Essays on Labyrinth

Movie Review: THX-1138

THX-1138, the main character in the film THX-1138, works as a magnum operator in cell 94107. He was literally created to manipulate the magnum along with other people in his society. In general, the THX-1138 movie is one of the best films that the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, has ever scripted and directed. In 1976, Lucas produced Electronic Labyrinth: THX-113: 4EB, a short film that won various awards and introduced Lucas to movie fans globally (“George Lucas Biography”). The success of Electronic Labyrinth impressed the director of The Godfather, Frances Coppela, who urged Warner Brothers to provide ...

Introduction

It is very rarely that a story could have an effect on the reader. This is why I am thankful that I encountered Wendy Mass’ “Every Soul a Star.” As I read though the story, I was able to relate to the experiences of the main characters. Being a young person I also meet challenges where I need to change. The story gives its readers important insights on how important and inevitable change is. In the story, three young people went through life changing experiences in a place called Moon Shadow Campground.

Discussion

The Moon Shadow Campground is a place ...

Chartres, France

The monuments and architecture in ancient times allow talking and narrating about the historical background from the angle of time in which they were built. Through various signs, they inform us about the prosperity, decline of the reigns and empires as well. Thus, they are the major means of communication. They can tell us a lot about the economic, political and religious circumstances of the specific region. They also narrate the contemporary architectural trend. In medieval Europe, especially in France, the Gothic architecture was at its pinnacle. Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is one of the Gothic architecture examples in ...

Poetry is one of the most fascinating concepts in Language Arts to master. That being said, there are many different perspectives pertaining to poetry and how it should be understood, analyzed, and discussed. In the course, we explored various author’s such as Collins, Nelson, Forman, Snyder, Hicok, and Williams in order to codify what a modern definition is of poetry and how we can utilize that definition to express ourselves. This paper will focus on these authors and how they explore the concept of poetry in their own unique way. Additionally, this paper will highlight any similarities that ...

In the formation of art of the peoples who lived in the Mediterranean basin, a huge role was played by the so-called Aegean, or Mycenaean art. The Aegean culture was formed and developed in III—II millennia BC and was created by tribes that lived on the island of Crete, the Peloponnese, the West coast of Asia Minor (Boardman 21). In 1871, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann excavated Hissarluka on the hill "pre-Homer" cities that can be dated to the III Millennium BC and which belong to the prehistory of the Aegean culture. Soon Schliemann began excavations in the ...

The monuments and architecture in ancient times are capable of talking and narrating the historical background of the respective time in which they were built. Through various signs, they inform us about the prosperity, decline of the reigns and empires as well. Thus they are the major means of communication. They can tell us the economic, political and religious circumstances of the respective region. They also narrate the contemporary architectural trend. In medieval Europe, especially in France, the Gothic architecture was at its pinnacle. Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Chartres is one of the Gothic architectures in the middle age. It ...

Love is an intrinsic sense of affection between two people. There are different types of love; relationships and affairs love. Relational love involves the affection between people who are related by either blood or culture. On the extreme end, affairs love involves two people from the opposite sex who have affection towards one another. Freud’s argue that; love is not what is given but shared. It is what the man gives to the woman and gets in return. He believes that a woman should be submissive in love affairs. A woman is believed is believed to be the chief ...

Existing theories are important for shaping an individual’s critical thought process. Through a close follow-up of an individual’s responses to theoretical issues, tracking one’s changing thought process is easier. Different people understand leadership behaviour differently, and so are the theorists who come up with explanations of how people should exhibit leadership among one another (Drath, et al., 2008). Despite these, the general leadership behaviours in personal and professional environments are important for several reasons. For organizations, values and moral practices are closely tied to the organization’s vision. To achieve this vision, the organization must consistently implore ...

Human perception of sounds is not only performed by an ear as a part of the body. In fact, a person hears through the organ of hearing, which has got complex structure. The ear is only a visible part of it. Auricle or pinna essentially acts as a funnel through which a person catches vibrations in the air. Coming through the auditory canal, they affect the eardrum – a thin membrane that separates the outer and middle ears. Then the eardrum vibrations are transmitted to the auditory ossicles and reach the inner ear, the main part of which is an organ called the bony ...

Introduction

Every single human being would agree that we each carry our own burden. Personal struggles define us because they influence how we act, make decisions, and plans all towards the goal of unburdening ourselves. One of philosophical questions raised in author John Green is looking for Alaska involve the labyrinth as a metaphor for human beings’ personal struggles. As an individual, one would navigate or travel through the tangled path such as the labyrinth and dealing with our personal struggles is similar to the feeling of being trapped in a maze, and attempting and hoping that one would be able to ...

The novel tells the story of a man in search of his real father, whom he had never met and from whom he learned only thanks to the last words spoken by his mother on her deathbed. The history of this search is to retrieve a restless odyssey to the protagonist struggled a lost childhood and youth, on the slow shadow of a cursed love, whose memory should pursue it to the end of his days from accursed books, the man who wrote it, someone who has escaped from the pages of a novel to burn betrayal and a lost friendship (Elteto 66–82). It ...

Fairy tales are types of stories that characteristically feature European folkloric fantasy characters like dwarves, giants or even witches and magic among others. They take place once upon a time rather than real time. Pan's Labyrinth a Mexican-Spanish fantasy film is one such fairy tale. Although some claim that Pan's Labyrinth is not a Fairytale, there are sufficient reasons to support that indeed it is a fairy tale (Zipes 15). The story takes place during the early Francoist period about five years after the Spanish civil war. It is starred by a character Ofiela haunting the Spanish maquis who were involved in the ...

Introduction

Part 1: A Summary about the Movie, Pans Labyrinth Pans Labyrinth is a Mexican-Spanish dark fantasy movie that is attributed to Guillermo Del Toro as the author and director. The movie was released in 2006 before being distributed and produced by Esperanto Films. The plotline is written against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War or during the early Francoist period. The story revolves around an intertwining of the real and the mythical world in which the protagonist, Ofelia interacts with a faun creature in a huge abandoned labyrinth. In the story, Princess Moanna, daughter of the king of the ...

After Princess Moanna of the underworld kingdom dies after a memory loss from the blinding rays of the sun, her father foresees she will come to life again. Parallel in 1943, in a Fascism-infected Spain, arrives Ofelia, and her mother Carmen to meet Captain Vidal; Carmen`s new husband and father of her unborn child. Vidal is fanatically against the republicans and rebels. Vidal`s housekeeper, Mercedes, is an active rebel himself. A large insect appears in Ofelia`s bedroom, and transforms itself into a fairy. The fairy leads Ofelia into an ancient Labyrinth where Ofelia meets the faun. The faun, ...

Reference List

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The inner ear consists of a membranous “labyrinth” encased in an occeous labyrinth. The vestibule and semicircular canal are concerned with vestibular function (balance); cochlea is concerned with hearing. The cochlea is a coiled tube. The cochlea coils up from its base. It is coiled around the modiolus. The Reissner’s membrane and the basilar membrane divide the cochlea longitudinally into three scalae. If you cut the cochlear tube cross sectionally, you’d see Scala vestibuli on top, scala tympani on the bottom. Scala media is a triangular duct in the middle. The side of the duct where the nerve fibres exit ...

Critical Summary for A Heroine's Choice

Judging the paper based on Marius’ crucial steps to writing a splendid essay as well as the proposed writing process that would distinguish an excellent paper out of a mass, the Heroine’s Choice is a well-written, well-organized paper that abides by what defines a paper of great value. In detail, the writer’s choice for their paper’s title is quite interesting and definitely prepares readers for what they are about to read. It could be a little bit catchier, though, in a way to create more enthusiasm and more eagerness to read further on. However, the writer gets straight to the point ...

Classic English literature: Octavio Paz

‘Poetry is knowledge, salvation, power, abandonment. An operation capable of changing the world, poetic activity is revolutionary by nature; a spiritual exercise, it is a means of interior liberation’. These words belong to Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet and essayist, whose creative work has set a new era for Mexican literature. Paz considered poetry to be pure and essential being, which regardless of time in history always finds its place in people’s hearts, providing sacred salvation to the world (Poetry foundation). Born in tumultuous times when Mexico was undergoing a revolution, Octavio Paz could successfully become a writer, whose talent and writing skills ...

The years of James Joyce's life mark major transitions in world history, as well as in world culture. When he was born, in 1882, the worldwide transition from an agrarian way of life to the industrial paradigm was still in fits and starts. Wars were still fought hand-to-hand and on horseback. Literature was still primarily a mostly straightforward affair, as were the visual arts. Matters of perspective, the bailiwick of the modernist artists, were still yet to be the matter of much experimentation. However, the arrival of the Impressionist painters began to erode a unified perspective by considering how subjects might ...

Sound is the sensation that is produced when the longitudinal vibrations of molecules from the external environment hit the tympanic membrane. Such vibrations in the external environment are called sound waves. Sound waves are produced when vibrating molecules generate changes in pressure. The speed of sound waves in air is approximately 344m/s at 20 degrees at sea level. An increase in temperature and altitude increases the speed of sound. Other media conduct sound at different speeds. For instance, in fresh water, sound travels at a speed of 1450m/s. Sound can be referred in a perceptual response and a physical stimulus. Sound reaches ...