Windows

“Literature opens a dark window on the soul, revealing more about what is bad in human nature than what is good.” This quote means that literature tells more of the bad things that people do than the the good things. This is because it is more thrilling to read about the misfortunes of someone than an a characters regular life. This quote is proven true in the two works The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and in The Color Purple by Alice Walker. “Literature opens a dark window on the…

Bespoke Windows Blinds (BWB) manufacture blinds on a made-to-measure basis as per conform to a client’s specific windows and doors. The Pull inventory system will allow BWB to produce enough quality window blinds to fulfill a customer’s command, besides the process starts with the customer’s order. Moreover, it reduces leftovers of inventory and obviously…

Traditional crime stories have changed over time due to the values and changing contexts within different societies. The film ‘Rear Window’ composed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, America and the short detective story ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ in the novel ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1891, England illustrate how the values and changing contexts within a society contributes to the changing conventions of the genre of crime. Crime texts are valued and…

control or prevent crime in the community. The community members are key partners in crime prevention rather than the use of order-maintenance policing propagated by the Broken Windows Theory. In the 1980s, there was the rise of two policing approaches, namely the Community-based policing approach (CP) and the Broken Windows Theory (BW) that were conceptually related but functionally apart (McKee & Lewis, 2016). They are different in practice, but they both concur that the police should be…

‘Rear Window shows how easy it is to be deceived by appearances.’ Discuss. Hitchcock’s critically acclaimed thriller ‘Rear Window’ details the life of 1950s New York - where affluence, materialism and patriarchy were valued. The deceit that plagues the plot of the story, strips bare the constructed facades that underpin the film and as a result, highlights how easy it is to be deceived by appearances. Although innocent in nature, these facades act as the foundations for LB ‘jeff’ Jefferies’…

Fast food. Restourants in a city can tell a lot about country's culture. However, not only restaurants but also what represents the country also represents the culture such as movies. Movies is a great way to learn about American culture. The rear window movie is from 1950's . It is an Alfred Hitchcock film. Who is a director, his movie is vary masterious and very full of sspense. In this movie main character is a famous or well known photagrapher, but he has broken his leg, and he cant leave…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, there were many parallels between the two protagonists and the neighbors they observed through the window. Jeff seemed mostly in parallel with the newly married couple, which reflected his idea of marriage. In the first scene when he talked about not wanting to marry Lisa, the newlywed shuts down their blind, which to me indicated Jess shutting down the idea of marriage. As the story progresses and they open their blinds up, the new husband seems to look…

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a suspenseful thriller that keeps the viewer guessing up until the closing scenes of the movie. This movie is about a photographer named Jeff Jefferies (James Stewart) that is unfortunately confined to his apartment due to a broken leg. He spends his free time observing his neighbors out the rear window in his apartment. The only relief from voyeurism he has every day is when Stella (Thelma Ritter) the insurance company nurse comes over to massage his back and…

greatly affects culture change. In Malcolm Gladwell’s essay, “The Power of Context”, Gladwell suggests his theory that environment and surroundings affect people’s behavior by giving an example of New York City crime that happened in 1980’s, Broken Window theory, Law of the…

In Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Rear Window, he uses elements of film in a way that expresses to the audience what the character desires and the power relations that exist between them. In the sequence where Lisa and L.B. Jeffries have dinner from “21 Club,” their contradicting desires are expressed through these various elements. For example, Hitchcock uses framing, editing, and character positioning within the mise-en-scene to portray that Lisa desires Jeff but he doesn’t feel as strongly of her.…