Spectacle

The last line of Canty’s poem, Fig.10 installation says, “10 Red Shift. Le rougeoiement du soir dans l’est.”. Translated it means the glow of the night in the east. There is a book call “Meridin de sang: Ou le rougeoiment du soir dans l’Ouest.", translated meaning the glow of the night in the West by Cormac McCarthy. There is a chance that Canty maybe referenced to this book resuming about the 1850s, a 14-year-old boy left Texas to join a band of paid hunters to exterminate the Indians. In the…

I. Plot Timothy Mooney’s Breakneck Hamlet takes what would be a 4-hour play and breaks it down into just about an hour long performance. The story truly begins when Prince Hamlet’s father is murdered, believed to be murdered by his own brother and Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet’s mother than marries her now dead husbands believed murder and brother, Claudius. The rising action occurs when Hamlet passes up the opportunity to kill Claudius, as he appears to be praying and Hamlet does not want to give him…

discusses themes of drug trafficker control within Rocinha and other favelas, the concept of spectacular violence, as well as the commodification of the trafficker image by Brazilian and foreign outsiders. Larkins dissects the role that violent spectacle plays in the everyday lives of favela residents and the ways that it is depicted in mediascapes and therefore commodified for profit. In this paper, I will briefly discuss the history of the violent favela and its relationship with changing…

girls that try to be golden like Jordan, but they are not and cannot be like her because they are not on Jordan’s level. Moving on to the spectacles of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, Nick explains that the eyes are “blue and gigantic……..from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles” (Fitzgerald 23). As if he is God, Doctor T.J. Eckleburg looks through the yellow spectacles that are like lenses that allow him to see the corruption of the characters in the…

The perplexing nature of members of higher status within Roman society taking part in public spectacles did not just end at the elite, however. In fact, a few Roman emperor’s themselves took part in such festivities. Those that were of the most criticized included Nero and Commodus. Nero was not only a fan of the arena, but he became infamous for his performances as a gladiator, “pushing the public persona required for an emperor to an extreme that conservative Roman values… found disgraceful”…

these games began to be held simply for entertainment value. Although, the common factor was still reputation. During the republic, games were hosted by aristocrats in hopes of winning over popular opinion to ensure these citizens votes. Holding spectacles in the Flavian Amphitheater aimed at keeping the plebs safely occupied and entertained, during the empire. This place of socio-cultural value was not going to last forever as following emperor’s put restriction after restriction of the games,…

usually the poet themselves. The imperative ‘must’ in the question suggests that the grandness of the ode is necessary for it to be considered an ode and connotations of the word ‘grand’ propose that the ode must endure a feeling of magnificence, spectacle, and importance. Walker’s quote ‘We have constantly looked high, when we should have looked high – and low’ demonstrates…

Murray draws the example of funerals and tributes. Similarly, In The Spectacle of the Scaffold, Michel Foucault discusses another way crowds “assemble in the name of death” (73): public executions. For Foucault, the purpose of public executions was two fold: to set an example to the commonwealth in order to deter anyone else…

The Grand Canyon Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville by Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth by John Wesley Powell are two stories with different opinions of The Grand Canyon. The first story shows how The Grand Canyon can be very annoying and not worth of seeing. The second story shows how The Grand Canyon can be very fascinating; therefore the author has trouble explaining his whole trip. Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville by de Cardenas…

IT'S THE biggest sporting event of the year. For others, it's the embodiment everything the terrorists hate about Western culture. But for sports fans around Australia, the Super Bowl is unique. Some have even taken the day off work to watch the spectacle, further compounding the negative effect America is having on our economy. But it's all worth it, according to business content marketing associate team leader, Mickey Peacotton. "My life lacks any variety what so ever," said the Sydney office…