As Joker is burning the money in this scene, he says, “This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m going to give it to them.” Much of the film is dedicated to exploring what kind of criminal and what kind of hero Gotham City deserves. Bruce Wayne seems to be a white-collar criminal, who engages in the kind of corporate crimes that attract our real-life two-faced prosecutors. He takes corporate resources to pursue his own interests, uses deceptive means to obtain a majority stake in…
Leslie Howard Steiner was born on April 3, 1893 in London, England. As a child, he began a love for writing and created stories, plays, and brief musical comedies. He sold these writings, such as thrillers, to many pulp magazines. His dream was put on hold, however, because he became enlisted into World War I to fight for France when he was in college. Much later after the war, as an adult, his wife, Ruth Evelyn Martin, encouraged him to relive his dream and Howard began to make appearances…
Fear can cause people to make very drastic choices. Being scared can often make someone do things without thinking about the outcome. The novel The novel The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini is about betrayal of a young boy towards his friend and it reveals that even the people someone thinks they know can hurt and betray them in the worst way. In Khaled Hosseini’s book betrayal is the result of fear out of a difficult situation. The first way that Hosseini's book shows betrayal is when a young…
Environmental pollutants have been adversely affecting air, soil and water for many years. Chemicals can be released to the environment as a result of their manufacture, processing, and use. Chlorine is a naturally occurring substance. Its manipulation and use in forming artificial chemical products has had devastating effects on the environment which we are only now beginning to understand. In its various artificial forms, chlorine plays a major role in the most pressing environmental problems…
know that he is one. His boss Simon who is a combination of a biomechanical and magical detective keeps him in a perpetual state of amnesia. Nonetheless, despite the magical and supernatural angles to his cases, most of the narratives have a 1950s pulp detective fiction feel. The volume has two tales – one of a cursed grimoire of the undead and the other of a water creature that is taking the children of the residents of Lower Manhattan. The golem angle makes this an entertaining noir narrative…
Much of today’s society thinks that hemp is bad because it has qualities similar to marijuana. When in fact, it is a very distant cousin of ganja and is not really like wacky-tabacky at all. Industrial hemp can be used in clothing, food/beverages, paper, building materials, plastics, fuel and chemical clean-up. It can help the economy by opening thousands of jobs and bringing in local money and we would not have to import it from other countries anymore. “A change in federal policy to once again…
relief from the agony and pain of toothaches… Toothache is any soreness, discomfort or pain within or around a tooth, signifying irritation, and swelling, reddening and possible infection with a possibility of abscess. When tooth perish sinks in the pulp chamber or reaches in its close proximity that comprises the nerve endings and tiny blood vessels, a toothache starts emerging. Keywords: home remedies, toothache, toothache pain relief, cucumber, clove, garlic Article Body: You will find…
The Ruined Maid and Jenny written by Thomas Hardy and D.G Rossetti respectfully, are about prostitution at their core. However, the reader notices that these two works describe the lifestyle of a prostitute totally differently. Therefore, the question arises which work depicts the most honest picture of the lifestyle. That being said, by using aspects such as gratification in one’s work and individual intimacy from, Christina Rossetti’s, The Goblin Market, the reader can come to the conclusion…
Nothing screams Halloween like vampires, ghosts, and haunted houses, but the most favored festivity to do during the holiday is to decorate your house with gourd-like orange fruits which are illuminated by candles. From doorstep to doorstep, these carved pumpkins peer out for the entire neighborhood to see. This tradition was originally brought to America by Irish immigrants, and has become an integral part of Halloween celebration since. Although it’s a fun, easy process to do, pumpkin carving…
Consequently, as a result of the endless lecture at the hospital about his weight, as well as the unresolved stress of the POW camp, he went to the officers club to let off some steam. Due to his personality, Jackson prided himself on his self-control and normally only drank a small amount on special occasions. Since the rest of his men returned from leave ahead of him, he was alone with no one to curtail his drinking. So as a consequence of the stress and his weight problem, he unintentionally…