Shutter Island

Hiroshi Sugimoto, born in 1948 and raised in Tokyo, Japan, is a famous photographer. Sugimoto’s earliest photos were photographed while he was in high school. He attended Rikkyo University in Tokyo, studying politics and sociology in 1970. Later, in 1974 Sugimoto “retrained as an artist and received a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California” (Wikipedia). His work is influenced by the Dadaist and Surrealist of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp was a…

The first photographer I have chosen is Ansel Adams. His photographes, were known as the first photo taken in 1927. He created a portfolio called “Parmelian Prints of High Siera”. This portfolio is well known in the photography industrie. In 1930, Adam dedicated his life to photography and became the owner of a studio that Virginia’s father owned. In that decade, Adam had many photographs shown at the Smithsonian Imstitute (1931). Later, he opened his own gallery and published “Making a…

Clark, Steven E., Michael A. Erickson Jesse Breneman. 2011. "Probative value of absolute and relative judgments in eyewitness identification." Law and Human Behavior 35 (5): 364-380. Accessed September 14, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s10979-010-9245-1. This peer-viewed report, published in the Law and Human Behavior journal, the official journal for the American Psychology-Law Society compares the two decision-making models of judgement, relative and absolute using the WITNESS model (a computerised…

practice to take pictures with my knowledge. Outside was sunny, it contains good amounts of light. I always set the aperture first, because I can decide if I want the background to be blurry or not. Than I set the shutter speed and check it in the live view monitor by pressing the shutter-release button halfway down. On the live…

Many world leaders throughout history have attempted to compose the great society, or as they believed, utopia. On these occurrences, they in some way try to subdue the creative and free thinking side of human nature. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Mustapha Mond achieves universal stability. As we see in the New World society, stability is made the first priority at the expense of most of the people 's intrinsic human faculties. Mond explains eloquently and quite persuasively to John and…

explain some attributes of island species that remained puzzles for Darwin. Secondly, this hybrid…

How close is modern America’s government to controlling all, if not most, of our society today? Our current government gradually begins to take over the lives of people like that in Brave New World. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World depicts a futuristic society that utilizes science to control the lives of mostly everybody by categorizing them into specific castes. The author’s vision of a utopian society in his novel is relatively, but not entirely, close to modern American society.…

A Response to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas The whimsical city of Omelas is a beautifully portrayed utopia, or model of a perfect society. Everyone who is anyone would love to live in this place of joy and happiness. This futuristic society has no ruler and no laws but everything seems to work in perfect harmony. But there is one simple, yet disturbing rule. One must suffer for everyone to have this perfectly happy life. I would be one to walk away from Omelas , reason being in my eyes…

the island of Tristan da Cunha, so the only way to get there is by boat, across some of the roughest waters on the planet. Boats from South Africa only travel to the island eight or nine times per year. The nearest airport is a seven day trip by boat to Ascension Island, so if you are visiting Tristan da Cunha, be prepared to stay there for awhile. The closest civilization to Tristan da Cunha is located 1,243 miles away, on the island of Saint Helena, which is also an extremely remote island.…

Is social stability worth the price of giving up your individualism in exchange for a life filled with nothing, but joy? Is this not what everyone thrives for? In the book Brave New World the society that everyone is accustomed makes sure everyone is happy, has a role and title, and there is no crime nor religion. For a society to become a utopia in my opinion, must have these essentials: a society that everyone can be themselves without any worry, crime is a thing of the past, everyone…