Walter Benjamin

A secondary important figure in defining and examining the absolute film movement within Germany during the 1920s is Walter Ruttman. Unlike Richter he began as a student of architecture and graphic design, which shaped his identity as an experimental filmmaker and accounts for the prominence of shapes and lines within his films. He began his career as filmmaker directly after his release from a hospital in Berlin for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his experiences in WW1. His

The English Renaissance the english renaissance is a time of great culture and writing. the renaissance means rebirth it started after the medieval ages in 1485 and led to our modern age in 1660. it had writers such as sir walter raleigh, John Donne, edmund spenser, and of course the greatest writer in history william shakespeare whose plays still to this day touch the lives of millions. after the english renaissance there was a period called the enlightenment where people such as John Locke, Francis

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist who was born November 4, 1916 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was famous for his anchorman role for CBS Evening News, “his style [was] honesty, impartiality and level-headedness, and “And that's the way it is” was his jaunty nightly sign-off.” (Biography.com Editors) Cronkite reported several breaking news stories, especially during World War II bombings, Nuremberg trials, Vietnam War updates, Iran Hostage Crisis, and the assassination

Will the Roanoke Settlers existence be buried under new condominiums? In the article, “The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?” by Theo Emery, they mention that people are looking to settle where the archeologists and historians are in belief that the Roanoke Settlers once lived, before they vanished. Throughout the article, the author describes the story of the lost colony that settled in the outer banks of North Carolina during the 16th Century. In North Carolina, there is a law that “requires

“The noise were worse than ever, and everybody was shouting through the dark, and nobody seemed to be able to hear what anybody else said” (York, 1998). The movie Sergeant York was released in 1941 as a black and white film by MGM Home Videos. Directed by Howard Hawks, this film showed the life and struggles of the war hero Alvin C. York. The main character, York played by Gary Cooper, struggles with the thought of killing as World War 1 breaks out. The movie shows how Alvin came to know his

In my perspective, I’m going to be concentrating on the two poems The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd differences and similarities on a few things: Love, Nature, Time, and the Material World. What I've seen is that the two poems are complete polar opposites and offset each other. The Shepherd is a perfect dream where nothing ends or love dies. The Nymph is striking back at him with reality and with doubt about what the Shepherd is telling her. My first comparison

Stuntman Damien Walters became a household name and one of our favorite stunt performers when he tumbled out of his clothes and into his nickers in his 2009 Reel. Starting off as a power tumbler, Damien picked up many parkour and freerunning fundamentals and he blew the public away bringing in millions of views on the reel he published in 2009. Damien broke into the stunt business in 2008 when Stunt Coordinator Brad Allan hired himto work on Hellboy II. Since then has done stunt work for a variety

a colony founded by Walter Raleigh established in 1585 on Roanoke Island which is now North Carolina. The colony disappeared without a trace sometime between 1587 and 1590. There are many theories about what happened to the colony but there is no conclusive answer. The lost colony of Roanoke is one of the biggest and oldest American mysteries because of the uncertainty surrounding the circumstances of its disappearance. On the 25th of March, 1584 a charter was issued to Walter Raleigh from Queen

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTITUTION Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721 - July 23, 1793) was lawyer, statesman, and one of the Found Fathers of the United States. Sherman was born into a farm family in Newton, Massachusetts near Boston. When he was two years old his family moved to Stoughton. When he was young his education did not extend pass his father's library and grammar school. Also he had a Harvard-educated parish minister that took him under his wing. In 1743 his father died, so him and

differences between the two. Sometimes there are elements that are present in the book that have a tendency to get lost in the production and directing of a movie. At other times, the movie adds elements that are not originally in the book. In Walter Mosley’s book, “Devil in a Blue Dress,” and the movie of the same name share some similar literary elements. However, there are several vital situations and parts of the book’s story that are not present in the film. Hence, the movie downplays a