Another fact that cannot be overlooked is Alex’s admiration of Jack London and his stories. It’s safe to assume he had read To Build a Fire, but what did he take from it? Did he…
Fall Written Report Elliott Touikan FMST-322-2173-A Instructor: Rosanna Maule Friday, December 4, 2017 Concordia University Elliott Touikan Instructor: Rosanna Maule FMST-322-2173-A 4 December 2017 Fall Written Report: A Clock Work Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, 136’) A Clock Work Orange is a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess. It follows the story of a teenager named Alex. He along with his three friends, which he calls droogs, robbed, rape and pillage the town every night, come home and start over again.…
In “Oranges” a 1960 love poem by Gary Soto, a theme of sacrifice is present throughout the story by using the symbolism of oranges, the fruit, to portray warmth, love and passion. The twelve year old boy, sacrificed one of the two oranges which he had saved for later, so that he could pay for “what she wanted (Soto, 27)”. The young boy understood that to be in love requires sacrifice. His willingness to surrender everything in his possession to make her have “a smile starting at the corners of her mouth,” fulfilled his heart's desire (Soto, 28-29). The orange was a token of his love and helped illustrate the theme of sacrifice.…
Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley is the name that is given to the group of musical artists and producers of New York during the 19th and 20th century. The name was, at first, given to a specific location in New York. Tin Pan Alley was located between West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Tin Pan Alley is said to have gotten its name from the collective sound of the pianos all playing different tunes at the same time.…
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, written by Ken Kesey, there are many themes and symbols throughout. One of the most prominent themes, however, is over sexuality and how it affects a person when it is taken away, and when they are given complete freedom. In this novel, the constant clash between masculinity and emasculation alludes to the theme that too little or too much sexual freedom can be harmful to anyone. At the start, Nurse Ratched, the head nurse of the mental institution, destroys the patients’ masculinity and their sexual freedom with her action and her strong use of words.…
What makes us who we are? That is the question. At times we wonder what makes a person be who they are. Primarily, several factors affect who we they are and the way people turn out in life. Such as family,culture, and life experiences.…
Greatest Movie Movement The Breakfast club. The Breakfast club is a story of five teenagers who were sentenced to Saturday detention in school. Each of them having their own identity knew nothing about each other before this day. They all came from different social economical groups. We have the jock, wrestling star Andrew Clark, Claire Standish the most popular girl in school, Brian Johnson the brains, john bender the catalyst the group with his rebellious nature, and last but not least Allison Reynolds the eccentric but yet the basket case of the group.…
Orange is the New Black (OITNB) is a Netflix original web series created by Jenji Kohan and adapted from the memoir of Piper Kerman, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (2010), which explores life inside a women’s prison system. The series includes a diverse cast of historically excluded Black, Latina, and transgender actresses. How do they create seemingly groundbreaking media based on the controversial world of prison systems in a time when inequality is perpetuated by institutionalized racism: a time when the likelihood of black women going to prison is 1 in 18, while for the white women it is 1 in 111 (The Sentencing Project). Race is a determining factor in how institutionalized systems in our society affect individuals.…
All by Herself During the writing of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she goes to great depths and lengths to describe the young, upper-middle-class woman who is newly married to a physician named John and a mother yet a nameless narrator who has a character of what she describes herself as, “a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 64). How would one expect the personality and character of a woman who is sent to a quiet and empty house, by her husband, be? A character analysis of the narrator and wife of John, reveals throughout this writing her depression, how she overcomes it while she is being isolated from the world, and how she regains her freedom of thoughts and actions.…
Unit 2 Essay The way of life described in the book, Utopia by Sir Thomas More, is very different than the way things are in this day and age. Gold and silver, marriage, and religion were the main selections that we had to read. It is hard to imagine some of the rules and way of life that occur in the book.…
The 1998 film The Truman Show is about Truman Burbank, who lives in an idealized, artificial world, figuring out that his whole life has been constructed to entertain a television audience. Truman, his whole life, believes he is living with the truth on his home on Seahaven Island; this belief is certainly reasonable, as this life was all he has ever known. However, after the sighting of his thought-to-be dead father and other strange events, Truman can conclude that this world is not real, or rather strangely centered on him. He successfully leaves out of a desire to seek the truth and thus be free, despite the efforts of Christof, the “mastermind” behind the show.…
A Clockwork Orange. W.W. Norton & Company Inc. New York: 1962. Burgess, Anthony. “Introduction.”…
“’New Scottish Cinema’ suggests a new wave of film production and is often attributed to filmmaking that considers itself alternative or oppositional to other forms of mainstream cinema”, David Martin Jones, (2005:11). Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1995) is a film that worked around the social, political and cultural development in Britain in the late 20th Century. It gives rise to questions of identity, culture, and community. The main theme in this film is about a group of friends with a heroin addiction, and the destructive effects that heroin-taking has upon the individual members of the group. Trainspotting is narrated by Mark Renton, on his need to give up his heroin addiction.…
For this mini sociological activity, I watched an episode of “Orange is the New Black” on Netflix on Monday, November 9th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Before watching the episode, I created a chart listing the possible racial-ethnic groups that could appear in the episode. Then as I watched the episode, I took a tally of the number of characters that belonged to each racial-ethnic group and wrote down words that described the characters of each racial-ethnic group and how they were portrayed. While watching an episode of “Orange is the New Black”, I observed a total of 42 characters: approximately 50% of which were Caucasian, 29% were African American, 17% were of Hispanic background, and 5% were of Asian background. I also found that most of the…
Today I have the pleasure of presenting my proposal for arts funding in 2016. As the director of the Queensland Theatre Company, I want to bring something new to the Minister of Arts in Queensland. I want to bring a remarkable play by William Shakespeare, which involves a storyline drenched with love and jealousy. It is, Othello, one of Shakespeare’s most tragic plays, featuring two loving characters that audiences will instantly connect with. The lead protagonist, Othello, is a young man who is infused in love with Desdemona.…