Annotated Bibliography McCarthy‚ Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf‚ 2006. Print. The Road is set in a grim atmosphere. It is after apocalypse world where all signs of life are extinct. People and animals are starving‚ and predatory groups of savages wander around with pieces of human bodies stuck in their teeth. It is both oppressive and disheartening. McCarthy sets an atmosphere like one mediately after the world wars. It is not far-fetched to imagine the possibility of such a sad environment
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Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘Psycho’ is a work of classic cinema but still impresses and enthralls modern audiences in suspense‚ unlike other older thrillers. Alfred achieved popularity in the film‚ even after 50 years because of the distinctiveness and greatness of the film. Psycho is a perfectly balanced psychological thriller due to its equal parts of horror‚ thrills‚ suspense‚ blood and plot twists. The thriller doesn’t include cheap thrills‚ instead relies exclusively on story‚ script‚ direction
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a mystery and thriller that leaves audiences in a constant state of suspense. Rear Window opens by showing photographs of high risk environments hanging on a wall of an apartment. This leads one to believe that whoever owns the apartment lives a high risk and adventurous life. However‚ once the broken camera is shown‚ it is understood that the main character‚ L.B Jefferies‚ is a photographer before it is stated through dialogue in the film. Early into the film we
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The poem “Holocaust” by Alfred Hutchison is one of the more well-known piece of literature about living through the horrendous event and witnessing people die right in front of his eyes. To fully understand the overall theme and message behind this art‚ we must seek for other historical events that were happening doing the time this poem was published and the state in which society was currently living in. Acknowledging these key puzzle pieces will surely help the reader have a complete understanding
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation‚ the first constitution of the United States‚ on November 15‚ 1777. However‚ ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1‚ 1781. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak government‚ leaving most of the power within the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention
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Alfred Binet was a French Psychologist who was born in Nice on July 8‚ 1857. His father was a physician and his mother was an artist. Before becoming involved in the testing of cognitive abilities graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and soon became a lawyer. Binet’s father wanted him to become involved in the medical field‚ but Alfred decided not to. While Binet was young he wasn’t extraordinarily brilliant‚ but he still had the willingness to work as hard as possible. Due to the wealth
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Vertigo: A Catalyst of the Cult Movie Following Famously known as the “best movie of all time”‚ (6) Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo elicits a dumbfounded reaction to the first-time viewer. Surprisingly shocking‚ through plot and production‚ Vertigo tells the story of a discharged detective and his obsessive pursuit of a young woman who he is contracted to investigate on the orders from an old college friend. However‚ to the second‚ or third‚ or twentieth time viewer‚ Vertigo serves as a shrine to Hitchcock’s
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Of course Alfred Hitchcock was a misogynist‚ or at least had a neurotic compulsion to mistreat women in his films: everyone knows that. Or do they? If so‚ one must assume also that most of his heroines were masochistic‚ in that nearly all his leading actresses seem to have adored him. And if there was mistreatment‚ it mostly seems to have been meted out‚ and perceived by its apparent victims‚ as all in the spirit of innocent merriment. Ivor Montagu‚ longtime friend and script collaborator of Hitch
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In addition‚ another subconsciously aware character in the poem “The Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock” written by T.S. Eliot depicts a worrisome older man‚ contemplating his life letting his insecurities restrict him from living. The heroine in “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” Prufrock‚ his call to adventure begins when he decides to open up the subconscious to see and understand what it is that makes us human. The opening line of the poem haunting and eerie‚ “Let us go then‚ you and I /When the
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In Alfred Lubrano’s The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts‚ the conception that college alters the bond between past and present is heavily implied. Lubrano discusses how change occurs within thoughts‚ familial ties‚ peer interactions‚ and socioeconomic status. The author takes advantage of numerous techniques including anecdotes‚ contrasts‚ and inductive reasoning in order to explain the change occurring due to the pursuit of knowledge. Lubrano’s whole essay is a collection of personal anecdotes
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