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shows me that they see my potential. Things are going good, so far, the one part of this internship that I see myself taking time to get use to is working at a desk all day. From time to time members of the team and I walk around the building and socialize with employees’, it is like a mental break. I am an active student so I do not find much thrill in staring at a computer for eight hours, however, this is still a great opportunity to improve my knowledge and computer skills; so I will take as much from this internship as I can. I know for sure that whichever career I choose to do in the near future, has to involve some sort of hunting down a high profile criminal in a foreign country, like a scene from the movie “Taken” starring Liam Neeson, one of my favorites. I can definitely see myself active on a crime scene, very hands on. However, I do not think my parents would be too fond of their 20 year old daughter chasing a high profile criminal, so for now, I will dream.…

The Girl’s Scene with the Red Coat in Schindler 's List The scene featuring the girl with the red coat in Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is of the most recognizable scenes in late twentieth century cinema. It is often understood to encapsulate key aspects of the Holocaust, its brutality, and its effects on the lives of the people caught up within it. At the time, the scene deals with the paradoxes of memory, memorial and what may appear to be a sense of personal inability when…

Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is perhaps one of the greatest films in the late twentieth-century cinema. It encapsulates the brutality of the Holocaust as it evokes memories of atrocities of the World War II and a sense of inability to save innocent people. The film is shot in monochrome as Spielberg thinks it is more "realistic" and “closer to [a] documentary” of that time (Shandler 156). According to Jeremy Maron, Schindler 's List should primarily be understood as a melodrama; a…

John .F. Kennedy one said "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." Although war has destroyed many homes, towns, cities, and countries,it most importantly it destroys people. In this story, a lone sniper fights for what he believes in. The sniper is shown struggling as he fights to escape the enemy's sniper. In the short story,"The Sniper," Liam O'Flaherty uses setting, imagery, and pacing to create a feeling of suspense for the reader. The setting of the story is…

The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty takes place in the early weeks of the Irish Civil War, during the Battle of Dublin. O’FLaherty’s main character, a Republican sniper, is laying down, armed and on the lookout. The fight begins immediately after the sniper lights a cigarette, giving away his position, and compromising his operation. The sniper acts quickly, killing two men shortly after being wounded himself. The story takes a quick turn after we soon realize who the…

‘The Sniper’ by Liam O’Flaherty is a strong thought-provoking story of an incident from the Civil War. It is recounted from the perspective of the main character - ‘the sniper.’ As the reader, we experience the same suspense, fear and shock that ‘the sniper’ experiences. Throughout the story the other characters remain nameless, they are known as ‘the old women’ and ‘the man.’ This creates detachment from the sniper and these characters, making them simply faceless targets. However O’Flaherty is…

The realistic fiction story “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty occurs in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. It begins with a sniper on a roof during the night and there was hardly anyone on the streets. He is hidden on a rooftop eating a sandwich and scouring for threats. The author creates an eerie environment and also uses irony to create the theme that a person needs to think before acting. The Sniper, not thinking about his actions, results in consequences for himself. An example of this…

The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty,Suspense Set during the weeks of the long and horrible irish civil war.A brave soldier fight’s back almost getting himself killed multiple times,the confused but brave sniper ends up killing his brother over the war.”Almost immediately,a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof” (O’flaherty page 1) In The Sniper the author creates suspense by the use of timing,action and word choice. The author uses…

In this suspenseful novel, The Sniper, by Liam O'Flaherty you will see how the author uses words to speed up, slow down the tempo, and use a rapid succession of conflicts in his story to see how he creates the theme of suspense. In his story, a student is waiting on a building in the middle of a war between the Free-staters and Republicans. It tells of how he faces danger many times throughout and what obstacles he goes through like being shot at by another sniper only to find out that the other…

The Sniper How would you outsmart someone whose sole mission is to kill you? “The Sniper” is a novel about a young republican soldier and as the title suggests, his life as a sniper in the middle of a raging civil war. The story is set on the rooftops of Dublin just as “the long June twillight faded into night”. When going for a quick smoke the young soldier quickly discovers the presence of another sniper, as a bullet misses him by a matter of inches. The two now set out on a mission to kill…