Orson Scott Card

The first chapter of Ender’s Game commences with two unknown individuals indulged in an enigmatic discussion, surrounding a boy and his two siblings. During the conversation between the unknown characters, they decide that the boy also known as Ender is the chosen one, the one they need to save the world from buggers. As the first chapter progresses, it informs the reader that Ender is a six-year-old boy with a monitor or device, that allows authorities to perceive the world as Ender does…

“The Baseball Card” ` Rickey and Gary out of school at 2:45 , and they take the same route to school every day. They cut through the old car dealership parking lot , when the boys started to cross the parking lot Gary spotted an old shoe box. Gary then began to kick the box across the parking lot as he walked. Stop gary that's super annoying said Rickey , Gary just looked at Rickey and rolled his eyes and continued to kick the box. Gary gave it one more hard kick and when he did the…

While the card drawing technique is a playful method of random homework selection, it answers the call of Cooper et al. [4] in considering “non-achievement-related effects of homework” (p. 54), and more specifically addresses two contemporary important issues facing…

for Yuki. Yuki sits down in front of the bookstore waiting for Kimi to finish her purchases, she then pulls out these packs and open them. She looks at all these different cards until one stops her by eye. The name of the card was ‘ Spirit Keeper, Guardian of the Bad Past.” She looked closer only to realize this card looks a lot like her. The details with blue hair with a ponytail, pink eyes, and a thinner body structure. The more she looked into it, she heard a voice call out for her.…

ability to keep out patrons younger than 21 years of age. Our idea to help with the aforementioned problems, is for Kilroy’s Sports to invest in a prepaid card technology system in which the card is registered beforehand with Sport’s and therefore patrons can swipe quickly, and do not have to pay with cash. In the future, we hope to evolve the card to incorporate an ID aspect, in which…

Yellow Card It is an average day at Cumberland Elementary; my face warms from the sun gleaming through the windows, and I sit in my desk in Mrs. Huffman’s second grade classroom. It is a rather cheerful classroom; chairs of all different vibrant colors stationed at each desk, my own being purple. A cushy rug with a checkered pattern displaying the alphabet fills space between the desks and the chalkboard. The wall to my left has the sticker board marking how many teeth each student has lost. I…

Citizen Kane – Charles Forster Kane and Susan Alexander SHOT 1: Dissolve into an over-the-shoulder close up of Susan working on a jigsaw puzzle. She is completely dressed up as if she was getting ready to go out for a night on the town with an expensive gown and jewelry. The lighting design is very high contrast with Susan in white, while the background falls to solid black. Susan is in the left foreground of the shot as Kane’s booming voice can be heard saying “What are you doing?” While the…

Citizen Kane (1941) is the debut work of Orson Wells and is considered as a turning point of the way of making movies. The technical innovations, due especially to the director of photography Gregg Toland who introduced the depth focus, the choice of a character that stress the ambiguity of the American dream and the narrative structure that develops itself through flashbacks, is what brought the movie to reach the definition of “The best movie ever made”. The first scene of Well’s Citizen Kane…

Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane is a widely acclaimed film and said to be one of the greatest American films. The film is more than 70 years old, but it is still considered as a classic. So what makes Citizen Kane so remarkable? I believe the technical aspects are part of why it is so well regarded. He uses camera angles, audio, lighting and many other techniques effectively to convey the message. This paper focuses on how Welles ' has conveyed the theme of “corrupting influence of power and wealth”…

“The Birth of a Nation” by D.W. Griffith was the first blockbuster film in American history. It was an amazing feat of cinema and nailed its place in history. However, while “The Birth of a Nation” boasts these achievements it is without question one of the most racist movies of all time. This movie not only show glorifies the Ku Klux Klan as heroes of America, but also shows the misrepresentation of black people and the role that black people will have in films. Looking back at the time the…