The Art of Transportation - Essay Topics - City Streets - Alex Millers Book Review

The Art of Transportation - Essay Topics - City Streets - Alex Miller's Book ReviewThe last time I had the opportunity to review The Art of Transportation by Alex Miller, I wasn't sure if he had it right. So, I went back and read it in its entirety.I was surprised that The Art of Transportation was so similar to Desire. I know the author loves buses, which makes sense, because that's where most of his recent work has been written. However, since he is a novelist, one would expect him to write about the railroads of his imagination and I didn't see much of it.I will admit, that while I enjoyed The Art of Transportation, I wasn't quite as impressed with the essay topics, although I did agree with some of the points the author made in his book. Still, I don't know if these topics are what people were expecting from this particular book. Let's take a look at some of the topics that were included in the book.Streetcars were actually designed to be luxurious passenger liners. People used t o ask, what was so special about streetcars, they wonder. The fact is that once people learn all of the details of streetcars, they begin to appreciate the privilege that they have available for them.There is so much about streetcars that a person will never understand without first studying the history of streetcars in The Art of Transportation. Alex is able to take us through how streetcars were able to carry so many people during the Victorian Era and what we can learn from those facts.Streetcars also provided a good deal of entertainment for travelers, particularly children. These were not simply wooden cars with no entertainment but included other things such as a 'steam engine' and a band. This makes me wonder what it must have been like to ride on a steam engine on a city street.The fact is that there are more than two hundred years of transportation options in the United States, it makes it hard to determine which method will be best for us. What if we had streetcar lines go ing through our communities, but it was considered too risky to have them?In other words, perhaps the primary streetcars in each community wouldn't be so important, because in the long run, the profits would be more than enough. It all depends on who you ask, really. Still, that is my opinion, and I'd like to hear yours.

Murder on the Orient Express: Critical Essay Topics

Murder on the Orient Express: Critical Essay TopicsMurder on the Orient Express: a critical examination of popular culture, Hollywood, and the media. Marilyn Manson has been in the news a lot lately for his statement about Israel and is killing babies. Murder on the Orient Express would be a terrific television series to cover the issues discussed in this essay.Literature. This genre of the arts would be an excellent source of research. Classics of modernity such as Swift, Poe, Joyce, and Vonnegut are major themes of the period. They deal with themes of immortality, modernization, domination, and the recurring ebb and flow of culture and society.Crime Fiction. George Lutz has written a very interesting essay on this topic. His prose is in part a satire of crime and punishment in the literature, but this is not enough. He could have better mixed his satire with analysis and exploration of the choices of crime fiction writers. There is much to be learned from his essay on this topic.Fi lms. Yes, films are critical of the status quo. There is nothing wrong with this, but like other literary and cultural analysis, films, at least in part, have a political agenda. James Gunn's 'Men in Black' and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy are part of the overall violent movement in which modernism was supposedly hijacked by religion. Certainly the movies are an avenue to explore issues related to this subversion of traditional and modern ways of life. As a criticism of the status quo, they are certainly essential.TV shows. Television shows, more than films, deal with issues of perception, in other words with the past. We can make very interesting case studies of television on the questions of censorship, ideology, and redemption through the medium of show. Anthology. The Netflix documentary 'Tour de Force' would be a tour de force of this type of composition. When it is done well, it brings to life the various themes and complexities of this form of art. It is that goo d.What, then, would you look at murder on the Orient Express in light of these topics? Movies, TV shows, and crime fiction do not deal with these issues. Films deal with the past while books deal with the present. TV shows deal with the present, while murder on the Orient Express would deal with the past.