Blockbuster

linear. With the innovations of new cutting edge technologies, medicine is not only changing through technological perspective but through human perspective as well. While millions of lives have been saved with the traditional one –size-fits-all blockbuster medicine, some drawbacks are still preventing an effective treatment for each individual. An individual’s response to any medications are influenced by many socio-biological factors such as age, weight, medical history, daily lifestyle but it…

the south denied at first to acknowledge government help, hopefully trusting that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the fields, running from dry spell as well as from the new machine-controlled horticulture. As John Steinbeck wrote in the blockbuster The Grapes of Wrath, "it was not nature that broke the general population they could deal with the dry season. It was business cultivating, looking for a superior profit for arrive ventures and purchasing tractors to seek after it, that had…

Since the dawn of time, the controversial debate on whether copyright piracy has a negative or positive effect on the entertainment industry, has been going on. Copyright piracy is "the action of duplicating, taking, or the usage of copyright material without permission" as defined by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) (ehow). Copyright piracy in the Entertainment industry ranges anywhere from illegal downloading an MP3 off a torrent website, to illegally streaming a TV show not available on…

Nine years after his untimely death, we take a look back at Heath Ledger and his short but wildly successful acting career. As we approach what would have been the 37th birthday of Academy Award winner, Heath Ledger, we'd be remiss to ignore the fact that April 5th will also be the 23rd anniversary of the passing of Kurt Cobain; two giants of their respective crafts who left this world way too soon. Now nine years after the death of Ledger, we take a look back at his filmography and reflect on…

In 1996, Baz Luhrmann defended his blockbuster film Romeo+Juliet, saying, "Everything that's in the movie is in the play. Violence, murder, lust, love, poison, even drugs that mimic death. - It’s all in there. It's just that we have come to associate productions of 'Romeo and Juliet' with a certain style”. It has been considered that perhaps Romeo+Juliet is an example of a triumph of style over content, in the worst possible way. However, it considers the universal truths from Shakespeare’s play…

a bad role model for the younger generation of our audience? Although he is covered with the world's motivation, money, what makes him unable to be on par with Tony Stark from Iron Man and James Bond from the famous 007 Series? Recent films and blockbusters have revealed that the Byronic Hero and the Bad Boy are the best types of characteristics one should take in order to be involved in romantic relationships. Is this really true? If so, how was Gatsby unable to…

cause. It was also propelled by the music industry through events called Tibetan Freedom Concerts, and other fundraisers by musicians and bands like U2, Foot Fighters, and REM. Even in the movie industry, the Tibetan’s cause was forwarded through blockbusters like Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet. Outside of entertainment, human rights activists have been huge proponents of the Free Tibet movement due to the plethora of human rights abuses under China’s occupation of…

sometimes disappearance of the organization in its entirety. “The science of marketing is built on fact based research. The art of marketing comprises experience, imagination, and creativity.”(Ehrlich, E., & Fanelli, D, 2004, pg. 20). Think of the Blockbusters,…

harder pressure; the king of pop was moon walking right beside me, when I was looking at a six pack Joe with a stereotypical standpoint. A point about the movie- Step Up, which was not only fashioned around the dancing subculture but was also a blockbuster and a unique genre in a Hollywood Screen, rose during a heated discussion about dance career in a Modern Dance class of Brown Annex, 122. Within and outside of school, this subculture performs jazz, hip-hop and other kinds of dance on events…

A fictional adaptation of the CIA 's hunt for Osama bin Laden, the blockbuster film Zero Dark Thirty directed by Kathryn Bigelow presents us with a number of important ethical questions. Along with a parallel theme surrounding torture, seen in the film, as well as felt through the audience. Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden becomes one of the most-wanted men on the planet. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two…