Shine

The action scenes between Swimming upstream and Shine reflect many similarities and differences. The interior setting within Swimming Upstream provides a claustrophobic space in which stages the frequent family confrontations, similarly the same as the gloomy home featured in Shine. While both films are similar in this aspect, these scenes are portrayed through different camera angles. For example, in Swimming Upstream action scene, chapter … the director uses framing camera shots where Dora and

In the short story, “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”, Clint the protagonist of the story endures many conflicts in the story and racism is one of the conflicts he endures. Racism isn’t something that everyone goes through, but people have witnessed it sometime in their life. Today there is a racial divide in the United States. Racism is still very much alive as it is in “The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas”. That being said, I empathize for Clint because I’ve grown up around racism, witnessed

Shine She is walking down the street with lips coated in a sparkly pink lip gloss. The wind blows crazily as she takes a turn around a corner. Her beautifully curled hair blows straight into her lip gloss getting stuck like a finger slammed in a door. However, this is nothing like what is portrayed in Herbal Essences’s ad for their Smoooth and Shine Collection shampoo (see Fig.1). Nicole Scherzinger is the focus of the ad with her face slightly offset. She is placed on a white background with two

can be seen from the shore and people can even swim with them if they wish. Where you see people in trees and giant lizards wandering around, where carpets can levitate and waves curl into tubes and and fish can fly and birds can sing, where the sun shines bright and everyone is greeted with a grin. In this special place pearls cause the water to sparkle and the sun causes the pearls to make underwater rainbows among the schools of colorful unique fish. If you look closely and try really hard you might

In this excerpt from Emily Bronte’s poem “How Clear She Shines” the elements of Gothicism are displayed clearly. The overall cynical mood sets the scene for a gothic style of writing; the contrasts between truth and treachery, joy and pain, peace and grief, bring out a feeling of unease that is Gothicism. Besides this poem, Emily Bronte wrote an entire gothic novel called Wuthering Heights. This novel portrays two lovers with a very unhealthy relationship in where they are very passionate but take

The Worldly Struggles The sun shines in the window of a modest house located in Indiana and pierces the eyes of a young couple. Groaning, the tired man struggles to his feet and stumbles out the room. As he is walking, he suddenly feels sharp, intense pain coming from his left shoulder, like someone snuck up behind him and stabbed his shoulder. Concerned, he rushes to the bathroom mirror to examine his left shoulder. As he takes off his shirt, he notices that half of his arm is black and blue. When

Adeline’s Time to Shine Développer your leg behind your ear, keep your arms light while not weak, grand jeté in a perfect split with balloon, stay pulled up in your core at all times, smile through the pain of dancing on the tips of your toes, on three inches of wood covered in satin. All things that are crucial if you want to be a professional dancer. All things I can do. But, now that I actually am a professional, I’m positive I lack the confidence. On my very first day of rehearsal with the

The short story, The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight, is about an African American boy, Clint, who is attending a school that is majority filled of white people. In his class there are only 2 other African Americans, Ah-so and Marvin, while the rest of the class is white. Clint hates Marvin, because he gives the negative stereotypes of an African American. Clint hates the fact that the whites stereotype them and wants to prove himself that he can be anything but that. His

Golden sunlight shines through the clear sky, casts a sharp bright reflection on the top of the mountains in distanced. The air is tingled up with the sweet smell of summer orange blossom, and with mountain lined up in one direction, the ocean in the other. The horizon of the blue ocean stretches far and gently vanished little by little, and then finally kisses the skyline. Peer out from the hills over the ocean coast, those palm trees grown tall into the sky, swaying their branches in the breezes

For the Historical Figure project, I decided to choose the infamous Chicago gangster, Al Capone. The fictional book I used is titled, “Al Capone Shines My Shoes” which is a children’s novel, where he is a key character who helps the protagonist while his stay The Alcatraz Prison. Throughout the book, he appears through the book to help the main character, Moose, achieve his goals, while benefiting from it all himself. The author Gennifer Choldenko describes Capone in ways that are both similar and