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.…
There are numerous of stories to why female inmates end up in prison serving for a short or long sentence. Every person that ends up incarcerated it is for their own fault and no one else. Piper Kerman, the author of the book, Orange is the New Black, had stories similar and different to the other female offenders. Her incarceration is something to be speechless for, because of the type of criminal offense she committed, ignoring the education she had already achieved, and because of the socioeconomic status she had. Once in prison, Piper learned how to communicate with the inmates and guards.…
The movie Bleu is about a woman finding freedom and liberty, after the death of her husband and child. Though the journal is rough, and she experiences many hardships. She manages to find her way through it all. What does it mean to have liberty in this movie? It means to be set free of your past life and obligations, while trying to find a new lifestyle.…
Power is Greedy The one breaking the rules, always gets the advantage. Equality is an inhabitant of a corrupt society, where Council has taken away any bit of power to the civilians. In the Council’s perfect society all citizens are equal, but to an extreme. All must love, respect, and value others the same.…
What do I want most in life? You can’t want something and not work for it. There are sacrifices and long journeys you need to make so you can be close to where you want to be. The books we reviewed are Anthem by Ayn Rand, ‘Emancipation Proclamation’, ‘Prometheus’. We also listened to an audio that went into a deeper meaning of what critical thinking is and had a Socratic Seminar.…
In high school, he fell in love with a girl named Sylvia. She was against the concept of The Truman Show and began to tell him the truth about the world he was living in but before she was able to explain everything, she was forcefully taken away and exiled from the show. Truman never forgot her and years later when he observed the stage light fall from the sky, the elevator with no back wall, the pedestrians on the loop around the block and began to realize that something was going on he remembered her and her cryptic message. Truman was disturbed by these events and searched for answers. Christof fed him more lies, trying in vain to keep him from the truth but Truman was not satisfied with lies any longer.…
The topic of pineapple pizza, and whether it belongs on pizza, has been the topic of centuries. One third of all americans believe that pineapples belong on pizza, and almost one third of Americans are illiterate or undereducated. Coincidence? I think not. Although people say that pineapples belong on pizza because it’s healthy, there is a balance of flavours, and because people enjoy it, these people are wrong.…
Regier 1 Freedom, it's what everyone longs for. Who can measure the strength and power of freedom compared to the pain of being enslaved, no one can, because joy will always trump agony. There's a certain ambiance that comes along with freedom that not one person can explain indefinitely. It brings such a joy to a person, especially one who has been enslaved and not likely to be released from something so terrible.…
Laurie Anderson’s Chains takes place in 1776 at the start of the Revolutionary war. The Colonists were fighting for their freedom from Britain. It is ironic that the very thing they were fighting for was the one thing they denied an entire race of people. Everyone deserves freedom. After spending her entire life as a slave, Isabel, for the first time begins questioning why Madam Lockton could own another person or even be allowed to hit them.…
Free Will….. No Such Thing What does a collective society mean, how dow does it work? The purpose of this is to give insight to those who know nothing about a collective society. The society in the novel Anthem is a brutal one, that requires everyone to think less of themselves in order for the group to better survive and thrive. Collectivism is a social outlook on society, that says that the interests of the group should be put above everything else.…
Anthem and the Concept of Free Will Anthem by Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego,” The story is about a man’s rebellion in regards to an authoritarian, communist society. A young man by the name Equality 7-2521 craves to comprehend “the Science of Things.’’ The problem is that he exists in a desolate, dystopian future in which sovereign thought is an offense and whereby science and technology have reverted to primeval levels. All terminologies of individualism have been stifled in the world of Anthem: personal belongings are a myth, individual inclinations are viewed as evil and romantic love is outlawed. Furthermore, compliance to the collective is so profoundly deep-rooted that the very term “I” has been obliterated from the language.…
Analysis of Burgess’s childhood confirms the psychoanalytic theory that Alex and his fictional experiences within A Clockwork…
Kevin Le Hernandez English III K -1st 26 January 2015 Psychological Advances Causes More Corruption In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, many different types of sciences are associated with it such as neurology, sociology and social psychology. Psychology can be defined as the study of the human mind and its function in a given environment. The story starts off with the protagonist, Alex. With his gang, he roams around the streets robbing, beating men, and raping women.…
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World - Society of Imprisonment True Freedom is having the right to act, speak and think whatever one wants without any hesitation or restriction. Imprison [im-priz-uh n] to confine in or as if in a prison (dictionary, 2018) Why is it so important that freedom is achieved? The motto that shapes the World State is “Community, Identity, Stability” (p.1). The motto tricks the citizens into thinking that they have achieved the utmost freedom and are content with the way they live their lives.…
However free we feel, we can only really make on choice in certain circumstances. The mere fact that the individual chose the wedge of chocolate cake shows that they just simply could not have chosen the peach. Perhaps this experience could influence them in the future to choose a healthier alternative, their desire to eat healthy would outweigh their desire to have cake, but that would be determined by her prior experience, so it is futile pondering what they “could” have…