My Friends Essay

When is Enough? Both articles “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You” written by Theodore Dalrymple and “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” written by Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton are linked together by the movie A Few Good Men. The article “My Lai Massacre” is about the My Lai Massacre that occurred during the Vietnam War in 1968. The article also includes the author's viewpoints on the military’s stance on the following order. The article “Just Do What the Pilot Tells…

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is a twisted plot, because at the end of the poem the speaker is the killer. Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue; the speaker is expressing emotion about his uninvited lover. It’s a dark stormy night and Porphyria enters in the speaker home. Porphyria shut the door to the speaker home and warms his home. Then she grabs the speaker attention by seducing him; she let her damp hair falls on her shoulder and she undress herself. She lets her body speak for…

The bookshop scene from ‘The Big Sleep’, while devoid of extremely noticeable stylistic noir elements, such as harsh shadows and Dutch camera angles by looking at the mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound elements of noir are revealed. From the beginning of the scene the audience see’s Marlowe walking towards a book store. The cinematography uses elements of deep focus as everything in this wide frame is clearly focused even as Marlowe approaches the bookstore. Looking at the…

1. What is depicted and description. -Gaspar De Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares and his noble horse seem to be facing or running towards the battle in great confidence. He's wearing a red scarf and a baton which both show authority or leadership in some way. He is well suited up with a beautiful body of armor flaunting power, authority and protection. Count-Duke did not actually fight in what seems to be a battle ahead but he did lead. His confidence in this painting is to the roof, as his face…

In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover”, we get a disturbing and unsettling tale of a man who strangles his lover with her own hair. The tone of this tale becomes even more worrying when you take into account the strict, stable meter that underlines the poem creates a weird tension between the murderous act and the way it is presented. The iambic tetrameter that scores the entire prose, breaks form at certain lines throughout the poem, the first break in the form occurs at…

For Willy, his adventurer / explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but the character of Ben is fantastical and the achievements of Dave are idealised and exaggerated. Using these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the…

The poems “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” are dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning in 1842. Browning was a writer that knew little fame while he was alive, but has since become an important and influential author. The short stories were part of a collection of poems, Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics, which were mostly ignored while Browning was alive due to previous failure earlier in his career. This collection, along with another Bells and Pomegranates No.…

Finally, Platoon serves as a nightmarish vehicle into the brutal experience of the Vietnam Hell. Historical Context and Platoon As American involvement in Vietnam dragged on through the late 1960’s and the body count spiraled upward, morale sagged in many sectors of the U.S. military. Many units suffered from internal tensions, the crippling and terrifying environment, drug use, unwillingness to fight, and the sense that the war was for nothing. Also, there was no doubt that battlefield…

Exploring the Function of Music in Flying Sequences on Hayao Miyazaki’s Animation Film Hayao Miyazaki is a 73 year-old animation film director from Japan, who has directed 11 animation films and won lots of international awards. He deeply loves flying from his early age, so the flying sequences are quite common in his films. ("Hayao Miyazaki," 2004) There are 8 films containing “flying” in his total 11 films. These plots always come with background music, and these music becomes widespread.…

can’t do simple daily task on my own and have to depend on others and my wife. Also due to the pain I can no long move around and go places freely. I have to constantly find places to sit down because the pain. This lose of independence has put stress on my family, especially my wife. The added workload for my wife has been adversely affecting our marriage. Another loss due to this injury is my ability to give. I can no longer do work around the house so I can give to my wife or kids in the ways…