Invisible City (2009) is a documentary directed by Hubert Davis that follows two teenage boys journey as their community in Toronto's Regent Park undergoes a housing revitalization project. Davis followed the lives of Mickey and Kendall for three years exploring how they are individually affected by structural changes within their neighborhood. The boys are African-Canadian and due to their ethnicity experienced racial discrimination and segregation (Davis, 2009). Regent Park was a community that consisted of a vast number of people that are lower income and living in poverty (Davis, 2009). The communities geographical location placed Mickey and Kendall at a greater risk of engaging in law-violating behaviors (Davis, 2009).
Gina Kolata displays the view of a patient and how hope affects them. From time to time a patient could obtain high expectations, since they are unable to do anything else, “Many patients ask doctors to give them an unproven treatment” (Kolata). Although patients may contain high expectations, they contain low expectations as well. For the most part, a greater number of patients tend to not surrender and pull
Yes, I agree that when you lose hope you also lose the desire and become consumed with doubt and will lose a lot of dreams and beliefs. In the novel The Chrysalids, loss of one 's hope causes the loss of beliefs, leads to sadness and depression, losses the fight you 're striving for before it even begins. First, you can’t stop fighting for your beliefs will prevent the loss of hope. Second, you can’t let the loss of hope lead you to sadness and depression and even death. Third, you can’t give up on your beliefs and lose hope because the odds aren’t in your favour.
Society in the ‘60s was based around the men, and the women could not do much without their husbands, they had very little rights, and were losing more as men came back from war. The book, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest is about a mental ward that just received a new patient, Randle McMurphy, who was previously at a work farm for many crimes committed. McMurphy thought it would be more comfortable for him in a mental hospital. He was quite wrong, the woman in charge of his unit, Nurse Ratched, was very hard on her patents using abuse, medication, and electroshock therapy to keep her patients in fear of her and the outside world. These two are accustomed of being the top dogs and do not get along well, they battle for power throughout the book.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 movie by Stanley Kubrick based on Arthur Clarke's short story The Sentinel. The story and the movie discuss many themes, but the most important one would be the theme of evolution of mankind; it is important because one can see how the actor/author focused on it more than any other theme. The movie opens up with a tribe of apes, (and as it is believed by many, apes are humans' ancestors.)
In his 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" Stanley Kubrick predicted the problem that might arise if the humankind continues developing complex technology without understanding what consciousness is and how it is created. Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, the leading science fiction author of that time, wrote the script in which they, fifty years ahead of their time, foresaw the problem that preoccupies many scientists today: should we continue developing computers and artificial intelligence without sufficient understanding of the material origin of consciousness? In this Kubrick's cult movie, a spaceship is controlled by a computer Hal 9000. Hal is supposed to be faultless, but during the voyage it starts to show signs of its own consciousness.
Imagine you are nine years old and helping unpack groceries with your mother. In an instant everything changes. Your mom drops what she is holding and is now frozen on the ground. Her left side is paralyzed and there is nothing you can do except sit with her and wait for it to be over. You tell yourself it will be over soon, that the doctors will find a cure soon.
Alfred Hitchcock revolutionized the film industry, and is known by many to be the best director known to man. Most of the films that he has created are known to be American classics, and some of the best known directors today like Steven Spielberg use some of the techniques he created in their movies. One of the main reasons Hitchcock was so good at what he did was because he had a deep understanding of how the human brain worked before anyone else did. He used this knowledge in one of his best known films, “Vertigo”. Hitchcock learned a lot from a psychologist named Sigmund Freud, who is arguably the best known psychologist throughout the world today.
In conclusion, Alfred Hitchcock was a British film director who start his career as a card designer, over time he ventured in other areas of film production as an assistant. Finally he was given the chance to direct his first film, he impress the producers so he was assign other projects. In his biography The Lodger, approximately the third film he directed, is considered the template of his career because it express his unique style on filmmaking, which would be also reflected in all of his subsequent films. One of the most important and recognized themes that is recurrent in his films is the idea of the wrong man accused of a crime. As time passed and new technology develop, synchronize dialogue became an achievement in cinema.
Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg. The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. Factory owner Oskar Schindler makes a deal with Amon Goeth, the commandant of the Paszów labor camp, to send about 1,100 Jews to work in Schindler's factory as slaves. At this point, Schindler sees the Jews as nothing put cheap labor.
In Starry Nights, Vincent Van Gogh’s he uses each element in a different view. He used them in the foreground, midground, and background. Lines in his painting are are used a lot. He drew spiral, big, small, and sharp lines. “Line is one of the most prominent elements in this painting.”
The story began in Afghanistan about the friendship between Amir Jan and Hassan, they used to like playing a kite together, Amir was skillful controlling the kite and Hassan was his kite runner, He know where the kite position after fall off without seeing land. Hassan is his best friend and also the son of his father’s servant Hassan and his father are from Hazara, the inferior race. Hassan got racial abuse from Assef the Nazi sympathies , he blame and strike Amir because he socialize with Hazara people, but Hassan protect Amir with courageously and shoot Assef with his slingshot to his eye, after the shot Assef and his partaker go and promise will do some revenge.
Director Francis Ford Coppola uses the opening of the film Apocalypse Now to indicate to the audience a brief idea of what to expect in a war film and highlights some of the effects of war. The use of the non-diegetic sound of ‘The End’ originally by The Doors playing in the background whilst capturing the effects of war such as explosions is used to emphasize the destruction and misery faced during war. However, the use of a transition at (1:44) from the explosions and helicopters to Willards face and the ceiling fan suggests to the audience that he is constantly being reminded of war. In here the ceiling fan could possibly represent from Willards view point as a helicopter.
Thanks to this class I was introduced to all these beautiful pieces of literature. It sounds sad but I have never heard all these before. My most favorite reading is the Thousand and One Nights, it is very easy to understand to anybody who does not speak or understand English well like me. I enjoyed it very much and will be continuing reading the rest of the book. Although our first module is very touching too since I am a religious person, I can also add it to one of my favorite.
Christopher Edward Nolan is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is one of the highest-grossing directors in history, and among the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of the 21st century. The acclaim garnered by his independent films gave Nolan the opportunity to make the mystery drama, The Prestige (2006). He found further popularity and critical success with The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) and Inception (2010). His ten films have grossed over 4.7 billion U.S. dollars worldwide and was awarded a total of 34 Oscar nominations and ten wins.
