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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…

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…

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.…

Please Stop Laughing at Me Jodee Blanco the author and the narrator in the book, “Please Stop Laughing at Me” describes throughout the book, situations where she is bulled and harassed by her peers. A psychological concept that someone could examine in this book is what level Jodee is in on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The main focus in the book is about acceptance in school and its effect on children. One could argue that Jodee goes from desiring the fourth level, esteem, and regressing to the…

The Other Wes Moore the story of two boys with different fates, but identical names that grew up in Baltimore. The story issued the lives of the two boys growing up in Baltimore. It enlightened the readers to think about the environment and communities they grew up in and the struggles they had to overcome in becoming a man of the house at such a young age. I believe that we are all products of our environment, we are all given a choice to choose our path in life and live when we want to live…

On the deep blue ocean there is a gigantic boat, named Titanic, up on it, there is a handsome man that holds a slim waist of a beautiful women spreading her arms to the sea at the large deck. This man was one of the most famous male actor in the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio is a man who is in his 40s that has a long beard, brown hair, and blue eyes. When he was the most famous actor in the Box Office, he was very handsome, tall, and simply the man that all female loved to watch.…

John Rosa claims that the title of Local Story comes from the idea that the book is an instance of “talking story” about a local story, using this style of oral transmission in written form to convey to the reader the contents of the book. This is not a book specifically about the Massie-Kahahawai case specifically, but about the effect which this case had according to the author, a look into the formation of a local identity that brought together people of different ethnicities into one…

The word beauty has changed tremendously since it was first used in the 14th century. The saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder always rings true to me when I think of what beauty really means. Beauty comes from within not from one’s outward appearance. Being beautiful is having the qualities and attributes of being inwardly attractive such as kind, loving, humble, brave, and honest. The term beauty comes from the Anglo-French word beute meaning physical attractiveness, goodness, and…

By looking at the way composers represent the intertextual connections between texts, audiences are provided with heightened understanding of humanity’s changing contexts in shaping the values and societal paradigms that transcend in time. Within William Shakespeare’s tragedy “King Richard III” (1591), Shakespeare’s depiction of the Machiavellian political endeavour regarding Richard’s personal ambition in the pursuit of authority as a product of his deformed vessel of his corporeality, reflects…