Closeted

An identity, interest or talent, should be an easy prompt for anyone. Yet for me, it wasn't. I scrambled and searched, racking my brain endlessly and still couldn't write more than a few paragraphs. Then I go the idea that maybe I’m just not in the right head space, so I asked the people around me. What defines me? Whats a talent or identity that I have? I even went as far as to ask my best friend what's an interest that I have. They were confused because shouldn't I know myself, but without…

As like with many other movies based on books that were written before them, there are some major differences between the novella, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, and the screenplay, by Eugene Solow. Many people find a few main issues with film adaptations of books and other works of literature. They are casting, alterations and director portrait. The Of Mice and Men movie was very well Casting is a major issue starting and ending with the fact that, no matter how hard a casting…

Formally known as Bruce Jenner, a television reality star and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete made the news. Jenner revealed a new identity as a trans woman in April 2015 and changed her name from Bruce to Caitlyn. Caitlyn Jenner had the advantage to transition genders in over a couple of months, and on the other hand your average trans woman would normally take a few years, or even her lifetime to get to that point. Caitlyn Jenner has had the advantage and privilege of being…

“Could write in Elvish, could speak Chakosa, could differentiate between a Slan, a Dorsai, and Lensman in acute detail, knew more about the Marvel Universe than Stan Lee” (Díaz 19). Only a nerd would know what the previous statement meant. Yunior is a closeted nerd unlike Oscar who’s open with his nerdiness. Yunior wants to live up to the standard of a typical Dominican male because he would lose his “rep” amongst society if he were as open about his nerdiness; he would be Oscar. This is another…

simplicity in his movie reworking of Hamlet. For instance, madness was not a main player in this film and the characters who had the potential for madness, Hamlet and Ophelia, did not take on such a persona. Hamlet’s character was also not portrayed as a closeted homosexual or someone involved in an incestuous relationship with his mother. By taking a non-controversial interpretation, Almereyda created a film that does not follow many of the most common viewpoints of Shakespeare's writing.…

Animal Committees (32). In the book it is seen that Snowball truly wants to help the farm when he suggests his idea of building a windmill for the farm. Within Snowball’s study shed creating blueprints from the windmill, Orwell writes that “He was closeted there for hours at a time.” showing his dedication (49). However, his dedication didn't help the farm for…

sight and sound. By playing into our emotional nature, film portrays characters which we connect with in real time. In the film, A Single Man, we are introduced to a character with whom we are immediately enamored. George Falconer (Colin Firth), is a closeted man living in the 1960’s. He has just lost the love of his life in a horrible accident, leaving him no way to express his pain… without exposing himself as the other. Under the direction of Tom Ford, this movie presents the compelling story…

bisexual, and the remaining 1.1% identified as “something else” (Ward, Brian W., Ph.D., James M. Dahlhamer, Ph.D., Adena M. Galinsky, Ph.D., and Sarah S Joestl, Dr.P.H., 2014). This statistic is pretty low and for a reason. Fear keeps LGBT workers closeted because they are terrified of losing touch with coworkers and losing out on…

Comic Book or Masterpiece? Throughout the years, debates have begun to rise whether a graphic novel should be considered a work of literature. Some people see this form of writing as a comic book while others see it as a true masterpiece. Because people are unsure whether to classify it as literature or a comic, should it be taught in the classroom? Two well-known graphic novels are Maus by Art Spiegelman and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. Maus takes place during World War II and is about…

In preparation for the day my best friend, Maddie, and I had planned for weeks, I dyed Maddie’s hair neon pink and bought a shirt that had ‘feminist’ written on the front. It was early June 2017, the weather was prime, so we had planned to go to a carnival the night before, and from there, spend the night at her house because of her proximity to a train station. My mother did not know the full extent of our plans since we only told her that it was another one of our usual sleepovers. If my…