How the introduction of characters and the directional technique affect the response of the viewers The film Silence of the Lamb is a horror film directed by Jonathan Demme. It narrates the story of a young FBI recruit as she teams up with a bright but deadly psychopath to catch a brutal serial killer. What captures the attention of the audience is brilliance in the directional technique used for this film which hides disguises to fool the audience. At the surface, the film looks like a straight forward horror/mystery, but after watching it critically, the viewers see it as an intellectual look into the thinking of two serial killers with diverse perspectives. While the introduction of the characters and directional technique used in this film affects the response of the viewers by providing terrifying serial killers, they also offer the most academy-friendly horror movie to have graced on the screens. Films are similar to short stories or novels in that they tell a story. They often fall in different genres including thriller, horror, and science fiction, adventure, detective, historical or…
in between the wake review The author set the novel in between the wake of Hurricane Katrina and being hauled by the spectre of the Mississippi flood of 1927. The novels describe water as liberation and sometimes as part of the problem. For example, Mama had a rich cosmology of the spirits; she liked to call on a goddess of the ocean of salt water and honouring all the life-giving waters of the world. Also, Michael, who worked on the offshore oil rig he is seen apologizing to the water for taking a job which might contribute to the death of sea animals such as dolphins (59). The author used water in the story to show a feeling of loss, home, a family and the washing away of guilt. In the way that the story describes Lonnie vision while she battles her meth high. Water was used here to show the slow loss of her relationships with her family in a foreshadowed way. However, water is also used by characters like Richie to show a sense of connection to familiar…
literature revolving around the G.I. Bill, its efficiency, pros and cons Increased rates of unemployment, high survival rates, and a rising level or cases of traumas have led to a greater proportion of veterans experiencing mental health and other complications caused by exposure to blast injuries and combat incidents. However, most of them do not utilize the available traditional services for mental health and learning in higher institutions. The G.I. Bill refers to an education support program that is offered by the United States’ Department of Veteran Affairs to provide housing, tuition, and books, which encourage veterans to pursue education at different levels (Borsari et al., 2017, p.2). It provides learning assistance to veterans and enables them to utilize their capabilities after retiring from active military duties (Tinoco, 2015, p.28). As much as the Bill supports higher education, other researchers such as Rumery, Patel, and Richard (2018) suggest that there is little evidence to show that funding of veterans’ learning has an effect on their performance and overall educational outcomes. Therefore, there is a need to examine the value of…
The Life Span of a Fact The Life Span of a Fact espouses a detailed and extensive discussion between D’ Agata and His fact-checker –Fingal that delves into the thin line that exists between accuracy and truth in literacy and whether it is appropriate for an author or writer to substitute the two in literary nonfiction. In a conversation that began in 2005 following the suicide of a teenager in Las Vegas, D’Agata’ s essay presented to the Harper’s magazine was rejected because it had inconsistencies in the presentation of facts. However, the Believer magazine tasked an intern to fact check the essay written to determine what was true and false and from that engagement between D’Agata and Fingal, the original essay and annotations of the fact-checker are presented as part of the book. The book centers on the relationship between truth and literature, especially given the fact that some essayists contend that nonfiction characterization and storyline should be based on a gray area between poetry and prose and not necessarily on truth. The significant assertion by the book is…
Grant proposal Most organizations support projects that have no conflict with their mission and values. My project is aimed at helping the community and contributing to the field of healthcare. Based on my analysis, My project fits the criteria for potential funding. To win a grant, the funder must be convinced that they are funding the right project. This means that the project done must prove to be essential, vital, and essential to the community. I think the project will bring change to the healthcare sector and will have convincing power to the funders and meets the criteria for potential funding. The problem statement is clearly explaining the benefit of the project and how the solution is to be implemented, and this might make a difference in other projects. The funders want an assurance that the project has the capacity to meet all the deliverables through execution while meeting all legal, quality, and safety obligations. My project has tangible results, which is a requirement for potential funding. Writing a grant proposal requires defined fundraising goals, cost estimation, and a timeline…
Does Lust Prejudice from first Impressions Ruin the Characters Chances of Love? Introduction It is somewhat accepted wisdom that virtually every normal man, whether blessed with economic fortunes or not, at some point in life, must be in search of a woman for a wife. The social configuration in our societies gets made in a way that men who are economically stable or who are, to a greater extent making good fortunes, get preferred as suitable individuals to marry someone’s daughter. Whether, at first, it is love, or not, that is not a carefully thought social, moral discourse. With all fairness, the only valid argument is that every parent will want his or her daughter to be happily married to a man who can guarantee her good life. The tragedy, however, is that societies get skewed in defining how and what ought to be a happy marriage. In this case, in most cultures, happy marriage is mainly described in economic spheres, the innate human heart-the fountains of love get given a wide berth. In this paper, I will present a…
analysis of the television drama series “Scandal” McClearen, Jennifer. “Gladiator in a Suit?: Scandal’s Olivia Pope and the Post-Identity Regulation of Physical Agency.” Feminist Erasures. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015. 150-163. This article by Jennifer McClearen is an analysis of the television drama series “Scandal”. The main argument in this article is the use of African American heroine with considerable political power in a television drama series. The article analysis the issue of black feminism as portrayed in the TV show. It also discusses politics as depicted in the show. The author also discusses the issues of physical agency, which is the ability of a person to protect and defend their body mentally, physically and emotionally. This article is relevant to my research as its central theme of gender, sexism and racism addresses my research topic. The author of this article, Jenifer McClearen, is an Assistant Professor of Sports, Media, and Culture at the University of Texas. She has a vast experience in writing scholarly works mainly in the areas of gender, race, and sexuality. She also teaches students how to…
Analysis of the relationship between eco imagination and eco-philosophy. Literature has been used as a lens to magnify issues within the society and environment at large. Literary writers such as Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott use poetry to symbolize the effects left behind by colonialism. Walcott alludes to the tourism taking place as a form of oppression that leads to environmental degradation. Colonialists, through capitalism, want to erect tourist attractions such as malls that are a modern way of separating them from what is rightfully their own, their land, roots, and home. Val Plumwood’s androcentrism and anthropocentrism expose the masculinity within the environment with a more significant detailed look into feminist theories that lay focus on the plight of all women and how androcentrism not only affects them but the environment as well. Through both excellent positionings of this literature, the critique of ecocriticism and evaluation of other centrism can emphasize the importance and foundation of eco-philosophy. Synoptic accounts of text. Val Plumwood’s critique of androcentrism and anthropocentrism only asserts the foundations of ecofeminism, which stems from the comprehension that…
Analyzing the Themes of Power and Authority from King Lear Power and authority are addictive, and when a person loses hold of them, adapting to the ordinary environment becomes hard. William Shakespeare, in his play, King Lear, demonstrates how power and authority can blind a person to make thoughtless decisions. In the tragedy, King Lear decides to hand over leadership powers to his daughters. However, he demands that the daughters confess their love for him. When Lear notices that Cordelia, whom he also loves the most, dos do not reciprocate the same in words, he rushes to divide the power between Goneril and Regan. Therefore, the rushed decision by Lear when handing powers and authority shows that emotions can cause a person to make irrational decisions. When King Lear decides to hand powers, he disregards the right procedure and follows emotions. He coerces the daughters to confess their love for him in order to get a share of his power, which is a misuse of his powers. Goneril and Regan lie to their father that they love him a…
Centered and Capitalized Level 1 Heading: Bold, Flush Left, Capitalized American Romanticism was a literary, artistic and intellectual movement that began in Europe in eighteenth century. It was at a peak between 1800 to 1840 and declined towards the rise of realism. Some great writers who wrote during the American romantic period include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. American Romantic literature was characterized by imagination, individuality, supernatural element, nature as a source of wisdom, spirituality viewing man as a hero, emotions, among other attributes. Writers during this period acknowledged that good literature should have a heart but not rules. “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “Thanatopsis” contain some of the elements mentioned above. Imagination has used in “The Devil and Tom Walker”. The industrial revolution brought much progress, but it negatively affected people, and they wanted to escape. The writers, therefore, used escapism as a tool of bringing forth imagination. Escapism is where the mind allows an individual to move from a harsh environment to a better one. The writers develop imagery for these…