Silent Hill

The Simple Life at Virtue Hill One of the most beautiful places to visit is the Virtue Hill in Vietnam. I grew up there, and I return year after year to seek the solitude. Virtue Hill is the name of a boarding school and means “God Place.” One of the most picturesque sites is looking up the hill from the village road. The view is spectacular with the school at the top, and the green, fertile farmland below. When I was a fourth grader, my father as a soldier was often deployed far away from home.…

The Importance of Absurdity Our capacity to differentiate right from wrong in this world makes up a large part of who we are. Whenever we criticize the aspects of our lives, we assert ourselves, our ideas, and everything we have experienced and endured. Our ability to hold the world up to our standards lends us a feeling of power and control over our lives, giving us our pride and credibility as individuals, but when it is taken away from us, it renders us feeble, fearful, and helpless to…

Describe Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a western movie about the Sioux and Americans conflicts, was released in 2007 and was directed by Yves Simoneau. This movie occurs in the western part of America, in many Indian reservations. The main location was Pine Ridge, and the main battle was at Wounded Knee. The movie begins around the time when the Sioux were defeated at Little Bighorn. Then, the Americans continued to try and steal their land. Americans offered the Natives money for their land,…

possible service selection, quality, and value. The Nordstrom customer service is very rare in many area, if a customer of the store, would leave something there, the sales associate would do all they could to get it to the customer (Pg. 28, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., Ivancerich, John M. Copyright © 2011). (2) Ethical Culture: Ethical culture is a religion centered an ethic, not theology, whose mission is to encourage respect for humanity and nature to create a better world. Members are…

family takes a road trip out to the black hills. Usually It's during the winter so we can go skiing but this year is different. Instead of going when it's cold and all we do is ski and play monopoly, this year my dad had the great idea to go during the summer and climb the tallest peak this side of the Rockies, Harney Peak. At first, I didn't Know what to expect, so I said ok to the Idea and went along with my business. On the drive west to the black hills though, I had a second thought. I…

I took the bus around the Los Angeles area on a Saturday. The bus I used was the 30/330 that goes from Sunset Boulevard into East Los Angeles. This was mostly what seemed to be residential areas and the main streets of Los Angeles. While riding the bus I saw the difference within the people through the surrounding buildings. The visible wealth disparity between the residents of Los Angeles is very stark and can be seen within neighborhoods. Starting at Sunset, near the Greystone Mansion, the…

Others argue fault for the defeat should also lay with Frederick Benteen, the other officer who headed the third company Custer, after Reno and Custer’s companies. Some say Benteen was also near the battlefield when the fight between Custer and the natives began. In the book, To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Larry Sklenar, it is said that when Benteen believed Custer to be heading “into battle without him, Benteen became frustrated and angry, and it would now take a very…

talkies. That is, dialogue conveys and augments the moods within the film, which directly influences audience’s perceptions. James O. Spearing once wrote in Now the Movies Go Back to Their School Days , “...when screen actors began to speak lines, the silent drama was attacked. Voices invaded its peculiar domain” (Spadoni 4). In the motion picture industry,…

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,…

plays a famous movie star who is completely set on his ways and views of silent cinema. His movies are some of the biggest in Hollywood and he believes that his films will stand the test of time. George meets a young background actor named Peppy Miller with whom he connects with immediately. He helps her take her acting career to new heights but just as actor do, they come and go with the change of an era and George’s silent movies are no longer making the cut when it comes to the audience. He…