The Red Balloon’s (Lamorisse‚ 1956) opening shot has a mise-en-scene that focuses on the start to the young boy’s morning as he approaches the early sunrise of the streets of Paris with his school bag in hand. Along his way he stops to enjoy the simple pleasure of petting the cat sitting on the sidewalk before he descends down the stairs to continue on his way. The opening shot presents a shallow focus as the camera’s main view is that of the boy‚ cat‚ and the top of the stairs. The background of
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rather than aiming for Madam Red‚ her bright green eyes fixate on you. Whirling her scythe one good time‚ she’s in a perfect alignment with your chest‚ but you feel an ice cold grasp push you to the ground. You miss hitting the brick wall by an inch. “Aww‚ Bassy~!” Grell whines. “Protecting her now? Tsk‚ tsk. That simply won’t do.” Her attention momentarily shifts to her original target and with a single fling of the wrist‚ crimson stains crimson. Ciel watches as Madam Red falls right before his feet
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to specify the words he places into his writing‚ in order for the reader to picture it in their mind. To make this possible‚ Edgar Allan Poe utilizes negative diction and imagery to manifest a dark and sinister tone in his story‚ “The Masque of the Red Death”. Diction is the word choice a writer uses in their writing to develop a special meaning. Poe wants to send a dark emotion to his readers and starts off his story by personifying “Death”‚ giving it human qualities‚ portraying it is as the protagonist
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To a naturalist writer‚ generally the controlling force of fate is the environment while life is usually the dull round of daily existence. In Stephan Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage‚” Henry fights the war right alongside nature. Crane places the reader squarely in the sphere of realism portraying life as it is. Naturalistic views in parts of the novel helped contribute to the overall theme of the Universe’s disregard for human life. Henry’s realization that the natural world spins on regardless
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What is an abortion? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary it is “A medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus” (Merriam Webster‚ 2016). Every year‚ approximately 1.2 million women have an abortion in the United States and nearly 42 million women have an abortion every year worldwide. There are two types of abortions an individual can do‚ either medical abortion or surgical abortion. Medical abortion relies on medicine and is primarily used on pregnancies up
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At this event were put in small groups and assigned to an art in which we observe and inspected for about 10 minutes. There were three tables‚ so each group had their own art piece to inspect. My group had a painting called the Red Crane. For 10 minutes we used our “close reading” skills to observe this art piece. We observed the painting through a grammar‚ logic‚ and rhetoric lens. Grammar in visual art might be thought of as the formal elements and composition. Through this we were able to notice
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BOOK REPORT AJ HERRERA ENGLISH 11 1/21/14 The book I chose for this book report was Red Storm Rising. It is by Tom Clancy‚ who is a pretty well-known author‚ and is 656 pages. It is a book about the Soviet Union and Russia’s attempt to overtake the Atlantic so they can launch an offensive against the United States and some other NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) countries like England and Germany. The story begins in 1980 at a very
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Essay on ”The Red Line” by Charles Higson Society contains a vast majority of different types of people‚ and all of them look‚ act‚ and think differently. How we as individuals do these things‚ are greatly influenced by the people around us‚ as our differences makes us judge others. In creating our own identity‚ our reliance on others is consequently grand‚ which can be either a fine or a dreadful matter. For some‚ the prejudice in the perceptions of others can cause the truth to be exceedingly
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the crisp image of myself in the mirror I feel as if my life is passing me by and the innocent girl that once existed is replaced with a scarred‚ fragile women who pays the bills by entertaining men. I preen my face by putting a fresh layer of blood red lipstick‚ a fine dark line of eyeliner and light touch of peach blush. I steadily walk to the cold and lifeless back stage and begin to hear the MC voice’s filled with excitement and life shouting to crowd. “Gentlemen‚ are you ready to have some sparkle
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As the war between the Soviet Union and America continued throughout the 1940’s and early 1950’s‚ panic over the alleged threat of communism began to take over America and later became known as the Red Scare‚ since the Soviet Union was known as the reds for their allegiance to the Soviet flag. The Red Scare would have brought about a chain of events that would significantly influence the US government and society. Three major events in 1948 and 1949 brought the American fear of Communism to a fever
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