Henry Hoffman

Six Critical Essays on Film is a clear, succinct guide to studying and understanding feature films as both a medium of communication and artistic expression. Intended for college and adult school students, this book offers a short - but diverse - selection of quality films from the 1920s through 1970s for review and application. The text provides active, workable solutions to break films down into their component parts, evaluate elements that work well, and identify those that miss their mark. Critical thinking skills and an outside-the-box approach are encouraged to help students write film essays of their own that stand out boldly from the college crowd.

A guide for college students to simplify the process of writing college essays in the arts. Will be particularly useful for those students in the hards sciences who may not be as comfortable writing essays in English, Communications, and the Humanities.

How rewarding is it...the effort to track down a lost love from long ago? Richly rewarding when you consider the trail of fond memories awaiting you on your journey back in time. What's more, there is always the potential of that coveted reunion with the person who is the source of all your warm remembrances. Yet, how many who embark on such a journey weigh beforehand the risks involved? As private investigator Adam Fraley discovers in a case undertaken as a favor to a colleague, these unintended consequences pale in comparison to those resulting from an incident unearthed by him that was buried in a cover-up spanning nearly a half century. It was an event law enforcement officials came to recognize as one of the rarest transgressions in the catalog of major crimes. Ultimately, it is a case that ends up in a court of law where the raw emotions surrounding the original crime are laid bare, exposing a familial tragedy of lasting consequence.

In one of the worst bridge disasters in American history, a runaway freighter rams the underpinnings of Tampa Bay's Sunshine Skyway during a morning squall, spilling a string of rush hour passengers to their deaths. For Charlene Gibbs, the sister of one of the victims, this event leads years later to her own fatal plunge from the reopened Skyway, an incident novice detective Adam Fraley witnesses by chance. Puzzled by the official findings, Fraley delves into the circumstances surrounding the death his digging uncovering a sinister link between the two tragedies and a cover-up initiated by a powerful figure in the community.