Charlie Korsmo

“SCREECH”, went Logan’s tires as they slid across the smooth black pavement of the street. “You ready yet?” he yells to me as I jump out the front door. “Yup” I replied. I hopped onto my bike and we headed downtown to the Voyager to go fishing. It was a warm summer day, and we were enjoying one of the first days of our summer vacation. We turned into the big black parking lot, crowded with cars. The sun was shining and the water was calm. There were a few cotton ball clouds in the sky and it was a perfect day. We pulled our fishing poles off the back of the back of our bikes and set them up with bait and hooks. We were ready to catch some fish. We cast our hooks into the clear, blue, sparkling water and waited for a bite. Eventually I got a nibble on my hook, then a tug. I had a fish so, I yanked on the line and reeled it in. Hanging from the end of my line was a rock bass. I removed the hook and threw the fish back in the water. After throwing the bass back in, we sat there for quite a while and caught nothing. Logan and I are bottomless pits so of course we were starving. We decided to go to Tim Hortons to buy some Timbits. We left our poles and headed across the street for donuts. After we ate our Timbits, we ran back to our poles only to find that we both had fish on our lines. So we reeled them in and again we had rock bass. “This is stupid”, I complained. “I agree”, Logan said. We wanted to catch something other than just rock bass. “Let's change…

Charlie Chaplin once said, “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.” Charlie Chaplin was the best comedian actor performing in the 20th century. He had everyone on the edge of their seats laughing through their tears, the mark of a true comedic actor. He knew how to play with his audience and make them laugh at everything, which is a rare trait that not everyone possess. Now since he has passed, Bill Murray has kept up his work by making people laugh at…

Charlie Chaplin is most well-known for his character The Tramp, as well as writing, directing, and starring in his own films. Just as Hollywood was moving into “talkies” or films with sound, Chaplin was still going against the grain. He remained one of the last silent film stars until the release of the political satire comedy-drama The Great Dictator in 1940. Besides his singing part in Modern Times, this was the first time audiences heard Chaplin’s true voice. The Great Dictator tells the…

Nothing is Needed for Something Many people judge their success on how much they have and the material possessions around them; Ernest Hemingway, however, believes people must accept they are nothing to achieve true success and happiness. Nothingness is a difficult concept for many to grasp, but it becomes more clear with age what nothingness means. People also often do not want to accept or believe they are nothing in the world. Most believe they have a specific purpose and are in some way…

shows how the protagonist, Charlie Gordon, tries to change the way he is viewed in society from a mentally incapacitated individual to having a highly developed, profound mind. Give more background: An example of this is revealed after he speaks to Alice Kinnian and feels slightly rejected and says: “One of the things that confuses me is never really knowing when something comes up from my past, (…) I’m like a man who’s been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before…

In the horrific and altered world of the novels called “the year of the flood” by Margaret Atwood and “the walking dead” by Robert Kirkman, both authors show many faces of femininity through different characters and different atmospheres. Both novels are dealing with end of the world crisis as in Margaret Atwood’s book the humans are dying from virus and power is going to the wrong hands and the laws begin to change, effecting the norm. While in Kirkman’s novel zombies are wiping out the human…

By the 1940s, most of the jazz music scene was Swing Jazz, it was classically structured harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his…

The Gold Rush directed and starring Charlie Chaplin in 1925. Many people believe that “It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as ‘The Kid’ and ‘Shoulder Arms.’”(Hall). The film was considered great on by many standards one of which was it theme. The film was “built upon the themes of enduring great hardships in pursuit of immense riches or a better life”(sierra college). And this connected greatly with the…

Jon Lewis mentioned that 1915 to 1928 was the Golden Age of Film comedy and the silent film medium extend this to its maximum. Exaggerated actions and visual gags with occasional intertitles explaining the situation became the centerpiece of attraction and entertainment. Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two legendary comedy filmmakers emerging from this era. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights was a combination of Chaplin’s skills from previous movies. In this movie, he employs purely innocent…

Charlie Gordon is 37-years-old and mentally challenged. He writes daily progress reports about everything that has happened to him. “Mr. Strauss says I [should] [write] down what I think and [everything] that [happens] to me from now on,” as Charlie states in progress report 1- March 5,1965. As Charlie’s intelligence increases since he had the operation, the progress that he has made in his writing and perspectives on things is very clear. In progress report 2- March 6 Charlie goes into take an…