Best Friends Essay

Axel a curious boy nervous to go on a journey with Professor Lidenbrock, discovers a coded note written in what they call runic script. After showing Professor Lidenbrock, Lidenbrock and Axel they translate the runic script to Latin, showing a peculiar message. After cracking the code, it seemed to be a medieval note written by Arne Saknussem, an Icelandic alchemist. After finding out what the note meant, Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, who does not want to go, goes on a trip to Iceland.…

“The Hurt Locker,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, is about an American bomb unit during the Iraq war. This movie stands out to me because it is realistic and makes me feel as if I am the fourth person in the humvee. The first scene, the audience is introduced to the unit and the dangerous environment they are in. Three soldiers led by Sergeant Thompson are investigating a bomb. While Thomson looks at the bomb first hand, a secret bystander activates the bomb, and kills…

The Great Bear Rainforest (GBRF) Negotiation began by allowing each stakeholder to outline their expectations and what was at stake. Furthermore, each group was given the opportunity to express their individual perspectives and the value of each factor. Negotiations began by discussing the immediate discrepancies amongst each stakeholders’ expectations, and seeking a resolution beneficial to each party involved. Overall, negotiations were relatively calm and level-headed, with the forestry…

Life is Beautiful by Robert Benigni is a romantic war movie. When a Jewish librarian, Guido becomes victims of the Holocaust with his son, he tells his son their playing a certain game, when reality is fatally different. With humor and imagination he uses these techniques to protect his son from the danger Nazi concentration camps. Although the film won several Oscars’, many critics who accused the production to have falsely depiction of the Holocaust, unrealistic plot and comedy attacked…

Prompt #1: After Victor reads Elizabeth’s letter, he seems very distressed. He didn’t want his family to worry about him like that, so he quickly wrote them back. I think felt this way because the one who told him about the worry his family had for him was Elizabeth. He cared for and didn’t want her to be sad due to his actions. “ ‘Dear, dear Elizabeth!’ I exclaimed when I had read her letter, ‘I will write instantly and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel.’ I wrote, and this exertion…

In the story of Candide, Voltaire portrays El dorado as either pessimistic or optimistic. At the end of the novel, Candide retrieves into his garden to work in. He contemplates about the everything he has gone through to end up the way he did. He finds his answer in the wisdom of Professor Pangloss with which he couldn’t agree more. El Dorado as described by Voltaire is an optimistic world. In El Dorado there is no tyranny to push their power onto the people, everyone is free to do as they…

Resemblance between “American Beauty” and Today In all honesty, the film “American Beauty” had my brain twisted in confusion for the first half of it. I felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of symbolism found in the film. However as the movie went on, a lot of it made much more sense and with that, it also felt more relatable. By the end of the film, everything about each character felt so real. “American Beauty” uses these characters to showcase multiple themes that hold strong parallel to how…

Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book writes about a young boy named Nobody Owens or Bod who has a unique relationship with the dead. Throughout the novel Bod learns many things that the dead know about and don’t. With his guardian Silas, a mysterious figure who is neither living nor dead, Bod learns multiple things about life, the dead, and how powerful knowledge is. Knowledge is Power and power is what Bod seeks in order to protect himself, avenge his family, and put a stop to the Man Jack…

metaphysical optimism, the belief that “we live in the best of all possible worlds” and illustrates its dangers and ridiculousness through the use of various satirical elements such as exaggeration, irony, and ridicule. Voltaire first challenges metaphysical optimism through the use of satire when Candide persists in its belief, despite being forced to run the gauntlet. Candide states that “everything is linked by necessity and arranged for the best. It was necessary for me to be expelled from…

Audrey Hepburn’s legacy Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston was born on May 4th in 1929. Her birthplace was Brussels, Belgium. Audrey’s parents were Ella Van Heemstra and Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston. Her Grandfather's were Aarnoud Van Heemstra and Victor John George Ruston. The Grandmother’s names were Elbrig Willemine Henriette Van Asbeck and Anna Ruston. Audrey only had two half brothers which their names were Lan Edgar Bruce Quarles Van Ufford and Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles Van Ufford.…