Silent Hill

The One Hour With You directed by Lubitsch in 1932. It is the early sound film in the film history. It combines sound effects, dialogues as well as background music in one film. The director used two tracks of sound for one scene. In this film, we could hear the characters’ dialogue and the background music at the same time many times. At the beginning of the film, when chief talks with his subordinates, we can hear the chief’s words and the passionate symphony at the same time. This is…

Rachel Carson was one of the most influential and is often attributed with starting the modern environmental movement. Her work with Silent Spring, a book documenting the harmful effects on the environment, and other writings are often credited with moving the environmental movement forward. Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907, on a small farm near Springdale, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Maria Frazer, and Robert Warden Carson, an insurance salesman. Carson was an avid reader, and…

Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson was the spark to a great controversy over the use of pesticide ever since it was published in 1962. This novel was a great influence over the abuse of chemical insecticides and succeeded in banning some dangerous chemicals such as DDT from the United States. Even though Silent Spring chastised the use of these chemicals, Carson never intended that all of the pesticides should be banned, instead the use of them should be controlled to prevent harm to the…

Thanks to Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, we now have many laws, guidelines, and even bans to ensure the safety environment and those who live inside it. Recently, some controversy has developed over the use of a pesticide known as Naled. Naled is currently being used to treat areas plagued by mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus and some people are debating whether the use of Naled should be discontinued due to its toxicity. The use of Naled is safe for our environment and should continue to…

This type of leadership provides me an opportunity to motivate individuals and gives them more confidence and positive energy (By James P. Lewis, 2003, McGraw-Hill: Project Leadership). The power of behaving as supportive project leader depends on my personality type and my capability to innovate incentives to create impact on my team-members impressively. For instance, I deliver my response to this proposal…

Organizational culture is defined as actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and towards the organization as a whole, and its effect on the organization's functioning and performance. It is the careful selection of tailor-made organizational culture features suitable to the organization and its people that ensure a win-win situation for the organization, its people and valuable customers. Southwest was established in 1967 by Rolling King and Herb Kelleher as an…

to the soul (Monet).” Feeling good was originally written in 1965, by Nina Simone. This song has been used in the popular culture such as, “Point of No Return” and “Six Feet Under”. A song cover was later done by Jennifer Hudson in 2011, and Lauryn Hill in 2015. Although Nina Simone wrote the song, Jennifer Hudson sang it better due to melody, rhythm, and instrumentation used in her version. Nina Simone was born February 21, 1933; she died just two months after her 70th birthday on April 21,…

mean land that their want is Black Hill Mountain and this is a…

In the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota, Mount Rushmore, a large granite peak was dedicated in 1925 to be sculpted into a monument. That monument today is one of the most visited monuments in the United States. Mount Rushmore is a staple of the United States. On it, it has the faces of four of the most important Presidents of the United States. According to the Sculptor Gutzon Borglum “The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification…

up the hill so they don't go through the same tragedy she went through. A group of boys wanted to test this phenomenon and they decided to go on a road trip and test it out. they came to the stop sign and to their amazement it worked and they went back up the hill. There are many legends of what people think happened and one of them was a lady and her husband were fighting and the lady knocked the mad dead and dragged him up the hill to the field, now they believe she drags cars up the hill just…