The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second directorial film after The Last House on the Left (I'm not counting his stint as Abe Snake directing The Fireworks Woman). Much like The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes has a gritty, low budget, violent look, having been shot on 16mm film. Given the budget of approximately $230,000, Wes Craven was able to craft a violent, sometimes humorous horror film that to this day is still quite popular among the horror crowd. The film has gone on to spawn a few sequels and a couple actual good remakes, however, we are not here to talk about those. Instead, we are going to focus on the first film only, as Arrow Video has gone above and beyond in releasing an absolutely stunning Blu-ray release. Read…

at Campfire, Yosemite Valley, California is a painting by a renowned artist named Thomas Hill. Hill was born on September 11, 1829, in England. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family moved to the United States. After Hill had turned twenty-four, he joined the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was highly recognized for his numerous paintings of the vast California landscape. During the time Hill was a student at the Art Academy, he travels to the White Mountains and Yosemite Valley,…

Snowboarding I looked up at the huge hill with my snow pants, coat, gloves, boots and hat. My new orange and yellow digital Camo snowboard was in my hand.As I stared in stun at the hill, I thought it might be quicker to fly to Mt. Everest and climb that then climb this hill. We were in my grandparents backyard that was probably big enough to make a football field. I felt butterflies flying around in my stomach as if they were in prison trying to escape.I heard footsteps behind me. “Get up…

Marjorie’s POV I stood there confused for a moment as I asked her to repeat what she had just said. “I said that he has no mother, and that he doesn't have skates, is there something I missed?” Miss Clark asked with her eyes filled with question. Sudden realization hit me as I began to remember what Jerry had told me before, “What do you mean he has no mother? Or that he has no skates for that matter, Jerry has told me otherwise.” She began to look around her desk in search of something,…

study, it is evident that there is an agreement between preferential looking and preferential reaching methods in the examination of 3-month olds’ social evaluations. In the experiment, infants were shown a character that failed in an attempt to get to the top of a steep hill, and was alternately helped by being pushing up the hill or hindered by being pushed down the hill. Following habituations, infants’ visual preferences for the helper in comparison to the hinderer was measured. The control…

This essay and following presentation is about The Battle of Bunker Hill. It will go over not only the who, what, where, when and why of this battle but will also try to excite you about the incredible way our country began. We were the ultimate underdogs. Hopefully, at the end of this essay you will see a few of the reasons we are called the home of the brave. In June 17, 1775, on a hot summer day, the Battle of Bunker Hill took place. This battle turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the…

I was in line, hearing the screams of kids, watching them as they make it to the top of the roller coaster, as the cart paused on top of the hill, the screams of the kids stopped for a second. AAAAAHHHHH!!!, the screams grew more lively as the cart’s raced down the hill. While the cart’s was going down the hill, I was starting to have second thoughts about going on this ride. I looked at the exit that everyone on the ride was getting off, and I saw some faces with smiles, others were…

Lauryn Hill is a famous songwriter and poet whose work is balanced between sacred and secular. Even though all of her songs and poems are not about religion they still have strong meanings. In 2002 Lauryn Hill released a song called “The Mystery of Iniquity.” Through this song Ms. Hill expresses how the government attempts to hide the their unfair treatment. During the Era of slavery the unfair and brutal treatment of blacks was obvious, but in modern times the government is now hiding the their…

Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story written in 1927 published in “Men with Out Women.” Hemmingway begins this story by describing the surroundings of the characters who are waiting at a train station near the Spanish city of Ebro. Across the valley, there are hills described as looking “long and white” (116 Hemmingway) Hemmingway moves on to describing the train station stating it is treeless and sun-beaten and has parallel rales running across it. The male…

"City upon a Hill" Essay Assignment In the sermon a “City upon a Hill”, the author John Winthrop refers to the word shipwreck. Shipwreck is a metaphor for disobeying God. It refers to having a lack of faith in God. When you disobey God, you are not doing justly, loving mercifully, and working humbly with God. The author, John Winthrop, is trying to avoid doing anything that would be considered defying God. The main theme is to do good and good things will come. “City upon a Hill” discusses…