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The Movie “The Shining” was one of the best mysteries horror movies of all time. It’s about a family that stayed over the winter in a hotel in Colorado called “The OverLook Hotel”. A man named Jack wanted to write about staying there over the winter and how it will be a good vacation until things got to him and he went psycho. This film has a lot of allusions in most of the scenes, also towards the middle of the time being there Jack did a lot of violent things to Wendy and Danny. When unusual…

In the drama, "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses the motif of lighting throughout the novel to develop the character of Blanche. The way Blanche reacts to light can be seen as her attempt to hide her true character, hide her vanishing youth and beauty, and attempt to avoid reality. Blanche hides in the darkness, and avoids the light, as a way to escape reality. This idea is represented when Mitch attempts to turn on the light, "I don't want realism. I want magic!…

a blink of an eye. It happens every day, in every household, every school, and every workplace. Sometimes people are forced into situations they would not like to be in. In The Nuremberg Trials, Gang Rape by Stephanie Chen, Perils of obedience by Stanley Milgram, Pearl Harbor Echoes In Seattle by Monica Sone, and the book Night by Elie Wiesel, normal individuals are faced with pressure, fear, and survival instincts which force them to change their beliefs. Pressure from an outside source can…

Few films have ever replicated the controversy of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971). Based on the novella of the same name by Anthony Burgess, which explores the realms of dystopian society, the Orwellian, science-fiction film catalogues the life and crimes of antagonist, Alex Delarge. A young, violent, hedonistic, delinquent with an enthusiastic appreciation for music, specifically German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven. Alex’s ‘droogs’, Dim, Georgie and Pete often accompany him on his…

The episode “Celebration” from Knot’s Landing perfectly executes on the concept of TV serials using blocking and weaving to tell their story. Blocking and weaving is all about how the writers block the characters and their story, and then weave the characters into the other characters storylines. The story of the episode is all centered around Ciji’s big performance at the restaurant Daniel, unfortunately she doesn’t show up and we later discover that she is dead on the beach. This is the end of…

People influence each other constantly, in a variety of different ways. Social influence is the change in behaviour that one person causes in another, intentionally or unintentionally. Social psychologists look at the factors that lead us to behave in a given way in the presence of others. This may be represented by persuasion, conformity, obedience and independent behaviour. A social norm is an expectation about appropriate behaviour that occurs in a group context. (Rashotte,L:2012) Conformity…

Harbour condo of your dreams. Here are some tips: 1. Get to know the neigbourhood Coal Harbour is a welcoming and safe neighbourhood that is one of the most popular areas to live in the downtown Vancouver district. This tight-knit community borders Stanley Park (Vancouver’s largest and most popular park) and provides front door access to the…

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, tells the story of Stella and Stanley Kowalski and the dramatic turmoil that overtakes their relationship upon the arrival of Stella’s sister Blanche DuBois. In the first half of the play, Williams introduces both the setting and the primary characters almost immediately using vivid imagery, appealing to both the visual and olfactory senses of his readers; “"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river…

Every part of this movie is as crucial as the next. The sound effects of the all the different animals, are non – synchronous to make it more a natural environment, plants and the Avatars’ language which they speak. All of these sound effect are an important role to this movie as it creates a more lifelike environment for the audience. Whereas you come to the Human Base upon the planet there are synchronous sound effects of the machines. There is always a constant animal sound throughout all the…

Desire, “delicate beauty” (1. 5) Blanche DuBois uses darkness as a method of illusion to hide her true mentally unstable nature. Just before this scene begins, Harold Mitchell, Blanche’s beau, has humiliated her by refusing to attend her party held at Stanley and Stella’s home. Suddenly, Mitch appears at the door and Mitch confronts…