The documentary, Love and Diane, offered an intimate and in-depth look at the struggles that a family can face in providing effective structure and defined roles that enable success within the family context. In the film, Diane, a recovering crack addict, struggles to correct mistakes she has made in the raising of her children, including her daughter, Love, and attempts to prevent these same mistakes from impacting her grandson, Love’s son, Donyaeh. A multitude of factors make this a difficult task to accomplish, and the film depicts the socioeconomic and cultural factors that can have a multi-generational impact on a family. The decisions that Diane makes evolve have ramifications that affect Love, and in turn, her behavior and actions…
One man’s power and hatred toward a race caused 11 million innocent people to die. This known today as the Holocaust. While many people died few survived including Ellie Wiesel. He experienced it all. He was taken from his home, experienced horrors impossible to imagine, and was rescued.…
Growing up on a ranch changes people; not only physically but down in your soul. This lifestyle teaches you to appreciate the little things in life. When you don’t come from much and you work hard for what you have it makes you look at the world in a different light. This was the case for the main character in “Ranch Girl” by Maile Meloy; life on the ranch shaped her. The circumstances of her life have made her staunch, melancholy, and apathetic.…
(Page 4, paragraph 2) Henry feels lonely when his wife, a person that is very dear to him, dies and he his thinking to back in the past. Remembering his school days, and all the friends and enemies he had, but he tries not to think about them, for the sake of, he did not want to live in the past. Similarly, I felt the same way when my grandfather passed away, I missed him dearly, but I knew that I can’t live in the past and I need to move and not fret about what is immutable. Quite a few people, wonder about if they would have done something different, there past would have turned out better, although it is immutable, people still wonder.…
Some individuals may not trust that destiny is something that honestly exists on the planet. This bit of the populace questions that there is anything that is really intended to be or expected to happen. They assume that whatever happens in their lives comes as a consequence of the choices that they make with their own through and through freedom. Others trust that whatever happens over the span of their lives is unavoidable and and laid out before them like a guide to life. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet has destiny as a prevalent theme, making the characters vivified.…
In All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warrren, while Jack Burden was working for his Ph.D in American History, he comes across a story about a man named Cass Mastern. Although Jack spends countless hours researching about Cass Masterns life, he was never able to finish writing about him since he believed that he could not understand Cass’s life. It was because Jack did not understand how in order to understand the past he must understand the present and how the present can become the past. Jack struggles with philosophical debate of living in the past or the present. All the King’s Men is told through past memoires and events described by the present day Jack.…
I’m Gossip Girl, a pretty big deal here in New York. I get the gossip and spread the latest news on the more well known teens that attend Constance Billard,a private school in New York. I don’t do the dirty work myself, all of the gossip that I tend to tell is sent in by other teens or just pretty much anyone who has the latest dirt on someone that they think should be exposed. The fun part about being “Gossip Girl” is that no one knows who I am. At the very end of the series, I finally tell you who I really am and trust me on this, you will be shocked and probably not think that it is true.…
In Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men, the theme of fate is frequently discussed and plays a central role in many ways. Immediately after Llewellyn Moss discovers the briefcase full of money, the novel begins to create questions about fate, chance, choice, and free will. Fate becomes a theme that some characters struggle with and some embrace throughout the novel, and all are touched by it in some way – even if it is not actually real. In particular, Moss, Anton Chigurh, and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell have lives that are steeped in the concepts of fate and free will.…
“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice,” (Anonymous). This is very accurate in the case of Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and again in Ovid’s, “Pyramus and Thisbe.” Both of these stories are told with ideas that destiny caused the tragic outcomes. People are set to believe that no matter what they tried, the kids were destined to die.…
The Weight We Carry The weight we carry and its significance we put on the past, present, and future is something that affects our mood and truly influences our lives. People move through life and get caught up in their minds while missing important things going on around them all while missing out on the joys of the world surrounding them. The short story The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien, focuses on how First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross lets his daydreams of the past, present, and future impact his actions and observations in the world.…
Life is like a routine. People focus on getting the job done or just watching television every day at the same time. People do not pay attention to the little things that are worth a lot when it is gone. Our Town written by Thornton Wilder is about George Gibbs and Emily Webb life divided up into three acts. In the Acts was about George and Emily relationship as a kid in school to getting married and last but not least Emily dying from childbirth.…
Tragedians and authors frequently depict men as defenseless creatures borne along by fatalism. Under their descriptions, the future life of each individual is so rigorously predetermined in all its details by an antecedent, external agency that no volitions or desires have power to alter the course of events. The action of fate is blind, arbitrary, and even relentless; such action moves inexorably onwards, effecting the most terrible catastrophes, impressing its victims with a feeling of helpless consternation, and harrowing their moral sense. Nevertheless, does fate genuinely have an insurmountable authority? Or is it a malleable strength that requires more tenaciousness and persistence in mind?…
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a movie about the life and hardships of Gilbert Grape. Gilbert is a 24 year-old boy, who should be out living his life, but is instead stuck with the responsibility of caring for his family. He took on this job after his father committed suicide to escape from it, and this is where all of his problems stem from. The best way to understand Gilbert’s issues is by taking a look at his relationships with each member of his family.…
Timing has always been a key element in an individual’s life. Most individuals can look back over the years and identify a place and time at which their lives changed significantly. Whether purposely or accidentally, these are the moments that with our comprehension on how time is ongoing and the collaborating events occurring around us, we are forced to retrospect ourselves and the conditions one lives. Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” is a story about her new experiences as a young lady and an adult in New York city. The story began with her arrival to New York and continuous to the point in time where she is in her late twenties.…
Bisexuality is an identity and orientation that is often overlooked and completely dismissed by not only society, but the entertainment industry as well. But, through quirky songs and constant plot lines, the CW’s original show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is fighting both bi-erasure and the stereotyping of both gay men and bisexual men while also creating an atmosphere where they aren’t the butt of the shows jokes. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend features a same-sex relationship with Josh Wilson, or commonly referred to as ‘White Josh’ who identifies as gay and Darryl Whitefeather who has newly discovered his bisexuality. The relationship displayed on the show not only is fighting bi-erasure with each episode that Darryl’s love life is featured on, but also combating the stereotypes that are often attached to both bi and gay men through these characters very existence. Although it is not a plot line that is immediately introduced, Darryl’s sexuality or the questioning of it at least, comes into play halfway through the shows first season.…