Sampling techniques

In Grendel; literary techniques help Gardener to establish the idea of an already corrupt mind, collapsing around the edges. As the novel progresses the energy created intensifies and allures the audience. In John Gardeners Grendel; kennings, existentialism and metaphor are used to highlight Grendle’s isolation and clearly establish a central idea that isolating one’s self leads to self-destruction. Notably, signs of isolationism in Grendel are evident from the very beginning with kennings to…

Macbeth, a story written by Shakespeare, concludes a story in which has content that is shown effectively and expressed in a couple different ways. The films that were shown such as Roman Polanski, Philip Casson and Rupert Goold had their own techniques of interpreting Macbeth. In this instance, for Act 1 Scene 1 when looking at the witches, all three film clips are focused on the shots to emphasize the witches. For Act 2 Scene 2 when the clips are showing the post murder meeting of Macbeth and…

In Nightcrawler there are a few aspects of surveillance portrayed but they are very subtle. The first one is the use of diegetic sound that comes from the police scanner. Throughout the semester multiple films of the surveillance genre were viewed and many of them introduced a “bug” that was used to listen in on different characters of the film without them knowing. As Lou listens to the police scanner it is relatively the same as “bug”, except the police scanner only listens to police…

Martin Luther King Jr. (M.L.K) was a social activist that played a key role in American history, for he fought for equality within every human being; analogously, M.L.K was inspired by nonviolence advocates. In M.L.K speech entitled “Speech in Memphis, 1968” and Bill Clinton’s “Remark to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ in Memphis,” both speeches use rhetorical devices in order to persuade their audience. M.L.K’s speech discusses his own perception of how different the whole…

After spending nearly 24 hours searching for his missing daughter, Jerry Hobbs was arrested and interrogated for an additional 20 hours, while processing the grief associated with learning his daughter and her friend had been brutally raped and murdered. After hours of endless interrogation, coupled with harsh police interrogation tactics that are standard in American law enforcement, Hobbs confessed to the rapes and murder, crimes he didn’t commit, and then proceeded to the next two years in…

expectations were surpassed considerably. Love Lies Bleeding was a zestful, dynamic, and alluring theatrical experience unlike no other. This production was built on a strong foundation of classical ballet technique and repertoire but heavily infused with pop and rock style. The ballet technique was not hidden or shied away from. I was impressed by the successful integration of the classical style into the rock and roll type theme. The ballet vocabulary ranged from basic practices of turnout,…

Why do so many people rely on drugs to forget about all their problems that they face? In Denis Johnson’s short story Emergency the topic is highly discussed, as how the characters use drugs in order to not think about their normal everyday life and how they try to escape reality by getting high off the pills from their work. In doing so, Johnson presents a conflict of man vs. himself, in which he tries to forget about his problems and act as if everything is okay when in reality it is not.…

Segment of Rushmore In Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998), one particular segment that really captured the tone of the film was the one of Mr. Blume drinking whiskey, smoking a cigarette, and getting ready to dive into the swimming pool. This particular series of shots has a visually pleasing color scheme and various different cinematic shots. The segment incorporates Anderson’s famous object-in-the-center frame style, which also adds to the tone of the film as well as to Anderson’s style as a…

Stress. The word itself can start someone’s heart into a beating frenzy. Thousands of Americans across the nation struggle with overcoming their stress and even I am not fortunate enough to not fall under this statistic. In spite of the fact that stress itself is unavoidable, the long term effects of a stressful life should not be. Although many Americans such as myself currently struggles with the overbearing burdens of stress, I want to understand the importance of finding healthy methods to…

A Broken Puzzle “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Shelley). The two stories “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich and “The Brothers” by Lysley Tenorio demonstrates that a sudden change can turn a lifetime of memories into betrayals, In “The Red Convertible,” the brothers Henry and Lyman has a strong bond filled with amusement and adoration but disintegrates as a result of an unexpected event that happens to Henry. In comparison, in “The Brothers,” the…