Edward Hallowell

You’ve heard of the Titanic’s sinking, right? Well, do you know who is exactly is responsible though? The captain of the R.M.S. Titanic is to blame, which was Captain Edward J. Smith and he was a popular leader. He had a total of 38 years of working with the White Star Line, the company that owned the Titanic. Captain Smith should have had full control of the ship and obviously, that night, he did not. Therefore, Captain Smith is the the person to blame for the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic because

The book, The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett is a fable. Hartnett weaves a story about two Romani boys who find themselves in a zoo, which has talking animals. One of its most essential themes, even more so than freedom, is trust. The last line of The Midnight Zoo emphasises this, as the eagle trusts who he sees is Alice. Hartnett expresses the importance of trust by showing how it can impact us and make us peaceful with ourselves. Hartnett builds on the theme of trust by effectively using the primary

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club is a satirical novel. In the novel an unnamed narrator struggles with insomnia and the ability to cope with an emasculated, self-centered, materialistic society. Which eventually leads him to develop a split personality named Tyler Durden. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a man named Dr. Jekyll is able to concoct a draught to split the good and evil of a man, but they develop into separate personalities in the same body. One being

Armed with opposable thumbs and high-functioning frontal lobes, humans have historically battled disease, including the “the speckled monster”; smallpox. Known as a highly contagious virus, smallpox has been around since 10,000 B.C., and its plagues are responsible for causing millions of deaths. There was no knowledge of how to treat or prevent this disease from spreading until the idea of taking samples of dead smallpox cells and injecting them into a human was proven to build immunity. Over time

distinguishes his movies from others. His movies have won many awards. He uses color and lighting in order to create a suspenseful mood for his audience. His unique use of color and lighting are shown in his movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare before Christmas. In these three movies Tim Burton uses color to create a suspenseful mood for his audience. In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie's town is full of grey brick buildings and a magnificent

style. Tim Burton exemplifies his style in one of his movies, Edward Scissorhands. In a castle high on a hill top lives an inventor’s most phenomenal creation- Edward. The inventor passed before finishing Edward’s hands, leaving scissors in their place. He is alone until a kind woman, Peg, finds Edward and invites him into her home. In the beginning, everyone is welcoming of him, until things take a change for the worse. In the film Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses low-key lighting, and non-diegetic

David Fincher's Fight Club, is an adaptation of the novel written by Chuck Palahniuk of the same title. Based in a post-modern materialistic society, Fight Club focuses on the blue-collar workers, and their desperation to get away from the materialism of the society they are living in. It all begins with the introduction of an unknown narrator, an insomniac who just so happens to be narrating his own life. The narrator, never explicitly named, is assumed by the viewer to be the main character. He

"Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S. Ensures Years of Turmoil" Stereotyping of Arabs by the U.S. Ensures Years of Turmoil by Edward Said (1935-2003) is an argumentative article that illustrates Americans preconceived notions about the Arab population. Edward Said, a renowned Professor of Literature at Columbia University provides a background for this essay with his most famous work, Orientalism. Orientalism revolves around the concept of orientalist thinking and Said believes that the Americans portray

In the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, a group of disarrayed men search for the true meaning of their lives and what it means to be a man in the postmodern time period. Postmodernism is a period that followed modernism, portraying less organization and more freedom. Fight Club addresses the dominant mindsets, ideologies, and preoccupations of the postmodernism era found in the film. Throughout Fight Club the mindset of not conforming to the way other men live regularly is practiced

something big will happen. The next example comes from the movie “Edward Scissorhands.” Burton uses dolly/tracking, as well, when a group of teenagers and Edward “break” into the house that belongs to Jim. This technique makes the viewer feel uneasy about what’s going to happen next in the scene because the technique gives off a suspenseful with a hint of excitement vibe. Furthermore into this film, Burton also uses boom/crane to show Edward panicking slightly when he realizes that the teenagers locked