Silent film

The 1920’s saw a big boom in the entertainment industry. After World War 1 many Americans had money to blow and turned to entertainment as a way to spend their extra cash. Music, movies, radios, plays, and sports all became popular forms of mass entertainment during this time period. Music was a big part of the Roaring Twenties. In fact, the Roaring Twenties is also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz became big after New Orleans closed its ports and most musicians had to move north to find work.…

major plots of Buster Keaton’s The General. The General premiered in 1926 and was written and directed by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. The film stars Keaton as train-loving, everyman, Johnny Gray and Marion Mack as Gray’s sweetheart, Annabelle Lee. The General monopolizes on the success of chase films such as The Great Train Robbery to create a film that seamlessly combines drama, action and comedy. In fact, these three components are so intertwined that it is tricky to talk about one…

David Zimmer, embarks on a journey of discovery after the loss of his wife and children. He becomes obsessed with silent film star Hector Mann and delves into Mann’s world, doing research on him in order to write a book about this presumed dead actor’s films. Zimmer’s life is irreparably changed by the segment of one of Mann’s films that he sees late at night. However, it is not only his films that affect Zimmer, but also the women in Mann’s life who end up contacting him after the release of…

comes to mafia movies, the core values each film shares still stays true. The consistent rush of criminal activity and bad guys looking like good guys are all the same qualities that keep the content of the films strong. But, the genre itself has continued to grow, both through techniques as well as the expansion of subjects to be successful in. The mafia genre took off around 1931, with the film Little Caesar. Even though it was not the first mafia film ever released, Little Caesar brought a…

Chaplin: A Roaring 20’s Hero Charlie Chaplin was a comic actor, director, producer and writer in silent films. He was born on April 16, 1889 in London, England. He was most recognized for his iconic character “The Tramp” who and sported a bowler hat, a toothbrush mustache, a cane and oversized pants. He was a regarded as a hero in the 20’s and the most “influential and important people in the history of the film industry. At the time, Charlie was one of the most people in the world and still is…

In the period after WWII, the world had major recovering to accomplish. Our environment needed tremendous work. After WWII, major regions of Europe and Asia lay in ruin. Cities throughout the world burned, and we had to deal with the after effects of an atomic bomb, something that had never been used before, so no one was sure of the aftermath that it would cause. These rallies, which are still continuing today, were both philosophical and social movements. Groups across the United States,…

him in the Art classroom. He nodded his head and looked away and said, “It’s not like that.” “It’s not like that? Then how is it because you have been ignoring me all day!” I said while trying not to break down and cry. After that, everything went silent between us. He wasn’t able to look at me in the eyes. I felt like my heart was broken into million pieces. I tried so hard to breath but something was stopping me. When the bell rung for eighth hour I took the quickest way possible to Mrs.…

Johnson, Meagan. "Stop Talking About Work/Life Balance! TEQ and the Millennial Generation." Workforce Solutions Review 6.2 (2015): 4-7. Business Source Complete. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. In the article “Stop Talking about Work/Life Balance” the author Meagan Johnson begins by introducing what exactly the millennial generation is by saying that they are people who are born between the years of 1980 and the year 2000. They are often called "the generation y". She talks about how the new generation is…

With her release of Silent Spring in the early 1960’s, Rachel Carson sparked a great national environmental movement. In her book, Carson released her findings on the detrimental effects of the chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). At the time, DDT was believed to be the answer to insect problems in the United States and was used extensively. However, Carson explains DDT reaches species not targeted by the chemical and hurts the environment as a whole. Rachel Carson proves, through a…

During the 1940s powerful chemicals, such as DDT were used to remove crop-destroying insects. In Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure”, she argues that harmful chemicals are not only killing insects but also modifying its surroundings(604, par.1). She develops this argument using poignant diction, explaining that the environment take milleniums to adjust and that human pollution is advancing further than the Earth can keep up thus causing irreversible damages to the environment. Carson’s…