Look Sharp!

For this assignment I picked up the story Hangovers by Jennifer Pashley. My choice was just based on the title that was very subjective and I would read more to understand it deeply. Based in what I could understand that the short story was speaking about different kind of hangovers reactions. Honestly the read was not easy to ready because it starts without any context. I really start to understand the conception of the text by the middle of that when I started to understand that all the story…

English words so that the reader is able to make assumptions and interpret the language to receive the proper tone of the story. Words used in the story such as vorpal, uffish and galumphing are easily interpreted given the context and tone to mean sharp, unimportant and proudly. Nonsense words like the ones used in the story allows the reader to use their imagination and possibly think more about the text. Using regular words could change the story from being an innocent children's poem to…

is mud. Evidence of Ancient Lakes In 2012, the Curiosity Rover landed close to an area officially named Aeolis Mons: An area that is now referred to as Mount Sharp (named after Professor Robert P. Sharp, 1911-2004). Since landing in 2012, the rover has continued moving around the planet. In 2014, the rover reached the base of Mount Sharp, at which point scientists realized that the evidence the rover gathered suggested that Martian lakes may very well have been full of life. While the…

In Gillian Flynn’s ‘Sharp Objects’ and ‘Dark Places’, the main characters, Camille Preaker and Libby Day, are set apart by how they are living their lives and how their personalities are different. In the end of both books both main characters had a different ending. Camille Preaker attempted to end her life many times again, so she can get away or simply free herself from the torture she emotionally feels after finding out the truth of what happened in her old town. However, Libby Day was able…

attention to elements of the set design and placement of the characters on screen in his 2012 film Moonrise Kingdom. The film tells the story of two twelve year olds running away together and being searched for by their respective guardians, a Captain Sharp, and a troop of Khaki Scouts. While in most of his films Anderson does give some attention to elements of the mise-en-scene, in Moonrise Kingdom(2012) Anderson forgoes his iconic use of pans and tracks to bring more of the viewer’s attention…

and two women. The men are positioned above the women and are dressed in suits. Both women appear to be wearing tight, form-fitting clothes. While the men are wearing sharp suits that seem to emphasizes their size. The women’s clothes seems to be used to play up their beauty, while the men’s’ seems to be to enhance their powerful look. The background is mostly black with two different Iron Men positioned behind the four people. The men are in the center of the cover, while the women are near the…

The painting made with oil and the size of the painting is 17in x 20in. The self-portrait was created in 1995. In the picture, his eyes look out, capturing and pinning me the moment I enter the museum. I feel as if I had disturbed him while he was painting. His hands are not visible. In fact, no skin other than his face is visible. Perhaps his hands would have taken some of the light away…

monsters find out.) Randall was intended to be scary and malicious, the director does this by making Randall look like nightmarish through his appearance and other techniques such as language/personality and music/ and diegetic sounds that illustrates him as malicious and petrifying. Randall is illustrated to be eerie/selfish through his appearance, the director illustrates this by making him look like a snake…

foreshadowing to being hanged as the rope was around his neck. Then later he’s running and running but Farquhar can’t make it to his wife, this shows that Farquhar was about to die. Peyton Farquhar’s neck pains get worse and worse and then he felt a sharp quick pain and the rope had killed him. Right after Farquhar had been shoved off the bridge time…

She ran down the alley, not bothering to look back for any reason. God, how she hated running for her life every second. It was easier than several months ago. Claire had barely turned seventeen when the outbrake happened. She has been alone since. Groans from the creatures break her from her thoughts. It can't get any worse than this. She looks around to find some sort if weapon. Anything to defend herself. Her eyes lay on a piece of metal on the ground about five feet in front of her…