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Cinematic techniques help films become eye-catching and make viewers really enjoy their films. Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as shot reverse shot, non-diegetic music/sound, and low key lighting to create a variety of different moods for viewers. Burton uses these techniques in two of his best films, Edward Scissorhands and The Big Fish. In films, shot reverse shot is when dialogue is in play between two or more people and the camera shifts person to person. Near the start of the film…

battlefield where my life would be at risk . When I decided to place this thought in to action I was halfway through college and the recruiter suggested I finish my degree to potentially become a lieutenant. I continued on through college and met a professor who I acknowledge for imparting the encouragement that I necessitated, my grades improved drastically due to his confidence in me. Soon after, I was in good academic standing and was placed in the Dean’s list. Being victorious in life is…

people were feeling at that time. An effective example of this is just a single line, “I said nothing and sweated like a mouse”(Wazyk, 461), and just through that sentence one can feel the fear; the fear that turned a man into a mouse scared for his life. Adam Wazyk has found a way to describe the feelings of his fellow Polish people through just a couple words. Using empathy as a way to process all the imagery Wazyk provides through his detailed description of the human suffering allows me to…

The evolution of American literature has progressed since the time of the Puritans when they arrived in the New World. Now in the 1800s, Emily Dickinson writes condensed, but complex poems that express her thoughts of death, life, love, nature, and God. She becomes captivated by science and nature in her schooling, which she often writes about in her poems. Her poem numbered eighty-five and titled, “A Light Exists in Spring,” expresses Dickinson’s fascination with the nature and feeling of…

Shakespeare introduces the subject of life and death when Macbeth is faced with his imminent death, and the suicide of someone close to him in the tragic play. William Shakespeare claims that Macbeth’s view of life and death can be seen as futile which he describes as hopeless. William Shakespeare uses various metaphors in the soliloquy to convey the tone that can be described as somber, forlorn, and resigned. The tones exemplifies Macbeth’s view of suicide, death, and life. His use of diction…

The author makes a point, to describe Jim Westcott, Irene Westcott and their children, as the seemingly comfortable middle class family. He makes mention of their physical and material appearances seeming to be untouched by the strains of life. Cheever, wants his readers to catch simple mentions, in his text, that the family, though outwardly appearing to have accomplished the American dream with ease and without hardships along the way, is really just pretending. “Jim and Irene Westcott were…

Everyone can suffer, even those who seem to have nothing but strength. In the poem “An Ancient Gesture” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the speaker compares herself to Penelope, the wife of the great hero Odysseus, and shows that even she felt pain, and that it is not a weakness, but a necessity. The poem compares the two using brief, simple sentences and short comparisons. Rather than use overly drawn out descriptions, Millay instead writes using short sentences and stanzas. Despite the fact that…

In the teachings of Hinduism reincarnation is widely accepted as the process of a dead body’s soul entering into a newborn body and starting a new life. The Bhagavad Gita proclaims, “Just as the soul acquires a childhood body, a youth body, and an old age body during this life; similarly, the soul acquires another body after death…” (The Bhagavad-Gita, 2.13) and also “Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones; similarly, the living entity or the individual soul acquires…

Is the loss of childhood innocence a fact of life to be despised, or are people somehow better and stronger for it? In Warren’s short story, Blackberry Winter, the narrator reminisces as an adult on the day he lost his innocence and began to view the world for what it is. The arrival of a cruel city bum in his idyllic home, the harsh realities of death he sees in the drowned animals, the sudden severity of a woman he trusted, the worrying predictions of a good man, and the stranger’s final…

Ayn Rand Essay In the book, Anthem by Ayn Rand, It informs the reader about a far future where the world has entered a dark place and individuality no longer exists, this is what Ayn Rand herself predicted the world would come to with the nation's community ideals. She strongly believed that people should not help anyone else but themselves, which could be both a good and bad thing. She would publically lay out her theory, ethical egoism, and sent it out through her books. Anthem, being one of…