Confessional

Scene: A family reunion at a Thanksgiving Dinner held, begrudgingly, by Adrienne Rich and her girlfriend, Charlotte Perkins Gilman at Adrienne Rich’s family home. Set in Maryland. Her brother has brought his one child, Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner has brought his wife, Gertrude Stein, and their three children, Jason Compson II, Quentin Compson, Benjy compson and Caddy Compson. Act I Scene I William Faulkner: Children, please don’t play in the snow. Caddy, pull down your dress.…

violence as well as survival. This fiction-historical text is set between the two world wars (1915 – 1940) in the deep American South, Rural Georgia and is narrated by Celie, a vulnerable Afro-American woman. Celie sets the tone with her epistolary of confessional and uninhibited letters she writes privately to God. In first person, Celie expresses her story of poverty within segregation. Additionally, Celie depicts herself as a victim of abuse; a black woman with no rights who is ignored and…

Calvinism is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists broke with the Roman Catholic Church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, theories of worship, and the use of God's law for believers, among other things. Calvinism can be a misleading term because the religious tradition it denotes is and has always been diverse, with a wide…

example, instead of laughing tracks, studio audiences, and punch lines uses by traditional sitcoms Modern Family uses mockumentary style to get the point across to viewers. Meaning that the sitcom uses documentary camera angles and reality TV style confessionals. Also, Modern Family uses and embraces the use of technology throughout the show. For the new sitcom to stay updated with the change in…

Whilst society’s ongoing change occurs, often it is the use of dystopian texts that explore our own future best. Dystopian fiction is a sub-genre under speculative fiction that undermines the fears of society in its given context. In modern dystopias, this is often through the use of a totalitarian government or in an environment of absolute control. However, in a teeming civilization, it may only take an individual to break this conformity. Thus, effective dystopias best express the faults in a…

Talk therapy gets a lot of attention in addiction recovery because it plays a vital role in the process. It helps people to discover and better understand feelings that drive them to abuse drugs or alcohol. Even so, talk therapy isn’t the only way to help someone recognize and cope with those feelings. Experiential therapy uses a hands-on approach to help a person access and channel those feelings. What Does Experiential Therapy Involve? Experiential therapy isn’t a single activity. Different…

1.Who would you prefer to be your king -- Fortinbras or Hamlet? I would prefer to have Fortinbras as my king, due to the few unworthy qualities Hamlet contains. Some of these characteristics include patience, distraction, and selfishness. He show patience by taking a long time to kill Claudius. Hamlet is provided with multiple opportunities to kill Claudius. However, Hamlet waits to till the right moment, which unfortunately happens at the very end of the play. While spending all this time…

patients whom she describes as “children”. Though she also suffers from suicidal thoughts revealed when she mentions that “there are no knives for cutting your throat”, her mental illness is not as vividly described as Plath’s poetry. Both poems are confessional and provide an insight into the mental states of each of their respective…

The manifest destiny of television technology is real-time viewing of all the places the audience is not. It is the ideal glance into the neighbor’s kitchen window, or through the bedroom door. The entertainment corporations found a way to make televised life commerce, so now it rules the airwaves. Reality-based television is not novel, of course. Allen Funt, with his 1948 TV series Candid Camera is often recognized as reality TV’s first specialist. He actually started a year earlier with Candid…

freeze frame was his visual signature, which can be seen in the concluding scene where the camera optically zooms in on his face as the frame stays still. His main creative contribuiton, however, is the story itself. The story is, in many ways, a confessional piece about his own childhood. He shared many similarities with Antoine, the protagonist of the film. Both of them were born to an unwed mother, had a stepfather that did not like him and were unsuccesfful in school but passionate in films.…