V/Line

Implied lines are lines disguised through the use strokes, colors, values or shapes that usually help direct the eye when looking at an artwork. Directional lines are a type of implied lines that draws attention or point to the focus of a painting, there many types of directional lines that represent different meanings. In The Death of Socrates, implied lines are apparent throughout the whole painting, the outlines that separates the figures (the people) from the background can be considered…

Inspector Finch (Stephen Rea) is the V for Vendetta’s “moral center”, partially because of the way he “voices [the film’s] most crucial ideas, including the central question of whether we would even want to know if our government caused the deaths of thousands of its own citizens to create the kind of fear that would lead the populace to elect a new administration” (272). For a character to be a film’s moral center, their views and actions would have to be in line with those of the audience,…

While older than The Dark Knight, the movie V for Vendetta takes a step out of stereotypical villain and moves toward the Anti-Hero archetype. Enter a world beset by chaos which was overcome by the restrictive and controlling government installed by a Chancellor Sutler. At start of the movie the…

necessary to take justice into one's own hands. Such is the case of Edmond Dantes in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and V in "V for Vendetta", once honest and good men consumed by pain, disappointment, and hate who engage in a vendetta against those who destroyed their life. The success of both characters' revenge is achieved differently because V destroys and Dantes exposes. Dantes and V come from different worlds. Dantes lives in France between 1815 and 1839. He is a sailor that in one of…

When one is confronted with a reality they cannot accept the natural reaction is to run away from it until there is nowhere to run .The dystopian works of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and V for Vendetta by James McTeigue both use violence, brute force, psychological and physical torture to reveal that individuals will run away from reality until they are forced to confront it and this in turn causes them to grow as an individual. In the novel The Road the boy is confronted with the reality that…

George Orwell and the film V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, totalitarian regimes are depicted in very similar ways but with different messages. Within 1984, Orwell presents totalitarian regimes as unbeatable, controlling bodies of power that brainwash the common man and bend him/her to their will. Similarly, within V for Vendetta, Moore presents the totalitarian regime as a monstrous, fear-inducing body of power that will do whatever it takes to achieve complete control. V for Vendetta and 1984,…

into four hundred and ninety dollars. He did this by looking at the total cost it took to manufacture and minimized it again and again. This is known as total cost minimization. He invented new ways of going about the production process, the assembly line being what he spent most of his time on. The work of Henry Ford very close to perfect total cost minimization. As an engineer, it is important to be able to reduce the cost whenever possible to maximize efficiency. Throughout the past decades…

In this highly competitive world, the demand for jobs constantly grow along with the demand for new merchandise such as phones, gadgets, and toys. It used to be a matter of going to the store and purchasing the new hottest item, but now, more and more people are starting to think about the hands that make it. The thriving Chinese population is responsible for a large portion of modern commodities. While it is beneficial that many people can find jobs in factories, the conditions that they must…

Film Review: The Global Assembly Line The World economy has experienced distinct phases over time, yet one of the most important and revolutionary systems has been capitalism. Capitalism can be defined as a socio-economic system motivated by profit and labor power, focused on the exploitation of the labor force. Beginning in the 19th century, competitive capitalism introduced the idea of reducing wage rates and different forms of production. Then came the era of organized capitalism, also…

on the assembly line became the key to productivity (Alizon, 2009). The high levels of productivity, reaching 1.8 Million vehicles produced in 1923 saw large net profits for Ford, this saw the pay rate for unskilled labour increase, becoming one of the highest paid labour jobs in the country. This business model spread quickly and adapted by many manufacturing organizations across America, hiring employees for repetitive and unskilled labour practises, commonly used on assembly line production.…