All of the very base elements of horror are certainly still present inThe Shining. There is a villain‚ who (or that) is out to destroy someone (it is arguable whether the hotel wants to destroy Jack or his family‚ or both). There is certainly a supernatural element‚ made all the more intriguing by the mention of the Indian burial ground‚ and the ambiguous ghostly ending. Kubrick even alludes to the supernatural or ghost element through his use of cutting. When Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson) and Bill
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For the imaginary characters Laban had a connection with them since he developed the theatrical movement of body‚ effort‚ shape and space. Exploring different ways the actor can move around on stage and the way the actor spoke could also be altered by following Laban’s
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Stanley Kubrick’s cold and frightening "The Shining" challenges the mind. In the opening scene at a job interview‚ we meet Jack Torrance‚ a man who plans to live for the winter in solitude and isolation with his wife and son. He will be the caretaker of the snowbound Overlook Hotel. His employer warns that a former caretaker murdered his wife and two daughters‚ and committed suicide‚ but Jack told him: "You can rest assured‚ Mr. Ullman‚ that’s not gonna happen with me. And as far as my wife is concerned
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functions. -J. Smith and late explorers: The very first writer about America was Captain John Smith (1580-1631) with "First English Permanent Setting on the New Continent in Virginia". As an eternal dreamer‚ he mixed his own adventures (more or less imaginary) to his historical records. For example‚ in “The True Relation of Virginia” or in his “Description of New England”‚ he tells the story of the young Pocahontas‚ who nourished the American imagination until the 20th century (the story was picked up
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the wavelength. This is called dispersion; it causes the splitting of white light in prisms and rainbows‚ and chromatic aberration in lenses. In opaque media‚ the refractive index is a complex number: while the real part describes refraction‚ the imaginary part accounts for absorption. The concept of refractive index is widely used within the full electromagnetic spectrum‚ from x-rays to radio waves. It can also be used with wave phenomena other than light (e.g.‚ sound). In this case the speed of
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Falesa is presented as an ‘’imaginary paradise island’ ’However‚ it has a supernatural air as the windward side of the island is uninhabited and it is said to be haunted by witches who enchant men and turn them insane. Throughout this poetic and romantic description‚ Stevenson linked
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Yuanruo Xu Language Development March 15th‚ 2015 Culture and Language Whether language acquisition is a human instinct or not has been discussed by linguists for a long time. As human beings are able to respond and learn all kinds of language patterns that expose to them‚ and children can come up with their own language‚ it is obvious to say that language is a human instinct. However‚ children are not able to learn and master a language without being exposed to a normal language-speaking environment
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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi born novelist‚ who was a quiet and private man who once observed‚ “It is my ambition to be‚ as a private individual‚ abolished and voided from society.” Known for his distinctive voice and his evocative depictions of life in the American South‚ Nobel laureate William Faulkner is recognized as one of the most important authors of the twentieth century. The myth of Yoknapatawpha Yoknapatawpha is a fictional place created by
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Andrew Tucker Honors Thesis March 31‚ 2004 Fantasy: A World of Sunshine or Shadow Fantasy literature is an object of considerable controversy‚ but this controversy is not specifically or uniquely modern. Arguably‚ fantasy literature has been controversial since its very beginnings in Western Society‚ though I am by no means certain of when that is‚ nor is it the aim here to determine it. The controversy regarding fantasy stories exists mainly on two levels. The first‚ a concern regarding
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action. In an imaginary construction of a world inhabited by a single being‚ it is possible that the pursuit of morality is the same as the pursuit of self-interest in that what is good for the agent is the same as what is in the agent’s interests. Arguably‚ there could never arise an occasion when the agent ought not to pursue self-interest in favor of another morality‚ unless he produces an alternative ethical system in which he ought to renounce his values in favor of an imaginary self‚ or‚ other
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