67th Academy Awards

The Characterization of Sylvia Sylvia is one of the main characters in Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson.” Sylvia’s actions and personality traits are key when it comes to comprehending the backgrounds of Sylvia and the other children. Throughout this story, Miss Moore tries to educate the kids with lessons such as realizing social unjustness and calculating change among other things. During their day out, Sylvia shares her feelings through her narration and actions. Sylvia’s strong will is…

Werner Stejskal has been working on a very innovative picture book series for children up to seven years called ‘Oliver and Jumpy’. This series has been beautifully illustrated in Disney-style and has won a gold medal by the ‘Readers Favorite Book Awards’. There are 20 books including 62 stories. Each book was a Bestseller in various categories on Amazon. Many stories do have educational value. Oliver, is an elegant tomcat and Jumpy is his kangaroo lady-friend. Oliver rides in her pouch…

In the movie, Erin Brockovich, Erin is portrayed as a determined, self-sacrificing, compassion and empathy character. Throughout the movie Erin does what she feels is her duty to get what hundreds of people deserve while sacrificing time away from her children. Erin Brockovich is a single mother of three kids that finds herself having a hard time getting a job. After Erin was involved in a car accident, which she wasn’t at fault, she begs her attorney, Ed Masry, to hire her at his law firm…

The Corentto Trilogy And more I. Intro Attention Getter: While some directors have been known to drink, they unexpectedly find themselves with hangovers. Director Edgar Wright often used a Cornetto ice cream as a home remedy to cure his own, and even putting them into his movies based on those experiences. And thus, the Corneoto trilogy was born Revealed Object and Speaker Credibility: The Cornetto trilogy pack (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and World’s End) Thesis: Due to their long…

Johnny, a character from S.E. Hinton’s novel the Outsiders, has a sad and rather undesirable and short outer life, which is best depicted in George Friedrich Handel’s, The Death March. Johnny can almost be described as being rather melancholy. His life at home is not ideal,”I think I like it better when the old man's hittin' me." Johnny sighed. "At least then I know he knows who I am (Hinton 45). Johnny’s parents are not very honourable individuals and are constantly using physical violence…

Holden’s scene with Sunny does not happen because he does not “feel very much like [himself]” but that exactly is not the reason why he has sex (125). Reason being that he begins to feel nervous when he is lying about having surgery in order to avoid having sex. Holden’s depression is not the only reason why he does not have sex with Sunny. He does not have sex with her because the whole scene is “peculiar” or in other words weird (123-125). It is weird because one she tries to be seductive but…

The theme of this speech from the movie “The Great Dictator”, is that we can achieve peace, equality, and happiness if we put aside our differences and not think of each other as “black” or “white”, or as “Christian” or “Muslim”, but as fellow human beings. Charlie Chaplin’s tone changes throughout the poem. He starts out with a calm and peaceful tone. But, as the speech goes on, and as his words become more and more inspiring, his tone becomes stronger and more direct. He uses metaphors and…

Have you ever heard of "The Sound of Music" or even the show called "Mary Poppins" then you might of heard of Julie Andrews. Julie Andrew was born on October 1, 1935 in England age of 82 years old. Julie birth name is Julia Elizbeth Wells. Her mother and stepfather are both performers for music. After she found out that she could sing her singing career went blazing through the sky. Through her childhood and her teens she perfromed in music halls. But when she turned 20 years old she launched…

Hannah Jarvis also has many of the same characteristics, particularly in regards to emotional intelligence that Thomasina does. Hannah is driven by her academic work and finds comfort in facts and knowledge where emotion makes her uncomfortable and exasperates her. This is illustrated in scene two when Hannah is discussing the hermit of Sidley Park with Bernard, HANNAH. The hermit was placed in the landscape exactly as one might place a pottery gnome. And there he lived out his life as a garden…

In Sorokin’s, The Blizzard, the problems standing in the way of progress are seen through a doctor’s journey to a faraway village. The novel brings up current problems in Russia specifically dealing with scientific progress in relation to human ability. The main protagonist, Doctor Garin, is comparable to doctor Preobrazhensky in Heart of a Dog because they both are intellectuals with goals. In the way of their goals, however, is their own desires, a reoccurring theme in The Blizzard. Both…