Spectacle

Artwork • Roman paintings took on very comparable kinds of Greek/Hellenistic times due to the fact maximum Greek artists and craftsman we’re added to Rome. Roman paintings took styles of its very own, but not much of the paintings have survived. • Many, paintings had been vivid and really colorful and were often painted on wet plaster. The artwork was very conscious of element hair, pores and skin, garb and many others. • Romans started to apply what they might call “Trompe L’oeil” or trick of…

Chang Cheh's "Five Element Ninjas" is one of the most impressive (and weird) martial arts films of all time This was Chang Cheh's first film not featuring the "Venom Mob," but he substituted them with gusto, by presenting ninjas, the animosity between China and Japan, and Cheng Tien Chi. Chief Hong, leader of a martial arts school, once more challenges his archrival, Yuan Zeng, to a tournament between the two schools, for the title of martial arts master. Hong's school has been losing for quite…

On Friday December the 16th, my friend diego and I went to a holiday concert in Greensboro. To be more specific, it was the Fox 8 Holiday concert, being played at the Greensboro LJVM Coliseum. The Band performing, is the Winston-Salem Symphony. This concert was held, to help feed the hungry and homeless. The Triad used to be number one in hunger in the nation, but this concert and countless other charities and efforts have helped to bring the number of homeless and hungry down drastically. This…

In Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, the titular character, Prometheus is established as a saviour of man, proving the essential tool that allowed for the elevation of archaic humans to humans with the abilities to build shelter, use numbers and cure through medicine. After his defiling of Zeus, by providing humans with fire, Prometheus is sentenced to eternal punishment as he is bound to crag and Zeus eagle feast on his liver day after day. It is, through Prometheus’ interview with Ocean, that the…

Politicians who preach the desirability of executions as a method of crime control deceive the public and mask their own malfunction to identify and confront the true causes of major crimes in the United States. An execution is a violent public spectacle of official homicide, and one that endorses killing to solve social problems, the worst possible example to set for the citizenry, and especially children who are growing up in a media centered world, where now more than ever news is available…

HMD is to allow the user to enjoy the game or movies feeling like he or she is really there and getting the full experience out of the product. The user will have to wear the HMD over their head and fit it nicely onto the eye just like wearing a spectacle or a helmet and he or she will be looking into the HMD which will have two small displays with lenses and semi-transparent mirrors. The display of the HMD may have different type of screen which may include LCDs , Liquid crystal on silicon ,…

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches exhibited a dynamic performance at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. The deep character development, plots, themes, and spectacles meshed together to create a theatrical experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. To begin, Angels in America had multiple messages throughout the show due to the different conflicts that existed amongst characters. One main theme and message that I felt was to stay true to yourself and always be who you really are. I feel this is a…

The article, ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre & Excess’1 by Linda Williams explores whether the forms of sex, violence and emotion found in the genres of pornography, horror, and melodrama (specifically the woman’s weepie) respectively, are as gratuitous as my film scholars and critics believe them to be. Setting out to disprove this idea, Williams’ investigates and compares the form, function, and system of the three genres. Ultimately, William’s central claims reveal the value in the supposed…

with the transition of the public spectacle of torture to surveillance or, thought control (Jurik, 2016a, p. 9). Specifically, he aims to discount the popularly accepted theory that this change occurs due to humanity. Furthermore, he emphasizes the expansive acceptance of this theory suppresses the need for further examination of the less visible aspects of the penal system, which may reveal an alternative theory for explaining the decline of the public spectacle of torture as a form of…

rather die than live without her books. This represents a very big change in Montag’s perception of fire. He know sees fire as evil and destructive. He comments, “Always at night the alarm comes. . . Is it because the fire is prettier at night? More spectacle, a better show?” (36). This shows that he now recognizes how vapid everything in this society is. His earlier pleasure of the fire and the job is completely gone since he now recognizes the sinister purpose behind it. Montag has another…