Essays on Horror.

Summary

Violence creates disruptions to human life and the natural world and makes human history become characterized by violent acts that occurred at varied points in the past. Understanding violence and trauma as exhibited in numerous film genres is important since it prepares individuals in reflecting on the effects of violence such as death of individuals and destruction of social ties. Crime incidences have been linked to violent events occurring in the society. The crimes could be divided into deep crimes and surface crimes depending on the damages caused to the society. Deep crimes result in adverse violence that creates ...

Drugs are bad. So bad that they have shaped the course of human history for the worse and served to enable some of the worst waves of imperialism in human history. Large scale opium addiction in the United States was facilitated and to an extent created by early modern clinical medicine, or what we would now colloquially refer to as ‘real’ medicine. This situation came out of 19th and early 20th century conflicts between professional and practitioners of allopathic (again, ‘real) medicine and unlicensed purveyors of alternative medicines such as chiropractors, also known of as quacks or snake oil ...

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto which was written in 1764 during the Romantic period. Walpole was quite interested Gothic architecture and art. He went to great expense to decorate his home Strawberry Hill in the Gothic style. The Castle of Otranto is considered by most to be the first Gothic novel. The novel introduces many of the themes that are synonymous with Gothic literature. Some of the themes that are characteristic of a Gothic story are setting the scene in a castle, supernatural events, exaggerated emotions, women in fear of an evil man, along with a sense ...

Introduction

The book “Country of My Skull” has been written by Antjie Krog, who strives to include her own as well as other individuals’ stories about the creation, development, and conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The truth and reconciliation commission was in charge of uncovering past wrongdoings in Africa and was established to bring the perpetrators and criminals to justice. The books have been the center of much debate as the author has not followed any clearly defined chronological order but rather, the fragments of the testimonies of survivors, victims, and criminals have been included. History, personal ...

The Vietnam War is one of the most controversial and complicated military actions in American history, a confluence of a number of factors that stemmed from post-World War II ideas about America’s place in the world, its relationship with Communism and the Soviet Union, and the increasing presence of the news media in the field of battle. In the Cold War following World War II, in which America turned its attention (and its weapons) to the cultural and ideological threat of Communism. However, the staggering defeats US military forces experienced, combined with the malaise and resistance provided by ...

The critique Isabel Christina Pinedo makes an effective comparison between the classical and the modern approach of making horror films and highlights a few differences between the two. In this regard, Pinedo highlights that both of these approaches show the starting of the film in a similar fashion. In both the classical as well as the modern approaches, the story begins with the violent disruption that is caused by a monster which can be seen as supernatural or alien. The plot matures around the monster’s destruction and the people’s response to the same. The movie sees climax ...

The works under consideration are Tania Modleski’s “The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and the Postmodern Theory” (1986) and Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s “Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Films” (1997). Both authors dwell on the peculiarity of the role which contemporary horror films play in postmodernist culture. They also try to list the key features of horror films and explain in what way they reflect the philosophy of postmodernism. Both Tania Modleski and Isabel Cristina Pinedo start their dwelling on the topic with theoretical and historical background of postmodernism as a cultural and social phenomenon. ...

Film Studies

The primary aim behind making movies is to visually communicate the cultural ideas, while leaving the articulation of the movies’ themes to a wide range of receptive audience. Although a particular film genre and its identifiable iconography can traverse across national boundaries, yet comprehending and understanding the intended message of a particular film still calls for a quite a bit of premonition and intelligence. An American scholar in the field of Japanese cinema, Donald Richie states that contrary to a few nations like France and the United States, motion pictures have been regarded as a highly reputable form of ...

There can be no denial of the fact that the poem, Children’s Hospital, penned by the eminent poet, Katie Ford, is one of the finest literary works that leaves a lasting mark in the minds of the avid readers. The poet goes on to use her prowess so as to bring out the images with the apt use of literary devices. It needs to be noted that this literary work deals with a grave matter. One is more accustomed to associate children with innocence and exuberance. However, this poem in context portrays a grim side related to life ...

Article Summary and Analysis

In this article, White explores the concepts and logic behind making of horror films. He explains that the concepts used to describe horror films might not be enough to explain the horror itself or the manner in which filmmakers produce the desired horror effect. This does not mean that horror films are merely a sum of the various concepts used in making them. Rather, horror films derive their identities from the combination of the pieces from which they are constructed and the nature of the manner in which the various pieces are combined to cause the desired effect (White, ...

In My Last Duchess, a Duke shows his guest the painting of his late wife and gradually reveals how her perceived infidelity enraged him into killing her. Browning narrates the scene through the voice of the duke, allowing understanding to dawn naturally on the reader as though they are hearing the story firsthand. This makes the horror of the poem a personal experience for the reader, who uncovers clues throughout about the death of the Duchess, feels as though they are engaging personally with the Duke, and finally, comes to realize the crime of the story and apply that ...

Fear is a relative term, at least from the human perspective. This suggests that humanity has experienced its own sets of fears, depending on the prevailing dangers of a particular physical environment and epoch. In this regard, it has always been common knowledge that survival is an integral part of every species, including the Homo sapiens, and that compromising the sense of safety of animals and humans is most likely to instigate a reaction of fear. As such, it can also be said that fear is a beneficial aspect of existence, given that it triggers reactions of alertness, fighting ...

Horror movies are a controversial and complicated subject in terms of the influence they have on the viewers. Some people favor such films, stating that they have a powerful therapeutic effect – like any form of art does. Others are rightly afraid that being accustomed to violence on the big screen leads to being accustomed to violence in the real life. In any case, the benefits which horror films have to offer for the emotional well-being are worth exploring. In his essay Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King approaches the controversial phenomenon of people's attraction to the morbid and ...

Sometimes reality is not an effective medium by which to view the world. In such instances the human eye often looks beyond what is seen in order to reveal what is hidden in plain view, behind the known and mundane aspects that the world has to offer. In those moments it becomes obvious that no matter how mundane a thing is, no matter how commonplace it might seem, there is always something to be seen in the breaths between one click of the camera to the next. There is beauty throughout all aspects of the world, all one needs ...

Earth’s quickly changing climate is a hot topic today. Among the young and old, the issue is debated passionately as individuals argue whether it is even happening and why. The Some believe climate change is still up for debate, the history surrounding the issue proves the Earth’s environment is, indeed, changing, and humans may be the only cause to blame. The CO2 emissions and various forms of pollution have been observed for years. While many attempt to correct what we have done to the planet, others speculate it may be too late to repair the damage we ...

BIOGRAPHY AND THE BEGINNING OF CREATIVITY

One needs to learn about the key moments of Marilyn Manson’s life and work in order to understand whether he is a real Antichrist superstar. He is known as an American musician, founder, and leader of one of the most successful rock bands of the nineties. The most controversial rock singer, idol of thousands of teenagers, and the real horror for their parents, the forbidden fruit called Marilyn Manson. Brian Warner (a real name of the singer) was born on January 5, 1969 in the United States in the city of Canton, Ohio. The Warner family, according to ...

Earth’s quickly changing climate is a hot topic today. Among the young and old, the issue is debated passionately as individuals argue whether it is even happening and why. The Some believe climate change is still up for debate, the history surrounding the issue proves the Earth’s environment is, indeed, changing, and humans may be the only cause to blame. The CO2 emissions and various forms of pollution have been observed for years. While many attempt to correct what we have done to the planet, others speculate it may be too late to repair the damage we ...

The Video Age: The Effect of Home Video on Hollywood

Introduction The home video age has come and gone, being predominantly replaced by highly digitized and sophisticated mediums of viewing film and other content. Video’s role, however, remains embedded in every arena of cinematic culture. While VHS is nearly obsolete now, save for those who choose to collect such items for sentimental sake, it is the culture that the home video set forth that is responsible for the DVD industry that has seemingly taken over. Hollywood now caters to the legions of audiences who will wait for the film to come out on DVD, perhaps for the additional ...

Tone

The tone of this sonnet is dark and melancholy. It is filled with imagery which puts an emphasis on the madness of the subject, as well as the sadness of the poet for being trapped in her life and wanting the freedom the madman has. The structure of the sonnet, the descriptive adjectives used as well as other vocabulary, and the figurative language employed in it all provide a backdrop of misery and gloom.

Musical Devices

The most prominent musical device which is immediately apparent on first reading the sonnet is the rhyming words. As with sonnets of the ...

Introduction

Schindler’s List is a 1993 historical drama film produced and directed by Hollywood heavyweight Steven Spielberg. Considered as one of the best films of the 20th Century, the film revolves around German business named Oskar Schindler who saved many Jewish refugees during the infamous Holocaust by giving them jobs in his many factories. The character of Schindler is played by Liam Neeson. One of the most prominent themes of this film is the theme of denial. The theme of denial is exhibited in the fact that the Jews are in denial of the severity and the absolute the horror ...

Business management methods have recently come under fire because of the America's waning dominance in the business sector, as China and India have quickly risen and provided stiff competition. In his scintillating work, The Future of Management, Gary Hamel, London Business School management consultant and professor, opines about how technology has permanently altered the way that businesses and organizations operate. Hamel has been touted by many critics to be the most iconoclastic yet influential business philosophers in the world today, as he has worked with many leading businesses on the world stage with regards to management structure. He has ...

Crime story "Slowly, Slowly in the Wind", which is written by Patricia Highsmith

The history of English literature has seen many immortal works of arts and aesthetics created by stalwart literary artists that have won the hearts of innumerable readers all over the globe transcending the barriers of communities and cultures. Slowly, Slowly in the Wind is one such seminal work in the history of literature that has made its mark with all the quintessential portraiture and affective appeal that have gripped the readers to the very core. ...

It seems that almost each horror or science fiction film is being interpreted as an allegory of some particular realities; in addition, the supernatural characteristics described in such films are sometimes seen and described as symptoms of political and/or social diseases. For example, “zombie” horror movies tend to describe how paranoia and panic even among the beloved ones take over the common sense and traditional social norms. Current example of such movie is “28 Days Later” by Danny Boyle, in which he depicted post-apocalyptic world abandoned and destroyed by an epidemic that transforms ...

Abstract

The presidency of George.W. Bush has been one of the most criticized and controversial of all American presidencies. Although he is known widely for his misadventures in the war against terror, Bush enacted some important domestic and international policies that has had wide reaching impacts on the foreign policy and the economy of the country. An assessment of his policies on war, education, healthcare, immigration and humanitarian efforts portray of picture of a president who took tough decisions during difficult times. Some of his decisions were criticized heavily and led to a dip in his popularity ratings and some are still ...

Selection from an 8 year-period of pulmonary valve replacement and cross sectional follow up of a commercially available biological valve, assessed with established and a new method

What This Thesis Is About

Pulmonary valve replacement is a procedure necessary in many congenital heart defects and in-valve degeneration cases. Surgical results are excellent, but the longevity of artificial valves is very limited. Our goal was to give a retrospective overview of methods and results from the year 2000 until 2008 at Rikshospital, as well as the prospective five year follow-up of a biological valve made from bovine pericardium. Follow up included clinical examination with ECG, echocardiography, spirometry, treadmill testing, echocardiography ...

English

The 1976 and the 2002 movies successfully duplicated some of the horror scenes that are evident in the book, and more. The 2002 movie opens with a scene that Brian DePalma (1976) didn’t include in his movie; the rocks falling on the White home as young Carrie gets angry. A clear difference between DePalma’s movie and Carson’s movie is that Carson tries to copy King’s book excerpts as a break in chapters, by including his own film breaks. However, most of the plot is lost in the remake of the mini-television film as the movie has been ...

I’m in the Princeton Art museum, in the exhibit “Weapons Throughout Time: Remarkable Instruments of Survival and Warfare.” It’s a small carpeted room where the AC creates a quiet hum over my head and chills my body. Glass cases lined with hatchets, spears, shields, and arrows surround me as my eyes dart around quickly taking in the deadly weapons enclosing me. I sip my coffee to warm myself, enjoying the sweet taste of creamer as it flows down my throat. My eyes finally focus on an arrow that was used by the Lakota Sioux in the 1800’s. Its ...

The book ‘Frankenstein’ written by Mary Shelley and published in the year 1818 is one of the famous literary works in the genre of gothic horror fiction. In the book, the author discusses about the ethical issues of technological advancements and researches the relationship of man with its creator . Frankenstein is the story of Victor, a man who possesses health, wealth, friends and family. Victor has a deep interest in science and a burning desire for knowledge and research. Victor’s passion in science drives him to make a demon, which he later realizes to be a blunder. The demon kills Victor’s family ...

Inconvenient Truth Emotional Impacts and Personal commitment

The film, Inconvenient Truth, shows a documentary of Al Gore, the global campaigner against global warming. In documentary, the director covered the global travels by Al Gore in his struggle to create awareness on the need for fast action on climate change and the imminent dangers. The great efforts and global journeys made by Al Gore and the facts about the severity of the global warming triggered strong reactions from me. The reaction evoked a shocking feeling. Based on the appalling scientific evidences, the negative impacts of climate change are severe and can wipe human population in the region. The drought that ...

Assignment #2 Concept Kit

Premise: A Chinese boy had a gambling addiction, and his girlfriend tried to discourage his gaming habits. He never listened to her and could never stop playing. Sometimes he hit the jackpot, but sometimes he could lose all the money he had. Finally, his girlfriend had to break up with him. Inspiration: It is a real situation that happened to my classmate at high school in Hamilton. I wrote this because I just wanted to tell people that gambling has very harmful impacts. There is an old Chinese proverb: “First spin and then weave.”

Premise: A boy and a girl ...

- After Bob and Carol bought a video game console for their child, Greg, they began to notice a change in his behavior. When they could pry him away from games for dinner, he would be verbally abusive at the table. He would also punch walls in frustration, and even kicked over a glass table in the house. Bob and Carol blame video games for Greg’s violent behavior.The following conclusion suffers from which type of fallacy?This fallacy found in this case can be said to be a correlation implies causation fallacy otherwise known as Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc this is because ...

Question one

Science fiction is a sub- class of the horror film. Science fiction films sometimes often get confused with horror films. These two genres complement each other, and they have similarities because science fiction is said to have got adopted from traditional horror films. These two genres have distanced themselves from reality by use of fantasy and elements that get futuristic. Victims in horror films are shown as helpless completely, while science fiction shows the victims with more resilience. Alien a science fiction film of 1979 shows aliens getting defeated by technology and weapons. While the thing a horror film produced in 1982 ...

Iliad is a Greek epic poem that has been attributed to Homer. The development of this epic poem dates back to the period of Classical antiquity. There are debates on the exact time when Homer composed the Greek epic poem Iliad. However, this 15,693 lines epic poem had a profound influence on the poets and writers of the successive generation. The backdrop of Iliad is the Trojan War. The story depicts that the war continues for ten years and ends with the siege of the city of Troy by the Greek army Achaean. Chrysies and Briseis, the two daughters ...

During the Second World War, women played very important roles in their capacity in different spheres of life. Their role was important on account of writing the history of the war as their work helped educating the audience about the horrors of war and war related menaces. This case study will compare and contrast the work of three women who performed gallantly during the Second World War and had their share of writing the transparent history of the biggest war in the history of mankind. The three women are from different fields of journalism and performed bravely during the ...

Just as James Lovelock once said, “We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science”, it is true that in this age it is increasingly important to listen to the scientific facts, as science is the best tool we have to discern whether or not climate change is caused by mankind. The term “anthropogenic” is used to describe human-made climate change and means originating in human activity. Climate change is defined in the change in global climatic patterns since the mid-20th century and is not limited to ...

Introduction

One of the most important message that is brought out in the film is determination. The movie discourages people from losing hope. After the death of Tomoko , Reiko sits on and start to investigate the mystery about this death. She finds the cursed tape and with the help of her ex-husband she is able to connect the content of the tape with psychic who died 30 years ago and a child sadiko.

The other message that the producer is trying to put across is the theme of death. Many people in the film have lost their lives in a very mysterious ...

Strategic analysis of DHL express companyExecutive summary

DHL express is a German based logistic company that provides services at international level such as mail and products delivery. It is one of the world's largest logistic companies. It is a leader in sea and air mail. Founded originally in 1969, in San Francisco, it was meant for delivering the documents to Honolulu. The company expanded its services in the entire world in the late years of 1970s. This was after heavily investing on the offshore and intercontinental deliveries and mostly in the United States (Infrastructure, 2008, p. 86).

The DHL expresses humble start was shipping the papers and ...

- Evaluate personal values and paradigms around body decoration and physical beauty - Investigate how physical appearance affects definitions of identity and belonging - Analyze values and belief systems of physical appearance across cultures, sub-cultures and generations Artifact: People Watching in the street and the reflection about how my personal values and beliefs influence the way I dress.

This assignment made me realize how I judge people by the way they dress. I chose to analyze three women of different age and styles. Each of them was different and unique in many ways. I tried to ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...

Horror movies have become extremely popular. The main question is why people enjoy being scared and disgusted while seeing monsters and serial killers. During the last thirty years, the horror genre has gained a lot of attention even among academics. It has been researched in sociological and cultural way but also as a psychological phenomenon.

"An Introduction to the American Horror Film" by the film critic Robin Wood was published in 1979 and the horror genre was studied within psychoanalytic theory. Horror movies were thought to be a metaphor for an oppressed society: the monster represented the marginalized, "Frankenstein symbolized ...

This preliminary movement began in 1985 to label albums that contain lusty lyrics. People have started pushing for a constant Parental Advisory Lyrics sticker in the year 1990. They were led by Tipper Gore, the wife of vice president Al Gore, seconded by Susan Baker. A contract was later reached between the PRMC and the Recording Industry Association of America in 1989, which additional the parental advisory stickers to albums (Arlington, 23).

The Parent Music Resources Centre (PMRC) was founded as an America committee with an aim and objective to state goals to enhance parental control over the access of ...

Literature: Big Two-Hearted River part I and II

‘Big Two-Hearted River’, a short story by American writer Ernest Hemingway, consisting of two parts, was firstly published in 1925, in the ‘In our time’ edition, which appeared to be the first American collection of his short stories. Simple on the surface, the plot, however, hides a complicated story of the process of healing through the contact and blending with the nature, the main motive force in the narration.

The story describes a soldier, Nick Adams, who having returned to his native place, after suffering the post-traumatic stress syndrome from the World War I, finds courage and strength to ...

Steingraber and Kingsolver wrote about their relationship with the natural world and described the places they preferred to live at. Steingraber traced the biological link man has with nature while Kingsolver explained the cultural and spiritual bond of human beings with the environment. In Steingraber’s essay she talked about the place her family moved to which provides an opportunity for her daughter to explore the trees and plants, and observe the animals that roam about in this rural community in Ithaca. Meanwhile, Kingsolver expressed awe and wonder of her favorite places, one is a log cabin in the Appalachian ...

When World War I broke, earlier poets wrote poems celebrating the outbreak of the First World War. These poems reflected an over-optimistic, sentimental and unrealistic attitude to war that mirrored the attitude of the British people, who assumed that the war was chivalrous and heroic. Rupert Brooke's “The Soldier” is an example of such early World War I poetry, in which Brooke uses strong figurative language and symbols to romanticize and sentimentalize the horrors of war. By 1915, both the British people and poets began to realize how horrific and terrible the war really was, and poems thereafter ...

Question 1.

The strict father model and the nurturant parent models are two paradigms suggested by the political thinker George Lakoff. If one views the government as the parent of the family-nation, then the strict father model is a metaphor for conservative politics.

There are several tenets that undergird the strict father model. One is that children gain knowledge through a system of rewards and punishments, also known as operant conditioning. Another is that strict parents yield children who are more self-disciplined and more self-reliant. The third is that the father’s job is to deliver rewards for “good” behavior and negative ...

The documentary, Inside Job, was released in 2010. It mainly focuses on the financial crisis that was witnessed between 2007 and 2009. Viewers opine that the financial crisis was an instigation of few individuals in the USA. The US government officials and top players in the financial services industry intentionally made decisions that would later lead the American economy into turmoil. From the documentary, it is evident that the financial service industry was led into a trap by its own leaders, who had full knowledge of what would happen. More so, the people responsible for these actions went unpunished because ...

The author writes about the current issue in the society in America where internet has become the cause of depression and loneliness in life, especially among teenagers. Chat rooms, social networking or sending e-mail is the favorite pass time of many people nowadays. Ashworth also states, “One in nine internet uses - are considered to be suffering from Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAD).” He said that when you get addicted to the internet this destroys your surrounded relationships. You start having problems in marriages, with friends, and other family.

The author emphasizes on the addiction by arguing that ...

Throughout the history, there have been noteworthy literacy movements, many of which have been over and done. Two of the most important literacy movements throughout the time have been transcendentalism and romanticism.

Transcendentalism was a literacy form in the 19th century. Under this literacy form, many writers have contributed in its movement. Among the major pioneers in this literacy form include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott Theodore Parker. Based on the works of these great transcendentalists I will elucidate the differences that exist between Romanticism and Transcendentalism.

Romanticism draws outs strong feelings and demonstrates significant actions. It is about a ...

Movie director Oliver Stone’s 1989 film “Born on the Fourth of July” is a vivid screen adaptation of antiwar activist Ron Kovic’s autobiographical account of his idealistic dreams of war to becoming the damaged bitter war veteran. This film review follows Stone’s story line of portraying the evolution of Kovic from a young boy playing war with his friends in 1950s Massapequa, Long Island, to his eventual recognition and acceptance as an articulate and respected antiwar activist. For many of the people today, references to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s are little-known history because this generation wasn’ ...

In the early 1800s, Neoclassical writing was par for the course; works were typically very restrained, conservative, and focused on structure more than anything else. However, as the 19th century rolled along, more and more authors (including Washington Irving and

James Fenimore Cooper) found themselves writing stories of passion, full of experimentation and discovery. In these works, notions of established language and literary structure were challenged, as the Romantics ceased believing in the established systems of literature and created wholly new works that were free from restraint. While the works of Smith demonstrate the observational, dry and formal writing ...

Global warming is a problem that is actively discussed nowadays. Very often new hypotheses appear about its impact on the Earth and human beings. At first, we need to classify the information available, to create a clear understanding of global warming effect on our planet. Global warming is the increase in the medium annual temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, because of much variety of reasons (increasing the concentration of gases in the Earth's atmosphere, solar variability or volcanic activity, etc.) (Haugen 14). Sometimes we use definition "greenhouse effect", but there is some differences between this two concepts. Greenhouse ...

In Chapter 6 of Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariety and George Loewenstein discuss the influence of arousal on decision making when people are in high-stress and emotional situations. In their study, they examine the different ways in which individuals would react or make decisions when they were in a high state of sexual arousal, asking the same questions when someone is coldly emotional and when they were masturbating. In many cases, people's decision making would get more irrational and shortsighted, focused mainly on instant gratification more than long-term satisfaction. Their conclusions allude to the idea that each of us has a ...

While artistic license was applied to the film version of Soldier’s Home, the variances to the short story are relatively miniscule as scenes added to the movie were done so in order to apply perspective and depth in areas as needed. Both provide a powerful narrative of the challenges faced by those returning from war as they attempt to reintegrate into the society left behind. Krebs’ growing disassociation and aversion to those around him are detailed by his actions and reactions throughout both, while in the movie it is vividly apparent that he is trying to reconcile himself from ...

Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, entitled Dracula, offers a glimpse of a dark, supernatural world, wrought with sexual symbolism and the draining of human power. Stoker introduces his protagonist, a young solicitor named Jonathan Harker, who finds himself on the road to Transylvania for the purpose of visiting a certain count Dracula and organizing a real estate transaction. Harker leaves behind the vehicles of modern civilization as he is driven into the desolate mountain country (Davison 79). The countryside he passes through is picturesque enough to lull him into a state of false security, while the villagers offer charms against dark, evil forces and mutter ...

The yellow paper is a story that is usually said to be horror. This is due to the mistreatments that were accorded to the women during the period. The fact that people see the mistreatments being abnormal makes the people to refer the stories as being a horror. Gothic on the other hand is a story that combines both matters relating to romance and horror. Most of the characters in the story have the characteristics of horrors. What the stories show is that the women were taken to be the weak creatures during the period when the stories were written. They were ...

Background

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

Narrative Strategies

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three genres: crime, ...

“There is reason that all things are as they are” (Stoker). In the written works of Dracula and The Metamorphosis, the authors use two very different styles to portray horrifying fantasy. In Dracula, Bram Stoker uses realism in the form of journal entries, letters, ships’ logs, and newspaper articles to tell the story of the vampire Count Dracula. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses surrealism in the form of third person narrative, to tell the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes one day to find he has been transformed overnight into a huge, disgusting bug. Although the authors employ different ...

Introduction

Unlike civilians (citizens) military personnel are willingly to defend their country even with there lives. Joining the military is a rewarding and positive move in life. However there are risks involved in joining the military. By joining the military, the high school graduates may be involved in active compact which could cause psychological or permanent physical damage. Fatal physical damage can paralyze individuals or bring to an end their careers. Psychological damage can cause stress and emotional imbalance to the high school graduates. Psychological damage is dangerous as it may affect the life of an individual. Watching or participating ...

Shot in 2008, “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is a historical drama film by the British director Mark Herman on the Holocaust during the World War II. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by John Boyne. The theme of a fine line between those who happened to be on the aggressor’s side and those on the victim’s side won the audience’s hearts and made the film noticeable among others dedicated to the World War II. The movie stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend. “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is ...

Earley, Pete (2012). The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers. Touchstone. New York City: NY. ISBN-13: 978-1439199039.

Purpose of the book

The purpose of “The Serial Killer Whisperer” is revelation. The minds of serial killers and serial murders have fascinated us through investigative documentaries, sitcoms and Hollywood blockbusters (Schmid, 2005). The information that is portrayed to us in these mediums is generally violent and usually illogical behavior on part of the serial offender. This book, however, reveals a different side to the readers. The side that eludes investigators and criminal profilers; the ...