Silent Gig

Blink and you 're dead Chapter 1: The encounter It seemed to be another typical day. Windy, but warm. I honestly thought today couldn 't get interesting at all. Until I met Wisp and the angels. I was in the park, just sitting on the bench reading my book when I began to hear a strange whirring noise. I looked up from my book to see a what seemed to be a police box. It wasn 't there before... and this is Georgia! Not England. I saw the doors begin to open and I shoved my face back in my book.

Many Hollywood studios were prosperous in the international movie industry. These studios improved American Films and continue to be affluent today. Hollywood was the birthplace of movie studios, which were of great importance to America’s public image in the movie industry. The earliest and most affluent film companies were Warner Brothers Pictures, Paramount, RKO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and 20th Century Fox, each of whom owned their own film production sets and studios. Universal, United, and Columbia

The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene first made its appearance in 1920. The film is considered one of the most defining German expressionist film out of the Avant-garde cinema movement. The film became a template for future films that is horror based and also influenced the film style of film noirs with its lighting. With its gothic tone that pays homage to expressionistic paintings that depicts human emotions, the film shows us a place that is distorted and twisted through the narration

Today I am about to meet my prospective “grandmother” from the States! I am excited to chat up with some silent generations from America and it is my chance to soak up some American culture and history. As a foreigner who never had the opportunity to talk to someone older than 50; it 's a pleasure to see how thing will end up. Initially, I am not expecting much nor less from the conversations, but to my wonders, it opened my eye quite a bit to how different culture have a different style of generation

Multi-Generational Workforce and Training Ami Stanton University of Mary Author Note Ami Stanton is a student in the BUS 622 (Human Resources Development class at University of Mary). Correspondence concerning this assignment should be addressed to Ami Stanton; email: astanton1@umary.edu. Abstract The workplace is changing in demographics and diversity not only racially, but now generationally. “The civilian labor force is projected to increase by 18 million between 2012 and 2022, reaching

Joseph Frank Keaton IV or as everyone had called him Buster Keaton was an American actor, director, producer, writer, comedian, and stunt performer. Buster Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas. Here’s a little fun fact on why everyone calls Joseph Frank Keaton IV, “Buster” Keaton. Legend has it that when Keaton was eighteen months old he fell on a flight of stairs and there was a famous magician that we all know and love that was there to see it and his name was Harry Houdini. After

Stephen King once said “Our emotions and our fears form their own body, and we recognize that it demands it’s own exercise to maintain proper muscle tone...But anticivilization emotions don’t go away, and they demand periodic exercise.” In the film Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, a nine year old girl named Alessa is forced to live a life of torment. Alessa’s fear and pain never left but instead grew. Alessa as a result allowed her darkest emotions to split from her physical body creating

When the era of silent films was almost finished, Charlie Chaplin completed his last silent movie, called “Modern Times”. The title of the movie itself gives a hint about the changes that human kind would be facing in the future. While watching the movie, the audience is inundated with the ideas of dehumanization of humans in the factories, the ‘Fordism’ ideology, the struggle to earn bread, and many more. Instead of conveying this powerful social message in harsh and serious tone, Charlie Chaplin

When I was young, and knew little about how the world worked, I was frightened by the ideas of monsters in my closet or dolls that come to life while you are asleep. Now that I am older, I have more experience living on Earth, and I know what to expect from it. Likewise, horror genre has grown to create an alternate reality in which one can not assume that what we come to expect of the real world applies in a fictional one: “[The horror genre] must posit an unnatural threat that is outside the realm

Images of Life in City Lights Charlie Chaplin’s (1931) City Lights, is one of the last silent films to be released in America, that was successful, as the age of the ‘talkie’ was beginning. He was one of the few great silent film stars to successfully continue his career. Chaplin uses a lot of symbolism of life in this film, using flowers, blindness, money and of course the Tramp. Charlie Chaplin, or the “Little Tramp”, led a life many referred to as a Cinderella story. Chaplin was the son of