Essays on Twists

The global financial crisis of 2008 has left its indelible mark on history. A series of explanations, which appeared along with difficult economic terms, abbreviations, and other puzzlingfactors were published in every newspaper. It is impossible to explain all this in a few words, so the media began to fill long texts with detailed explanations of economic phenomena. And seven years later comes the picture of Adam McKay's "The Big Short" which sets itself the task to tell the real story as simple as possible for the viewer in a simple language. Adam McKay managed to create an impressive ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

05th of May 2016

Among the outstanding architectural masterpieces of the XX century the Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao definitely stands out. This is not only because of its blatant deconstruction, but also the value it is to the city, as a museum and an architectural piece. Frank Gehry made his masterpiece as contemporary as possible. To such extent that even critics lament about his novel style and vision of architecture. In Spain, hardly anyone can be surprised by whimsical architectural forms, bearing in mind the works of Antonio Gaudi in Barcelona. However, Frank Gehry seems to have outwitted the latter. What he created, ...

It needs to be reckoned that the television series, Prison Break, is surely one of the most famous programs ever aired in the history of television shows. Indeed, the immense popularity and critical acclaim of this show makes it a universal hit with its fan base transcending geographical boundaries and differences of cultures. A close scrutiny of the television show would provide an in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of portrayal and the thematic content of the program that have highly contributed to the show’s catapulting popularity and critical acclaim. There have been as many as four seasons of ...

Health abnormlities of several kind require a thorough assessment in terms of management. With the technical advancements, medical field had evolved to simplify the complex assesssment tasks. For instance, medical imaging has come up to make feasible the analyis of body parts through the production of images. There is a need to know much about this particualr area. In such context, the present description deals with a topic Magentic Resonance Angiography (MRA) of the remal artery with a special emphasis on the 3D gradient echo sequencing in MRI. Briefly, magnetic resoannce angiography constitutes a kind of MRI (magnetic resonance ...

In Miura (2008), it discusses the rise of Asian horror in Western culture, and how this has led to a significant amount of remakes and considerable popularity. Specifically, between the years 1998 to 2004, it is stated that films from Japan, as well as Thailand and Hong Kong, had a substantial effect on displaying some of the most horrific moments on screen to theatergoers. Films such as Ringu and Shutter, are often highlighted as very successful, but memorable for their cinematic violence. The former film, was extremely successful to the point where it was remade by an American production ...