Clarissa

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) both follow a man who defend themselves against overwhelming odds. Director Frank Capra’s films, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It’s a Wonderful Life do a wonderful job of establishing the main character’s struggles using many different camera techniques and fast-paced editing. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington follows Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) as he becomes newly assigned to the United States Senate and fights against a…

2. The Crying of Lot 49: modernism or postmodernism? In my arguing that The Crying of Lot 49 can also be construed as a late-modernist text, I will turn to Harvey’s essay ‘The Cry from Within or Without? Pynchon and the Modern – Postmodern Divide’ where he fervently argues against McHale’s ‘claim’ that The Crying of Lot 49 is fundamentally a modernist text by presenting two core arguments relating to a) intertextuality and b) Oedipa’s search for truth. Before I will dispute any arguments of…

In Fahrenheit 451, Montag goes on a journey that makes him realize how corrupt his futuristic society is. His wife tries to commit suicide and the people who come to care for her are incredibly insensitive. Teenagers murder innocent people for fun. Religion is mocked and used for selfish purposes. The government lies to people and no one just sits around and contemplates life anymore. The era of thinking is over. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury should be challenged or even banned because of its…

real George, my George, standing beside the hospital bed, wearing a worried expression, too mature in depth of sadness for such a small boy, and I felt my heart break,” (Evans, p. 254). In this scene, Tom Harris only with characters like Freddie and Clarissa perform, or try to perform, an exorcism on George to expel the demon inside. During this process, the demon shows George how his father actually died. He thrust George into the body of his father in his dying moments only to see the real…

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of another culture. For centuries, many groups of people are guilty of this act, especially the white race. Because the U.S population is made up of people from hundreds of different ethnicities and over 13.3 percent of immigrants, it is not surprised that cultures will rub off on you. Even making the culture greater. But wearing a culture and disrespecting a culture are two different things. For example,…

The City of Chula Vista is in the process of recruiting an institutional partner for the development of a University and Innovation District on 375 acres of land in the southeastern corner of the city. The difficulty in attracting an institutional partner is not an issue of interest, but rather, it is in identifying the appropriate partner that will meet the established goals of the city while maximizing the potential of the site to transform and strengthen the city and the larger Cali-Baja…

Imagine the world without books - even worse, imagine that everything you did read is unimportant and irrelevant. Books encourage conversation, spark controversy, and forge friendships and relationships between peoples. But why do we read books? Why not leave the old dusty tomes to rot because they are “old” or “irrelevant and filled with nonsense”? In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury outlines the 3 reasons why a society would forsake the written word and instead adopt lives talking to strangers…

Sun Tzu said, “The Art of War is a road to either safety or to ruin.” Safety gives you bragging rights but ruin evicts the will to come back. To soccer aficionado, every game is like going to war. Each team prepares during warm-up to face off against their opponent. Every stretch, pass, and dribble is meticulously orchestrated to ensure victory. The general stands at attention, barking orders, and strategizing attacks. Today’s game is no different. Like the Japanese General Hideki Tojo,…

According to Hunt, new types of individual experiences of empathy were created, during the eighteenth century; consequently, making the invention of human rights possible. Many of the advances in the founding of human rights that were made in the late 18th century were undone in the 19th and 20th century. As illustrated in the book, there was a new wave of racism, sexism, xenophobic and nationalist discrimination. The rights of humans in society are one of the most important distinctions that…

brilliant author of some of the most well known murderous mystery stories, uses the theme of what goes around comes back around to write the novel And Then There Were None. Her use of conflict and style helps bring this theme to life. Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, born on September 15th, 1890 in England, was the youngest of 3 children. Her mother educated her from home and was the one who encouraged her to write. In her early years Miller enjoyed playing in her own personal fantasy world and…