Review of Tokyo Police Club’s album Champ – Sarah McKenzie skmck2@monash.edu.au Tokyo Police Club’s new album Champ is pretty damn adorable. I put it on in the car during a rare burst of winter sunlight a few weeks ago and for a few seconds I actually believed it was summer. This is the Ontario band’s second full length album‚ following Elephant Shell in 2008. Lead singer David Monks is only 23 but has produced an incredibly nostalgic album where he describes moments as if they were a lifetime
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The epic poem Beowulf which was written in pagan times‚ it is complete with many allusions to topics relating to the Christian faith that can be used as evidence of a Christian influence. For instance passages containing biblical history‚ displeasure with heathen ideas‚ and the mention of doctrines typically Christian can be found in the text of Beowulf. This is important because it will prove that a Beowulf was written by a Christian author to inform and entertain a Christian audience and also spread
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Syncretic Middle-Earth Bilbo Baggins’ adventure to the Lonely Mountain opens the doors to J. R. R. Tolkien’s vast Middle-Earth. Tolkien describes his intricate world with such exquisite detail from the mythic creatures occupying his heroes’ every turn‚ to the deep woods where their adventures seem to go awry. Tolkien’s characters experience from region to region the glamourous figures that cross through dense woods and winding rivers to guide them on their way‚ he excludes concrete religious deities
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Romanticism‚ commonly known as American romanticism‚ is writing in which feelings and intuition are valued over reason. It had a great influence over literature‚ music‚ and painting in the early eighteenth and well through the nineteenth centuries. It was commonly thought of as a trip into our imagination and could be written as stories‚ music‚ and paintings‚ but it was mainly found in poetry. In this essay‚ I will discuss the romantic qualities of “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving
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Cinematic Arts Personal Statement It has long been obvious to me that my personality is quite different from most people’s. My attention is drawn to places that others find uninteresting. And because I pride myself on expanding my knowledge of the world‚ science has always been one of my favorite subjects. I recently took a course called Bones‚ Stone and Human Evolution‚ about the origins of humanity. It became one of my most beloved courses. It is incredible to think about how all humans that live
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“Elements of Design in The Dark Knight” Mise-en-scene is a French term that refers to the staging and visual arrangement of a dramatic production. This includes such elements as scenery‚ properties‚ costume‚ lighting and the movement of the characters. In film making‚ the term is also used for the combination of all the elements in front of the camera (setting‚ lighting‚ acting‚ costume)‚ distinct from the camerawork and editing of the film. With regards to film‚ the director‚ production designer
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Citizen Kane‚ in what is considered by many to be the greatest film of all time‚ showcases the genius of Orson Welles and the talent of Gregg Toland with its remarkable scenes and performances‚ cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations in editing‚ photography and sound. In viewing the “Love Nest Confrontation” scene‚ Welles and Toland used a combination of different techniques that include deep focus cinematography and exotic camera angles to give the audience an in-depth view/perspective
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Through a variety of literary and cinematic techniques respectively‚ John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men and Sean Penn’s Into The Wild illustrate how the fulfilment of one’s life‚ and their pursuit of happiness‚ hinge upon friendship‚ dreams‚ and one’s attitude towards life and happiness in general. Steinbeck’s 1937 novella Of Mice And Men illustrates the importance of friendship and dreams in a context of hardship and economic downturn. This is done by using George and Lennie and their dream of landownership
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The d-and f-Block Elements POINTS TO BE REMEMBERED: --- The elements of periodic table belonging to group 3 to 12 are known as d-Block elements. The general electronic configuration of these elements is (n -1)d1-10 ns 1-2 d- Block elements are collectively known as Transition Elements because properties of these elements vary in between s-Block and p-Block elements. A transition element should have partially filled (n-1) d orbital. Group 12 elements i.e. Zn‚ Cd‚ Hg have
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finding element 43; A race that would earn honor to any scientist‚ in The disappearing spoon a book written about chemistry specifically the periodic table which most notified in Chapter 8 From physics to biology. In this chapter Kean opens it up by talking about the competition to finding element forty three great scientist such as Segre‚Pauling‚Glenn Seaborg and Al Ghiorso brought the hunt for the unknown element to a new level of sophistication.Many scientist searched for element 43 and
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