Slowly‚ I began seeing carved pumpkins‚ skeletons‚ and ghosts. It was time for Halloween. Hannah le Noir approached me with a gleam in her eyes and I knew she had a plan. “Let’s make our own costumes!” she blurted out. I questioned her by stating that we could just buy one from Walmart. “No no no no no—if we just buy it‚ then it would not be as meaningful. I want to create my own possessions and with the hard work I put in‚ something great will surely emerge‚” she strongly replied. On October 31st
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Study Guide Mesopotamia Hammurabi’s Code of Laws‚ this is the first known written law code Tigris and Euphrates rivers Mesopotamia means‚ “land between two rivers” Hebrews created monotheism and the Ten Commandments Social classes Men were the center of the family‚ women had few rights and were not allowed to attend school Invented the wheel‚ the plow‚ and bronze weapons. Also created measurements for time (60 sec) If you hurt someone in the same social class‚ then they can hurt you. (Eye
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Hammurabi’s Code of Law and the Hebrew Law have many differences and many similarities. They both have laws on marriage‚ farming‚ religion‚ equality‚ and many other things. Both of these codes of law showed that each civilization had order and some form of government. It also showed how two civilizations‚ that are so far apart‚ can still think so alike and that humanity learns from it’s mistakes by improving on them. Hammurabi had a nice view on how to keep things equal. He has the basic concept
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Is it Film Noir? Controversial topics are brought to the table when speaking of Hollywood film Sin City. The story line appears to be set in the 50s and follows three protagonist characters that are all linked through their femme fatal characters. The filming technique displayed brings rise to the question of whether the movie is film noir or not. Numerous characteristics found in other noir films are traced out in the motion picture. Sin City proves to be a modern take on film noir through scenery
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The Law Code of Hammurabi is the emblem of the Mesopotamian civilization. The high basalt stele erected by the king of Babylon in the 18th century BC is a work of art‚ history‚ and literature. As a king‚ one must be the epitome of a citizen but at the same time be “better” than everyone for the sake of appearance. The king guides all subjects in a seemingly infallible fashion that goes beyond their simplistic ways of thinking. The king is the one being that citizens pledge their allegiance and lives
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most of you love Hollywood crime dramas that incorporate heated relationships between main male and female characters. Rewind to the early 1940s through the late 1950s‚ add sharp black and white cinematography‚ and you’ve got Film Noir. Film Noir can be defined as film that conveys moral natures and real-life situations‚ usually dealing with crime‚ seductive women‚ and guilt‚ through dark lighting and shadows. Film Noir encompasses detectives‚ femme fatales‚ love‚ beautiful cinematography‚ and snappy
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Film Noir is a reflection of‚ and reaction to‚ the world within which it was created. With the majority of the films shot from mid-40s through to late 50s‚ Film Noir is a lens into the fears and values of that time and society. With the world coming to terms with the horror of what human did to human in World War II‚ the genre also had to deal with how the world at home had changed. We can see in the basic conventions of the genre these fears and realisations. Corrupt society‚ flawed men riddled
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painting depicts George Washington and workers on his plantation. (Wikimedia Commons) Buying and Selling Slaves Before the Civil War‚ nearly 4 million black slaves toiled in the American South. Modem scholars have assembled a great deal of evidence showing that few slaves accepted their lack of freedom or enjoyed life on the plantation. As one ex-slave put it‚ “No day dawns for the slave‚ nor is it looked for. It is all night — night forever.” For many‚ the long night of slavery only ended in
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Film Noir has been around for many years since the 1940’s and the 1950’s‚ during the war in America (Ricci 1). After those years they created films that were considered to be film noir‚ but they were named Neo-Noir. Neo-Noir films are post 1970 films‚ the thing that makes Neo Noir different from Film Noir is that Neo Noir films used modern technology that was unknown to Film noir films (“Difference between Noir and Neo Noir‚ 2016). There are many conventions a film has to have to be considered Film
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anti-hero. The anti-hero is also admired even though he utilizes shameful methods to achieve his goa. This is because he represents the good in a corrupt world However‚ this is not the case in Noir stories. According to Foster Hirsch in his book The dark side of the screen: film noir‚ the anti-hero in Noir films is best described as “a constant smoker and a heavy drinker‚ (…) usually though not always engaged in criminal detection‚ a cop or a gumshoe. Moving through the criminal underworld with a
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