Caitlin Todd

It’s All Fun and Games When Someone Gets Hurt Since the beginning of hockey, fans have gone crazy for the entertainment fights bring to the games. The punches thrown, blood drawn and players knocked out certainly excites the crowd and are part of the culture of the game. In fact, it is so widely accepted, that teams specifically hire big guys to be “enforcers” that protect the rest of the team and throw the punches no one else cares to. Despite its duration in the league, do these fights have negative

Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods are musicals with lyrics and scores written by Stephen Sondheim. In Sweeney Todd, a barber is sent to Australia for trumped up charges while the Judge steals his wife and daughter. Barker comes back with a vengeance, renames himself Sweeney Todd and vows to make the Judge pay for what he has done. In Into the Woods, a witch has put a curse on a family for generations because the patriarch stole some vegetables from her garden. Springing from this robbery, she set a

Narrative in visual culture May 14th 2012 Vis Com 1st Year Non-linear narrative structures have deeply influenced how subjects are presented in visual culture.   Joanne Duff DT545 Vis Com 1st Year Non-linear narrative structures have deeply influenced how subjects are presented in visual culture. The first movie I looked at was Irréversible, a French movie written, directed and produced by Gasper Noé. Noé employs a non-linear narrative to force the audience to think about the actions

Hal Freeland 10/26/16 The Dark Knight Dilogy Part 1 Bruce Wayne, the Batman, leaned against one of the many high reaching, cold, damp, and rocky walls of the Batcave. Not suited up, but wearing khakis and an undershirt, he felt the cold of the wall while waiting for some crime information to process. There was a particular robbery that he could not be the first responder to. But of course, the Gotham Police are on a different level of skill in the crime-stopping field, therefore, the offenders escaped

As a little kid, I had always feared dogs. Actually, I guess you could say I was scared to death of them. I never knew why, but the moment I spotted one of those little, fluffy demons, I was running for my life. Eight years old and caked with dirt from a Little League game I just finished, I headed over to the car. Sloppy mud floating around in my shoe, I felt like I was walking around in a marsh. My dad was driving the silver Toyota Matrix and playing one of his Rolling Stones albums, full

What is competition? According to a modern social scientist, “Competition is one of the most basic functions of nature. Those best able to compete within an environmental niche survive. Those least well adapted die out” (“Humans are Competitive Beings”). Henry Russell Sanders, UCLA Bruins football coach, is credited with the phrase, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” In comparison, Vince Lombardi is quoted as having said, “Winning isn’t everything, but the desire to win is.” Although

It was fall 1972 when Professor clark had discovered the bacteria. Professor Clark thought he ruled the world for what he had discovered but he was soon going to learn what dark secrets the government have been hiding from their fellow citizens. Okay class have a seat please, today we are going to be going over something fascinating. Today we will be going over bacteria! If I Must remind you guy’s, a man from the government will be coming in to see what I Have discovered so please show him respect

tone than the original story, where the tone originates from the funeral scene. Within the book, Dubus uses foreshadowing that helps create the tone that suggests to the reader something is coming. However, in contrast, the director of In the Bedroom, Todd Field, Field started the movie with a happy and calm scene which usually implies a happy story, but later devastates the audience with a series of killings. In the Killings, Dubus used foreshadowing throughout the story to show the anger and the grief

Neil Gaiman’s Stardust is known to be a charming fairy tale that is within the tradition of The Neverending Story and The Princess Bride. Neil Gaiman tells the story of Tristan thorn who is love with a girl considered to be the prettiest in the town. Tristan makes a foolish promise to the girl by telling her that he would find the falling star that they had watched flashes across the night sky (Gaiman 1999). The girls promise that she would marry Tristan and this motivates him to go out and search

This is the story of the well-known Genisus Stockwood. They say she fell asleep for 20 whole years!! Genisus was the most sweetest, goofiest girl you could’ve ever met. I’m not sure how her story came about so I can’t tell it to you like it was. I figure there’s no one who can tell it to you better than Genisus herself. Here we go again.. You’re probably wondering how in the world my story came about. Well I’m about to tell you. I, Genisus Stockwood had fallen asleep for 20 years!!! Now I know