Brad Dourif

The world is facing a set of significant problems. I believe that there are three main International threats to global stability, territorial dispute, extremism and corruption. Solutions to these issues facing humankind are demanded. No more than two years ago people thought of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda organisation if we mentioned the word extremism. Instead, nowadays the new forces of evil would be the ISIS, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. evidence! ISIS is…

Illegal immigration It is night when the day begins by (Mother Jones November/ December 2004) explains how hard the life is for the Mexican people who migrate to America for a better life. In California San Joaquin Vicente and his wife Isabel wake up early in the morning. She start making some food for the following day and he get ready for going to work. Also the bakeries open early because people need to take a coffee and go to their work. A lot of workers work in the farm and…

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Brooklyn born self taught artist. His first attention attracted his graffiti in the city of New York. Basquiat’s artistic talents and inspiration came from his cultural heritage as his mother being Puerto Rican and father a Haitian American. After quitting high school a year before his graduation and years of struggling his work finally got him fame. Receiving fame for his words, stick figures, and animals, the public adored all of his hard work. Basquiat began street…

Lamphear 10/4/2015 Film Studies: 1800, Prager Section B In the movie Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher, Edward Norton and Brad Pitt put on amazing roles in a movie about disrupting the norm of higher society. Edward Norton who from here on will be referred to as the ‘Narrator’, is a white collar employee who has not slept in months due to his severe insomnia. Brad Pitt plays the role of Tyler Durden who is a private salesman and manufacturer of soap. After meeting on a plane during…

The Narrator in Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club” is a man who deals with many problems from his childhood and present life. The Narrator who is never named, is identical as everyone else in the capitalist society is looking for meaning in their life. The Narrator works in the office, and he hates his job. Because he lives in a nice apartment with nice IKEA furniture, he has to work the job he doesn’t like; thus, he feels unfulfilled and unhappy. Since the support group can’t help him enough to…

David Fincher’s cult classic film Fight Club (1999) is considered one of the best movies of all time by both critics and casual movie fans. The film follows an unnamed narrator suffering from insomnia. The narrator eventually becomes addicted to attending support groups for diseases he does not have as because they helps him sleep. Eventually however, the support groups are no longer help him sleep and it is at this point that the narrator encounters the charismatic Tyler Durden. Tyler and the…

Se7en focuses on the realities of death than life. The plot revolves around two detectives on the hunt of a religious psychopath who embarks a crusade for God. Detective Somerset, played by Morgan Freeman, and his new replacement Detective Mills, Brad Pitt, are both introduced in a case of a man’s gruesome death. There is great imagery when connecting the man’s murder with a deadly sin. In this case, gluttony is the man’s sin. He is seen as a obese man barely able to move with his face stuffed…

Music’s Influence on Emotions Every day everyone is exposed to a variety of sounds. One sound that is very common and often enjoyed is the sound of music. Scientifically speaking music is just a very specific pattern of sound waves traveling through the air and are mechanically very similar to other sounds. If this is true, why is it that music can make people feel many different emotions so powerfully? This is hypothesized to be for several reasons, but there is no doubt that music can make…

Film Origin The Iron Giant originated from the 1968 novel The Iron Man, which was a children’s novel. After going through development stages of becoming a rock album and a musical, Warner Bros. acquired the project to eventually becoming director Brad Bird’s introduction into the animation world. Summary of the film The Iron Giant is a story about a metal machine, The Iron Giant, that crashes off of a shore near the coast of Maine. A young boy, named Hogarth, finds The Iron Giant and becomes…

Fieldwork Excursion #4 Activity #1: Gender & Sexuality: Pop and Pulp The magazines I chose to represent list one for this assignment are People and Cosmopolitan and representative of list two are Vibe and Relevant. People magazine is a weekly magazine that showcases celebrity and human-interest stories. Cosmopolitan is a monthly magazine for women that features articles on relationships, sex, beauty, health and more. Vibe is a strictly online magazine that highlights R&B and hip hop artists,…