William the Silent

best friends with a special person. His name was William. He had been there before for me whenever my silly young age relationship ended. Then, Unexpectedly in sixth grade I started riding his bus. We would talk and talk, and sometimes I didn’t even realize that we had stopped at the middle school to drop off the younger kids. Our conversations would go from our day before to our plans for the weekend. He made me forget about…

assassins lead them to conspire against Philip and ultimately kill him. To seek revenge William of Orange, Antonio Perez, Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake worked together to fabricate a plan to kill the King of Spain. One of the contributors of the king’s murder was William of Orange. He was a monarch of Scotland and Ireland. Also, he was a predecessor of the Catholic James II and ensured the primacy of the Protestant faith. However, William also had relations with King Philip II. Philip…

United States, specifically, mobilized, demanding a change for the betterment of our planet. The idea of preserving our environment is not something that is new by any means. In 1690, the colonial governor of Pennsylvania, William Penn, required that settlers in his area…

This is because most people understand the modern day movies easier than the older ones. This is true because you can hear what everyone is saying. Even if one did not see something, they heard what was said and would know what happened already. One does not have to see what happened to know that what the character said was funny. When one watches a silent comedy they have to make sure that they watch the whole movie because if they miss one part of the movie they will get lost with what is…

experiences and events faced in each generation. As authors Neil Howe and William Strauss explore in their study, “The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve” insight into how each generation has influenced the other with its new developments of values and perceptions is provided, thus ultimately giving reason to why marriage is conceptualized the way it is today. The GI Generation arrived after the Great Awakening in the nineteenth century, where they faced hardships of…

more likely people would want to watch to get away from their own life for a little while. Movies gave the world a new way to live in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s silent movies were the biggest thing to happen. In spite the fact that they are called silent movies they weren’t always necessarily silent. As said, “Silent Movies were accompanied by music that conveyed the drama and emotion of each scene. The music was played on a piano or an organ”(Alchin). Then it was known when you went to…

sign’s journey to the journey of Hollywood from the silent movies to the talkies and eventually turning into the massive media business (Gold). The work of Braudy does highlight the role of this simple construction, turning into an icon representing the progress of the American culture and development of the west, through the stories, which were before the construction came into being. The narrative regarding the American west before the time it came to the limelight and was engulfed by the…

motion picture industry began a shift into ‘talkies’ right before the Depression began, but the largest transition into sound took place during. Not many people in the industry were open to sound films at first, but the public was interested in hearing more than just music. As Kenneth MacGowan in “When the Talkies Came to Hollywood” states “the increase of sound-equipped theaters from under 9,000 at the end of 1929 to 13,000 two years later” shows how the industry quickly worked to incorporate…

excitement and craziness were happening both on and off screen. Soon the Hollywood community was soon surrounded by scandal after scandal thus effecting Hollywood’s reputation. Actor and filmmakers William Desmond Taylor was said to have died natural causes. However, the body was found dead with a bullet in his back and if that wasn’t suspicious soon Taylor’s secrets were revealed to the public thus effecting him and the people involved with his death. Then, Wallace Reid, a silent film actor was…

scientific evidence reinforces the cause of the storm of talkies. That is, dialogue conveys and augments the moods within the film, which directly influences audience’s perceptions. James O. Spearing once wrote in Now the Movies Go Back to Their School Days , “...when screen actors began to speak lines, the silent drama was attacked. Voices invaded its peculiar domain” (Spadoni 4). In the motion picture industry,…