Cartoon Wars Part II

than the law. One particular detail of this power the Godfather has, is when the very talented singer Johnny Fontane asks of his help to be cast in a movie role that the director awarded to someone else. He comes to the Godfather for help to get the part even though they start shooting the film in a week. The Godfather tells him not to worry about it and says that “I’ll make an offer he can’t refuse.” The director refuses the…

A Baptism in Blood: Formalism in the Final Scene of The Godfather The climactic baptism scene in The Godfather showcases the moral struggle the protagonist Michael Corleone faces throughout the film, cinematically opposing the two sides of his personality through formalism. The scene, in particular, uses the two different senses of the word ‘Godfather’ which the film has created to structure the two contents of this scene. The directly opposing but also weaving together the two events that…

shows that anyone can turn their life around and change their future. The second movie displays the same theme: “Marty meets Griff in the future when he is bullying Marty’s future son, and Marty makes Griff get arrested by standing up to him” (BTTF II). Though Marty’s…

A tragic hero is a character within a literary work that possesses a tragic flaw that will ultimately incur the downfall of the character, regardless of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all…

of Cawdor!/ All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!” (1.2.49-53) These predictions arouses Macbeth’s curiosity and ambition. As the play goes, Macbeth gradually relies on the witches’ prophecies completely. Lady Macbeth also take a huge part in driving Macbeth’s desire to be king. When Macbeth hesitates to murder King Duncan, Lady Macbeth spurs Macbeth: “And wakes it now, to look so green and pale/ At what it did so freely? From this time/ Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard/ To…

is able to witness Macbeth as a good person in the beginning when he is pure, innocent, and respectable, for example, in the text when he is speaking to the king, Duncan: “The service and the loyalty I owe, / In doing it, pays itself. Your highness’ part / Is to receive our duties: and our duties / Are to your throne and the state children and servants; / Which do but what they should, by doing everything / Safe toward your love and honor” (I, IV, 22-27). In this piece of Macbeth’s dialogue the…

Movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy contain many life twisting themes within the story. Throughout the three films BTTF I, BTTF II, and BTTF III; there are dozens of possible themes that could be drawn from the story-line. All three films inter connect with one another and have some of their own themes and themes that were created amongst all three films. Back to the Future themes tend to be generally about average life things and what people wish they could do. Themes that are most…

I was reminded of the nostalgia film series, Back to the Future, when Nike recently unveiled their self-lacing shoe as a community tribute to the actor, Michael J. Fox, who played the infamous time traveler character in the movies known as Marty McFly. Having watched the movies as a child with my father a handful of times and hearing about the new shoes, I realized how our technology is vastly advancing to meet the movie’s reality with our growing technology. Think about it, we have Elon Musk to…

“Speaking of Annihilation”: Mobilizing for War Against Human and Insect Enemies, 1914-1945 written by Edmund P. Russell is about the chemicals from World War II that affects human and insect and the impact to the environment. In term of protecting the environment and wilderness, not many of the environmentalist have focus on warfare impacting the environment and the cause of chemical industries that have shape our environmental history on domestically and globalize. Hence, Russell’s journal…

Dr. Seuss for shaping Political Views During the era of the Nineteenth centuries World War II broke out, due to Germany, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party who reinforced the nation for war by making pacts with Italy and Japan so Hitler could conquer world domination. Hitler’s invasion in Poland caused Great Britain and France to join forces and declared war on Germany, in results was the outbreak of World War II. Meanwhile in the United States Theodor Seuss who was a third-generation American to…