Neon

Lino Brocka’s best-known film, Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag, is arguably the most complicated work in Philippine cinema. Translated as “Manila in the Claws of Neon” and “Manila: in the Claws of Darkness” to foreign audiences, the film made it in some international critics’ lists as one of the most important films ever made. The indecision in providing a more accurate translation sheds light to the uncertainty of the film’s characters, their fates bounded by Manila’s luminescence and…

what’s really advertised? Today, caffeine is a part of most of American’s everyday life. Tin can coffee has grown into fluffy, fashionable beverages and macho, energy seeking beverages. It is time to think about what these fancy paper cups and shiny neon cans really symbolize. The fascination…

do this and has done this for as long as I can remember. The clock bongs and the shadows turn off the television and walk around the corner next to the clock out of my line of sight. All of the lights in the room are switched off only giving me the neon signs from across the street. The room is dim and faintly visible. The pendulum continues to rock back and…

In the beginning of the play, the prologue is said by a news anchor, rather than a chorus. This immediately shows that the time period of the movie is completely different than that of the play. The movie is set in Verona Beach, a modern metropolis. The opening scene takes place at a gas station instead of just in the streets. If that wasn’t strange enough, the characters use guns called “Sword” and “Dagger” rather than the real things. More key components of Middle Age life are modernized also.…

The fierce sun that afternoon blazed its burning rays down the freeway. Engines bellowed sonorously as they sprinted by each other on the freeway. Los Angeles was unusually rainy that day. Rain splashed the windows under the afternoon sun, clinging to the smooth glass before being blown away. Droplets disturbed the silence inside the car as they drummed on the roof, whispering goodbyes before being blown away. The heavy shower dotted the glass, blurring the world beyond it. When the blazing sun…

little about them. So, here are some facts you may want to know in case you are interested in having a rainbowfish in your household. Vanessa Voltolina wrote in her article for the PetMD that there are more than 50 species of rainbowfish, but the neon dwarf rainbowfish, Madagascar rainbowfish, salmon red rainbowfish, and threadfin rainbowfish are the common species that are made into pets. This fish got its name because the color of its scales changes when hit by light, and it can “be a shiny…

My initial thought of going to Japan is “Are we going to see some awesome neon city in Akihabara or are we going to some rural area with some magnificent landscape that I have seen in the magazines?”. Surprisingly my dad told me we are going to stay in Japan for a month with my grandma and grandpa in Sapporo where many fresh meat is being made locally. Day before the journey begins, I realized this will be my first time riding a plane as well. This frightened me because I am afraid of heights. I…

A spectroscope takes in light and breaks it into their own individual wavelengths, which are the colored lines we see. The light was produced by electrons, which each have their own quantum, or energy level. When we run a current through the atom, the electron gains energy and jumps to a higher level to its excited state. When they fall back to their ground state, they release their stored energy through the form of light. The line spectra for different atoms differ because they each have a…

Isolation, suffering, and disillusion are key themes that plagued the country throughout history. Of Mice and Men, Sonny’s Blues, As I Lay Dying, and Good Old Neon, highlight these themes, not through explicit text, but by encounters and circumstances that crippled the characters, regardless of their cultural background, from 1930-2001. These characters were ashamed to express any need, always fighting to make due on their own. They silently suffered through the pain as wealthier people looked…

Trevino, Elva What causes the Aurora Borealis? As electrically charged particle collisions from the sun enter the planet’s atmosphere and encounter atmospheric gases, a light show spectacle is displayed around the magnetic poles of the earth. The aurora phenomenon occurs at poles of both the northern and southern hemispheres of the planet. They are most commonly known as the “Northern Lights” and “Southern Lights”- Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, respectively. However, since the southern…