Ancient Stele essays

Antiquated Stele articles Similarly as we use headstones to stamp graves and celebrate our dead, so too did old human advancements. One approach to do as such in the antiquated world was using steles. A stele is a stone chunk, generally enhanced in help and engraved, that respected the passing of an individual. Three of the antiquated societies that had executed the utilization of the stele were the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. In looking at a model from every human progress, it is conceivable to see the advancement of the stele starting with one period then onto the next and the various impacts every development had on a solitary component. The Egyptians had numerous approaches to respect their dead, including the stele. Well off Egyptians, particularly authorities and cleric, frequently had stele put close to their burial chambers. These steles for the most part recounted the name, position/rank, and the sobriquets of the expired alongside a funerary supplication. (Hmm 224) One such model is the Funerary Stele from Dendereh from the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2150 BCE). (College of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology) This stele has a place with a man named Tjaunty, an authority during the First Intermediate Period. The stele delineates Tjaunty on the most distant left of the rectangular section. The other 66% of the stele are saved for engravings of symbolic representations. The delineation of Tjaunty is normal for the Egyptian style. The motivation behind the Egyptian style was to speak to the human structure in the most clear and most complete manner. The head is appeared in profile yet with the eye in a frontal position. The purpose behind this is the head is progressively unmistakable from the profile position; the eyes, then again, are increasingly agent from the frontal view. The shoulders are given frontally the midriff, hips, legs, and feet in profile. (Hmm 18) In Tjaunty's funerary stele, Tjaunty is introduced in this extremely unmistakable way. He is likewise appeared with the images of his situation as an authority. This is known in light of the fact that Tj... <!

Decartes meditations Essay Example For Students

Decartes reflections Essay In Descartes Meditations he discusses a wide range of things.Two things he discusses are his contentions on Dreams and what he calls the Evil Demon. Them two have to do with deluding the brain into having confidence in things that might be false. The fantasy contention has to do with that we never really know whether we are dreaming or we are conscious. Since it is extremely unlikely for an individual to tell in the event that they are dreaming or not, an individual reasonably can not tell on the off chance that anything they have ever experienced or is encountering is genuine or only a minor dream. We choose what is genuine what we can detect; the issue is that your mind can deceive your faculties. Your fantasies can cause you to feel like you are accomplishing something, seeing something, or feeling some other sense. Presently this fits directly in with the Evil Demon contention. In the Evil Demon contention you are being deceived by an outside source. This outside source can do totally anything, it can control the entirety of your faculties and you have no force at all to stop this being. So if the being can control your faculties nothing you sense, or accept is there, really is there. In the event that both of these thing s is genuine have we really ever done anything? What are we genuinely doing? In the interim I have composed this whole paper have I truly composed anything? For all I know is that I imagined I composing this whole paper. Truly my faculties disclose to me I composed this paper. I needed to consider what to type and in the mean time I was composing the paper I was getting truly exhausted, at that point my feeling of hearing hears the signature tune to the TV show The Simpsons. Was this impressive TV show quite, or was some unrivaled being simply playing with my brain? My inclination is that it truly doesnt matter on the off chance that it was genuine or I had fun and the half hour break I trusted I had in the mean time I was watching it. Book reference:

Riot Roundup The Best Books We Read In August

Riot Roundup The Best Books We Read In August We asked our contributors to share the best book they read last month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, much moreâ€"there are book recommendations for everyone here! Some are old, some are new, and some aren’t even out yet. Enjoy and tell us about the highlight of your reading month in the comments. Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee Backlist is my middle name and this is one of the best books, backlist or front, that I’ve read in a long time. Lee’s collection of stories, even though it was left out of the marketing plan, leans heavily toward campus tales. Those are some of my faves, so the setting, layered in with difficult and curious characters, put this one way over the top. In one story a young girl chooses her best friend’s wife, in another a desperate young woman revisits the psychologist from her childhood, and a dinner party takes a turn from pretentious to emotionally devastating. If you love quirky literary fiction that happens to involve a lot of universities and professorly types, it’s all here. â€"Andi Miller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah Given that Noah is a comedian who grew up in South Africa during apartheid, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from Born a Crime? A harrowing tale about inequality and violence? Funny stories about a kid about being kid? With Born a Crime I got both. One minute I was grimacing, the next I was shaking with fear or anger, and the minute after that I was laughing out loud.  Noah has a gift for pointing out the horror and the absurdity of a situation while also making people laugh. Thanks book club for making me read this. â€"Tiffani Willis Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown I thought I was prepared for this book, that I had the historical and cultural background to be appalled, but not surprised by the details of the betrayal and atrocity that the doctrine of Manifest Destiny brought to the indigenous peoples of North America. I was not. Every page strikes the reader in the gut with the reality of the Indian genocide, but the strength of the narrative lies in the heroes’ response to each phase of the invasion. With every broken treaty, incursion by white soldiers, and act of violence condoned by the American government, warriors of all ages and tribes and temperaments and personalities, described in detailed brushstrokes with meaningful detail, push the boundaries of human imagination to devise new military strategies and battle a powerful enemy. Outgunned in almost every fight, always several steps behind in the arms race, the Indians resist the aggressive theft of their lands for three decades. A powerful, gut-churning, eye-opening piece of history. â€"Monica Friedman Christodora by Tim Murphy I love big, complicated books that take place across decades. Christodora did not disappoint. Kaleidoscoping through time from the 1980s to the 2020’s, it’s a messy, beautiful, heartbreaking story about the AIDS epidemic and AIDS/HIV activism, about art, addiction, and recovery, and ultimately, about how, where, and with whom we find belonging. It is also a brilliant exploration of how traumatic events reverberate through generations. The characters were sublime: flawed and messy, mistake-prone, with rich inner lives and complicated desires. I found myself at turns rooting for them, angry with them, heartbroken for them, deeply troubled by their actions, overjoyed for them, and devastated that I couldn’t have them over for dinner. These people sang on the page. I could not stop listening. (The audiobook was A+). â€"Laura Sackton A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi I finally got on the Star-Touched Queen bandwagon earlier in this month and immediately after downloaded the A Crown of Wishes audiobook. Roshani’s beautiful prose just makes me want to lay down on the floor. I adore how she combines rich world-building, dynamic characters, and truly incredible writing. When my friend told me he loved it even more than the TSTQ, I didn’t think that was possible but it is! It’s lush and whimsical and gorgeously rendered. Im swooning now, just thinking about it. â€"Sarah Nicolas Dark Matter by Blake Crouch I know. This book pubbed over a year ago. What have I been doing instead of already reading it? I’m sorry. I don’t read a lot of sci-fi. And I only picked this one up because I had accidentally fallen into a sci-fi time travel streak. And thank god I did, because I really enjoyed this novel, in which the protagonist wakes up into a life that is not his own, as the man who may or may not have discovered how to access the multiverse. Whatever has happened, it forces him to confront the roads not taken, in addition to the ways in which he has perhaps taken his family for granted. It gets a little out of control at the end there, but I suppose the possibility of infinite universes is also out of control. So I’ll allow it. â€"Steph Auteri Dark Money by Jane Mayer This book dives into the seedy underworld of political funding and exposes the machinations of a group of wealthy conservative mega-donors who are trying to push America’s politics to the far right. I hate reading about financeâ€"put a dollar sign in front of a number and my head starts to spin. But Mayer’s book is surprisingly engagingâ€"partly because of her skill as a writer and partly because the schemes she reveals are so shocking it seems like they belong in a political thriller. This is an absolute must-read if you want to understand the driving force behind the rise of the tea party and the conservative machine that is currently taking over America. â€"Kate Scott Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (HarperCollins Publishers, April 3, 2018) Dread Nation is so good that if you only read one book a year you should make this your 2018 read. And let’s be honest, this book is worth buying for the cover alone; that the contents are equally amazing makes this the book I’m going to be shouting about from now until forever! To say it’s the book I needed to read right now is an understatement. Ireland is a hell of a storyteller, and the story is not only entertaining but also important: Imagine if the focus after the Civil War was on fighting shamblers (zombies) and the U.S. responded by creating schools where black teens and Native Americans were sent for combat training because they were forced to fight off the shamblers. It’s as awesome as it sounds with a heroine who is kick-ass, smart, quick-tongued, and introspectiveâ€"she’s the hero I want fighting beside me. If you’re gonna rewrite history do it for a reason and say something important:  Ireland does. And speaking of rewriting history: in the battle of the st reaming companies, whoever is smart enough to buy the rights to Dread Nation to create a series will be Queen of all streaming services. â€"Jamie Canaves Eat Only When You’re Hungry by Lindsay Hunter When Greg goes out on a quest to find his missing adult son, GJ, he doesn’t seem confident that he’ll actually find him. He runs into strippers, his ex-wife, junkies, and his father’s new “friend” along with way. He concerns himself with his son’s drug and alcohol addictions while he personally deals with a type of food addiction. One of my favorite things about this novel is the foodie prose. People’s bodies seem to be as consumable and temporary as the food they eat, store, and indulge in. â€"Rachel Wagner Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia I have described reading this book (several times now) as feeling like a mixture between having a crush and the night before a new Harry Potter book comes out. And I stand by that description. Eliza is the anonymous creator of the Internet’s most popular web comic. She’s never had friends IRL, until her comic’s biggest fanfiction writer moves to her school. As they become friends and more, Eliza has to navigate family struggles, an anxiety disorder, and the very big secret she’s keeping. Peppered with excerpts of her comic and the accompanying story, this book kept me up well into the night. It is romantic, honest, and beautifully written. I’m sure I’ll be rereading it before too long. â€"Alison Doherty The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee I loved everything about this YA book! Genie Lo is obsessed with getting into a great college, but when her Bay Area town gets besieged by monsters straight out of Chinese folklore she is surprised to find out that she is one of two people who can do anything about it. The other person is the Monkey King himself, who comes to help her in the guise of Quentin Sun, a new transfer student. Witty dialogue, plenty of action, and the seamless incorporation of Chinese folklore makes this a stand out story. I can’t wait for book two! â€"Karina Glaser The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry This book could not have been more *for me* if it tried. A feisty, brilliant widow teams up with a country minister to investigate the local folk tale of a serpent in Victorian England. Along the way, there’s a cardiologist, an invalid, a social reformer, and feasts, sex, and wonderful descriptions of the natural world! It was a book that managed to be thoughtful and beautiful but was also light and an absolute joy to read. I blazed through it in a few days and have been pushing it onto anyone who will listen. â€"Ashley Bowen Exit West by Mohsin Hamid Exit West is short, but it contains so much. It’s a love story and a novel about migration in violent and politically unsettling times. It also contains a dash of fabulism, so that people can walk through doors into new locations around the globe. But these people are not traveling for pleasure; they are fleeing violence and seeking any place that might offer them a better life, or at least allow them to stay alive. The main characters Nadia and Saeed are sharply-drawn, vibrant people whose destinies we come to care about. Hamid’s prose is wonderful: it’s straightforward, simple, brief, and also somehow devastating. But mostly this is a book that speaks to our times, telling stories of the uncertainty and struggle that millions of people forced into migration around the world are facing right now. â€"Rebecca Hussey Final Girls by Riley Sager Our very own Liberty Hardy described this book on Twitter as “Gone Girl meets American Horror Story,” and there was no way in hell I was going to pass up a book with a description like that. And holy bananapants, did this book live up to my expectations. The story revolves around three women who have been dubbed “The Final Girls” by the media, playing upon the horror convention of the “final girl,” the supposedly virtuous woman who is the last person left alive in a slasher movie. Quincy, the most recent Final Girl, just wants to move on with her life, but that becomes difficult to do when Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her apartment and Sam, the mysterious second Final Girl, shows up unexpectedly on Quincy’s doorstep. The tone of this book is absolutely spot on more Dark Places than Gone Girl but it’s creepy as hell and it evokes the best qualities of 80’s slasher movies. I stayed up way past my bedtime trying to finish this book.   â€"Katie McLain The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin Young Readers) It’s no surprise that this won a Newbery Medal. I originally picked this up for my local indie’s monthly book group. We generally stick to adult fiction, so a middle grade book about a girl overflowing with magic was a true departure for us. But the response at our book group’s meeting was very telling. This is a lovely story that approaches complicated and sometimes dark themes. I felt there was a very strong feminist message that informed the book and the characters. This is the type of story that reminds you of the amazing work that is currently happening in the middle grade and YA world. â€"Elizabeth Allen Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between by Jennifer Smith (Poppy) Love is complicated. I’m learning that this year. High school sweethearts travel through their town, deciding if they will stay together and maintain long-distance connections through college, or end their relationship. Clare wants to break up, while Aidan wants to stay together. Tensions run high, especially when Clare finds out that Aidan lied an important part of college. Yet they try and grow, as both navigate a late night party and their changing minds. â€"Priya Sridhar The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao by Martha Batalha (October 10, OneWorld Publications) Euridice is a talented girl with big ideas for herself, but when her sister, Guida, elopes and leaves the family staggering at their loss, Euridice sets aside any of her own ambitions and becomes the model daughter, wife, and mother. But you can’t squash that spirit inside of Euridice, and she tries to do both be the model wife and mother, and also be a writer, a cook, a seamstress, an entrepreneur, anything to settle that restlessness inside. This book is a series of Euridice’s attempts at the life she wantsâ€"the life we all know she needsâ€"despite challenges from nosy neighbors, a highly traditional (if confused) husband, and the surprise return of her sister. I think what spoke to me so much about Euridice’s story is the way we try to model ourselves into what others want us to beâ€"quiet and suitable and fine, just fine, always fineâ€"but the way also that Euridice knows that’s all a load of bull. Her strength and scrappiness (this lady is the definition of scrappy) al ways winsâ€"it always has to. Her journey is such a satisfying one to watch. While the ending of the book is, for me, a bit rushed, the arc of this novel, the writing, the characters, are a joy to read. â€"Dana Staves Like Water by Rebecca Podos (October 17, Balzar Bray) Vannis small New Mexico town, La Trampa, is the kind of place you either flee upon graduation or you find yourself stuck in for life. As much as shes intended to flee, though, Vanni is sticking around after graduation to help take care of her sick father, as well as the family Mexican restaurant. Thats when she meets Leigh, a new girl in town. To be fair, Vanni doesnt meet Leigh. She first meets Leighs brother, and is put off by the attitude and brashness of Leigh. But soon, Vanni cannot get enough of Leigh, and the two of them fall for one another. Or more, Vanni, who is used to enjoying physical fun with many of the local boys, finds herself falling for Leigh on a physical and emotional level, and the story itself explores what it is that Vanni really wants both in the place shes at and the places she hopes to be…physical, emotional, and through relationships. This is a fabulous book and a quiet one about sexual identity, the fluidity therein, and it features a character who identifies as gender queer (that would be Leigh, who, throughout we refer to as she and female, but learn the preferred gender identity later onâ€"that is part of Vannis coming to understand her own sexuality). Both of the characters here are sharp, a little prickly, and yet fully realized and realistic. Bonus points to this one for Vanni having one of the most awesome/ridiculous summer jobs possible as a performing mermaid at a local water park. â€"Kelly Jensen Listen, Slowly by Thanhha Lai This is a sweet and remarkably funny middle novel about a girl whose parents make her accompany her grandmother to Vietnam on summer break. Mai doesnt care about her Vietnamese heritage or discovering her roots but when a detective the family hired uncovers evidence about her long lost grandfather who didnt make it out after the War, Mai had to go. Almost against her will, Mai learns to appreciate and love her culture. â€"Kristen McQuinn Love Will Always Remember  by Tracey Livesay (Avon Impulse) Everyone is skeptical of an amnesia story, and I mean everyone: author Tracey Livesay even decided to write one as a way to challenge herself to do something new. As a result, we have the story of Leighton Clarke, a high-powered DC-lobbyist who gets injured, falls into a coma, and wakes up thinking she’s engaged to Jonathan Moran, who’s the brother of her actual fiancé. I know it sounds melodramaticâ€"and it is a little melodramatic, obviouslyâ€"but its also fun and has all of the pieces that make this kind of a story engaging: elements of the past that Leighton can’t remember and the reader doesn’t know, Jonathan’s dilemma over whether to tell her the truth, and the “how did I get here” life examination that only amnesia can force upon a person. Love Will Always Remember is kind of like the romance novel version of What Alice Forgot meets A Christmas Carol, which is a compliment of the highest order. â€"Trisha Brown Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing  by Anya Von Bremzen (Random House Audio, 2013) If you’re looking for a cheerful book that’s just straight-up delicious food, this isn’t it. (Hint: Soviet.) This book is more history disguised as a food memoir, although there’s plenty of cooking and eating and remembering-of-food. Each chapter covers a decade and a dish, beginning in 1910, and Von Bremzen beautifully weaves personal family stories with larger political movements. I listened to the audiobook, mostly while puttering in my own kitchen, sometimes chuckling aloud, sometimes weeping. Especially in the later chapters, this book gave me a new awareness of the abundance of food choices in the United States. Von Bremzen also helped me connect the tidbits of information I half-remembered or misremembered about the Soviet Unionâ€"she is only a few years older than I am, so especially as we entered the 1980s, the stories had an immediacy and familiarity. I had started listening just before our last presidential election, but put it aside after the first chapter. It was too much. But then I heard James Comey’s Testimony in July and I thought it might be a good idea to give it another whirl. I frankly wish every member of Congress would read this, and maybe some of those folks who think Putin is “a good guy.” â€"Nicole Mulhausen My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata (Seven Seas) This beautifully illustrated manga by Kabi Nagata follows the author as she struggles to interact with the world at large, understand her own sexuality, and deal with her mental illness. While My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness has been lauded for its frank exploration of sexuality, it is truly Nagata’s experience with mental illness that unites the story.  From page one, she exposes her irrational thinking, constant struggle, and physical symptoms, allowing the reader to see and sympathize.  It’s a revolutionary manga, candidly chronicling human experiences that so many other writers, publishers, and authorities would rather we all politely ignore. â€"Cindy Butor North to You by Tif Marcelo Filipino protagonists tend to be few and far between in my reading experience, so it’s always lovely when I can pick up a novel that both features characters like me and that ends up becoming one of my favourite books of the year. In Marcelo’s debut, Camille Marinoâ€"food truck owner and beleaguered caretaker for her little sisterâ€"finds that a childhood love might be the man of her dreams. But Drew Bautista’s only going to be in town for a few weeks before military deployment, and renovations of his family’s Filipino restaurant aren’t just taking up his time, but they might also threaten the growing sparks between Drew and Camille. It’s hard not to feel like I’m not doing justice to this book, considering how many of my favourite romantic tropes and character arcs it pulled together into a delightful little package. And oh, the food! Whether you’ve had Filipino food or not before reading North to You, Marcelo leaves you with an intense craving, as well as a handy re cipe for chicken afritada (a personal favourite of mine) to tide you over while waiting for the next book in the series. â€"Angel Cruz Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Won’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (Penguin) I wasn’t entirely convinced by this book, which in some places seems like wish fulfilment for introverts, and in other places would benefit from structural analysis rather than attributing so many outcomes to personality alone. But as a dyed-in-the-wool introvert with a horror of phone calls, large groups, and small talk, much of this book resonated with me. Seeing how much of Western social organization is structured to favor extroverts, even though introverts make up over a third of the population, is maddening. â€"Christine Ro   Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (Catapult, October 3) If I were to tell you that this novel begins with the disappearance of a teenage girl in a small English town, you may think you know what to expect. Let me assure you that this book will defy those expectations. Instead of following an investigation, Reservoir 13 follows the life of the town for the years after the tragedy. People are born, and people die. Relationships begin and end. Students go to university and return home afterâ€"or not. Yes, the missing girl is something people think about, but it’s just one of many events. The novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and I’d be happy to see it win. â€"Teresa Preston Solo  by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess Blade Morrison is sick of living in the shadow of his rockstar dad, who has a tendency to ruin the good things in Blades life lately. At just the right (or wrong?) time, a family secret comes out, and Blade travels across the world on a mission to find his roots. I nearly missed my exit while I listened to this gorgeous book, my first novel in verse, and oh me oh my, am I sold on this form. â€"Ashley Holstrom Strange Beauty: A Portrait of my Son by Eliza Factor (Parallax Press) This book was a heartrending memoir about Factor’s experience in raising a son with multiple disabilities, including autism. Her frustration, isolation, struggles, and love were woven through, and as a parent of a child with some delays, I really appreciated her candor and overarching drive to make a difference.   â€"Jaime Herndon The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss A fun romp through classic horror fiction, where monstrous daughters team up to solve mysteries (with the occasional help from Sherlock Holmes). The central cast includes: Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Justine Frankenstein, Catherine Moreau, and Beatrice Rappaccini. I loved the dynamics between women, the mix of humor as the characters interrupt the narrative to add their two cents, and the individuality of each character’s feminism. And of course all set in Victorian era London, and Goss sets the ambiance for that time perfectly. Here’s hoping this will turn into a series! â€"Margaret Kingsbury The Tea Dragon Society by Kate O’Neill (Oni Press, Oct. 31) A new book from the author of Princess Princess Ever After! Greta is a young girl who happens upon the Tea Dragon Society, a very small group practicing the dying art of raising tea dragons toâ€"you guessed itâ€"make tea. That’s right. This book has the world’s most adorable teeny dragons, who grow leaves on their horns that are used in making tea. Even just thinking about their little leafy horns while writing this is making me want to faint from the cuteness! The illustrations are AMAZING, and it has a wonderfully diverse cast of characters. While it’s listed as a middle grade graphic novel, it is 1000% percent for everyone. I hope there are more books!   â€"Liberty Hardy The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho A truly fascinating vision of hell that combines Christian and Chinese mythology in a completely unique way. Siew Tsin’s afterlife is comfortable, if mediocre: she’s the neglected (and unwilling) wife of a wealthy man in the tenth circle of hell, where rich nobles pay off bureaucratic demons to leave them alone, and do everything they can to avoid rebirth. But Siew’s existence is turned topsy-turvy when her hubby brings home a wife made from terracotta just for him. The world building in this novella is amazing, and there’s a decidedly feminist strain to the story. I felt like the ending was anticlimactic and a bit of a letdown, but that may be because I didn’t want the story to end. I really hope Cho writes a full novel set in this universe. â€"Tasha Brandstatter Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham I’ve had this in my Audible library for what seems like forever, and I was on a ferry, flicking through my phone and looking for something to take my mind off the imminent possibility of seasickness when I found it and hit play. I loved it. Lauren Graham reads her memoir so well, with just the right amount of dramatisation, and now I remember why I want to be best friends with her, even if she does never reply to my tweets. It was also a great book for me to be listening to while I was at a writing conference, because she talks encouragingly about pursuing your creative dream even when you’re not sure if it’s ever going to happen for you. Lauren Graham is warm and witty, and I’m just the right amount of old enough to side with her when she gets old and sensible and talks beautifully about disconnecting from our phones. Highly recommended. â€"Claire Handscombe This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins I kept this book on my kindle for a while before I read it. The world is a tough place right now, was I ready for a book of essays to challenge me? It turns out this was some of the best medicine I could have asked for. Jerkins writes with a rare willingness to consider herself and the world around her, and it made me look at parts of myself and parts of the world I hadn’t considered before. These essays, critical and deeply personal, are about what it means to be a black woman in the world right now. I am a white woman and this book made me more aware of that, more willing to consider my own privilege, and more willing to be critical of myself than anything I have ever read before, and that is about as high of praise as I can give. â€"Jessica Woodbury Under Fire by Scarlett Cole Romantic suspense and I have a complicated relationship, so I was surprised when this first-in-a-series new release by an author I’ve never read before hit all the right buttons for me. The book follows Dr. Louisa “Lou” North whose latest drug research, which can regrettably be used as a chemical weapon, is stolen from her lab. When she realizes her life is in danger, Lou has no choice but to call on Sixten “Six” Rapp to help retrieve the lost drug and play security detail for her. This book proved to be the perfect balance of internal/external conflict, romance, and easily digestible action scenes. I was on edge for each and every word. Under Fire is easily the best romantic suspense that I’ve read all year. â€"Erin McCoy Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun I’ve never been married, but when I saw Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give on the new books shelf at my library, it was a title I just had to pick up. The slim book is an expansion of a Modern Love column of the same name that Ada Calhoun wrote in 2015, about the things she wishes she could say to newlyweds on their wedding day. The book argues that a wedding isn’t the end of a love story, it’s the first chapter in a much longer book about what it means to couple yourself with someone else for life. Calhoun is funny and open and frank when writing about her marriage, and the things it has taught her about humility, acceptance, grace, and boredom living in the conjoined orbit of a person who you can love unequivocally and hate deeply within the same day. â€"Kim Ukura

Analysis Of The Novel Wicked Girl - 1308 Words

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Element 1.1 Being an HSQE professional, the first step that will be taken by me for development of risk assessment and adding the control measures by making sure that they meet the necessary statutory requirements, best practice of the industry and the organizational requirements. I will be involved in training and implementation of the available workforce, conduct workplace inspections, identify and evaluate hazards and monitor systems related to health and safety. I will be maintaining several types of records relevant to the project that will be acting as the resources for accessing the health and safety legislation and best practice. Hazard identification control, assessment of task risk and the associated control measures are the ones required for meeting the industry best practices, organizational requirements and statutory requirements. The resources that will be made available are the list of legal requirements according to the ADMA/OSHAD and the UAE Federal Law, JSA of the individual em ployees dependent on their job roles, audit and workplace inspection records, minutes of the TRA meetings with client comments and the other suggestions and comments from the HSQE professionals. Apart from these, other documents as records and evidence that have to be used are equipment checklists for all the equipment available in the organization like fire extinguishers, ballast pumps and ladders, compliance checklists, performance review records, training matrix and internal memos. The Federal labor law of UAE encompasses the health and safety of the workers in the articles 91 to 101 (Elaws.gov.ae). These are the resources that will be reviewed by me in on a regular basis as per the legislative and statutory requirements. By reviewing these resources, I will be able to identify and detect gaps in the existing system if it fails to comply with the Federal Laws and other legislative requirements of UAE and being a professional, I will be able to take the necessary steps to ensure t hat the organization complies with the latest legislative requirements. Element 1.2 Health and safety are part of every business just like quality and production. Being an HSQE professional, it is my responsibility to manage the health and safety in the organization by using and evaluating the available health and safety information that will be followed by undertaking research for developing the organizational requirements. I will be setting the objectives of health and safety and develop plans for achieving them by making someone responsible for getting things done. The responsible will be provided with the resources and skills for doing the job and it will be supervised by me that the objectives are met (Bowal and Ariel). For making the system more effective, I will be modifying and evaluating the available resources, consult with the employees and document the entire system. Information gained from the resources will investigate the findings and implement the required actions by me for the identified gaps by communicating with the stakeholders related to the health and safety of the organization. Communication will be made with the workforce for motivating them for maintaining and developing a safety culture in the organization. The contractors will be communicated with for providing health and safety training with induction prior to commencement of the work with heavy lifting. The visitors will be adequately communicated with to ensure that they are quite familiar with the requirements of health and safety considering requirements of the non-English speaking visitors who have disabilities and are illiterate (Goetsch). The customers will be communicated for providing them with the necessary health and safety precautions while supplying them with the services, substances and articles. These are the essential activities that will be carried out by me for e nsuring the implementation of the findings from the conducted research. Element 2.1 In my organization, the vital information regarding health and safety in a heavy lifting and construction will be passed on through various communication methods that will include formal training, induction training, posters and notices, signs, handouts, letters and emails and face to face communications. Information will be communicated with respect to the equipment checks will be done by the written safe procedures with the assessment of the PPE (personal protective equipment) (Lpez-Alonso et al.). For this, I will be communicating the employees with the job steps, potential hazards associated and the recommended procedures for safe job as heavy lifting involves a lot of hazards. A follow up training and audit will be conducted for ensuring that the equipment will be in the same working state as it was when bought. I will carry out an investigation to determine the accidents with the near misses that are involved with the equipment to identify the root cause and prevent the future occurrence risks. The findings will be communicated to the responsible stakeholders through training and signs and symbols. I will be classifying the products that need certificates and data sheets based on the type of construction and heavy lifting or the material as required maintenance levels, component design life and failure effect categories for their usage. This will alert the client regarding the usage and implication of the products regarding their maintenance and durability (Manu et al.). I will pass over the information about new safety campaigns and initiatives for their implementation by working out the elements required for engagement of the staff members, designing training manuals that are highly effective, producing posters that have high impact and creating video content that are engaging for all the employees for the purpose of heavy lifting activities. Element 2.2 The methods and mediums of communications that are to be used in the heavy lifting organization need the consideration of the access of the individual and the group workers to a particular method. I will choose the communication method considering its effectiveness in the construction site and the ease of the method. The golden rule that I will consider is that I will not make use of a single method and will use multiple communication channels for ensuring that content of the message is rich (Andreasen). Some of the communication methods that will be considered by me are verbal, non-verbal, electronic, written, informal and formal. The examples of the mediums will include Toolbox talks, emails, fax, memos, posters, phone conversations and minutes of the meetings. It has been noticed in the construction organizations that majority of the staff members do not regularly access their email accounts and therefore, I will not give email as a priority for communication. For heavy lifting or ganizations, Toolbox Talks are the most effective medium of communication as they can be conducted at the job site and the meeting will be short in duration (Yates). For the employees who do not regularly access their emails, I will be setting up posters, memos and minutes of the meetings on a billboard for communication and it will also be used for gathering ideas from the employees. In case the employees are not available for direct communication, phone conversations will be used for communicating them with the information and I will use fax for a much similar purpose. Element 2.3 The stakeholders are the ones who are affected by the actions of the organization as they have the concern or interest in the organization. Accidents at the construction site due to heavy lifting can be reported immediately either over the phone or online with all the relevant details to me as I am the HSQE professional. Thereafter, I will enter the details in the accident book for ascertaining the occurrences. In case the employee needs to be referred to a hospital or doctor after providing the first aid, I will be notifying the case immediately to the senior company representatives present on site and the company office through phone conversation. A thorough investigation will be carried out by me along with the other company representatives and that will be followed by the introduction of control measures for avoiding future problems. Incidents and accidents will be communicated to me by the various departments and sites engaged in heavy lifting regarding the fatal and non-fatal injuries. I will be reporting the dangerous occurrences, major injuries and fatal accidents to the designated or nearby healthcare facility that is out of my organization. The Ministry of Labor in UAE requires the organization to report the cases of work-related injuries to its office within 24 hours of their occurrence (Mol.gov.ae). Therefore, it will be mandatory for me to report the occupational injuries to the MOL which will also include the diseases that are enlisted in the agenda of the occupational labor disease of UAE. Element 2.4 The process of regular maintenance of the heavy equipment in heavy lifting and construction sites requires accurate and complete records and checklists of servicing. The process of outlining the protocols will involve servicing the machinery pieces for the construction services and the details will be entered in the maintenance records. I will make arrangements for recording the repairs and tracking inspections in the maintenance records so that there will be a track for the maintenance requirements of the equipment (Ahamed Mohideen and Ramachandran). For example, mobile heavy equipment will have different maintenance records compared to the power tools. Goods with certificate, contractor application, defects in products and records of repairs are the other records that will be maintained by me for health and safety that are related to the input materials, services, goods and equipment. The information generated from the various records will be stored in computers as it is a highly e fficient system for management and storage of information and placing the information in the first place. The records of health and safety information will be maintained in spreadsheets and word documents in various databases. Information gathered from vendors regarding repairing and maintenance will be maintained in maintenance database and information collected from clients regarding the services provided will be saved in client management systems. I will be maintaining archive documents, confidential documents, electronic documents and print documents for long-term storage that will be used for long term storage. According to the security policy of the organization, there will be an access control policy that will allow only authorized personnel to access the records and resources pertaining to the health and safety of the organization. This is a part of the risk management strategy that will specify the access privileges and identify the authorized users of the health and safety information. Element 2.5 I will develop a communication strategy where the employers will be linking the strategic plan with the communication procedure that will include the values, vision and mission, the organizational brand and its objectives and goals. Personally, I will manage the communication in the heavy lifting organization by safeguarding credibility for building trust and safeguarding credibility. I will listen to the members of the leadership teams and the employees for gathering inputs and maintain consistency for establishing a strong brand of employment. I will provide feedback on the communication theory after seeking input from all the associated constituencies. The managers will be recognized as the organizational leaders and they will be endowed with the responsibility to maintain the communication chain of their respective departments. The information and communication systems can be ensured to work as intended for ensuring effectiveness by developing basic skills speaking, listening, pr oviding feedback and asking questions. Collecting feedbacks will keep me up to date of the project status in action and help me to conduct regular follow-ups. Monthly meetings are efficient in bringing up the problems that are affecting the company and can be solved with effective communication. Clarity and brevity are the requirements of concise and clear communication so that everyone in the organization will interpret the messages ambiguously. These will ensure me that the information systems are working as intended for ensuring effectiveness in the heavy lifting organization. Element 2.6 Health and safety policies are constantly promoted by me by training and engaging the workforce involved in heavy lifting activities for achieving healthy and safe working conditions with the promotion of best practice by being practical. I will stay committed to provide adequate resources for assessing, monitoring and training for the safety and health performance of the company for delivering the set of objectives for the sake of continuous improvement. I will provide health and safety information in such a form that will suit the various needs of the workers, managers and staff members, as per the protocol. The information will be provided through computer terminals, print and training programs (Fang, Dongping and Haojie). Along with this, the workers will be so trained that they can be provided with the information that is necessary for deciding how to act in a specified situation. Information about the health, physical and chemical hazards will be available at the site of work i n different languages that will facilitate the better understanding of the workers including Arabic (Sherratt et al.). I will do the implementation and revision of the health and safety policy on a quarterly basis or as and when required for the new employees. During this period, the staff members will be empowered and motivated to work safely that will protect their long-term health other than taking the measures for avoiding accidents. My implementation procedure will underpin the effective participation and involvement of the staff members through appropriate consultation, safety representation system and usage of the safety committee. I will promote competence that will allow the employees for making an informed and responsible contribution to the efforts of health and safety. Element 3.1 According to the Labor Law of UAE, I will report incidents involving damage to property or personnel to the local authorities which will be followed by a police investigation. The police will seek for the statutory technical report from the local authorities regarding the details of the submitted report. For the external constructions working at the construction site for heavy lifting activities, I will carry out a visual inspection of the personal protective equipment and the working equipment prior to commencement of the work as per the regulation. In case faults are identified, I will immediately report the issue to the DWTC health and safety division and a copy of the report will be sent to the supervisor of the employees. Further proceedings of the work will be carried out only after the repairs have been made as it is essential under the Dubai Municipality local order of 1991 (Holt). Additionally, during the course of employment, if any employee suffers from injuries that inclu de poisoning or loss of limbs due to heavy lifting activities, I will report the case to the labor department and the police for further investigation. Certain ministerial decrees will also have to be informed who deals with the practices of employee protection against the risks and hazardous works in the construction sites. Death cases will be reported to the labor department and also if the employee is absent from the workplace for three or more consecutive days due to his inability to work. On a quarterly basis, I will be reporting the labor department regarding the account of occupational diseases and injuries at work. Element 3.2 To comply with the requirements and legal standards, I will have to establish systems for identifying the changes in the law and keeping the organization up to date with the changed legal requirements. Through our websites and journals, the members of the trade associations will be kept updated. Adequate means of communicating and distributing the welfare, safety and health information will be obtained for the trade organizations displaying the new techniques required for prevention of accidents, codes of practice and new legislation requirements and for capturing the evidence (Biggs et al.). Guidance can be obtained from the trade association seeking and identifying hazards in the heavy lifting activities. I will communicate the voluntary bodies about the health and safety practices of the organization and a report will be submitted as evidence. A volunteer will be appointed for providing health and safety leadership in the organization by the voluntary body for capturing evidence w here he will be reporting all the concerns of health and safety to the organization to identify the areas of changes. The health and safety information will be communicated to the interested parties in the form of manuals to inform them of the standards adopted for ensuring occupational health and safety for the equipment, property and the people. Interested parties including industry representatives, government agencies, consumer organizations and media will provide opinions as a part of interactive communication that will be captured as evidence. I will have to be aware of the language competency and cultural barriers as it is a sensitive issue in UAE and it impacts communication on an individual basis. Health and safety messages will be conveyed to the individuals in the form of compliance codes for complying with the law (Cooper et al.). Element 3.3 I will communicate the internal and external stakeholders about the health and safety information of the products and services through presentations, meetings and emails. Communicating the messages of health and safety to the stakeholders will provide greater clarity among the stakeholders and therefore, meetings and presentations will be the preferred tools for communication over email (Zhang et al.). Visually engaging, concise and clear presentations will be delivered in the meetings that will help to gather feedback from the stakeholders regarding their understanding of the concept and that will be captured as evidence. Telephonic meetings can also be conducted with the external stakeholders for informing them about the health and safety protocols of the organization and keeping them updated. Responsible waste management activities are an essential aspect for sustainable business development in construction business. Therefore, it is essential that the stakeholders are communicated about the waste management instructions. I will make use of the similar communication tools of presentations and meetings to demonstrate the system of waste management followed in our organizations. Feedbacks and inputs from the audiences will be collected as evidence for identifying the areas of improvement. Commonly used method for waste management in construction and heavy lifting is landfills that do not affect the environmental health and safety and emails will be sent to the stakeholders to have their opinions regarding the hazardous perspectives. Waste management procedures other than landfills can be implemented based on the opinions and suggestions from the stakeholders. Based on the evidence, newer environmental policies will be adopted by me to promote health and safety. Element 3.4 Since construction and heavy lifting activities are prone to accidental hazards, therefore the contractors and visitors have to be well communicated with the site rules. On arrival at the site, I will provide them with a brief demonstration and induction about the site map along with the restricted areas, hazardous substances, location of emergency equipment and first aid facilities and evacuation procedures (Sujan et al.). They will be provided with the organizational handbook along with a tutorial and assessments will be done to capture evidence of their gained knowledge. A similar procedure will be followed for communicating the emergency procedures to the contractors and visitors which will include apart from the general procedures, a brief training program. Health and safety information will be provided in the training tutorials and information will be provided on what to do in case of an emergency. In case the contractors have a long duration of stay in the site, I will send a copy of the site rules well in advance to them and have a quick recap of the lessons on their arrival regarding the risks and hazards, the alarm and first aid procedures. Regarding the waste disposal system, I will provide the induction to the visitors and contractors and a detailed plan of the disposal system will be displayed at the critical areas for their appropriate knowledge. Since most of the disposals are done through landfills, the environmental, health and safety procedures followed by the organization will be discussed in the induction process. Element 4.1 Communication is the key to timely completion of projects and enhancement of productivity in the heavy lifting sites and for that, it has to be developed to make them more effective. There are several means of communication strategies that I will be using in the construction site and therefore, will develop an action plan for improving the individual parameters that collectively contributes towards the betterment of communication for improved health and safety in the workplace. The information resources will be improved by me by initiating a brainstorming session with the employees, creating a charter, developing a state process map, creating evaluation and data sheets, designing future state process and development of implementation plan. Improvement in the ease of the workforce for obtaining information will include conduction of surveys that I will be doing either in person, email or by mail. These surveys conducted by interviews and focus groups will reflect the gaps in the exist ing information system that I will be collecting and working on the process to improve them. Frequent meetings, improved databases and improved toolbox talks can also help to develop the existing communication system for making health and safety information more effective. Element 4.2 While developing a communication strategy, I will consider the identification of the target audience based on their differing knowledge and level of understanding for imparting health and safety information. When greater interaction is required with the target audience, verbal communication will be the tool of choice however, it can include human errors in the process that might ignore the cultural and linguistic barriers in a mass audience (Lingard). In comparison, written communication can be effective while communicating with the senior management members of the organization to cope up with their busy schedule and retaining the gained information for future reference (Doloi). However, there are chances that the written information can get lost and it can be targeted only to the senior members of the organization, considering their higher levels of literacy. With the increasing complexity of the job of heavy lifting, health and safety information can be effectively communicated thr ough electronic communication. I would prefer this mode of communication because of its mobility by which the employees can be communicated whether they are on or off the site with laptops and cell phones with storage and retrieval of data (Mittal, Sharma and Mittal). However, security can be a major threat that can cause to leak the company information through cyber attacks. Therefore, depending on the situation and the type of situation, I will use the best-suited method of communication for delivering the health and safety information. Element 4.3 The construction and heavy lifting industry is undergoing rapid changes in UAE and therefore, several external factors are coming into play that is influencing the communication system of my organization. Mobile phone apps provide a facsimile solution that promotes collaborative communication with the stakeholders who are either on site or away from the site of heavy lifting. I will be implementing mobile phone apps in my communication system as they can be influencing for communicating the health and safety risk assessments, practices and control procedures, best practice and technical developments. The promotional activities for health and safety that are relevant to the organizational needs can be communicated to the employees effectively through mobile phone apps. I will be focusing on the legislative and moral obligation of my organization and therefore, changes in legislation will be applicable to the communication system that will encompass the new and proposed health and safe ty legislation, standards and codes of practice. I will also include the legislative changes in the statutory reporting of the health and safety requirements for an organization. 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The shower scene is the key scene Essay Example

The shower scene is the key scene Essay Many film directors would agree that there is no such thing as a film capable of having an impact on the world. Whether this is true or not filmmakers still try to produce films that have an enormous impact. Very few succeed. One such film that did was Psycho. Psycho went into another dimension in terms of its content. No one had ever tried to make a film which covered the areas that Psycho covered. Alfred Hitchcock had to use his forty years of experience to put across his ideas but not make the film pornographic or too violent. It is impossible to recreate the experience for the audiences that first experienced Psycho when it first came out.This was one of the most famous and daring pieces of film to be made in that era. Nobody would ever have thought about making such a film because the censors would almost certainly ban it. The shower scene is the key scene because this is the scene in which the psycho strikes first. It is also the end of what at first seems to be the main charac ter, Marion Crane. Because this is the main scene and also the most controversial scene, Alfred Hitchcock filmed it over seven days for only two minutes forty seconds worth of film. There were about seventy different camera angles in the scene. Hitchcock had to consider the censors, which meant that he had to make sure that he kept the content of nudity and violence down to a minimum. This was because at the time the censors were very strict and would not allow the film if it contained too much explicit material. Hitchcock had used several scenes prior to the shower scene to build up the relationship between Marion and Norman Bates.When Marion first meets Norman you instantly feel that there is something that is going to happen in the scenes to follow. Marions attractiveness makes her an obsessive target for Norman. Marions last name of Crane refers to the graceful, long-limbed bird of the same name, which makes her seem innocent and vulnerable. From the outset of their meeting, she maintains the social control by her sexual effect on Norman. Even so she still gets drawn into his office, Marion has entered the world of Norman Bates, with no way out. From Normans fascination with bird taxidermy you feel that there is another side to Norman and that all is not what it seems. The taxidermy is simply there to distract Norman away from his other personality. Though Norman may seem suspicious Marion still begins talking to him about her troubles. Marion implies to him how she has problems and that that she has to return home to deal responsibly with a serious mistake. Norman sternly expressed, were all in our private traps that never budge an inch. He should know, with the imprint of his long dead mother on the bed covers, though hes the only one living in the house. This indicates that Norman is farther down the road of helplessness than Marion, probably so far in fact that he is at the point of no return.Even though Marion is in a difficult situation she still has chance to put things right whereas Norman doesnt. Once Marion and Norman have finished talking Marion goes to her room. She begins to get ready to have a shower. Norman remains in his office where he perversely removes a picture from the wall of his office and spies on her through a purposely-drilled hole into her room. He sees her going into the shower so he goes back to his house. This is the first time in the film in which we clearly see the other side to Normans personality. This is where we first see his mother.During the shower scene Alfred Hitchcock uses many filming and sound techniques to get the best sequence across to the audience, without making it too violent, so that the censors could not ban the film. Hitchcock used seventy-eight camera angles to achieve the best possible murder scene. He also used many different types of camera shots to add to the effect of the scene. He varied the lengths of the shots to give a more frantic feel to the scene, such as a close-up clo sely followed by a medium close up. This especially happens during the murder in the shower.When Marion walks into the bathroom she rips up her notes and flushes them down the toilet. This was another step into new territory for Hitchcock, as it was not felt decent to flush a toilet on film. It also symbolises that Marion is flushing her problems away. She then steps into the shower. For the first time in the scene the music has now stopped and all we can hear is the sound of the water from the shower.We then see a shot of the showerhead with water pouring out but somehow missing the camera. This shot took much thinking to overcome the fact that Alfred Hitchcock did not want the water to go onto the camera lens. To achieve this shoot the middle holes of the showerhead had to be blocked so that the camera would not get wet but the water would fall around the camera to get the impression that we are in the shower with Marion. This makes us feel that we are a much greater part of the s cene.We then see her washing herself in the water. This is symbolic of her washing her sins away. The camera then moves round so that we can see the curtain. This is a key shot as this enables us to see the psycho enter the room. At first we cannot see that the psycho has a knife because we only have a translucent view through the curtain. But as he moves closer we feel that Marion is in great danger.The psycho quickly pulls back the curtain. We then see a silhouette of the psycho with the knife raised. Even though the psycho is in silhouette we can just make out that it has an old ladies haircut. This immediately makes us feel that it wasnt Norman (the audience now feels confused as they have seen Norman spying on Marion but yet someone else has killed her). The scene is filmed so well that people actually believed that they saw the knife go into Marion when it really never touched her. Some clever editing and some knife shots followed by shots of skin then showing some blood achie ved this and the sharp, high pitched notes in the music which add to the effect of the knife penetrating deep into Marions flesh. Simple but very effective. The camera shots are filmed in such a way that we feel that we are actually in the shower with her when this is all happening. This makes us feel very helpless and the fact that we feel we are so close but are actually so far.After Marion has been stabbed several times she begins to fall to the ground. This is when the psycho leaves. We get a close up shot of Marions eye, and this is when it really hits us that she has been kills. Yet again you feel so helpless and that you almost feel guilty for not helping her. This was a great bit of directing by Hitchcock because it really involves the audience with the film and makes them feel responsible for the characters. We see it leave through the door and it appears to be a female or at least dressed like a female. Marion then she slides down the shower wall. She then falls, gripping and tearing off the shower curtain, her last protection.Throughout the shower scene the psychos identity is kept uncertain. This adds an uncertainty in the minds of the audience. At first you think that it is Norman, but even then he seems pleasant and gentlemanly. Perhaps he seems too nice? Then when you see that it is a woman who kills her you just cant be sure. It is very clever they way that you are not shown the face of the psycho. This is the key to not revealing his identity.Psycho was not only filmed incredibly well, but it had a fantastic storyline. No matter how good the directing or the acting is you need a good story line and script. Psycho had this. It had good characters, irony, humour, repetitions, imagery and a great piece of music.The characters that we see in Psycho are created firstly by a writer then interpreted by the cast and actors who play the roles. Although this may seem obvious, the way that the actors interpret the characters can make or break a film. The re are many different parts that an actor has to consider before his/her character is complete. Although there werent very many characters in Psycho they were all very different, with different thoughts and personalities. At many times during Psycho we feel sorry for the characters or want to help them or warn them of danger. This is due to the fact that we know more than the characters and feel as though we should warn them.Another aspect of a good film is the irony in it. Irony is created when the audience knows more about the events than the characters do. This means that they can anticipate what is going to happen. It can also occur when something has more significance the second time it is seen or heard because it seems to hint on what may happen in the film at a later stage. There were many different occasions where irony occurred in Psycho. One such instance was when the traffic cop told Marion that, there are plenty of motels in this areaI meanjust to be safe. Then that nigh t Marion books into the Bates Motel and ends up being murdered. That was just one of the many cases of irony that have been put into the script. You may not realise they are there first time but when you watch the film a second time you can see how much time has been put in by the script writers.Although Psycho doesnt have much humour in it, mainly due to the fact that it is a serious horror movie, there are still parts of the film that makes you smile. One instance is the part where Arbogast the detective is murdered and falls down the stairs. It seems funny now but it would of almost certainly not have been funny when the film first came out. It makes us laugh because of the way they try to make him look as though he is actually falling down the stairs. It may have looked realistic at the time but compared to the special effects and stunts that can be done in todays films it does not look realistic at all.Not only was the filming and acting good in Psycho but it also had a great s ound track. It really suited the film and added so much extra tension. It was written by Bernard Herman and really I think that he must take some of the credit of the success of the film. It was such a thrilling piece of music that caught the imaginations of many people. Every time Marion became worried or was in danger the music would begin. This was almost like a signal to tell us that something is going to happen. Not only was the music a signal to the audience but it also added tension to the scenes. The Psycho music will always be remembered almost as much as the film itself and will almost certainly be one of the most famous pieces of horror music ever composed.Alfred Hitchcock had to be very careful of what he filmed in Psycho because of the censors. At that period in time they were very strict on what they would allow in the public cinemas. This was a problem for Hitchcock and so he had to edit some of the scenes like the shower scene in particular in such a way that the cen sors would allow it. In the shower scene he had to make sure that he did not show the knife actually going into the body, yet he still wanted to give the impression that that was happening. He used a combination of frantic shot variation, high-pitched jerky music, shots of flesh and shots of blood to give the impression to the audience that they were actually seeing the knife going into Marions body. The first time Hitchcock submitted the film to the censors he knew it would be rejected as he had made it very violent. This was part of his plan. He knew that if he put an extra violent version of the film into the censors first the not so violent one would seem more acceptable. His plan worked and Psycho was allowed.Now that the film had been accepted Hitchcock just had to promote it. He knew that he needed as much publicity as possible to get the crowds in to watch his film. To do this he wanted to keep the story of the film a secret so that once people had watched it they would not tell others and spoil the experience for them. It would also make people curious to what was happening in the film and attract them to watch. To keep the secrecy of the film the actors had to swear an oath of secrecy on the first day of filming and Hitchcock refused and Paramount photographers onto the set to take publicity shots. Hitchcock made a series or misleading interviews to the press to confuse and to gain curiosity throughout the public. At one stage he told a reporter that he was actually filming a version of the Greek myth of Psyche, then told another, Its the story of a young man whose mother is a homicidal manic. This was another of Hitchcocks ploys to gain publicity for the film. At the end of the film there was a short film where Alfred Hitchcock would tell the audience not to reveal the ending to the film because its the only one weve got. He tried very hard to make the pubic feel as though they were a part of the publicity strategy.Many people think Psycho was the g reatest film ever. I dont. It may have been a great film for its time, with its terrific amounts of suspense, irony and horror, but with the amount of special effects, technology and money that goes into todays films, I feel that there are many films better than Psycho. When Psycho came out it was a scary film. But compared to todays horror films such as Scream. Even films that are not aimed at horror such as Blade contain more violence and blood than Psycho did. Its all down to the censors. With the censors being less strict the directors have more flexibility with what they can put into there films.Another point that helped Psycho become a successful film was the amount of hype and expectation that was brought about by Hitchcocks short trailers that he broadcasted before the film was released. This added to the expectations and anticipations about the film in the publics eye. Hitchcock used his great experience to give huge amounts of suspense to the film. This added to the horror of such events as the shower scene and the lead up to the Bates motel. Much time and effort was out in by Hitchcock and the cast to get the suspense, horror and irony into such scenes as the shower scene.There is such a huge amount of suspense in Hitchcocks films that he was given the title, the master of suspense. This gave many of his films an edge that many directors could not achieve. Even though I dont feel that Psycho was the best film ever, I do think that it will always be remembered as a classic horror film which is mainly due to Alfred Hitchcock, the mater of suspense. The shower scene is the key scene Essay Example The shower scene is the key scene Essay Many film directors would agree that there is no such thing as a film capable of having an impact on the world. Whether this is true or not filmmakers still try to produce films that have an enormous impact. Very few succeed. One such film that did was Psycho. Psycho went into another dimension in terms of its content. No one had ever tried to make a film which covered the areas that Psycho covered. Alfred Hitchcock had to use his forty years of experience to put across his ideas but not make the film pornographic or too violent. It is impossible to recreate the experience for the audiences that first experienced Psycho when it first came out.This was one of the most famous and daring pieces of film to be made in that era. Nobody would ever have thought about making such a film because the censors would almost certainly ban it. The shower scene is the key scene because this is the scene in which the psycho strikes first. It is also the end of what at first seems to be the main charac ter, Marion Crane. Because this is the main scene and also the most controversial scene, Alfred Hitchcock filmed it over seven days for only two minutes forty seconds worth of film. There were about seventy different camera angles in the scene. Hitchcock had to consider the censors, which meant that he had to make sure that he kept the content of nudity and violence down to a minimum. This was because at the time the censors were very strict and would not allow the film if it contained too much explicit material. Hitchcock had used several scenes prior to the shower scene to build up the relationship between Marion and Norman Bates.When Marion first meets Norman you instantly feel that there is something that is going to happen in the scenes to follow. Marions attractiveness makes her an obsessive target for Norman. Marions last name of Crane refers to the graceful, long-limbed bird of the same name, which makes her seem innocent and vulnerable. From the outset of their meeting, she maintains the social control by her sexual effect on Norman. Even so she still gets drawn into his office, Marion has entered the world of Norman Bates, with no way out. From Normans fascination with bird taxidermy you feel that there is another side to Norman and that all is not what it seems. The taxidermy is simply there to distract Norman away from his other personality. Though Norman may seem suspicious Marion still begins talking to him about her troubles. Marion implies to him how she has problems and that that she has to return home to deal responsibly with a serious mistake. Norman sternly expressed, were all in our private traps that never budge an inch. He should know, with the imprint of his long dead mother on the bed covers, though hes the only one living in the house. This indicates that Norman is farther down the road of helplessness than Marion, probably so far in fact that he is at the point of no return.Even though Marion is in a difficult situation she still has chance to put things right whereas Norman doesnt. Once Marion and Norman have finished talking Marion goes to her room. She begins to get ready to have a shower. Norman remains in his office where he perversely removes a picture from the wall of his office and spies on her through a purposely-drilled hole into her room. He sees her going into the shower so he goes back to his house. This is the first time in the film in which we clearly see the other side to Normans personality. This is where we first see his mother.During the shower scene Alfred Hitchcock uses many filming and sound techniques to get the best sequence across to the audience, without making it too violent, so that the censors could not ban the film. Hitchcock used seventy-eight camera angles to achieve the best possible murder scene. He also used many different types of camera shots to add to the effect of the scene. He varied the lengths of the shots to give a more frantic feel to the scene, such as a close-up clo sely followed by a medium close up. This especially happens during the murder in the shower.When Marion walks into the bathroom she rips up her notes and flushes them down the toilet. This was another step into new territory for Hitchcock, as it was not felt decent to flush a toilet on film. It also symbolises that Marion is flushing her problems away. She then steps into the shower. For the first time in the scene the music has now stopped and all we can hear is the sound of the water from the shower.We then see a shot of the showerhead with water pouring out but somehow missing the camera. This shot took much thinking to overcome the fact that Alfred Hitchcock did not want the water to go onto the camera lens. To achieve this shoot the middle holes of the showerhead had to be blocked so that the camera would not get wet but the water would fall around the camera to get the impression that we are in the shower with Marion. This makes us feel that we are a much greater part of the s cene.We then see her washing herself in the water. This is symbolic of her washing her sins away. The camera then moves round so that we can see the curtain. This is a key shot as this enables us to see the psycho enter the room. At first we cannot see that the psycho has a knife because we only have a translucent view through the curtain. But as he moves closer we feel that Marion is in great danger.The psycho quickly pulls back the curtain. We then see a silhouette of the psycho with the knife raised. Even though the psycho is in silhouette we can just make out that it has an old ladies haircut. This immediately makes us feel that it wasnt Norman (the audience now feels confused as they have seen Norman spying on Marion but yet someone else has killed her). The scene is filmed so well that people actually believed that they saw the knife go into Marion when it really never touched her. Some clever editing and some knife shots followed by shots of skin then showing some blood achie ved this and the sharp, high pitched notes in the music which add to the effect of the knife penetrating deep into Marions flesh. Simple but very effective. The camera shots are filmed in such a way that we feel that we are actually in the shower with her when this is all happening. This makes us feel very helpless and the fact that we feel we are so close but are actually so far.After Marion has been stabbed several times she begins to fall to the ground. This is when the psycho leaves. We get a close up shot of Marions eye, and this is when it really hits us that she has been kills. Yet again you feel so helpless and that you almost feel guilty for not helping her. This was a great bit of directing by Hitchcock because it really involves the audience with the film and makes them feel responsible for the characters. We see it leave through the door and it appears to be a female or at least dressed like a female. Marion then she slides down the shower wall. She then falls, gripping and tearing off the shower curtain, her last protection.Throughout the shower scene the psychos identity is kept uncertain. This adds an uncertainty in the minds of the audience. At first you think that it is Norman, but even then he seems pleasant and gentlemanly. Perhaps he seems too nice? Then when you see that it is a woman who kills her you just cant be sure. It is very clever they way that you are not shown the face of the psycho. This is the key to not revealing his identity.Psycho was not only filmed incredibly well, but it had a fantastic storyline. No matter how good the directing or the acting is you need a good story line and script. Psycho had this. It had good characters, irony, humour, repetitions, imagery and a great piece of music.The characters that we see in Psycho are created firstly by a writer then interpreted by the cast and actors who play the roles. Although this may seem obvious, the way that the actors interpret the characters can make or break a film. The re are many different parts that an actor has to consider before his/her character is complete. Although there werent very many characters in Psycho they were all very different, with different thoughts and personalities. At many times during Psycho we feel sorry for the characters or want to help them or warn them of danger. This is due to the fact that we know more than the characters and feel as though we should warn them.Another aspect of a good film is the irony in it. Irony is created when the audience knows more about the events than the characters do. This means that they can anticipate what is going to happen. It can also occur when something has more significance the second time it is seen or heard because it seems to hint on what may happen in the film at a later stage. There were many different occasions where irony occurred in Psycho. One such instance was when the traffic cop told Marion that, there are plenty of motels in this areaI meanjust to be safe. Then that nigh t Marion books into the Bates Motel and ends up being murdered. That was just one of the many cases of irony that have been put into the script. You may not realise they are there first time but when you watch the film a second time you can see how much time has been put in by the script writers.Although Psycho doesnt have much humour in it, mainly due to the fact that it is a serious horror movie, there are still parts of the film that makes you smile. One instance is the part where Arbogast the detective is murdered and falls down the stairs. It seems funny now but it would of almost certainly not have been funny when the film first came out. It makes us laugh because of the way they try to make him look as though he is actually falling down the stairs. It may have looked realistic at the time but compared to the special effects and stunts that can be done in todays films it does not look realistic at all.Not only was the filming and acting good in Psycho but it also had a great s ound track. It really suited the film and added so much extra tension. It was written by Bernard Herman and really I think that he must take some of the credit of the success of the film. It was such a thrilling piece of music that caught the imaginations of many people. Every time Marion became worried or was in danger the music would begin. This was almost like a signal to tell us that something is going to happen. Not only was the music a signal to the audience but it also added tension to the scenes. The Psycho music will always be remembered almost as much as the film itself and will almost certainly be one of the most famous pieces of horror music ever composed.Alfred Hitchcock had to be very careful of what he filmed in Psycho because of the censors. At that period in time they were very strict on what they would allow in the public cinemas. This was a problem for Hitchcock and so he had to edit some of the scenes like the shower scene in particular in such a way that the cen sors would allow it. In the shower scene he had to make sure that he did not show the knife actually going into the body, yet he still wanted to give the impression that that was happening. He used a combination of frantic shot variation, high-pitched jerky music, shots of flesh and shots of blood to give the impression to the audience that they were actually seeing the knife going into Marions body. The first time Hitchcock submitted the film to the censors he knew it would be rejected as he had made it very violent. This was part of his plan. He knew that if he put an extra violent version of the film into the censors first the not so violent one would seem more acceptable. His plan worked and Psycho was allowed.Now that the film had been accepted Hitchcock just had to promote it. He knew that he needed as much publicity as possible to get the crowds in to watch his film. To do this he wanted to keep the story of the film a secret so that once people had watched it they would not tell others and spoil the experience for them. It would also make people curious to what was happening in the film and attract them to watch. To keep the secrecy of the film the actors had to swear an oath of secrecy on the first day of filming and Hitchcock refused and Paramount photographers onto the set to take publicity shots. Hitchcock made a series or misleading interviews to the press to confuse and to gain curiosity throughout the public. At one stage he told a reporter that he was actually filming a version of the Greek myth of Psyche, then told another, Its the story of a young man whose mother is a homicidal manic. This was another of Hitchcocks ploys to gain publicity for the film. At the end of the film there was a short film where Alfred Hitchcock would tell the audience not to reveal the ending to the film because its the only one weve got. He tried very hard to make the pubic feel as though they were a part of the publicity strategy.Many people think Psycho was the g reatest film ever. I dont. It may have been a great film for its time, with its terrific amounts of suspense, irony and horror, but with the amount of special effects, technology and money that goes into todays films, I feel that there are many films better than Psycho. When Psycho came out it was a scary film. But compared to todays horror films such as Scream. Even films that are not aimed at horror such as Blade contain more violence and blood than Psycho did. Its all down to the censors. With the censors being less strict the directors have more flexibility with what they can put into there films.Another point that helped Psycho become a successful film was the amount of hype and expectation that was brought about by Hitchcocks short trailers that he broadcasted before the film was released. This added to the expectations and anticipations about the film in the publics eye. Hitchcock used his great experience to give huge amounts of suspense to the film. This added to the horror of such events as the shower scene and the lead up to the Bates motel. Much time and effort was out in by Hitchcock and the cast to get the suspense, horror and irony into such scenes as the shower scene.There is such a huge amount of suspense in Hitchcocks films that he was given the title, the master of suspense. This gave many of his films an edge that many directors could not achieve. Even though I dont feel that Psycho was the best film ever, I do think that it will always be remembered as a classic horror film which is mainly due to Alfred Hitchcock, the mater of suspense.