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Cities of San Pedro and Torrance The city of San Pedro is a coastal community located in the city of Los Angeles, covering 12.046 square miles. It is port city that is neighbors to the cities of Long Beach and Wilmington to its East, Harbor City to its North, and Ranchos Palos Verdes and Lomita to its West. Housing a portion of the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, is known as a blue collar town. With consideration to national averages the city of San Pedro is considerably high in both violent and property crimes. The scales are set on a range of 1 to 100, with 100 being the most crime, and San Pedro 's property crime coming in at 79.9 (national average 41.4) and violent crime is set at 74.7 (national average 43.5). Torrance is also coastal…

Unbroken Unbroken is a movie that was directed by Angelina Jolie, and is about a famous Olympic runner that is in the United States Air Force and while flying a mission his plane goes down. Louis Zamperini and his friends spent forty-seven days in a raft before being picked up by a Japanese Navy vessel and then becoming a prisoner of war. The movie was released in Sydney on November 17, 2014. The movie later released in the United States on December 25, 2014. The ticket sales were successful…

Jack Torrance is obsessed with his frustrations as his alcoholism and violent tendencies destroy his teaching career and his family. Initially, King insists that Jack is responsible for the impending demise of his life and family but The Shining becomes ambivalent and almost cryptic on the subject of who to blame. Jack becomes an alcoholic at high school under the stress of the abuse inflicted by his father on him and his family. Anyways, for King, Jack’s weaknesses are easy access into his…

The symbols employed by King in relation to Poe’s literary work of 1842 were the coloring of the black and red, western-most room, signifying death (in King’s work, the western trek to the formidable Overlook Hotel was an invitation of death to the Torrance family); the avoidance of death in the case of both Poe’s party-goers and King’s Danny and Wendy Torrance; the respective clocks striking midnight, and the mortal significance of this. The presence and influence of religion is also clear in…

The novel ended in fire, but the movie ended in ice. One of the better known symbols in The Shining novel is the boiler that Jack Torrance has to keep cooled down to prevent it from exploding. In the movie, the boiler is not mentioned, but the hedge maze filled with snow is a setting from time to time. The explosion that sets the hotel on fire, in the book, was a foreseen consequence for Jack’s negligence to take care of it. However, when he attacks his son and wife and chases them into the…

Building Tension in The Shining by Tyler Johnson Chesapeake College The Shining (1980) is a horror-drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. The hotel is home to evil spirits that manipulate the father, Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), into a violent state. His psychic son (Danny Lloyd)…

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…

new land, a young America stretched its borders into the West. While colonizing, white males believed that they were superior to the native peoples inhabiting the territory, and slaughtered hundreds of them to take over their lands. It’s been believed since those turbulent times in the colonial days of the United States that Native American burial grounds have the capability to kill those who stumble across them due to antiquated native rituals. A similar idea was represented by King, who…

his tricycle on rugs which, sounds like an almost muted, hidden and restrained, the sound of him rolling across the narrow hallway; this impacts the viewer's sense of anticipation through confined space like a small hallway. The sound is only one of the elements that make this scene such a classic through its score, and its sound effects create anticipation and terror. In conclusion, the “Danny’s tricycle” uses several technical film elements like camera angles and sound to create…

No Escape The Shining is based off a novel written by Stephen King in 1977 and later produced as a horror film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The summary of the film is of a family that heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Kubrick takes the study called phenomenology, which is the development of human consciousness and self-awareness as a…