The Faceless

This scene takes place after extensive individual attacks by the FLN on French officers, and after two massive bombing attacks on French civilians. Due to the ambiguity of the “faceless” FLN operation as a whole, the French military must set out to understand the FLN in order to cease the attacks (Pontecorvo, 56:37). Colonel Mathieu, much like Feynman’s “details,” calls to “start from scratch” (Feynman, 36 and Pontecovrvo, 58:08)…

Sleep is, perhaps, one of the most confounding aspects of humanity, even to this very day. There is a host of theories as to why humans require sleep, as well as a similar variety of theories as to why sleep brings dreams. Some say that they are simulations - a means originally produced by the brain to help humans prepare for particular events they have yet to encounter in reality. Others say it is to de-stress the mind, to unravel the complicated webs of data collected through our senses…

Few movies are sought fit for a remake, but in the case of The Manchurian Candidate (1962), it presented an opportunity to update this classic political thriller into modern times. Producing a remake also presents the risk of losing the original message altogether. Both films begin with an American soldier who is essentially brainwashed into becoming an assassin utilized by his own political family, more specifically his mother, to infiltrate the presidency of America. Behind the brainwashing…

The theme of violence to rule over a society has been explored in literature throughout history. Violence can take various forms including physical and psychological violence. Two such examples depicting the use of violence to control others are examined in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and 1984 by George Orwell. Responsibility for violence depends on the context, and the influences on the inflictor. The form of despotism is a factor in this responsibility: an autocracy or oligarchy.…

Abortion is defined in different ways by different people. The word Abortion by definition means the deliberate termination of a Fetus from the womb of a woman before it is able to survive independently (Dictionary, 2015). There are many issues is Canada, America, and in other countries today such as violence, drugs, and teenage pregnancy that is on the rise. However, abortion is an important and serious issue within the generation of today since there are so many young girls getting pregnant…

I Hate White People Throughout my years of schooling, I moved towns every year for seven consecutive years. With every new town came a new school, new friends, new teachers, and a new environment. I learned to adapt and am now extroverted because of it. However, the first day in a new school is always the most difficult because of the culture shock. The first day of the first grade, by far, was one of the worst experiences I’ve had. I was to be attending a private Christian school that had…

inability to speak or see beyond darkness and where the figments of hope and redemption are “dying stars”. Eliot’s allusion to Guy Fawkes’s gunpowder plot exposes the effigy of the “penny for the Old Guy” characterising the inhabitants of the era as faceless men plagued with disloyalty and betrayal. This validates modernity’s surrender to bare desires and nonsensical thoughts, anaphorically proclaiming, “We are the hollow men/ we are the stuffed men/ we whisper together”, acknowledging their…

the doll, I elected to ‘put my money where my mouth is’ and alter an actual Barbie doll into a physical representation of my research. Erasing everything that the doll once was except for the classic Barbie logos, I left her completely naked and faceless, quite literally a ‘blank slate.’ Adopting the name “Tabula Rasa Barbie,” the reconstructed packaging is minimalist, painted to resemble a blank chalkboard. On the back of the packaging, I repurposed the Barbie slogan “You Can Be Anything” to…

It starts off when Ishmael explains that after school the boys would have lunch then play tennis or soccer. But at night some of them would have nightmares. They would wake up and try to hurt and kill the others. That night Ishmael dreamt about a faceless gunman trying to slice his throat with a bayonet. After he woke up, he ran outside and tried to think about childhood memories but instead brought up another flashback. As they tried to find a new village, they walked through a rainforest, and…

Illegal immigrants either in the United States or making their way into the country are constantly under fire of generalizations. The goal of a generalization is to help explain why an event occurs while looking at patterns and reoccurring factors, and predict what will happen in the future. Such can be explained with the behaviors of the illegal immigrants moving through the United States and Canada. As seen in the documentary, Wetbacks, it was not the first time that many of these people had…