artist, and it can be seen by everyone with no price. Graffiti can be just as expensive and famous as classical art pieces that hang in a museum. Graffiti is just modern and up-to-date with this generation. One example that proves this point is, “Brad Pitt spent over 2…
really gave their competitors a run for their money. The perfect example was at the 2014 Oscars awards where during broadcast Ms. DeGeneres from the Ellen talk show used a Samsung smartphone to take a selfie featuring star actors Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Meryl Streep, Jared Leto and Jennifer Lawrence. The selfie went viral all over social media and what was thought to be a spontaneous moment, turned out to be a pre-planned marketing stunt by Samsung which costed the company…
Cohabitation between romantic partners either before marriage, or as an alternative to marriage altogether, is a topic that has been covered by scholars and authors for the past several decades. Cohabiting with a partner has become more prevalent not only in the United States, but also in other countries and cultures as well. Information gathered for this study have not only been collected from the last decade, but also from studies conducted in the last several decades to give a sense of how…
Established readers are more likely to fall in love with the authored interpretation of any marvelous memoir. Various faithful readers use their ingenuity to portray the characters, setting, and the plot how they want to. However, with film adaptations, the audience has to accept what the director’s imagination came up with. In the screenplay 12 Years a Slave, directed by Steve McQueen, the readers have to accept Steve’s adaptation to Solomon Northup’s account of his life. This is people one of…
Both “12 Years a Slave” and “Amistad have their fair share of the true history behind each film. In “Amistad” Spielberg somewhat abuses history to make the film more entertaining. A prime example is the scene where we see the salve on the slave ship going through the middle passage and we witness how they are being treated. While that the film tells a true story of a group of Mende people from Sierra Leone, who take over a Spanish slave ship named A La Amistad, it is mainly A film of white…
from each other, and try to live a normal life with one another without revealing their secret career. The film was enjoyable to watch for a few reasons. One of the reasons the film was enjoyable was because of the actors that was in the film. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie portrayed the two main characters in the film. These two actors did a very good job in portraying the characters and during the action scenes. The action scenes in the film were also another reason the film was enjoyable to…
For instance, when a man sees a picture of Brad Pitt, most of the time, they do not question themselves with doubt and unhealthy comparisons. Men just appreciate the photo and leave it at that, with hardly any damage to their self-esteem. The reason being, is that men are a lot less insecure about…
“RING!” “RING!” “RING!” I reach over and slap the snooze on the alarm clock set to 4 a.m that morning. Although, instead of normally falling back to sleep, I roll over and plummet down onto the floor as a way from tempting myself to stay wrapped in my cozy sheets. It was a hot summer morning in Dodge City Kansas, my hometown. The day my Aunt Marie, my sister Marlene, and I, go on a late, spontaneous summer vacation trip to California. The sweltering season was eventually coming to an end…
Research Essay The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction film about the artificial intelligence computers enslaving mankind. The movie portrayed a cyberpunk, dystopian universe in which machines took over the whole of humanity and incarcerated them in a computer program known as the Matrix. The film displayed a constant battle between machines and humans. The Matrix became a popular film that was thought-provoking and full of ambiguities about the virtual world in computers and reality. The…
What is love? Love is an abstract concept with many different meanings and definitions which can range from dear friend to passionate lover. Many psychologists have 6 or more categories for love; however the Greeks define love into four different categories such as Eros, Storge, Agape, and Philia. Each with a different meaning, signifying different types of love that can be felt. We have experienced at least three of the four types in our life and may experience all four in our lifetime. Not…