Train robbery

Thomas Drake Jr. LIT 106 Professor Edward Kihn Short Paper Response Assignment 1 Question 1 Characterize some of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema (5%): The characteristics of the major changes from filmed “actualities” to early narrative cinema began in the early 1900’s. An actuality film is a non-fiction film portraying footage through a real event. A narrative cinema was a fictional film presenting the audience a story. The audience’s attention…

clever and successful "Gentleman Bandit" who continually eluded police both in the United States and Canada. On September 10, 1904, Miner and two accomplices, later identified as William "Shorty" Dunn and Louis Colquhoun, were involved in the first train robbery in Canada (Royal Canadian…np).” The RCMP earned the respect in British Columbia after the successful capture of career criminal Bill Miner, also known as “The Gentleman Bandit”. At the age of sixty-seven Bill Miner died of natural causes…

On a casual Monday afternoon, a robbery took place on the Sun Street Avenue. There were jewelry and gems stolen from a collector. Detective William Ruthson and his partner George Fatherhens decided to inspect the collectors home. George had found a footprint by the backdoor and a ring found in the backyard. “I think I found something” said George. William Ruthson walks over. William says “I believe so. Let's bring this the DNA lab.” DNA was found on the ring which lead to the name Robert Frank.…

because they’re defiant. Nor do they attempt to pass through these danger zones because they’re reckless. They do it because they’re left with no other option.” (pg. 8). Once again we can go back, to The Beast, when Martinez writes they believe the robberies and assaults are the inevitable tolls of the road, which gives these migrants some sort of justification to get to the…

love? Contradictions aside, Bonnie and Clyde is a well-known biographical-romance story that depicts the lives of Bonnie and Clyde and their various robberies and outrageous adoration for one another. At a young age, Bonnie and Clyde met and fell in love instantly. Fascinated with delinquency, they proceeded to live out a life of crime, committing robberies and numerous acts of murder. Alas, their crime-spree and romantics came to a halt when law enforcement ambushed them, resulting in the gory…

the codes when I do not rehearse it. Another example will be when I am having a debate to get a point across to someone, I have the tendency to rephrase it and repeat my point in my head whenever I had to wait for my turn to speak in case I lost my train of…

thoughts about itself. Like the films, the nation was fraught with conflict for what ideals it should stand for. As time went on the Western took on other themes that were coming to the forefront in the nation’s identity. Films like The Great Train Robbery, depicted good over bad, basic values that were evident. Others that came after it were also illustrating “much about America’s past, glorifying the past-fading values and aspirations of the mythical by-gone age of the West” (Dirks Part 1).…

department (“Community Policing May Not Reduce Crime”, 2016). A 2006 study concluded that hiring more officers to meet the requirements of community policing reduced robbery rates .01 percent (“Introduction to Community Policing…,” 2016). Would such a small change be worth the millions of dollars in taxpayers money to hire and train these…

In recent years since I’ve been learning about Japan and the Japanese culture in general, I’ve come to learn that a good amount of people seems to think Japan is some unsafe place where serial rapes, train-molestation, and kidnapping happen frequently. Where the Yakuza runs rampant and that it is just a big country of debauchery. Usually after people claim to be an expert on the crime rate and what crimes actually happen in other countries, it usually comes with steaking the claim that America…

The Westerns The Genre As a Whole I will be researching how old style westerns have influenced modern day superhero movies from their editing, writing, and their aesthetic appeal. I will be going through the history of westerns as well as discussing what makes a western a western, how they’ve changed through the years, and why they’re still relevant. I will then talk about superhero films and how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them…