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...sanitized until all hell breaks loose. That the brothers are gifted natural filmmakers is evidenced as when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies in the stark contrast between light and dark, inverting a symbol by making a gleaming, bright element an instrument of death. The fact that the action remains largely unseen and the physical effect plays out in our minds only underscores revulsion. However, in most other instances, the brothers resort to heavy-handed imagery. Precariously...
...classes totaled 1,261 (with numerous overlaps), of which 872 were in the five introductory calculus courses (X, 1 and 21). These courses are taken primarily by non-concentrators with varying degrees of ability and interest in the material, and three of them exceed 200 students in enrollment. In contrast, the English department that semester had a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,011, with only one course exceeding 100 students (English 10a: “Major British Writers I”). So 69 percent of all undergraduate math grades were from the intro sequence (57 percent from classes larger than...
...contrast, look at Harvard’s cheerleaders. They may not be the best in the world, but they have their routines down before the morning of the game, they all come to (at the very least) every home football game, and it’s clear that they’re at the game to entertain the fans—not themselves. They don’t get academic credit either, but at least it looks like they take what they do seriously...
...this situation to that of modern-day Arabs. Cheever is apparently unaware of the concept of Pan-Arabism, which, along with Islamism, ranks as one of the strongest political trends in the Arab world today. Indeed, the religious, cultural, and ethnic diversity among Native American peoples stands in stark contrast to the religious, cultural, and ethnic uniformity of the Arab world. Here, Cheever seems to be arguing a point that is simply false...
...possible reason for the lenience and benevolence of the Sparknotes management is that they know their writers’ status as Harvard students is one of the major drawcards. In stark contrast to the attitudes sorrounding other, somewhat ill-reputed study guides on the market, Yagan asserts that “teachers and parents actually like their kids to read Sparknotes…we are even on the syllabus in some schools”. Hawkins contests that the “study guides such as Cliff’s Notes and Monarch notes are outdated, some written pre-Cold...