The Shining

1. I believe we were assigned the excerpt from All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly to help us understand the value of reading literature. While technology is able to do nearly everything for us, having the skill to analyze a book is invaluable. In All Things Shining, Dreyfus and Kelly use the example of GPS to explain that technology deprives us of living. They explain that before GPS was around everyone developed the skill of navigation. People had to pay attention to…

Tracking shot from The Shining’. How the director creates suspense? The director of “The Shining” Stanley Kubrick creates suspense throughout this scene. He uses many cinematic devices to do this. These devices include sound effects, distance between Danny and the camera and close ups of facial expressions and body language. One of the ways in which the director portrays suspense in the scene is using sound effects created by the contrast between the complete silence when Danny cycles on the…

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 4) This is one of George Orwell’s famous quotes from the book, 1984. Orwell wrote this book to give awareness about totalitarianism and communism. Hitler was able to captured millions of people to follow his lead by his false hopes for them.This gives an example of the ways the people in the book were living at Airstrip One, Oceania Mainland, with fear and imitation. Hitler came from nothing, but was able to persuade millions to Germans to follow his Nazi…

1. Broken People - message: Someone is injured and they need a doctor. - shining moment: repetition of “I’m a doctor”, looks like a robot. And the patient said, “ok, I’m healed.” LOL 2. Group 2 - message: The transformation from the high school life to the marriage of a high school couple, and the teacher is a witness of their love story. - shining moment: distracted class looks so realistic (being late, playing phone, passing notes...) 3. Girl Scouts - message: writing a dramatic story…

Social Revolutionary Terrorism As the twin of nationalist-separatist terrorism, social revolutionary terrorism gained traction around the same time period, but its origins date back to the late nineteenth century. Anarchist terrorism is the predecessor to what is currently known as social revolutionary terrorism. It began with the ideology of “propaganda of the deed” which was originally introduced by Carlo Piscane in 1857 and then eventually adopted and expanded by the Russian revolutionary,…

been keeping files on the Shining Path. When the new government took over, those files were missing. Did the military leaders fear looking incompetent for not going after the radical SL ? Or were they possibly hoping for the chance to save the day ? Probably both . As attacks by SL increased over the next few years the military begged to be put into the fight. Sadly however, by the time the Democratic Government knew there was a fight it was a little…

final broadcast as president. This speech was composed of several sections, one being the final section based around the concept of “The Shining City on a Hill”. Being that this was his last broadcast to the people of the nation he expressed his final thoughts of the past 8 years he had lead and assured the people that he lead the them to be a bigger, brighter, shining city on a hill. He accomplished that very well within the speech given. The speech was given to the people of the nation over a…

This painting relates to The Outsiders by showing what the greasers feel like. The greasers have to go endure the fighting and being outlawed because they look like “hoods”.The greasers look like rough tides, swishing back and forth hopelessly because it seems as if they will never get to shine bright like the sun in the sky.This is evident on page 5, “Hey grease, one said in an over-friendly voice. We’re gonna do you a favor, greaser. We’re gonna cut all that long greasy hair off”. On the other…

The Monogatari series is an extremely successful, and universally popular Japanese anime television series that focuses on male protagonist Koyomi Araragi. Araragi is a high school student who comes in contact with numerous female supporting characters that have been afflicted with oddities that pose a threat to their lives, and he must deal with them due to the talents he possesses in the series. With a diversity in characteristics among each character within this diverse cast, the Monogatari…

Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, “Archaic Torso of Apollo” conveys the theme of appreciation as the speaker examines the broken statue of the Greek god Apollo. Rilke’s poem uses figurative language to demonstrate the theme of appreciation of art throughout the poem. Throughout the poem, Rilke frequently uses similes to support his overall theme of his appreciation for the art. A simile is a figure of speech that creates a comparison by showing similarities between two different things. The first…