Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Our great nation has an abundance of popular, historic spectator events in which innumerable people attend such as the Super Bowl, World Series, and the US Open. Explicitly, on the first weekend in May, Louisville, Kentucky hosts one of the most traditional events in history. Dating back to 1875, the Kentucky Derby brings in about 170,000 people a year. This past year, I had the privilege of being one of those 170,000 people at Churchill Downs attending the 142nd running of the Kentucky Derby…

Movie theater tickets have become increasingly more expensive in recent years. As a result, movie genres that offer a broad range of entertainment and stimulation can make the theater going experience more worthy of the ticket price. Some of the more popular movie genres today are mysteries, science fiction, romantic comedies, animation, documentaries and horror films. Although all of these movie genres are enjoyed in a theater, horror movies are more worth the ticket price because the theater…

uncharted space with a hostile alien stalking them. When Alien was released in 1979, no one had ever seen such a powerful, scary, well-executed film of this type before. Prior films like George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977) and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Ridley Scott’s Alien…

My own journey to college is one that is very close to many personal issues in my life. My academic career is closely linked to many of the choices I have made thus far, and so it has been and remains a gargantuan influence on how I approach other aspects of my life. Mounting success has fortunately been severely contrasted by very few challenges. Noting that it has taken much diligence and perseverance to attain this position I am grateful for, however natural gifts and generosity from…

I am certain that everyone can name numerous fairy tales. The most popular ones such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Beauty and the Beast” are well known among the young and the elderly with a slight difference due to the various versions. The fairy tales that the elderly know are generally dark and disturbing while the most recent ones are happy and fantasy like. They attract more the little girls who want to be pretty princesses. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë does not seem to…

Steven Spielberg is an American film Director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1946 in the United States. He is well known as a public figure, considered a pioneer of Hollywood, and a popular director in the film industry. He directed Hollywood blockbuster films such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Jaws (1975). Spielberg also directed science fiction films such as, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and War of the Worlds (2005), (IMDB, 2016). In this analysis, I am going to argue that…

Aggression in children is a trait that is picked up by children from their surroundings and the people they interact with during their formative stages of life. Aggressive behavior covers a number of actions and habits that transcend through various modes of violence, such as bullying, physical fighting, verbal aggression and abuse, robbery, and the like (Felthous & Sass, 2007). The aggressive behavior as noted above starts from children when they begin to pick up different behaviors and…

Alcoholic person can cause so many problems in the family. In “Where He Was: Memories of My Father” written by Raymond Carver is a story which narrates the life of his family and how his dad was an alcoholic which was causing issues in the family. Carver talks about all of the constant struggles that his family went through just because of his father’s lifestyle, and how that affected on him. He also explores the theme of father-son relationships. While Carver looks up to his father (especially…

ammunition, a writing implement, a journal, a camera, a large bag of rice, a small cooking utensil, matches, a knife, and some fishing twine and a hook. The first encounter Chris has in Alaska is with Jim Gallien. Jim Gallien play a discreet yet important role in the book. Jim really tried to tell Chris how unprepared he was. Gallien was kind enough to donate his boots to Chris because his were not waterproof. Jim Gallien told Chris he did not have the right tools, skills, and that ten pounds of…

As previously mention, Murray’s guidance for Jack plays an important part throughout the novel. When Jack experiences difficulties in his life, he can turn to Murray to gain insight and opinions to help steer him back onto the right path. In the third part of the novel, Jack turns to Murray to discuss the thought of death and the consequences. Murray tells Jack, “Every death is premature. There’s no scientific reason why we can’t live a hundred and fifty years.” (DeLillo 283). By Jack discussing…