Held Up

I was a bit under seven when I was found. They had come with guns and flamethrowers, against my village’s spears and stone swords, but the members of our struggling village put up a good fight, but not for long. Us children were snagged up like leaves in the wind, and carried away. Most were knocking out by their captors to stop their screaming, I pretended to be as well, I was terrified to be hit in the head with one of their clubs. I heard the man carrying me cough. His cough sprayed spit on

nothing.” I say, pocketing the money. I leave the wallet by his body and quickly head out the door. I check if I have any bloodstains on me. Luckily, I don’t. At least, not any noticeable ones. If I stood any closer to him I probably would have ended up with blood splatters everywhere. I walk for about 10 minutes before I reach a the entrance of the subway. But, as I’m about to head down the steps, I hear sirens; police sirens. Oh God no. A witness, who prefers to remain unknown, was outside the 7

(Funk & Wagnall’s, 275). From the Middle Ages to the 13th century, the church played important role as authority, influence. The Catholic Church held up due to the power of the Pope, Pope Gregory’s policies, and the Church was a part of the citizen’s daily lives. In the Middle Ages houses of the poor and wealthy were often alike,

Another part of the film that is also very Disney and very Pixar is the visual feast that the eyes enjoy while watching. Robertson says, “Pixar has created something unique. The light. The colors. The textures. Ratatouille is not a film with brightly colored toys, fish, bugs, or cars”, which would allow it to perhaps be the most Disney of the films on which Disney and Pixar have created together (Robertson, 20). Yet, even without those interesting aspects, Ratatouille is very visually appealing

right? Orwell wrote this for people suffering in countries with political dominance. The citizens gave in to what the government put in front of them, and in that molded their value system to make even the “wonderful shot of a child 's arm going up up up right up into the air” cause the audience to jump for joy. Orwell’s entire novel is terrifying to say in the least, but what bothers me the most about the mentioned diary entry is realizing that this is not far off from where we are as a society watching

Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division in 1979, is original name of Pixar. Since Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs bought it at 10 million dollars and named Pixar Painting studios in 1986, Pixar becomes a real corporation. In the same year, as its first computer-animated short film, luxo Jr. , which is also the source of its mascot, is nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Moreover, almost every film it creates wins satisfying awards in the following years. The year

UP is an American made film, directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. The writers accountable for this outstanding adventure-filled movie are Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, and Tom McCarthy. Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios are responsible for producing this animated family comedy often perceived as a children’s movie. UP was first released in the United States May 29, 2009 with a run time of one hour and thirty-six minutes. UP is recognized as a family movie for people of all ages (“UP

it is symbolic of reaching the height of success. The vocals are slow and melodic, creating the ambiance in which the story takes place. The lyrics, translated from French to English, tell the story tells the story of the plight of a dreamer, the ups and downs and ultimately the emotional response and joy from achieving those dreams. The hidden beauty of “Le Festin” is that as the first song on the soundtrack, the lyrics tell the full story of Ratatouille, they tell Remy’s story. The significance

Disney-Pixar’s Up. Pete Docter, the director of Up, is able to use multiple tactics to display human emotions throughout the film including music and silence, lighting and colors, and 3-D filming. The efficacy of these tactics will be further analyzed to see if their use yields value to the production as a whole. The melodious instrumentals that accompany Up have the ability to plunge the audience deeper into the fantastic animated environment. The composer of the soundtrack for Up, Michael Giacchino

cosmopolitanism as an idea, practice, and an attitude is proposed, while the term itself may have empirical, normative and practical meaning. The paper is continued with explaining key elements of thought of contemporary cosmopolitan authors, namely, David Held, Kwame Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Pogge and Ulrich Beck. Held’s cosmopolitanism is based on the premise that national state can not remain the sole dominant level of governance in the globalized, interconnected world. That is why his works concentrate