The Long Wait

main components, the inciting incident, the story-worthy problem, the initial surface problem, and finally the setup (Edgerton, Les). These elements are all apparent in the opening scenes of Shutter Island. In the opening moments of film, an extreme long shot can be found, which shows Ashecliffe Hospital, the central set of the film. The Ashecliffe Hospital is a facility for the criminally insane. The facility is located on Shutter Island, which is set in Boston Harbor. The view is set from…

comes to race, and how races are viewed. Unfortunately, the media tends to lack positive images of Black people, or my specifically, Black women. White women are often seen on TV, magazines, movies, and billboards being praised for things like their long flowing hair. Because of this, Black girls may…

and that also is the point for Jenna Wortham, the author of the essay ‘‘I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the app’’. As social apps’ appearance, it helps us solve several problems about long-distance communication, and we don’t need to be afraid the relationship with others that influenced because of long distance. With the newest technology, distance is now a thing in the past thanks to the modern days’ devices and apps that allows us to stay in touch with important people in our lives. In…

James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency is the stuff of suburban nightmare. As someone who has lived her entire life in the comforts and trappings of suburbia, the events that have been laid out in this text have raised several levels of alarm inside myself. Many suburbanites schlep their reusable bags into their hybrid or flex-fuel vehicles and regularly run their several mile journey to the grocery store multiple times a week. In the absence of fossil fuels, not only would this trip for…

To begin, CVS Health is an American health and retail company. The company has been previously named, CVS Corporation and CVS Caremark Corporation. CVS Health is headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. CVS Health has four subsidiaries, CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark, CVS Specialty, and MinuteClinic. CVS Pharmacy, the main CVS subsidiary, was founded by Stanley Goldstein, Sidney Goldstein, and Ralph Hoagland in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1963. CVS Pharmacy was originally bought by the Melville…

self-conscious about facial and body hair and want to improve their appearance. In addition, it has several benefits that waxing and shaving does not offer. For one, when a laser is used to remove hair from the body it is permanent. Plus, it offers long lasting results and will leave the skin feeling and looking smoother than it will after waxing or shaving with a razor. Generally, most people will see permanent hair loss after three to eight treatment sessions over…

The cold air slammed into my face as I exited the long forgotten warmth of the helicopter. I hugged myself in an effort to stay warm, but the Alaskan weather had another idea. Small flurries of snow began to float around me and delicately placed themselves in my hair. I'm finally here...Shadow Moses Island. A solider walked in front of me signaling me to follow. I could hear the loud crunch of the fresh snow beneath my boots. The soldier led me off the snow covered heliport and through the…

You’ve seen pictures of The Great Depression before, but do you know who actually took them? That’s simple, it was Walker Evans. Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 3, 1903 and died on April 10, 1975. Growing up, Evans always had an interest in arts like drawing and taking pictures. He would like taking pictures of his family and friends on his first camera, a small Kodak camera. Walker Evans is best known for capturing the effects of The Great Depression, his creative way…

Journal 1 After the first two weeks of lecture in Cinema Appreciation I have learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a…

I feel that I order to capture and grasp the idea that the two men are challenging gravity while figthing most of the shot (1:58 – 2:12) have to be long in order to emphasis how the background and charcters are spinning and the effects are, for example from 1:12 to 1;14 you can see the long shot of the two men fighting but the thing that seems to be quite insignificant is the gun that dropped also react to the shift in gravity and sticks to the ceiling, the attention…