I loosely returned her hug. Her embrace was full of emotions. Her daughter has left home; not just home but the country. London was my home, that's where I was brought into the world and I never dreamed of moving away. I found comfort in the hustle and bustle of the city. The roar of the buses, the hum of the constant electricity surging through the underground lines – even the horns of pissed off drivers that stupidly decided to try and drive through London
under some clothes. I regretted not putting the keys on the hook, but I didn’t learn my lesson from that you see back in high school again, I had an honors psychology class I had a big paper at the end of the semester. The class had to write a paper about someone approved by the teacher and diagnose them with a mental disorder. I ended up procrastinating instead of going on my study schedule of doing the paper little by little and having someone check the
“It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me - said all at once” (Lang Leav). The last time my father saw me I was fifteen with nothing but skinned knees and smiles. It’s hard for me to talk about - it’s even hard for me to write about. I’m at a loss for words. I don’t even remember saying goodbye. His absence left its mark. The dinner table is much quieter. There is more room in the coat closet. There is less laughter. Some nights I still find myself waiting for him to get home from work
cannot entirely possess.’ It is true that fictional narratives are not always derived from the personal views or experiences of the author who is writing them. But at times, they can perfectly capture trauma so convincingly that we are almost convinced they are drawing off of first-hand experience. Cathy Caruth, a trauma theorist, has summated that trauma exists in the human psyche as a ‘ghost’ that prevents a person or a character from moving forward and maturing. In Anne Whitehead’s book, Trauma
Introduction My biggest concern with documentary photography is that there exists the notion that documentary photography should be truthful. During my studies I’ve learned allot about narratives and photographic strategies, but little has been mentioned about ethics. Documentary photography has been described as a form, a tradition and a style however there is not one single definition of the word. I’m interested in the line between the photograph as a document of something and the photograph as
Andy Warhol’s Red Race Riot silkscreen of 1963 depicts a scene from the Birmingham campaign during the Civil Rights Movement, appropriated from Charles Moore’s Life Magazine photo essay “The Spectacle of Racial Turbulence in Birmingham: They Fight a Fire That Won’t Go Out” of that same year. The silkscreen, which alludes to a death in the ideals of the American Dream for and the hypocrisy of American society, was originally presented as a part of his “Death in America” exhibition at the Galerie Ileana
American Review” by Denise Heinze, Heinze beliefs that in “New Essays on Song of Solomon” by Valerie Smith, Smith explaining that Toni Morrison is mainly focus on the theme of race, gender history, and culture that is surrounded by Milkman in the story of song of Solomon. Yet Heinze explains “The essays offer a substantive review of familiar readings of the novel while making accessible new and difficult theoretical applications of narrative and language.”(Heinze 159-160) Heinze thinks that the novel
This essay will discuss about the notion of aura in relation to Walter Benjamin’s Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. The focus will be on how the notion of aura had shifted and evolved to this day and time. At the time of his writing, the change caused by photography and film can be said to be still at its infancy. This essay will also discuss how the work of art becomes a creation of entirely new functions , and the new knowledge generated from photography. The adjustment of what
projectionist and projects “himself” (through a dream) into a movie he projects and becomes a detective. The story is fairly standard and a serves as an example of Classical Hollywood editing as it relates to some characteristics of that type of system. This essay will explore the ways in which Sherlock Jr. serves both as an example of this type of editing and how it also deviates from it (showing some of the limitations from it) while using two sequences from
For my essay I chose to write about The Fog Warning by Winslow Homer. I chose this piece not only because of how much this piece is referenced in the education of art but also while I was looking around for a topic to write about I came across it and it was so captivating. The way everything is placed within allows the eyes to wander as though you discovered something new every time you look at it. This piece is world renowned for its ability of capturing some of the great themes of human and nature