Benedict Cumberbatch

Decent Essays
Improved Essays
Superior Essays
Great Essays
Brilliant Essays
    Page 1 of 12 - About 120 Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Benedict Cumberbatch has a lot on his plate right now. Two movies filming, two movies in pre-production, one in post-production, and one film that has just been announced. He is also rumored to have a part in "Zoolander 2", which is in post-production, and also has a "Sherlock" Christmas special that airs this year on Christmas Day. The two films Cumberbatch has in pre-production are "Doctor Strange" and "The Current War". "Doctor Strange" is based off the Marvel comic series created by Steve Ditko, it will star Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange. The film co-stars Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. It's about a surgeon who learns how to keep the world safe against evil. In "The Current War", Cumberbatch will play Thomas Edison.…

    • 302 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest…

    • 1383 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Benedict Cumberbatch was an unquestionable highlight in the play. His stage performance was enlivening, plausible, and zealous. He was not too depressing as the typical cynical on-screen Hamlet, nor was he too melodramatic. ]Benedict Cumberbatch performed just as Hamlet directed the actors to perform the play used to unmask the truth of king Claudius’s sins; a perfect combination of accentuating the theme of appearance versus reality. He performed Hamlet’s soliloquies with unfathomable passion…

    • 259 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    individuals who believe in the value of an education at Saint Benedict School and wish to see the school reach its maximum potential. “If you want the best for your kids – this is it.” Members agreed that the school’s strengths include: • Strong student participation in the community “The kids are happy, educated, and well rounded. They participate in the faith community and in the larger community.” • A caring, community atmosphere “They go extra step to make sure kids are doing well…

    • 902 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Overarching Theme in the Rule of St. Benedict In The Rule of St. Benedict, a large section of the work is devoted to analyzing humility, which seems to run as an overarching theme throughout the work itself. While a focus on all twelve stages of the humility is too large in scope for this assignment, I will be focusing on the fear of the Lord and humility manifest in all facets of life. Prior to analyzing humility, it is important to first define what it is and why it is important. Saint…

    • 1302 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Benedict Arnold A man, who was once known as one of the greatest generals involved in the revolutionary war, quickly gained the reputation of a traitor to America. General Benedict Arnold suddenly betrayed America and joined the British enemy. Much controversy is raised when discussing the reason Arnold chose to switch sides, but historical documents clear unanswered questions and have the potential to justify his reasons. From a different perspective, his actions signify personal gain, but…

    • 1802 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Benedict was able to group the whole personalities of a culture into two; Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollonian maintain stability in behavior and have control which usually is consider as normal. Apollo refers to God of sun, light which represent maturity, power and control. Unlike, Dionysus is God of wine, agriculture and nature. So personality that falls under Dionysian is ruminate loss control and engaging in unexpected activities and more (lecture, 02/16/16). It is the normal vs abnormal.…

    • 1002 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    She recognized that individual behavior “…exemplifies the motivations of that culture.” (1934 (1985) 147). She investigated how personalities adapt or fail to adapt to cultural norms; and through her fieldwork, Benedict was able to observe “The dilemma of the individual whose congenial drives are not provided for in the institutions of his culture.” (1934 (1985) 152) Benedict evaluated the role of eccentricity within a society, and she observed that every society possessed a unique set of values…

    • 1350 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    explore to what extent these categories have been contrived due to issues with both methodology and theory using three ethnographic examples which maintain a 'culture and personality ' approach. Whilst it would be difficult to maintain that 'culture ' and 'personality ' are 'false ' categories, the essay will establish that to put them in a simple dichotomous relationship with one another is no longer suitable for anthropological work today. What emerges is not a retelling of how this…

    • 1554 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    connected to psychology on the premises that both sciences are attempting to see things from another perspective. As humans we are naturally curious about things we do not possess, this is what makes these fields so interesting to me. Modern Anthropology and American Anthropology have relatively recent history compared to most scientific fields. They were largely shaped by a man named Franz Boas also known as the Father of Anthropology (“Franz Boas”). It is Boas that coined the term culture and…

    • 1728 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Previous
    Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12