Vera Miles

We’ve all experienced it before, the pursuit of forgotten memories; the tinge of helpless perplexity that stumps our consciousness, bothering us until our obstinacy relents to a shrug of the shoulders. Amy Herzog’s play, The Great God Pan, explores such sensations. Burgeoning playwright Amy Herzog attempts to illustrate this pursuit through the character Jamie, a potential victim of child molestation. This November, The Great God Pan opened at Davidson College’s Barber Theatre. Directed by Dr.…

Abuse, starvation, lice, dehydration, neglect. Cramped in a small room with others for months. The smells, the disease. You may think that a prison or even a slaughterhouse is being described, but no. These examples are common practice among slave ships travelling across the Middle Passage - that I witnessed while aboard - which transports not only goods but live human beings from the west coast of Africa. This deplorable action of overcrowding and harassment must be stopped from all ships…

moving hard because of the difficulty the troops faced to move in an orderly fashion and was extremely rough on the cavalry and artillery. Right after 5 am the Union second corps, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, drove back the Confederates nearly a mile. James Longstreet arrived to aid the Confederates helping the fighting to be even more intense than the first day of the battle. Unfortunately for James and many others, the smoke from the canons and guns along with the early morning fog, made…

HITCHCOCK’S FASHIONABLE WOMEN: A SIGN OF OPPRESSION OR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION? Female characters play important roles in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His films also show that he was conscious of the visual and symbolic impact of women’s fashions. His lead actresses are always well dressed and their outfits reflect various stereotypical images of women. This might be seen as an example of how cinematic depictions of fashion contribute to gender-based oppression in society. On the other hand…

Changing the Western Hero and Women The hero in the Western is as iconic as apple pie in America (Dirks, part 1). He represents the west and all its mystery. In, film the hero has been represented as the wholesome man with ethics and also the antihero starting in the late fifties with all his gruff and attitude. As Western films progressed, the hero became different. Film viewers were looking for a different kind of hero along with the changing times in America. In Gary Cooper’s character,…

a few thousand to several hundreds of thousands of light years across. 2. Astronomers, at the time this was released, believe that there are over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. 3. It is estimated that a light year is 5.88 trillion miles. 4. Galaxies come in three different main type shapes. There are spiral, elliptical, and irregular. 5. Spiral galaxies usually have a large flat disk… 6. Lenticular are similar to spiral galaxies except that there is no spiral structure and most…

Hernan Cortés set forth and claimed their land for god and king, he build a Settlement on the coat that he christened Villa Rica Della Vera Cruz, since they arrived on Good Friday, to What they believed is to be a vast and plentiful land. Once that was over, the Spanish Conquest had begun. Even though all of the odds were against the Spanish, they still managed to find the Aztec empire…

Name: ____Alby Karingada_______________ Period: ___A3___Date:____02/6/2015_____ Notes: • He was a Novelist • Author of uncle tom's cabin, o It was about a slave who is treated badly in 1852 o The book persuaded more northerners and other to be anti-slavery • Noticeable American abolitionist • He was a journalist and social reformer • As an editor of radical abolitionist newspaper o "the liberator" • He was one of the founders of the American anti-slavery society. • Free slave in South…

“Just as painting before it, cinema presents us with familiar images of visible reality- interiors, landscapes, human characters-arranged within a rectangular frame.” - Lev Manovich Films have become central dissemination of popular culture in and around the globe over the eons. They invite imagination and story- telling among all peoples and help to enlighten and enliven the audience beyond the boundaries of society and also open sometimes closed doors on…

The Stanley Hotel In the depths of Colorado’s Estes Valley, sits a grand hotel with a history greater than the eye can see from first look. Freelan Oscar Stanley stumbled upon this magnificent site when suffering from consumption. Even though Freelan and his wife Flora were from an East Coast society, they were willing to try and live a life in the valley. They had a private home, but agreed it was too small if they wished to have parties or guests, so they compromised to build a hotel. With its…