It felt as if I were a stranger walking on the desolate sidewalks outside. With more concentration and focus when looking at the painting, what stood out to me were the different intensities and luminosities of light that was used in creating the scene. The harsh fluorescent light being from inside the diner emits a harsh radiance that spills out into the darkness outside onto and across the street, and even inside the shop opposite of the diner. This overpowering light bursting out of the window forms a feeling of continuous activity or stimuli within the diner which is deemed off-limits to me. Through the window, which is the only way I can possibly “get in”, I am able to look at the interaction between the people, but at the same time, I am placed outside of the diner, as Hopper did not include a visible entrance to the eatery.
Task 2 Option 1 Write an essay of 1000 words in response to the following questions: - In what way can Picasso’s Guernica be seen as a form of protest? - Is it continuing to fulfil this purpose today? Picasso painted Guernica in response to the bombing of the Basque town, Guernica in 1927 during the Spanish Civil War. The essay will discuss why the painting can be perceived as a protest against war. The Study Diamond (The Open University (2013), Block 1, 2.3, p.75) will be used to explore the effects, techniques, context and meaning of the painting.
This ad is clearly marketing towards the soldiers and in specifically, the Air Force in this ad. The ad does not directly show a cigar or a cigarette, but the United Cigar Stores Co. written at the bottom of the ad was a subtle way of making sure that you knew who advertised it and what they sell. The author of this ad apart from trying to promote the product was sending his best wishes to the troops overseas in the coming New Year. The large red circle in the back extends his best wishes to the allies fighting alongside our troops. In World War 1 cigarettes were given out as rations along with food and water to the soldiers (Borio).
The paintings are quite similar I must say, they both have a high sense of war which I much clearer on General Wolfe’s side because of the whole war scene, in this there are soldiers everywhere probably still at war you can see that in the aerial perspective, but the war scene is quite different in the other painting, its more of the war is about to happen not in process. I noticed, in both scenes there is a flag and a flag holder right next to the heroes showing they are
Essay #3 Within the Logevall’s essay “Choosing War” he focuses on the Americanization of the Vietnam War. It shows how Johnson was able to make many of the decisions that he did because he had the support of many Americans. American’s felt that it was necessary to follow the events that took place over in Vietnam. “Americans, to the extent that they followed developments in Vietnam, tended to support the effort there, in large measure because they took candidate-for-president Johnson at his word when he said the nation’s commitment would stay at about its current level and that South Vietnamese boys would have to fight their own war.” (Logevall, 185) He also makes it clear that many countries opposed the American involvement in Vietnam whereas many American critics supported the Johnson administration’s escalation and no one questioned the need to contain communist threat in Vietnam. Johnson’s administration tried very hard to keep distain for his policies at bay.
Brandy Andrade November 23, 2010 Casablanca In Casablanca the movie was a propaganda film because it had war and in the movie they show the war going on. Also the reason I thought it looked like a propaganda film is because all the action and gangster actors that play in the film. In this film the way the film noir is because all the romantic scenes and all the love in the movie. Film noir in this movie was great and really nice. To show how Rick’s moods change when they play the song “A Time Goes By”.
Affield’s memoir illustrated the very real and raw aspects of war. Wendell’s personal account of life as a soldier started with the horrors of boot camp, eventually explained the terrors of war and finally ended with the rejection and ridicule that he and other soldiers endured on his return home. His detailed accounts helped readers better understand the situation and events that occurred during and after the war in Vietnam. Once Affield enlisted with the United States Navy he was originally stationed on a gunner Naval ship, USS Rogers, and traveled to Vietnam to aide in fighting the Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin. This West Pac cruise was difficult, yet it ended up being one of the least devastating assignments of his Vietnam experience.
Set in the Vietnam War, it begins with a focus on the training of a platoon of U.S. marines and continues to follow the service of Private Joker in his experiences in Vietnam as he goes about his service. Full Metal Jacket is a well paced film that studies the violence of war, portraying the physical as well as the mental dangers in a hyper realistic way. One overarching element that ultimately combines both of these films is their emotional poignancy. Both are highly engaging, yet thoroughly disturbing films. These are two demonstrations against war, revealing the subject in an ironic and undeniably negative light.
Thanks to support from the department of defense, “Top Gun” has spectacular scenes and seems very realistic to the audience. Although the movie glorifies life in the U.S. navy and makes being a fighter pilot very appealing, it doesn’t follow all of the department of defense guidelines and in some instances it breaks the rules. This essay examines the guidelines created by the department of defense and shows how the movie “Top Gun” followed and broke these rules. In the documentary “Hollywood and the War Machine”, the relationship between the military and filmmakers is put under the microscope. Guidelines created by the pentagon are set in place to make the U.S. military seem like a benevolent force for good.
In Gibson’s book, “Warrior Dreams,” he describes the aftermath of America after the Vietnam War and finds out those American males have been living a war amongst themselves within their own male identity. As Gibson puts it, he “began to dream, to fantasize about powers and features of another kind of man who could retake and reorder the world” (Gibson 504). For instance, there have been a rise of action movies that involve violence and guns as being the answer to solving problems. Many American men are buying guns because they feel that they need to protect their families with it, only thinking that it makes a bigger man out of themselves, like Albright in Devil in a Blue Dress. Also, games like paintball have been created to simulate battles and wars, and to make the average American male as if he can still feel dominate.