Film noir is a genre of cinematic film marked by a menacing‚ fatalistic tone that is achieved through characteristics such as infinite‚ unbroken darkness. Cyberpunk‚ conversely‚ is a genre of science fiction‚ set in a society that is tyrannised by the advancement of computer technology. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner‚ a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s original science fiction novel‚ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? combines certain cyberpunk and film noir conventions to achieve a metropolis
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A Means of Existence How do experiences‚ good or bad‚ shape the identity of an individual and make them stand apart from others? In the award winning novel A Complicated Kindness‚ by Miriam Toews and the classic best seller Anne of Green Gables‚ by L.M Montgomery‚ the struggle and desire to find personal identity is profound. Through a series of experiences‚ the main characters in each novel‚ one a rebellious Mennonite and the other a red headed orphan‚ are forced to look within themselves and realize
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Garber 1 Dylan Garber Ms. Ursula Misztal The Contemporary Short Story May 6th‚ 2013 How Banana Yoshimoto Brings The Unconscious to Life in “Newlywed” and “Helix” Banana Yoshimoto effectively portrays various common themes and motifs in both “Helix” and “Newlywed”‚ in revealing the subconscious state of mind of the respective protagonists. Although the storylines are quite different‚ we get the feeling that many themes and strategies such as isolation‚ incredible poetic effect‚ and the recurring
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Inferno The poem Inferno is about a man who has “lost the path that does not stray” (Inferno‚ Canto I‚ line 3) where “the path” represents the path to Heaven. Dante‚ having strayed from the path‚ is in danger of being sent to Hell. When Beatrice‚ whom Dante loved before her early death‚ finds out that Dante has strayed she becomes worried that he will not be able to join her in Heaven. Beatrice wants to help Dante find God again‚ but because she is an angel
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Shoes have always been something that women want to go shopping for. Over the latter part of this century‚ it has become more likely for women to buy many shoes because of the growing diversity of shoe fashion. Shoe manufacturers have taken advantage of this growing diversity to create as many types of shoes as they can. Ladies shoes can be classified into three categories: cheap shoes‚ moderately priced shoes‚ and expensive shoes. The first types of ladies shoes are the cheap shoes. First
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Between 3500-500 BCE‚ Mesopotamia and Egypt were both seen as major civilization. Although they are both ancient river civilizations and have many similarities‚ there are multiple differences between their religion‚ social structure‚ and political systems. Three similarities between Mesopotamia‚ and Egypt is that they were both patriarchal societies‚ both had written languages‚ and had education. They are both patriarchal societies as evidenced by Egypt having Pharaohs and Mesopotamia having Kings
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In William Shakespeare’s two most popular works of art‚ Macbeth and Hamlet‚ several parts of the plays are similar. These two plays can be compared easily because Shakespeare used the same formula for each of his tragedies. These tragedies consisted of deeper concepts of the natural struggles that face mankind. The tragedies use supernatural incidents to intrigue the reader’s interest and included in the play is a hero who has a tragic flaw‚ which eventually causes him to make a fatal mistake. Throughout
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña painted a landscape called Forest Pool in 1862‚ and Georgia O’Keeffe painted a landscape called Pink Moon Over Water in 1924. These painters from two different countries and periods in time each had a similar goal in mind: to express themselves in their work. Through their use of composition‚ color‚ light and space the artists convey to the viewer a sense of their time through the values their paintings depict; Diaz’s emphasis is placed on the imagination and emotions
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William Shakespeare’s “King Richard III”‚ an Elizabethan play written as a piece of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence
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A Matter of Taste is about two alien races‚ spider and human‚ and their differences. Humans arrived on an uncharted planet‚ possibly looking for resources‚ when they encounter the spiders. The spiders showed no sign of threat‚ but in the end the human killed the spider out of fear. The Cask of Amontillado is about two men‚ Fortunato and Montresor. Montresor is vengeful against Fortunato for humiliation he he caused him in the past. Montresor plots the perfect plan to execute his revenge‚ making Fortunato
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