Sam Spade

high in Britain with immigrants arriving from places such as Africa and the Caribbean, a newly formed youth culture changing the scenes and the popularity of jazz music and bars. Authors of 1950s literature, such as Colin Macinnes, Shelagh Delaney and Sam Selvon manage to encapsulate these changes in their work, whilst also portraying the different ideas of ‘Home’, or lack of, for their characters. With the authors having very different backgrounds, and also due to the difference in gender, we…

pioneering catalyst of Film Noir. It was also John Hustons directing-debut and one of the movies that helped Humphrey Bogart in becoming leading man. In the plot, the private detective Sam Spades’ partner gets shot on a mission. Spade takes over the mission and simultaneously tries to get to the bottom of his partner’s murder. Spade later struggles with the decision of wether he should report the film’s Femme Fatal, whom he loves, to the police. Being one of the first Noir movies, it is evident…

Feminism is defined as the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes. Despite this relatively simplistic ideal, the feminist movement has been anything but simple in the last one hundred years. Beginning with the suffragettes in the early 1900s, this critically important social movement has taken on a life of its own with each generation. Each wave of feminism has brought something new, iconic, and controversial to the table. One surprisingly effective way to do this is to analyze…

It was an unusually cold day for Berlin in June. The year was 2014. The girl walked north from Potsdamer Platz towards Shonëberger Straße, passing a small piece of The Wall that was left standing, ironically juxtaposed against the high-rising Kolhoff Tower immediately behind it. The wall was crumbling and popping with political graffiti. Behind it, the tower was made almost entirely of glass, looking futuristic as it loomed atop the city skyline. This kind of contrast was not unusual in Berlin.…

Yuma Irrigation Irrigation has been very significant in the Yuma county for decades, irrigation is the reason why Yuma has one of the best soil to develop and grow crops in. Yuma depends on irrigation to get the sources it needs, from growing perfect crops to making great profit. Without all the irrigation systems like dams and canals and successful ideas by representatives Yuma wouldn’t be the town we all know it by and that’s why irrigation is so important in Yuma county, because without it…

center food as a highly important component of any type of ceremony which can have an influence on the body image and whether their large body size should be considered to be overweight and obese. Through history, during the late discover that Captain Sam Hook was doing in Tonga was that he noticed the body figures of both the male and female in Tonga. He described them to be overwhelmingly large, where the females seem to have nearly the same physique with males in how broad their shoulders are…

Just like the world we live in today, detective fiction is a male dominated genre. Detectives are usually white males who solve dangerous crimes such as murder. If women are involved, they are usually characterized as damsels in distress or femme fatales. It is a man’s world; therefore, it is the sole responsibility of men to be the protectors. For centuries, we have lived in a patriarchal society and this mindset has influenced this genre significantly. Men are deemed better detectives because…

The hard-boiled detective, in noir tradition, is typically depicted as a lone wolf figure, one that upholds morality while balancing the corruption inherent in his line of work. He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a…