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Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

Great Gatsby" repeatedly onto the movie screen, leaving a distinctive mark on the vast Hollywood movie production. 1974 edition became one of the shining star, broad interest, and she won an Oscar three awards, namely the Oscar for best costume award, the Oscar for Best Music Award and an Oscar for best supporting actress. The film used the distinctive pluralistic narrative technique, portraying distinct characters and showed the profound theme. 1. Movie Story presentation The film started after…

“You must learn to lose, child. Some people is born to keep. Some is born to lose. ” This is a quote by mother from Sounder written by William H. Armstrong. This quote also addresses the book Our Town written by Thornton Wilder. Part of life is death and although many people fail to understand the concept, it is true. Everyone has at least one encounter with death during their lifetime that is not their own. In both Sounder and Our Town most of the characters have to experience the feeling of…

Mary Oliver is overwhelmed and in awe with the beauty of nature and conveys this through the passage “Owls” with apprehensive diction and first person perspective making the reader feel like they are right alongside her as she makes observations about the wild owls, their prey, and the peaceful flowers she sees. This apprehension is added to through the reverence Mary seems to have for the owls and the fear conveyed through that reverence in the first three quarters of the passage. In the…

Proud Mary Proud Mary was by far one of the best movies that I have seen this year. The movie is an action packed, kick-butt film in which Taraji P Henson plays the lead character, Mary. NY Times described Taraji as a, “hit woman with a soft spot” and Variety describes her as a, “Haunted assassin who bonds with a kid.” I, however, describe Taraji’s character Mary as simply a resilient and audacious hero. In Proud Mary, Mary was a part of a mafia that she had been affiliated with all her…

point that women during the Elizabethan age were prevented from exhibiting their own genius. As the excerpt states, Shakespeare went to school as a boy, and learned the basics that were taught at the time. He went on to be a successful and famous actor and play writer. In the anecdote that Woolf creates, however, Shakespeare’s fictional sister, Judith, is shunned from learning and is forced to…

For instance, when Natasha is describing her half of her room, she says, “My side still looks lived-in. My books are on my small IKEA shelf. My favorite picture of me and my best friend, Bev, is still sitting on my desk… I haven’t removed a single item of clothing from my dresser. I haven’t even taken down my NASA star map poster” (4). Natasha gives a detailed description of her half of the room with everything that she…

“Knox confessed that she was in the house on the night of the murder and that she heard Miss Kercher scream”(Squires 1.) She was tried and acquitted twice, and then there was a movie made about her. Amanda Knox was accused for violently murdering her roommate in Italy in 2007. After years of being tried and acquitted, Amanda was finally released, and is now living freely with no charge. In the 2007 controversial court case of Amanda Knox, the innocent verdict incorrectly acquitted the suspect…

“Such devotion and confidence are rare even among women. There are many who would have searched a year, some who would have waited five years, a few who might have hoped ten years; but for twenty-five years this woman has retained her affection for and her faith in a man she has not seen or heard of in all that time.” This quote from The Wife of His Youth tells the story of a woman by the name of Liza Jane, whose endless love and loyalty for her husband led her on a twenty-five year search. Liza…

than just young women. In Elizabeth Taylor’s 60 year career, she was able to attract many people’s attention and become an inspiration to a countless number of people through having starred in over 50 films, having been a nominee of five Academy Awards for Best Actress and awarded two, and devoting her time outside of acting to raising awareness for research in AIDS. Taylor was an actress and humanitarian. She was also a daughter, a sister, a wife, and mother. Learning about Elizabeth Taylor’s…