Essays on Tombstone

Tombstone mentality

Two principals were considered by the Federal Aviation Administration, the Precautionary Principle (EUR-Lex) and the Tombstone Mentality Principle (Dombroff). Each principle has advantages and disadvantages for laws elaboration. The precautionary principle recommends adopting a regulation or law before it happens representing that characteristic an advantage to avoid potential deaths or injured people. The potential negative effect of the precautionary principle is the excess of regulations and laws that could difficult the development of the activity, in his case the aviation industry. The Tombstone Mentality adopts a regulation or law once there is precedent events that caused injured or death ...

Synopsis

Wyatt Earp, a retired lawman, and his brothers (Morgan and Virgil) arrive at the town of Tombstone, Arizona, to make their fortunes as businessmen after the latter had retired as a lawman. However, they meet “The Cowboys”, a very ruthless criminal gang, organised around Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo. Wyatt, his brothers and friend Doc Holliday, are forced to become the law enforcers of the town due to their on-going businesses of saloon and gambling. Although Wyatt had planned to stay in retirement and make money, he is drawn into conflicts by his brothers after the gangs had come to terrorise the ...

Beloved is a historical fiction that tells of the horrific burden of slavery that the characters had to endure. From a kind master, the slaves of Sweet Home plantation were turned over to the management of the cruel and abusive schoolteacher. All hopes of a better life crumbled for the small family of slaves that lived in the plantation and were replaced by various forms of punishment for the slightest oversight. With the different experiences of the characters, the tone of the story changes from character to character and is reflective of the varying often explicit attitude that they felt toward the ...

In the film, My Darling Clementine Ford uses a number of stylistic devices such as lighting, setting, and costume and camera position to create curiosity, suspense, and surprise within his audience. Suspense is largely created not by the events of that time but by the contrast of the characters. The director therefore, uses stylistic devices to bring out the character contrast and the element of cause and effect in the narrative so as to enhance suspense. In the film the issue of conflict is a family affair there is a constant conflict between Clantons and Earps which is very evident in ...