In the Early years of film one can easily say that Germany lead the way in experimentation, with such striking examples as Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu and Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. How when looking at two of these film, Nosferatu and Dr Mabuse the Gambler one can find a similar theme that run throughout. This theme is that of Weimar’s insecurity about outsiders and otherness different cultures. While both films have different stories at their very simplest both films see someone come into the idyllic
The Masque of The Red Death is a famous short story written by Edgar Allen Poe which talks about a party happening in a large amount of different rooms that were all painted different colors. The main room as the title says would be the red room. Everyone was at the gala; you had your ballet dancers, your musicians, and your wine. The wine is most likely a reference to sophisticated men buying drinking expensive fine wine or cognac. You have the beauty; this references girls and goes into the stereotype
much more. Pilots at first had only a pistol to protect themselves in case of danger. When pilots demanded that machine guns be fitted to their airplanes, the air f... ... middle of paper ... ...3/william-billy-avery-bishop.html>. "Manfred, baron von Richtofen,” Encyclopaedia Brittannica Online. 2011. Encyclopaedia Brittannica. Web. 02 Jan, 2011. < http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/502888/Manfred-Freiherr-von-Richthofen>. McCaffery, Dan. Air Aces : The Live and Times of Twelve Canadian
Adrianna stalked down the wilderness, her dark red hair swaying from left to right. With her equally red face, it was a fact that she wasn't in the least bit happy. She just got in a fight with her father and mother, who were religious purebloods. They didn't wand to see her hanging out with some 'filthy little mudbloods and bloodtraitiors', as they liked to described her best friends. The dark was suddenly overcoming the morning and she stepped back, "Lumos." she whispered, her hand moving her wand
face-to-face combat to systematic style of battle through trenches. To adapt to this style, countries developed new weapons and tactics to prevail over their enemies. But, the war simply remained a draw. Trench warfare prolonged World War I by a causing a bloody stalemate where millions died from modern weapons and horrid living conditions. Trench warfare had been used in past wars, but the Germans popularized this style during World War I. Germans sought to capture Paris, but faced the French at the Marne
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them” (“Bruce Lee”). During World War I, the mistake of Serbia killing the archduke was neither admitted nor forgiven. A series of events brought together the European continent into a bloody and unprecedented war. WWI depicts that a small error or miscommunication leads to a bigger issue and suffering of people as portrayed through the aftereffects of the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At the beginning of WWI, the civilians and soldier’s