Alfred Edward Housman

Ames Room What is an Ames room? An Ames Room is a room that is used to create a visual illusion due to its slanted figure. While the room gives an appearance of a square-shaped from the viewers’ observation, it actually has a trapezoid shape. This effect works by developing a distorted room to create the illusion of a intense modification in its size. The illusion that is projected leads the observer to believe that the two objects that are in the same depth of area, when in reality the subject…

Superman does not Dream In Part 3 of Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Raskolnikov once again wrestles with his emotions after his murder of Alyona and constant evasion of the police. The police just found a piece of Raskolnikov's writing from about two month before. He describes his belief for the need of some great being to be above the law, in order to make their society more safe. Once reminded of his old writing, Raskolnikov begins to wrestle with himself whether he truly…

Sound is an integral element in a film that is overlooked in its importance. The way the director manipulates sounds allows the film's tone to play with how the audience feels and in film such as Babel[Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006], Noise [Matthew Saville, 2007],Two Hands, Jaws [Steven Spielberg, 1975] and many other … films it is done so effectively. The use of sound conveys emotion, the story and how the filmmaker is interpreted throughout the film. These films rely on sound to…

The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock directed a film which was named Rear Window. In this movie the main characters were Lisa Carol Fremont, L.B. Jeff, and Detective Doyle. L.B. Jeff was played by James Stewart is a man who is confined to his apartment and his only view of the world in looking out his window in his apartment. Lisa Carol Fremont was played by Grace Kelly, she was a model who showed interest in Jeff, but could not get his attention. Detective lieutenant Doyle was played by Wendell Corey was…

‘The road was a ribbon of moonlight, looping the purple moor’ (line 3). The whole of the first three stanzas are used to introduce the poem and give a detailed description of the location, which helps to foreshadow a moody tone further in the novel. Alfred Noyes continuously repeats ‘The ___ was a ___’ in lines 1,2 and 3 to clearly express the meter intended. The initial complication occurs in stanza four, when the poet is describing the features of Tim the Ostler and using dramatic irony to…

Thus, the “Great Viking Invasion” began. They were able to conquer almost all of the kingdoms in northern England until they came to Wessex where the Vikings were defeated by King Alfred the Great. While defeated, King Alfred was unable to force the Vikings out of the country. Despite a peace treaty, the warring went on for many years. As legendary as the Vikings were, nothing is more recognizable as a Viking funeral. Norse funerals were important displays…

Vivien Thomas is a brilliant hero recognized for his groundbreaking research regarding the illness called the “Blue baby syndrome”. Due to Thomas’ unfaltering determination and passion for pursuing a career in the medical field, his innovative ideas and inventions have immensely advanced our medical technology. With hands blessed by the Almighty, he saved countless numbers of infants diagnosed with the Tetralogy of Fallot. The Great Depression that plagued America in the 1930’s is held…

Hurricane Matthew made landfall in the United States on Saturday, October 8, bringing up to Category 4 force winds, rain and storm surge to communities across the Southeast. U.S. officials reported damage of at least $10 billion, making Matthew the costliest hurricane since Sandy in 2012. In North Carolina and South Carolina, swollen rivers transformed thoroughfares into canals and homes into sodden islands, in some cases with only the roof or the windows peeking above the water. American Red…

The film "Chinatown" presents Los Angeles’s crisis of stifling drought, despite the presence of the river, but the lack of dams and poor drainage tampering in the city. In the film we sink into the thirties of Los Angeles glooms as if we are at that moment. So the director was able to take us to see that moment through (atmospheres, decor, clothes, make-up and even music) in order to make us live this melancholy atmosphere of crime. The film story begins after a visit from a lady for the office…