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- 901: Analyzing Noir Films The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep
- ... the elevator cage bars depict those of bars in jail. During The Big Sleep, an extreme amount of shadowing constantly keeps the viewer wondering who's who. Also, translucency used on the windows of the house only allows the viewer to see a silhouette of the unidentified person on the other side of the window. Neither Marlowe nor the viewer know the mysterious person watching Marlowe through the windows. Keeping the ... viewer wonder why there are no other characters in the scene. In the noir film, The Maltese Falcon, several dark areas are visited. In one such scene, Sam gets a cab and goes to a house where Ms. O'Shaughnessy supposedly is held hostage and might be in danger. The very dark area sets the mood of trouble or of danger. This scene might also make the viewer wonder whether or ... Sleep, the majority of the major events take place during the night or during late afternoon and the rainy and dark weather only intensifies the atmosphere. In one scene, several men are outside of the house waiting to shoot Marlowe. The contrasting light scheme inside of the house makes the few objects that are lit stand out among the darker areas. The lighting helps to make the viewer see only ...
- 902: Social deterioration in "The Crucible"
- ... trying to excommunicate John Proctor, there were not enough people at church to do it. The people were getting misled so far as to leave a dagger stuck in the door of their minister's house: Tonight, when I open my door to leave my house_a dagger clattered to the ground...There is danger for me.(128) were Parris' exact words. With the conveyer of God fearing for his life there was no longer anyone but Abigail to lead the ... Lynn, and upon my signature?(85) said Danforth, describing the number of people that were in jail on charges of witchcraft. There were so many people executed that Hale commented there are orphans wandering from house to house; abandoned cattle bellow on the highroads, the stink of rotting crops hangs everywhere...(130) Salem was turning into a ghost town. With Abigail controlling the community, the church no longer getting the ...
- 903: Pygmalion My Fair Lady
- ... Mr. Higgins and observed whole ordeal with Eliza. Colonel and Higgins begin talking, when Higgins says that he could take Eliza and turn her into a duchess. Eliza takes this seriously and goes to Higgins house the day after. She is there to take lessons for her speech. Colonel Pickering offers to pay full expenses for Higgins to tun Eliza into a lady and pass her off as a duchess. Higgins ... After long, excruciating lessons, Eliza starts to get it and begins to talk in perfect English. Now, its time to try her newly learned skills. In the play, Higgins takes her to his mother’s house, while in the musical he takes her to the Ascot Races. Here they learn that she may speak perfectly, but she still can revert to her “flower girl” ways. This is where Freddy Eynsford-Hills ... because she speaks English so well. Professor Higgins won the bet. After they get home, Colonel Pickering and Higgins congratulate each other without a single thank you to Eliza. Eliza becomes furious and leaves the house to meet Freddy outside. She goes back to where she used to live, but nobody recognized her, so she went to Higgins’ mother’s house. Higgins went to his mother’s to find Eliza ...
- 904: Shiloh
- ... such as \\"... cooking unusual foods - tacos, lasagna, Bombay chicken.\\" She begins to work on her body, borrowing the idea from Leroy\\'s rehabilitation equipment, which would otherwise be collecting dust in a corner of the house somewhere. She begins to take writing classes to improve her mind, which further represents her need for change and something new. She has, in a sense, taken on the masculine role in the household since ... probably not be able to drive his rig again.\\" His truck \\"sits in the backyard, like a gigantic bird that has come home to roost.\\" are both symbolic of his coming home, lounging around the house, and not quite knowing what to do with himself. He tries putting together some crafts and models, as well as trying his hand at needlepoint. He doesn\\'t appear to possess any motivation, nor does ... a log cabin and had even sent away for the blueprints. \\"Ever since they were married, he has promised Norma Jean he would build her a new home one day.\\" Leroy believes that building that house would bring them closer together, but it is apparent throughout the story that Norma Jean wants nothing to do with the log cabin. Leroy\\'s life seems to be taking a turn for the ...
- 905: The Color Purple
- ... making pants and starts her own business. Celie finds out that her stepfather died and everything he had actually belonged to Celie's mother, she also finds out that she and Nettie were left the house and all the land. Celie eventually moves back home and become reacquainted with her husband and children. She discovers Mr. has changed a lot and she learns to care for him. Mr. soon asks her ... back home. Mr abuses and rapes Celie often, and Celie writes more often letters to GOD. And then Shug comes, she's an old girlfriend of Mr., she is ill and moves into Celie's house. Celie learns a lot of Shug and they become good friends. After Shug was cured, she went back to Memphis where she married a man. When Shug visits Celie again they find a box with ... the US Navy and it said the boat Nellie was one sank, Celie thought Nellie was dead. Later her husband comes back because he had seen his sins. Celie and her husband moved into a house she had inherited of her real father who died. And then some day a car stooped in front of Celie's house and Nettie got out. Celie and nellie are very glad to see ...
- 906: Bridging Technology And Academ
- ... the higher education community accommodates NITs. As the Clinton/Gore administration maintain, technological literacy is "…as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing and arithmetic" (White House, 1996). The RAND report, "Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy", (Glennan and Melmed, 1995 ) observes that, "Information technology is the fundamental underpinning of the science of structural re-engineering. It ... and the exchange of information among people and institutions around the world". Vice President Gore predicts that, "By the year 2000, sixty percent of the new jobs in America will require advanced technological skills" (White House, 1996). The Educational Technology Initiative (1996), of the Clinton/Gore administration proposes the community-wide participation of parents, teachers, business leaders and the higher education community to collaboratively build the social, financial and educational infrastructure ... government information that was previously unavailable geographically, or impossible to locate in a library not participating in the depository program. Research institutions such as the Urban Institute, Rand, and the University of Michigan gather and house information and data on a variety of sociological topics and issues. These data are gathered via numerous governmental, educational, organizational, or commercial sponsored interests. The General Social Survey (GSS), for example, is available on ...
- 907: Mysteries
- ... Bogart is also known to be nasty and mean; these habits include scratching, punching and pinching, and even in some cases snatching people up and carrying them away. These vicious ghouls can inhabit a church, house or graveyard, and even at times a cat or a dog. These are evil things but are usually put to an end by exorcism. On a somewhat humorous note, this terrif! ying creature, whom is ... sensational and controversial of an alleged diabolical presence, but took place not in a European chateau but in a suburban Long Island , New York."(Guiley 9) The Lutz family moved into the large Dutch colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue on December 16, 1975. The house was comparable to a palace, but was ironically available at the low price of eighty - thousand dollars; this cheap price was because of the murder that had taken place there approximately thirteen months before. ...
- 908: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... industry. During his presidency Teddy also aided striking labor workers, strengthened the Monroe Doctrine, ordered the construction of the Panama Canal, and arranged for the east and west wings to be added to the White House. After reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Roosevelt forced Congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act and the Food and Drugs Act. This incident alone places Roosevelt among the greatest contributors because of the countless ... he did. He did not always accomplish his goals, but when he did not it was not due to lack of effort.Roosevelt had five children whom he allowed to run amuck in the white house. Their antics earned them the nick name of “the white house gang.” In one incident Teddy found out that the children were planning an attack on the home so exhibiting his good wit he sent a message by way of the war department ordering them ...
- 909: Typical American By Gish Gen
- ... girl, his sister's friend and they lived together. Then the Americanization came. They did what other American families did: they watched TV, they read American newspapers, they bought a car and then a bargain house in the suburbs. They were happy to have their first baby, a girl. Theresa didn't mind, but Helen and Ralph were disappointed until they held her, and saw the way she nestled her plump ... affair with Ralph's wife. Even though Ralph perceived himself as an American, he could not understand the reason the bad things were happening to him. "In China, one lived in one's family's house. In America, one could always name whose house one was in; and to live in a house not one's own was to be less than a man." (Typical American, 283) In my opinion Ralph became what we can call a typical ...
- 910: David Copperfield
- ... secret agony of my soul. I felt my early hopes of growing up to be a learned and distinguished man, crushed in my breast." This directly relates to Dickens discussion of David in a wine house later in the novel. A couple of years later, Dickens attends school at the Wellington House Academy where he fell in love with Maria Beadnell but her father opposed the marriage and nothing became of it. David Copperfield is more of a biography of Dickens life made into fiction than of ... that he would never see her again. She dies soon afterward, and although they did not get along, David takes her death with much grief and sadness. Soon David sets off to Miss Betsey's house, an old friend, and again Dickens' description is brought out as David is described as being, "a dusty, sunburnt, half-clothed figure." The novel is gradually picks up flavor and humor as David's ...
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