Wire

Aircraft technology has been constantly under refinement since the first successful flight. Fly-by-wire is the complete replacement of the mechanical linkages between the pilot's stick and the control surface actuators by electrical signal wires, which offers a convenient and logical solution to many of the control system problems associated with modern high performance aircraft and aerospace vehicles. However, there exists a strong reluctance on the part of both pilots and flight control system…

Petit and his plan to wire walk without a safety harness between the twin towers with the help of his team. The documentary Man on Wire (2008), directed by James Marsh, contains the same storyline as the film, however, it differs from it as the two are different types of texts. Man on Wire and The Walk make use of their characters in contrasting ways. Similarly, the structure of the documentary and the film also varies. Nevertheless, music is used in a similar way between Man on Wire and The…

Never will words be able to do justice to the torture, sadness, and pure loss of hope experienced within the barbed wire fences of concentration camps. Primo Levi’s recount of his time as a prisoner is the closest anyone on the outside will ever come to truly being able to understand it without experiencing the imprisonment first hand. Human beings were destroyed in these camps; deprived of their humanity and minimized to just a number. The Nazi Regime stripped these people of their past,…

In the Article titled “No, it relies on clichés about blacks and drugs” by Ishmael Reed he states how he thinks The wire should not be played in college level classrooms. How by teaching The Wire it creates a situation of “tough love” for “the black underclass” Ishmael, R. (2010) that spawn some mean and degrading comments about the black population. His reasoning behind it is he that believes it depicts…

I thought this was supposed to be a hour ride and it's been four hours. It was the third day of summer and Ozzy had been placed on the bus that went to Lorenzo's summer camp for the troubled youth, their mother thinking it was the better option they had received in court. Ozzy wasn't a bad kid, he was just born into a bad neighborhood and coming from a single parent home didn't help the cause much either. It was three hours later when the two boys had arrived to shouting counselors who look like…

Between the years of 1914 to 1918, approaching 1 million British soldiers gave up their lives fighting for King and country (greatwar.co.uk). Wilfred Owens, one of the greater known first world war poets, was one of these. He died at the age of twenty-five, only a week away from armistice, leaving behind approaching 100 poems. Despite his early death, Owen’s poetry has immortalized him, passing to future generations both his experience and sentiments regarding the first world war. Like many at…

The world and is not a fair place. This is true in both nature and society, as both have fortunate and unfortunate sides. This is clearly evident throughout the different accounts of people's experiences in the novel “Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border” by Luis Alberto Urrea. The situations in Urrea’s book cover the many different aspects of poverty, immigration, and life where there are uneven distributions of wealth and economic power. It also covers the different…

“happily ever-after” with their son and their domestic workers, but because of the social climate around them they are constantly under threat of violence and theft and their happy ending is ultimately destroyed when their son gets caught in the barbed wire fence that secures their house. In the attempt to protect their happiness, the parents fail to neglect their own…

“I knew you could do it” is what he said when I won my first cross country meet. He bet me that if I finished first out of all the middle school girls, he would give me 20 dollars. I was feeling doubtful when he first mentioned the bet, but I still tried my best. As I was running the only voice I paid any attention to was his. “Come on Makenna, you can do it!” he shouted. I was determined to get first and make him proud. Once I crossed the finished line the lady handed me a popsicle stick with…

Man on Wire is a documentary/ biography directed by James Marsh and starring Phillippe Petit. The documentary is over a Frenchmen (Phillippe Petit) that had a strange obsession and interest in tightrope walking. He started out tightrope walking just in his backyard; he built building like situations with a wire in between to get the actual feel of tightrope walking. Phillippe Petit was born in 1949 in Nemours, France, at the age of sixteen is when he discovered his passion for hire wire and…