Essay on The Sounds of "Rebel Without a Cause"

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955) is a film of the coming of age genre. The film depicts troubled teenagers looking for answers and contemplating about their lives. Rebel Without a Cause showcases the coming of age genre perfectly. The genre is showcased throughout the entire film by showcasing the teenager’s issues, worries about being a teenager, and troubled lives at home. Furthermore, the film heavily focuses on the issues of how the teenagers aren’t loved, given attention, or understood

Sound and Image in Motion Pictures Motion pictures and television are audio-visual mediums and so of course engage both our visual and aural senses. The meaning and emotion of a piece is commonly thought to come from the image and that the sound at best just duplicates the meanings from the image. For example Aaron Copland has said that a composer can do no more than" make potent through music the film's dramatic and emotional value." (http://web.archive.org/web/20041210081146/http://citd.scar

you are the sounds of muskets firing, hundreds at a time, their smoke clouding your vision, the smell of burning gunpowder filling the air, and the boom of artillery as it reigns down around you. You are a Confederate soldier hiding behind the fortifications of what remains of Petersburg, vastly outnumbered by the seemingly never-ending supply of Union Yankees. You wonder whether you will make it out with your life, or become yet another rebel casualty to the failing Confederate cause. “When will

Stealing from Children The sounds of gunfire quickly drowned out all else as the rebel forces engaged the army. Sprinting, standing, crouching, or lying down, the soldiers focused solely on one thing: killing their enemies. With an assortment of weapons and under the influence of drugs, they carried out their jobs with ruthless efficiency. They spared no one because each side believed the other to be monsters. Kill after kill with blood on their hands, the soldiers fought on, driven by their desire

angry that we had to rest, and I sat on a big rock away from the rest of the group” (93). Beah, eager to see his family could no longer wait, progressed to the village only to hear the sounds of villagers shrieking and see the village burn to ashes. The casualties in the village were caused by the rebels. The rebels were aware of their doings and knew what they did was wrong, but they did not seem to care. Although they were following orders, they were still responsible for the passing of every person

Kyle Doss Ms. Lowry Honors English 2 17 August 2015 Prompt One 1984 Winston Smith lives in a country under complete totalitarian control. He is part of a poor city with little food and huge pyramids. These pyramids are home to a party called Big Brother which uses surveillance cameras to constantly watch its people and exercise its power. Winston’s main attributes are his fatalism and rebelliousness. Winston hates the Party passionately and starts to test the limits of its power. He has a love affair

mostly controlled by a mean and power hungry leader which makes it hard for the citizens grow, themselves and have their own thoughts.Some of the citizens don’t really know they are being controlled and others are wide awake but scared to speak up and rebel against this power hungry leaders. The works “1984 by George Orwell, “Brave New world by Aldous Huxley, and Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut all have dystopian elements with varying degrees of sacrifice and gain. In general dystopian societies offer

pleasure sinks into the pit of my stomach. Some choose to trade in beauty and prosperity for a destiny that is unknown; the knowing strictly belongs to those who have made it out of Omela. I would too choose to leave Omela but not alone and not without a fight. Staying in this town would mean standing amongst a group of people who refuse to stand up for what is good, only to protect the self-centered comfort and vain beauties of life; this is something that I simply will not do. With my decision

help of colored men, but there are slaves being forced to fight for the rebel army. He was frustrated that congress even considered allowing the slave holders to walk free without shame, as the slaves must keep their heads down and behave. Dis he have a right to be angry? Was he fair to Abraham Lincoln, the Former President of the United States of America? The Civil War should not have lasted any longer then a year. The Rebels were outnumbered, out gunned, they had inferior machines and less money

Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield flunks out of Pencey Prep and leaves to New York. He goes to many people that he knows and they tell him what is wrong and what can be fixed in his life, but he doesn’t want to accept it. In the movie Rebel Without a Cause, Jim has conflicting morals with his father, and he finds out many things about what it means to be a man. Holden and Jim are different because Holden is unable to demonstrate growth from advice and doesn’t listen to possible mentors because