Silent Hill

The Great Train Robbery also was the first to use pans and tilts. Born out of necessity of just needing to follow the characters on screen, the filmmakers panned the camera across, and then tilted down to follow the characters as they moved down a hill and across a forest area. This was a simple idea, but…

well as what measures were taken in order to ensure the product is safe for human consumption. We as humans sometimes fail to realize the how far agricultural ideology has come in the last 50 years. Rachel Carson highlights throughout her 1962 book “Silent Spring”. Although it may have not been intentional, Carson’s book sparked a revolution in the world that still continues to improve the way things are produced, disposed, and regulated throughout the United States. Rachel Carson enlightens us…

while watching the Lumière brothers Arriva of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) in France. These new moving images amazed audiences all over the world. Thanks to Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers, the great pioneers of film history. Silent films used camera effects, music, lighting, staging of props and the actor’s body language as a medium to create a universal language that communicated to people intellectually and emotionally. A collection of Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and…

I remember I was about the age of 5. At this time my mother and I were living together alone in a two story apartment sitting right on the hills of Troy. During this age, I was attending daycare everyday daily because my mother would work full time during the week. I can still remember her waking me up everyday at the crack of dawn at 5 am and dropping me off to Samaritan, the daycare I was attending daily. At the time when I was younger, I enjoyed the benefits of waking up early there were a…

Perseverance instills itself into individuals during stressful times. There are several references in the poem to Penelope’s perseverance both in her faithfulness to Odysseus and her performance of the duties of a traditional housewife over the twenty years her husband was away. The painting is a visually representation of this perseverance by showing Penelope intently concentrating on weaving the shroud while her suitors try and persuade her with music and gifts. The themes of perseverance,…

In The Lone Ranger and Tonto and “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Sherman Alexie, reservation realism is portrayed through continuous references of Native American conflict. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Thomas-Builds-the-Fire was arrested for detaining the reservation postmaster, Eve Ford. Several years later, the case goes to trial and the Bureau of Indian affairs grants Thomas an opportunity to give his testimony. During the trial, Alexie mentions Eve Ford sitting among the…

Living on Beacon Hill, Boston’s pinnacle neighborhood that brims with history and wealth, is a dream that is out of reach to many individuals due to the astronomically high real estate prices in the area. However, even if one were to have an unlimited budget to buy whatever home in Beacon Hill they desired, the limitless possibilities would make it hard for an individual to decide. If I had an unlimited budget, I would choose 94 Pinckney Street as my residence on Beacon Hill. The choice of 94…

President George H.W. Bush. (Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas: The Backstory) Prior to his judicial appointment, Clarence Thomas was the head of U.S. Department of Education 's Office of Civil Rights in Washington and the Equal Employment Opportunities Committee, where Anita Hill worked as his subordinate. (Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas: The Backstory) Around the time of his confirmation hearings, Anita Hill accused Thomas of sexually harassing her at the workplace. (Anita Hill Accuses Clarence…

women wanted to break the unfairness of women issue of voting, lack of education, could not get jobs or own property, and getting married at young ages. Kate Chopin was one of the feminist American writers in the nineteenth century. Chopin break her silent by writing her first novel At Fault, which was rejected by Belford. “When Belford’s rejected it, Chopin, forty years old and eager for literary recognition, published it on her own. She was well organized and determined in this endeavor. Her…

The Women’s March was on January 21, 2017, around the United States of America. Millions of women united in Washington D.C. to protest the presidential election that insulted minorities. This march conveys how much power that women posses. Every so often you get a poet that is able to speak for a generation. Jasmine Mans is a poet that can be seen as a pressure point for many celebrities. She uses the lyrics of their own music to point out the irrational behavior and great influence they…