American films

The film Gun Crazy gives an important example of characters being consumed by several damaging fixations, namely the allure of femme fatales and possessing a dangerous gun fetish. This film is a psychological tale, as film author Foster Hirsch notes in his book The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, “Gun Crazy makes passing stabs at a variety of meaty subjects: the place of violence in American life; the link between violence and sex; the emasculating obsession with masculinity” (Hirsch 195).…

mundane life behind. He decided to drop out of school and follow in his brother Roy’s footsteps by enlisting. However, “Walt Disney is too young to enlist in the armed service, but he alters his birth date on an application form so he can join the American…

The Breakfast Club is a timeless moving picture that captures the essence of the different social groupings of the American teenager. The film uses the setting of a Saturday morning detention to portray how different cliques interact with each other, and how they can ultimately melt together to create a unique coterie. In the movie, five different socializations are represented by individuals coming from those backgrounds, John Bender, the criminal, Claire Standish, the princess, Andrew Clark,…

It was 5:30 in the morning and we were waiting in the cold summer air on the corner of 6th and 48th for the band Twisted Sister to play a free concert for the TV show Fox and Friends. We had been there for over two hours and had many more to go, but we were steadfast in our want to be in the front row of the concert. Being there for so long, I had struck up a conversation with a family of metalheads I was standing with. Long hair, cutoff band tees, chains, and tattoos, they were as stereotypical…

that side of town you drive through and lock your doors, even if they were already locked. But I always had my guard up, if I ever felt uncomfortable in a situation I always took myself out of it. The person I was selling the shoes to was African American, but I never judged anyone because of the ethnicity or how they looked, yet. The area we were meeting in was inferior. It was just in front of the other apartment buildings in a huge parking lot. You looked around and seen abandoned cars,…

Without Dez Bryant, the Dallas Cowboys' offense has been crippled In hopes to improve an offense that’s struggling, the Dallas Cowboys, who’ve been snake bitten with injuries, have made a change at quarterback. Without quarterback Tony Romo, their four-time Pro Bowler and all-time franchise leading passer, the Cowboys were forced to roll with the arm of backup Brandon Weeden, after Romo fractured his left clavicle against the Eagles in Week 2. In three starts, Weeden completed 71 of 98 attempts…

“I can’t believe the day is finally here to see my second oldest child’s senior night; you growing up on me”, said my Mom. At this moment in my life I felt like this was the most important day thus far. For me, it wasn’t the fact that I’m a senior and I’m about to graduate, but we play our rivals, Fairmont. We are the only team that has came close to beating the undefeated tornadoes. I prepared extremely hard for this game, I wasn’t going to accept losing by any means. My started real well, I…

Some people think that if Dallas let go of Jason Garrett, we will have a better record next year. Although Dallas does not have a good record I would not put the blame on all of him. When you are a part of a team it is not just one persons fault, everyone has a little bit to blame. Jerry Jones (owner) is thinking about releasing him and replacing him with Sean Peyton. Sean is currently working with the New Orleans Saints. Jason still has more to give with this franchise. First, Jason Garrett…

subordinates, Sanborn and Sergeant Specialist Eldridge, seriously analyze their risk in their work and to question whether it is really worth continuing. I believe this is the best film to date on the war in Iraq. The numerous missions serve to dive deeper into their personalities: touch…

the team leader. Junger uses logos when he states “One American soldier has died for every hundred yards of forward progress in the valley...” Jungers use of logos cites the fact of how many people they lose while they are progressing in the war. He Uses logos this way in hopes to get readers to realize that war is dangerous and people are always dying. He uses this fact to convince the readers that war is not worth the loss of innocent American lives. Jungers choice of rhetorical devices helped…