TED KELK, AN HONORABLE AND INSIGHTFUL MAN Ted Kelk (b.1927 d.1991) was a strong, passionate and articulate gay man, doggedly directing public attention to the terrible injustice the laws of Queensland imposed on gays, determined thereby to achieve law reform, and as a man of courage, determination and vision, he indeed became the catalyst for gay law reform in Queensland; Queensland born, and brought up on the family farm near Nambour, Ted entered teachers’ training college at only 16, then taught at Dajarra, a little country school near Cloncurry. A brilliant scholar, fluent in six languages with a smattering of several others, his love of travel and appreciation of other cultures definitely contributed to his linguistic proficiency.…
Compare and Contrast Argument Essay Adam sheppard and Christopher McCandless are two men who set out in a journey tho for different purposes, both journeys had a meaning to them. Adam shepard's journey is to disprove the point that the American dream is dead by literally starting at the bottom from living in a homeless shelter to getting a stable job a place to live and have some money saved up. On the other hand Christopher McCandless was on a journey to find happiness for himself and help the people that he meet along the way pursue their dreams and achieve their own happiness. While Sheppard's journey was used to prove a point about the american dream, McCandless journey served a greater purpose or left a greater impact because he was…
William F. Baxter and Aldo Leopold both have very different views as to what it means to be human and where our place in the world is compared to other animals, plants, and the very land itself. Very briefly, Baxter argues that any form of environmental problems should be viewed solely through the understanding that it is “people-oriented” and that any animal or land preservation would be understood in this light and not, as some threatened penguins would fear, “for their own sake” (Baxter, 695). However, Leopold does not hold a similar view to Baxter and instead claims that it is “…an evolutionary possibility and an ecological necessity” to extend our ethical behaviors beyond just our own fellow humans and include all of life and land within…
These laws had done some pretty awful things such as segregation and allowing crimes to go unpunished, and I can sit here and go on and on preaching trying to act like I knew and can imagine what it was like but I feel these personal accounts will do a much better job than I ever could. Joseph Holloway was only nine in the summer of 1961 when he and his family were traveling from Los Angeles to Louisiana to visit his grandmother who was dying of cancer. The family stopped at a gas station in central Texas for food and other items. They walked into the restaurant and sat at the wrong table.…
Throughout life, many individuals suffer from being self-conscious about their looks or even their overall personality. In the chapter, The Puppeteer, Bob Goff expounds on the time he purchased an expensive oil painting he had wanted for some time (145). However, when Goff goes to pick up said painting, the man advises him to hide the real one and instead hang up a fake painting to ensure the safety. Goff, of course, disagreed with this since he had waited for so long to purchase the painting (147). Goff proudly hung the picture up in his home where, one day, a rubber band was shot at it and put a hole in it (148).…
Stephen Kinzer, a veteran foreign correspondent provides a unique insight to the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kinzer portrays the administration in a one-sided fashion, highlighting only the actions of John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA. Kinzer specifically highlights their impact in different wars and assassinations that occurred in foreign countries throughout the Eisenhower presidency. The Dulles brothers are also declared responsible for the United States’ increased activity in terms of foreign policy. Kinzer accentuates the fact that the Dulles brothers were ultimately responsible for U.S. involvement in the Cold War in the 1950s.…
Forrest Ackerman, a renown Science Fiction specialist, was born on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles. His grandpa and grandma, George and Bell Herbert, made a huge impact on Ackerman’s interests in monsters and aliens. As a child, his grandmother influenced him by reading ghost stories while his grandpa drew pictures of monsters and aliens and brought him to as many as seven movies a day. His eccentric imagination of extraterrestrials encouraged and sparked his career as a Science Fiction publisher. Ackerman’s broad fancy inspired any writers and films during his generation.…
Coming home to a big house with a great wife and great children, or coming home to mountains of money, or even coming home to an RV that’s going across the country. This, in its many forms is the American dream. The American dream is the ideal, that every United States citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, and determination. This said, The American dream is in the eye of the beholder. One man’s American dream, can be living life on the road, leaving no street untouched.…
The character I hate the most are the elders, those people rule like those kids in the witch hunt times bringing this to really bad time. People act like they are scared out of their wits as the elders branded the main characters witches as they plan to harm them in many ways that make them look evil, but actually they are good that really tick me off about them is that they want to rule the community making them be formed in the bad life that means sadness for the children fight ringing them or threaten them of witchcraft. That made things worse for them in the process. I really don’t understand why they act like the big police force if they don’t care about as they did with their parents that bring them the point of accusing but they…
Many artists have either rejected or embraced the notion of increasing technology in our human world. Some, who have rejected it, have stayed true to the roots of their artistic teachings and have continued to portray the more human and/or natural elements of our world. Others, who have embraced the changing world around them, have begun to experiment with different media and subject matter, some of which have become quite gruesome, morbid, and technologically based. H R Giger is one of these artists who has embraced the changing medias and subject matter, and has created some very memorable, unique pieces that continue to capture the attention of onlookers with their intricate details and distinctive shapes and grim and monochromatic colour scheme. Another artist who embraces the grim side of things is a well-known makeup artist and SFX artist from YouTube called Glam&Gore.…
For my film project I chose, Natural Born Killers, (1994) the film stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as the notorious couple Mickey and Mallory Knox. The film follows Knox’s on their cross-country murder spree that captivates the world as the media glorifies their crimes making them the most infamous serial killers since Manson. Natural Born Killers starts out in a small diner in the middle of the desert, Mickey is ordering pie and Mallory is dancing to a jukebox, a couple of locals enter and one starts flirting with Mallory causing her to kick the crap out of him. Its when his friend jumps in that Mickey springs into action killing him and everybody else in the restaurant along with them. After the gruesome killings the Knox’s embrace…
In Drew Goddard’s Cabin in the woods, five college students arrive at a cabin to vacation for the weekend, unaware of the horrific events that lie ahead. Each character portrayed a standard character type in the beginning of the film, but as the film continues the audience learns more about each character and their true identity. Curt “The Athlete”, Jules “The Whore”, Marty “The Fool”, Dana “The Virgin” and Holden “The Scholar” all play the leading roles. The film is set-up as the stereotypical “slasher film.” The horrific event is induced by the past and conflict is between a fictional antagonist and a group of teenagers, which includes two girls, one is a virgin and her best friend is a whore.…
In Allan Johnson’s book The Forest and the Trees, he notions that in order to understand the concept of social life, we have to not only look at the individual, but also at the environment the individual is placed and how they interact and create social systems. Johnson explains that “a forest is simply a collection of individual trees, but it is more than that. It is also a collection of trees that exist in a particular relation to one another, and you cannot tell what that relation is by looking at the individual trees.” (Johnson 2014) By using the imagery of the forest and trees, he shows how social systems and people influence each other.…
OVERALL (3) “Blowback,” is an intriguing with a premise that blends something akin to “The Game Plan,” and “Matchstick Men,” with a CIA drama. The young protagonist, Carling, is intelligent and well written and the premise of her working with her estranged CIA father feels fresh and for the most part is executed well. The subplot with her father, Dylan and the one night stand that turns into their confident works well, though a conflict added to their budding bond, in line with conflict of interest as a journalist could have been explored more. Carling’s identity as “Shadow Admin,” was also something that could have been served well by more detail, though it’s function worked in the resolution of the script. PREMISE (4)…
Finally, at age forty-two, Neil appears to be putting his life together. He is working as a part time political counselor and carries those political ambitions through age fifty-six. Neil’s incredibly unstable development was heavily influenced by his genetics and the environment he grew up in. These practically unavoidable factors, along with some defeating losses, contribute substantially to Neil’s non-normative development. Neil’s familial environment as a child consisted of two overbearing parents, both teachers, with seemingly no understanding of who Neil was.…