Academy Award for Best Art Direction Essays

Once Cara got back from the long swim in the lake they decided that it was best if they go back to California. Cara packed her long sleeves, each pair of pants and socks and her many shoes. Once they were all done packing they got out of Issac Mendez’s house and got a taxi. Once they got to the airport Cara, Lyle and Issac just stared at the crowd huge of people going in and out of the airport. They got out of the taxi and went into the huge crowd of people with their bags glued to their hands. They

Simon says The last key turned in the deadbolt with a loud click that resounded through the tenement hallway. She inhaled the mix of aromas, Thai, curry and the odd scent of sauerkraut assaulted her nose. She shook her head to dissipate the foul scents that if served on their own might be quite savory. Her shoulder shoved the heavy door open as the grocery bag in her hands began tilting to the point of almost spilling on the floor. She used her foot to kick the door closed behind her and sat the

Hello WUVT members past and present! Some of you may not have had the chance to get to know me yet, so let me introduce myself. I’m Shaun Zirges, WUVT’s General Manager for the 2015-2016 school year. Before that I was WUVT’s Chief Engineer for two years, and before that just some kid who was about as passionate about music as they come, looking for a place to call my own. I’m not here to tell you my life story, however, I’m here to tell you about Radiothon and how WUVT’s been doing. Because of your

Sad news came out today from the country music duo Joey + Rory. Joey Feek has been battling cancer for a while now and things have looked up and then back down. Taste of Country shared today that they are now stopping treatments and have gone home to just live life. This is Joey's second battle with cancer and she recently had surgery and also went through chemotherapy, but Joey + Rory didn't get the news they had hoped for from the doctors. Rory went to their blog This Life I Live today to share

A pivotal part of The Secret History’s plot would be when Henry reveals to Richard about the bacchanal and explains what happened that led up to the murder of the farmer. The simple story is that Henry, Charles, Camilla, and Francis took drugs, rehearsed ancient rituals, and then in a drug induced frenzy killed a man. The plot is very different though, with first revealing that the group had killed someone. Richard asks, “You killed somebody...didn’t you?” In the story this is the end, but this only

Meanwhile, Nick, Russ, Ron, and I were in the jungle of our backyard when we heard some big loud rumbling sound. All of a sudden we felt a shaking ground and a great rumble. Before we knew it there were water bombs exploding everywhere around us. I said” RUN!!!!” We were running,trying not to hit by the water droplets the size of automobiles. All of a sudden I heard Russ say “ Look Over There!” We all turned and saw a big giant blue lego. “ We should hide in there,” Ron said. Nick said “Great idea

Abduction Elias wakes up on the day that changes his life. He went to work in his brand new Lamborghini Aventador he worked hard for, all he didn’t like about the car were the wheels, He says they looked like old dirty toilet seats that has been ran over several times by a dumpster truck. When he arrives his co workers immediately noticed the new car. Elias’s boss Mr.Knapp looked at him with malice in his eyes, Elias knew he better get to work. Once he starts using the crane to move wood around

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls is about a boy and his dogs and the passion they have for hunting. In the book, a boy lives on a dairy farm and he really wants hounds for hunting. He works for 2 years to get them. He hunts with them every day. There are some scary moments when he thinks his dogs are going to die. Then one day his papa tells him about a hunting competition and they go to it. After a couple of days at it they actually win it. The books shows that nothing can last forever

Comparison of Romeo and Juliet’s modern movie with William Shakespeare’s text The film is a creative self expression to express the life experiences. The inspirations to come up with the movie are painting, poetry and life experiences. The film and a book rely on different techniques in order to evoke ones emotions to express the same story. In film there won’t be any mystery for everything is clearly displayed. In a literature everything need visualization in our mind and built up our

Anthony Quinn did the most unthinkable at the time in American history. He was the first Mexican immigrant to win an Oscar for best-supporting actor, and later won another Oscar for the same category in 1956. At this point of history, no Mexican immigrant has ever won an Oscar in the same category twice. Anthony Quinn may be the first Mexican immigrant to win an Oscar for best supporting actor, but he certainly will not be the last Mexican immigrant to make an outstanding achievement in American film

Both Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir, have very similar views on topics like power and the corruption of authority, the ideal life and society and even the significance of self in our vast world. Animal Farm follows the rise and fall of Soviet Russia as depicted through animals, the novel is one of the greatest uses of figurative writing and accurately portrays humanity's flaws in a system as well as individually. Truman Show is about a man who discovers his

Rationale Animal Farm is a political allegory that represents the Russian Revolution but instead of people the author, George Orwell, decided to use animals. Also the book emphasizes the communist system at that time but in the story the animals called Animalism. In this written assignment I will create a new character called Tornado who tries to save Boxer after Napoleon lied to the animals and called the Horse Slaughterer to kill Boxer instead of the hospital because he was sick, but Tornado can’t

The texts Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir, explore three main themes, power, utopia and the good life. Animal Farm is a novel about a farm where all the animals want to rebel against the humans and one pig tries to take control of the rebellion but ends up being just as bad and just as powerful as the humans, the whole book is a metaphor for communist Russia. The Truman Show is a film about a man who has lived his whole life inside a dome created by Christoff

The struggle a someone can go through to test if they have control over their life, or to find out if their destiny has been decided can be shown throughout literature and film. In The Truman Show existentialism plays a big role into how this program is created. The Production of this film is simulated by tiny cameras placed secretly around a small town inside a dome. These cameras are used to follow around a man named Truman Burbank, and record his life. Essentially creating a popular T.V. show

The novel “Animal Farm” Written by George Orwell and the film “The Truman show” directed by Peter Weir are very different but they also share many of the same views. This essay will talk about the “good life”, a “good society” and “power and control”, It will also talk about the differences and similarities between the two texts. “Animal Farm” is about a group of animals that live on a farm that team up and take the farm away from the humans, all is good until three pigs change all of the rules

This idea comes from the author’s childhood and the environment where she grew up in, “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a novel of historical fiction written by Harper Lee and was first published in the year 1960’s. Beloved by a lot of readers (winning many awards including Pulitzer Prize in the year 1961), Lee’s only novel has portrayed her own childhood life,

“Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”, “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “The Departed”- this is only a short list of movies which were directed by a talented Italian-American screenwriter, Martin Charles Scorsese. With more than 50 years of film directing experience, with lots of rewards, including Oskar, he remains to be one of the most influential and recognized film producers around the globe. From very young age Mr. Scorsese was very passionate about film making and at the age of 26 he already

all animals and the rejection of all human contact. By the end of the novel, the pigs are in an open alliance with the humans and behave just like them, even by walking on two legs. A revolution aimed at improving the lives of the animals, with the best possible intentions, has degenerated into a nightmare. Similar to the creation and destruction of the Soviet Union, Napoleon in Animal Farm is directly connected to Joseph Stalin, while Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, and Old Major is Vladimir Lenin

Positives and Negatives Effects of Movie Hero and Villains People grow up with heroes and villains when they are growing up to show proper behavior. This is displayed through the images in mythology, books, comics, television, and movies. The narratives have a vast influence on society is with movies. The heroes or villains in movies are “the manifestations of how an individual views of life. It can mirror their hopes, dreams and aspirations” (Pedalino) if the individual relates to the hero

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” critiques Victorian womanhood in several ways throughout the text. Victorian women were expected to be pure, dainty, and perfectly angelic. They were also expected to be perfect mothers, wives, and hostesses at all times. If a woman were to express too much emotion, she would be called hysterical. Hysteria was considered a medical condition which rendered a woman incapable of reason or generally thinking like an adult. However, because of societal