The Shadow

Leaders possess many great qualities such as good communication, natural intuition, and confidence. Ender Wiggin combines those qualities throughout both the movie and the book. Ender’s game starts off with an attack on earth from buggers which are aliens of another planet. Once attacked on, Mazer Rackham conquers and destroys the buggers, but that wasn't the last attack from these aliens. Colonel Graff believes that somewhere out there is the next Mazer Rackham, which leads him to starting a…

of novels featuring the character was the 2000 published A Kiss of Shadows. Meredith Gentry otherwise known as Merry Gentry is a fairy princess turned amateur sleuth in a fantasy world where fairies are fashionable and popular. She lives in Los Angeles in California and hides from her family under the assumed name of Merry Gentry. She works for Grey’s Detective Agency a premier investigations agency in the city. A kiss of Shadows the first novel in the series opens to Meredith asserting the…

For my job shadow, I visited a college campus to observe a professor. I went to Mankato State University and watched a class in one of the buildings. We then took a tour of the campus while Professor Strunk described her daily jobs and what the students do while on campus. What I observed was a class and some of Professor Strunk’s daily activities. As it was the first day of summer classes, we observed Professor Strunk go over the syllabus for the class and hear her expectations. After the…

looks, the natural and barely there, the soft and smoky, and the bold and garish. The most popular eye shadow colours were the blues, greens and purples. Earthy tones were also popular; this consisted of the whites, silvers and pale colours. This was applied under the brow in order to create a highlighted effect to the brows. Eye shadow finishes were known to be matte. Some women applied their eye shadow to their eye crease which created a soft depth and created more of a cat eye or almond…

Chapter Five What is it that people mention from time to time about fear? That fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance? Well, it seems that the statement fits perfectly like a glove when it comes to Anna. The fact that she didn't want to understand her wrongdoings, and more that it would eventually catch up with her. A ticking time bomb waiting to explode. Why hasn't she finally give up on holding onto to silly ideals? Why won't she try to learn that the world has more opportunities is she's…

When watching John Cassavetes’s film, Shadows, one of the first elements that intrigues me the most is the cinematography. He does an excellent job of telling the story not so much through the story being told, but the way it is told in the different shots. A lot of directors and cinematographers often do not have the same vision when it comes to telling the story of the film, but both Cassavetes and cinematographer, Erich Kollmar, take it to the next level. The films use of cinematography is…

In the Shadows Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, along with other ethnicities such as Mexican and African Americans, live in America in hopes of having freedom and equal opportunity to succeed in the world. AAPIs, being that they are a minority, struggle in receiving equal opportunity and freedom. In the article, Why calling Asian Americans a model minority glosses over crucial issues, Vivek Wadhwa talks about AAPIs by providing general information on AAPIs, by talking about the issues…

The Emperor’s Shadow is a Chinese epic drama depicting Emperor Ying Zheng’s attempts to unify China, his relationship with the musician Gao Jianli, and his attempt to take control of the arts to further his cause. While a tendency towards melodrama is prevalent throughout the film, it maintains an authenticity that is often absent from contemporary American cinema. In comparison to foreign film, the American industry seems to be plagued with an overreliance on visual rhetoric, choosing to…

because he does not understand how to take care of a horse (12). Even in instances where male characters do display acts of care, it is often placed in the context of their employment as a form of justification. For example, in the first book, The Shadow Brumby, Sam’s father saves a toddler, playing on the train track, from coming to further harm because it is “all part of being a policeman” (46). This characterisation reinforces ideas about normative masculinity and femininity by regulating…

In the Shadow of Ebola is an observatory documentary that focuses on the lives in Liberia under the deadly Ebola attack. Concerning the film’s title, the word “Shadow” implies the serious Ebola leaves problems like deaths, hunger and social disturbances in the vulnerable Liberia. In fact, daily lives’ problems of citizens in different stages of the spread of disease are also addressed. Subjective this first-person narration may be, viewing the event from Urey’s family perspective could be one of…