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    Horror Conventions Essay

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    The typical convention of horror‚ specifically using the colour white‚ is shown in the typography. The colour white connotes the image of ghosts‚ spectral beings that haunt their victims. This connotation gives the audience the feeling of the ghost is gazing at the audience through the DVD cover through the blurry effect and the filter applied to bulge the text giving the text a spectral presence. This is also seen in the film “Entity” with the bold typography and a white figure in the background

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    Essay Number 3 I was the oldest delegate in the Philadelphia Convention. Other than George Washington I was the best man in America. I was born into a poor family and became an inventor‚ scientist‚ diplomat and publisher. My career in public service was long‚ I serviced as an ambassador to England and France and I was also a Governor of Pennsylvania. I was a compromiser‚ I brought delegates together. I favored the strong national government that the United States had‚ I was a firm believer that

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    Casino Royale Conventions

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    How does Martin Campbell‚ director of ‘Casino Royale’‚ engage a modern audience through his use of the conventions of the Bond genre? “Shaken’ not stirred”. This is one of the most famous quotes in movie history from the ever so inspiring Ian Fleming. The unexpected massive franchise started in 1953 when Ian Fleming wrote his first book… “Casino Royale." The books became popular at a reasonably paced rate and then Fleming had a movie on his hands. In 1962 it came out. It wasn’t “Casino Royale”

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    Hotel Impaler Conventions

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    alongside entertain the audience. Therefore‚ comedy is the main genre in the film Hotel Transylvania‚ because the intended audience is children. Some horror conventions used in this film include setting‚ characters‚ plot and ideas. The composer is trying to convey the message that in the film Hotel Transylvania‚ the setting is a convention of horror. In the opening scene‚ an image of a hotel was shown. It was set in a dark‚ deserted place with many isolated leafless trees.

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    Adeleine Dauray Ms. Nadler English 12 February 5‚ 2017 The conventions of the Gothic that we have talked about so far this year are things such as masks‚ pointed architecture‚ the supernatural‚ haunted spaces‚ and young girls who are innocent and weak. A specific TV series on Netflix comes to my mind when I hear of gothic conventions: The Vampire Diaries. The Vampire Diaries is very much about the supernatural. The main character‚ Elena‚ is a young teenager who lost both of her parents in a

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    is one that a qualified reader would say is a good poem and the second is one a qualified reader would call a bad poem. The second poem possesses one of the three varieties of inferior poetry. Alternatively‚ “Death is a Dialogue” possesses poetic devices that establish it as a superior work of literature. First‚ both poems have a similar central purpose. In “Death is a Dialogue”‚ the central purpose is to convey a perspective about the spirit and the afterlife. In “If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking”

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    Storage Devices

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    Video 1.06 Storage Devices Hard Drives Hard drives are comprised of platters Read/Write heads for each platter Read and write on top and bottom of platter Never exposed to magnets Data loss may occur 137 GB Limit Hard Drive size limited to 137GB Not a physical limit Limited by address the system can support 28 bit communications limited to 268‚435‚555 addresses equates to 137 GB Flash BIOS to upgrade hard drive interfaces PATA‚ SATA‚ SCSI‚ USB‚ and FireWire most common is the

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    the plot. The most popular used metaphor of describing realist novels is ‘the mirror of reality’. Readers see reality in novels through certain conventions‚ namely the tools of narration‚ for example third person omniscient narrator‚ this kind of narrator is sort of God-like‚ all-knowing narrator. It also should be objective and invisible. Nest convention is how characters are described‚ namely as round characters‚ more complexity is shown. Also language used in novels is a specific one‚ there are

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    Gangster Film Conventions

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    The production we are creating involves lots of murder as everyone dies in the end. Power and authority is convention in Gangster films and the film we are producing involves this as there is a leader in both gangs and their trusty allies. Another convention of the Gangster genre would be the use of wealth such as suits and expensive cars. Wealth is also used as a way of making a gangster lifestyle more appealing to the Spector‚ which

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    Prosthetic Devices

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    Prosthetic Devices A prosthetic is an artificial body part that replaces a missing or non-functioning body part such as an arm‚ heart or breast. Humans have been making prosthetic limbs since the Ancient Egyptians to replace limbs lost during battle‚ work or just by mistake. Evidence has been found of Egyptians trying to replicate toes with copper ones. Although these were very impractical as they were solid and so were mostly for aesthetic purposes. In the 1400s‚ prosthetics arms made out of

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