The Unknown Citizen

The purpose of playing the waiting game with the actual murder scene was to tell how a killing was known throughout the small town but could not be prevented. Most of the townspeople knew about the Vicario twins’ plot to kill Santiago but it seems like no matter what obstacle was put in its way, it was just meant to be. Although some felt Santiago deserved to die because he allegedly made Angela impure, others tried to warn him. The narrator’s mother tried to caution Santiago’s mother, who was…

Edgar Allan Poe, a dark and mysterious writer, a poet, a “subsequent” author. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Poe was left alone at a young age, with the disappearance of his father, and death of his mother early in life. Already we see Poe has been through a seemingly dark life. He published his first book at eighteen and made not a dollar. Went in the military and was dismissed after skipping classes. His life lives on with his writing, not life from the grave.…

Creating a Sense of Unease: Cloverfield and the Fear of the Unknown There is so much that is left uncertain in life. In the real world, developing stories and the future are never perfectly clear. In film, however, narrative structure and key details can be left uncertain or unseen to create suspense or a sense of unease. The poster released before the opening of the film Cloverfield produced by Paramount Pictures in 2008. This poster released to promote Cloverfield creates a sense of unease…

Misto Shoe Horn Sonata illustrates personal accounts of the protagonists Bridie and Sheilas time at war, and their suffering in imprisonment, something of which unknown and unpublished to the common public. Similarly Kegan Wilcox’s ”porcelain unicorn” depicts a countercultural German boy during World War II, exposing a virtually unknown group of people to the audience, a group opposed to the ideology of the Nazi regime by depicting the unnamed protagonist showing compassion towards a Jewish girl…

new genre. This raises the question of why are we so in love with scaring ourselves? What part of the unknown is desirable to the point where horror dominates the movie screen and books all around the world? One very likely explanation of this phenomena is that through horror and monsters people are able to face their fears head on. Like mentioned before, many people are scared of the unknown and stories like Frankenstein…

Illinois, Tarheels of North Carolina, and many other states too, still, none of them seem to be as renowned as Indiana’s, and for good reasons too. It also has quite a bit more acceptance than most. Many already know, but some must be considering the unknown reason of why Indiana people are called Hoosiers, and why it has such significance. What does it really mean to be an Indiana Hoosier? The term originated long ago. “Hoosier is the official demonym for a resident of the U.S. state of…

Violence, the word itself spikes fear into the unknown of what is to come. In Ethan Gilsdorf’s article “Why We Need Violent Video Games?” he expresses why he thinks we should keep violent video games. War, Crime, Terrorism all play a part of why the word “violence” gets the wrong point of view. In today’s modern America, violence is being labeled as a possible patsy of violent video games. “Call of Duty, Postal 2, and Thrill Kill” have all been labeled as one of the reasons why such violent…

Censorship has given the government the power to keep its citizens from the knowledge needed to rebel. Due to the destruction of books, newspapers, and all other forms of media; the citizens were shut out from any other way of living, making them harmless. This gave the government the freedom to do as they wished without interference from its citizens. With the power of the government overriding the power of society, the conformity of its citizens was guaranteed. “Having lived through the…

of a city of a country. Economic freedom is important for the citizens, because it develops the man’s environment. When the economic freedom is high, that means the citizens will earn a higher income. The unemployment will decrease with its rates, and it will bring a higher life expectations. In a county with economically free economy, people can own their own businesses without interference. It reduces the corruption between the citizens, and their incomes. There a lot of variety of consumer…

When did witnessing the good in others become a challenge that has lead death to become the only viable answer? The goal of a punishment is to learn and grow, yet the United States government and citizen believe death is an acceptable consequence. The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is the process by which convicted criminals are executed by a governing authority (Issitt1). The threat of the death penalty is prevalent when a person is convicted of treason, terrorism, murder,…