 1949, after a damaging three-year battle to win both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association…

1. participatory democracy Process that gives importance to the large participation of voters. 2. constituencies an assortment of voters in a specific location who choose a delegate to a legislative branch 3. Federalists One of the first political parties to come into being (for America). From the mid 1790s to 1816, Federalist held the majority, and the party itself would endure until the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the central government until 1801…

Amid the lapse of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, he blurs the lines between androids and humans by enunciating humanities lack of its defining characteristics- love and compassion. Throughout the progression of the novel Philip K. Dick asserts that as technology ameliorates, humanity degresses to become as apathetic as the androids themselves. Having no trouble retiring (or killing) an android at the beginning of the novel, Rick Deckard's orientation transformed to…