Spectacle

resting place a firing party of eight soldiers would have fired three shots over the open grave signalling the bugler to sound the last post and reveille. Reflecting upon such traditions one can imagine only too clearly the poignant yet marvellous spectacle that would have marked Henry’s passing. Although his grave is maintained by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission, it’s location is marked by a private stone memorial. A simple yet imposing white stone cross set upon three descending white…

A couple of days before Christmas in 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly across Germany When there was a war going on.An tyenty one year old was the piolet. Half his crew were lying or wounded or dead in the plane. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a round, dark shape object pulled up on the bomber’s tail .A German fighter. Worse, the German pilot was one of the best pilots Germany had. A man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened…

The gloomy mise-en-scenes, coupled with the fast-paced humming and drumming of the film’s non-diegetic music, reinforces the sci-fi tones of this smart short. Rather than detailing or creating a spectacle out of its broad concept, Slutsky prefers to showcase effective and impactful ideas through the genre of lo-fi science fiction. As the world continues to grow ever more technologically-dependent and obsessed, it will be interesting to see what filmmakers…

The Martian Chronicles exhibits that the unknown can be a downfall to both those who are unknown and those who discover them. Throughout the stories explorers from Earth meet and cause destruction to the Martians. Bradbury examines why this happens and Americans response. Bradbury uses the faults of the explorers from Earth to demonstrate the faults in American culture. For instance the way that Americans attempt to force elements of their society onto other cultures and how they are so self…

talk to Crooks, in Crook’s harness and bedroom. “Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun... There were battered magazines and a few dirty books… A pair of large gold-rimmed spectacles…” this shows that Crooks held onto items for extended periods of time. Crooks also didn’t want anyone in his room and wanted to stay alone, but when Lennie and Candy go and see him Crooks lightens up and becomes more friendly, but after Candy…

souls and innocent architecture it had once held to the ground to meet their gruesome end. It was then that Amaria, if she remained alive within that jasper stone, became the only Sun Elf alive. “It has been widely believed that, upon viewing the spectacle from within the stone, Amaria began to weep over her absent species and the tears that slid down her beautiful face became the curse that taints this land: a corrosive deluge of blood that falls upon the entire continent every Eighth of the…

young children and editor-in-chief of French Elle, suddenly in a hospital bed, unable to speak or move his body, connected to IVs and feeding tubes, dependent on the care of others, and with no hope of recovery. Few fall so far so fast, and the spectacle of that fall is part of the phenomenon of this movie. Realizing how his life had been less than model, his stroke becomes an opportunity for restoration and prompts him to cleanse his soul. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a film of enormous…

In this passage the sheer size of Eckleburg’s eyes, and the fact that they are in “spectacles” gives them the quality of being watchful. However later in the passage Fitzgerald references the occultist sinking “into eternal blindness”. He then goes on to say that the eyes, although “dimmed by many paintless days” remain in their place. The way that the eyes have continued to stare out into the world long after they have been forsaken by mankind gives them the feeling of being an eternal presence…

Benito Cereno, One of Herman Melville’s most enduring and intriguing works was published in Putnam's Monthly in October, November and December 1855. This work is concerned with realities and appearance. Herman Melville is an American author, who best known for his work Moby-Dick. His work was a response to the Romantic Movement that dominated American literature in the mid- 19th century. Melville was born in New York City in 1819 and died in 1891; His family background included Revolutionary War…

play during the raising of the flag. Or it could be argued that it was in 1916 when President Woodrow Wilson ordered for it to be played during that it be played at all military ceremonies When World War 1 was beginning, so was MLB’s patriotic spectacles, which of course have found their way into nearly every sporting event since. Taking a seat during the song communicates not standing with the nation that the song was written for. Which of course, quickly catches…