Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster by Warren Buckland‚ to be a very informative read. Going into the book‚ I really did not know much about Steven Spielberg. I was aware that he had directed some of my favorite films‚ such as Catch Me If You Can‚ Saving Private Ryan‚ and War of the Worlds‚ and that the name Spielberg is synonymous with the Hollywood blockbuster‚ but really never considered taking a deeper look into Spielberg’s visual style or speculated
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Near a little house by the ocean‚ there lived a young girl named Aurelia Stevens. She loved her name for the way it flowed like a river. In contrast‚ her hair gave the appearance of a blazing fire‚ cascading in curls that seemed to raise just a little around her neck and torso. Her vivid blue eyes looked to be from the ocean itself‚ deep and mysterious just the same. She was isolated due to her father being a writer. He needed space to work‚ and decided that separating his family from society would
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the Stevens Grip versus the Burton Grip‚ I found that neither trumps the other in supremacy. They both possess qualities that would be needed for different styles. In the first video‚ Gary Burton playing with Chick Corea‚ the grip that he invented‚ The Burton Grip‚ was crucial for the style he
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We are fish. Not literally‚ of course‚ but in relation to David Foster Wallace’s amusing yet profound quote‚ we are metaphorically fish. We‚ the younger generations of the world‚ spend our days contently swimming along in the water that surrounds us doing whatever fish activities we wish to do‚ all the while unconsciously maintaining the impression that we understand all there is to know about the world. However‚ the unfortunate reality is that a majority of us remain entirely oblivious to our surroundings
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FOUR STYLES OF ROMAN WALL PAINTING The wall paintings evolved from around 2nd BC. Romans created these extravaganza works to emphasise their wealth. The evidence for the techniques used is described by Vitruvius ’ in _De Architectura._ He noted that wall paintings were interior wall designs as frescoes‚ which were executed using damp plaster (lime and sand mixed together). There must have been at least several layers of this plaster‚ where the top layers were burnished with marble powder to make
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Literary Terminology STYLE: The manner of a literary work is its style‚ the effect of which is its tone. Below are concepts by which you can analyze stylistic features. Figures of Speech Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound or consonant cluster in consecutive or closely positioned words Anaphora: The repetition of words or groups of words at the beginning of consecutive sentences‚ clauses or phrases Assonance: The repetition of identical or near identical stressed vowel
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2005‚ the author of “This is Water”‚ David Foster Wallace gave his commencement speech to the graduating class of Kenyon College. Foster Wallace starts his speech with a story of “two young fish swimming along” and neither of them know what water is (Wallace 1). Wallace goes on to say that‚ “The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious‚ important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about” (Wallace 1). Wallace uses the story to portray the idea that we hardly
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English Period who wrote on biblical and religious themes were Caedmon and Cynewulf. The Middle English Period consists of the literature produced in the four and a half centuries between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and about 1500‚ when the standard literary language‚ derived from the dialect of the London area‚ became recognizable as "modern English." Prior to the second half of the fourteenth century‚ vernacular literature consisted primarily of religious writings. The second half of the fourteenth
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do when it came to war. From the time that Spartan men were born‚ they were evaluated for their future services to the Spartan society. Each baby was sent to have the ten‚ ten‚ one test done on them as explained in the novel‚ The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. This test was to check and make sure that there were no deformities. If there were the children were killed because they could not help the military‚ therefore had no purpose in their society as a whole. Sparta was a militarist state.
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fascinate you. “Good people” by David Foster Wallace is a story that draws the reader in and makes you really process and analyze every sentence throughout the story. I as a reader enjoyed this story it really fascinated me. I absolutely love how vivid the description was of the scenery it was almost as if you were there yourself and you could feel the tension between the two main characters making you truly wonder what was actually going on between them. The style of writing is unique and I can definitely
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