Brad Dourif

Violence can affect people mentally or physically and one doesn’t have to be involved to notice the lifestyle change that violence can affect. The physical effect from violence is obvious on how it can change a life, however, the mental effect is not noticeable to everyone. The two literatures that can demonstrate how violence can affect people, in this case boys, mentally are Fist Stick Knife Gun and “Male Bodies and the White Terror”. An example of a mental effect would be trauma which is a very difficult or unpleasant experience that causes someone to have mental or emotional problems and usually for a long period of time. Many people suffer from trauma including children either from death of a loved one, war, terrorism, witnessing a death or traumatic experience, domestic abuse, or by having an injury. Although trauma is a normal reaction when a horrible event occurs, I believe that trauma is the most nonphysical effect of violence because it can affect one’s relationship to others by withdrawal, effect managing aggressive behavior, and affect the ability to think clearly, such as the lives of Geoff in Fist Stick Knife Gun and the boys in "Male Bodies and the White Terror". Trauma can affect the people around the person with trauma such as withdrawing from others. For instance, in Fist Stick Knife Gun, Geoff experienced and got involved in violence during most of his childhood and adolescence. As an adult, he felt like he needed protection of a gun and needed habits to…

Just like countless celebrities before her, Jennifer Aniston has had a bumpy ride with the media but has lost control of her media portrayal long ago as she has been violently attacked by the media’s manipulation. The paradox of cultural context is limiting in that her career is formulated upon the inarguable reliance of media, truthful or not. Close reading of the text provides insight into the minds of the manipulative authors of the fourth estate and how they create such intrusive content to…

mostly entertaining film. This David Fincher movie follows a man identified only as The Narrator (Edward Norton), a run-of-the-mill of office worker at a gigantic company who suffers from insomnia. The Narrator has become numb to the majority of pain and emotions (his job entails him inspecting automobile accidents), and this only fuels his sleeplessness. To combat his inability to rest, he goes to various support groups (examples include men with testicular cancer and people with blood…

is perfect, they can still have a great relationship that is perfect to them, although it may not be stereotypical perfection. As well, another popular artist among influential young adults is Katy Perry. Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” from 2010 highlights a similar concept. She states that “You think I'm pretty without any make-up on. You think I'm funny when I tell the punch line wrong” (Perry). Perry is stating that love can exist, even if neither person is perfect since she describes herself…

Race and religion have always been historically tied together, especially in California with our history of the mission system as a form of colonization. In Cherrie Moraga’s play Heroes and Saints, she confronts this directly through her characters using various racial projects. In their piece, Racial Formation in the United States, Omi and Winant define a racial project as a “historically situated action that represents and organizes human bodies in a hegemonic structure of power” (Omi and…

Fight Club is a postmodernist novel, which shows the reader how a group of people created a club about dealing with officials and American structure, officials, and androgen pumped men. Fight Club is basically an escape of reality in which whoever joins it cannot tell anyone outside of it. Tyler Durden feels trapped in his schizophrenic mind, along with a woman named Marla Singer, who fakes her diseases to join Fight Club. There is another person who is in the club named Bob Paulson. Bob comes…

"You are not your bank account, you are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your Grande Latte. You are not the car you drive. You are not your …. khakis." (Fincher 1999) David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club is a movie discussing issues in modern masculinity, social stratification and relations of power. By presenting us with a character completely opposite in the extremes of his alter egos. From here he shows us the issues…

Based on Rick’s Café Americain in the city of Casablanca, Morocco in Northern Africa during the 1940’s, Humphrey Bogart plays Rick Blain, owner of the café. An American expatriate owner of a black market nightclub watches his old flame, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) from Paris walk into his café with her Czech fugitive alongside. The stirring up of emotions between the two was instant when the love story then began to unfold. Bogart’s brisk and suave character completely emotionally resonated viewers as…

Violence is a key part of the film “Fight Club” but it isn’t the centerpiece of the action. The philosophy of the of the film begins to starts with a fight between Tyler and the Narrator with the idea that what could you really know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight. This is the beginning of a philosophy of changing the world from being a society of consumers who don't know themselves into people who can see the world as it really is. Together Tyler and The Narrator build Fight…

The movie, Fight Club is a highly rated film among critics. It includes a well-known actor like Brad Pitt, unique themes, and plot twists. It includes society’s views in capitalism, consumerism, subjectivity, rules, and conformity. Various scenes within the movies show involve these, and so do the ideas and arguments by modern theorists connect with Fight Club. I will mainly focus on two theorists, Michel Foucault and David Abram. And tell how some of their ideas appear in various scenes in the…