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Sicario, a thriller starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin, opened in theaters nationwide this week to warm reviews, as well as controversy. Sicario finds Kate Macer (Blunt), a straight-laced F.B.I. agent thrown into a world of high-intensity, life-or-death scenarions, as she ahs been recruited into a cartel-busting task force led by Matt Graver (Brolin), and associate Alejandro (Del Toro), who are at the opposite end of the personality spectrum from Macer; they are unorthodox…

The Klamath River Basin has been fraught environmental resource management issues that have been both highly politicized and publicized in the American West. The problems of water allocation in this region have been the result of conflicting interests between fishermen, tribes, wildlife, and farmers, which rely on scarce water resources for their livelihoods. Doremus and Tarlock(2008) refer to the Klamath Basin as a “problemshed” because its social and ecological problems pervade all of its…

Figure 1: Francisco Goya (1814). The Executions of May 3, 1808 (Goya, 1814). The Executions of May 3, 1808 Introduction Artwork analysis involves a thorough scrutiny on how the Elements of Art and Principles of Composition have been applied in a given piece of art. The purpose of the analysis is to determine whether the artwork meets the threshold both in composition principles and in the use of elements of art. Francisco Goya’s The Executions of May 3, 1808 is an impressive artwork whose style…

artistic talent and apprenticed him at around age 15 to a famous sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, of Florence. For ten years he worked with Verrocchio refining his skills and gaining a lot of experience with painting and sculpture. When he was 20, the painters’…

Leonardo da Vinci once said, “Learning never exhausts the mind.” Leonardo da Vinci was an applied scientist. He was and inventor and a mathematician. He invented teleportation, such as flying machines, bikes, and more. He was born in Vinci, Italy on April 15, 1452. Leonardo had learned many different skills. The skills were metalworking, leather arts, carpentry, sculpting, painting, and drawing. In 1472, Leonardo became member of the Florence Painters Guild. In 1476, on April 9, da Vinci…

Pan’s Labyrinth Analysis The fantasy in Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s labyrinth transforms between a frightening fairytale perception and reality to create a film that expresses the value of imagination when displaying Ofelia’s vicious enemies, we live in a world where choice and defiance are necessary in order to survive and defend ourselves. The relationship between Ofelia’s desire to go against the autocracy of Vidal and The Faun connects and shows the non-stop human desire for power in the…

The film Pan’s Labyrinth, by the very famous and talented Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, has transcended and surpassed many records in the film industry. The film contains many peculiar aspects that pertain to realism and to fantasy that make it so the film is distinct from other films. The protagonist of the Ofelia displays certain characteristics and other aspects that in turn gives the film that sort of special charm that differentiates this film from other films. The main character…

Written and directed by del Toro, Pan 's Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone focus on the innocence of children, and their interactions with the supernatural. He created a new type of horror films, which are similar in narrative and structure as they are based off of fantasy and gothic aspects. While Labyrinth mixed fairy tales with a war storyline, Devil’s Backbone replaces the fairies with ghosts. Pan 's Labyrinth concerns a little girl named Ofelia who discovers a magical faun that commands…

I always thought it is a tough to live as an immigrant in the United States today. Presidential candidates, such as Donald Trump, do not make it any easier. Ever since 9/11 and the 2008 recession, there is an increasing hatred towards foreigners that do not look “American”. This is because “during times of economic contraction and uncertainty that anti-immigrant scapegoating, draconian immigration policies and hate crimes directed at new immigrants increase” (Gallagher). I always heard about the…

Within Pan’s Labyrinth it is quite simple to get enveloped into the magical story that writer and director Guillermo del Toro weaves for the occasion, as he foretells of the fantastical world, set in 1944 fascist Spain, that the young Ofelia experiences in her day to day life (Pan’s Labyrinth, Del Toro). Meanwhile, in Chocolat inspired by Joanne Harris’s novel, screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, and directed by Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, Hallström). Tells of the vagabonds Vianne and her…