David Harvey

The Departed is a Martin Scorsese film released in 2006 (The Departed). While it may appear to be just another mob movie in a sea of mobster noir films, it’s a contemporary crime drama that hinges on thriller as well. The film is set in modern times on the south side of Boston, and the characters are keen to remind everyone of that fact, making the setting of the south side a prominent point throughout the film. It starts with an almost benevolent Frank Costello, expertly played by Jack…

Movie review Theme The Internship is about two watch salesmen, Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson). The two are cut off from their jobs after their industry realizes that technology (the digital world) is causing a decline in their business therefore leading to their employers going out of business. Billy then takes the initiative to enroll both him and Nick to an internship at Google, their entrance into this internship programme is a battle. However, they qualify and…

“New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. “(Edmund White) Charles Dickens was the best writer and easily the most famous during the mid 1800s. He wrote at least 33 different books, some better than others though. He has a very distinct type of writing much like shakespeare and it is very different from modern writing making it very demanding to understand what he is trying to tell. If you can understand…

Star of David is a primary Jewish symbol made up of two interlocking triangles with six points ( hexagram ). The Star of David is also on the flag of Israel; today it may seem like a harmless symbol of religion, but in 1933 this symbol was the difference between life and death. Millions of Jews were killed simply because of their beliefs. Six million men, women and children all sentenced to death. Children above the age of 6 were forced to sew a yellow patch shaped like the Star Of David with…

2012 was his year, except the next three years after that were horrible for everyone. He had everything a person could want. Fame, money, and power, but he lost it all. His mistake would ruin everything, his cities respect, his city's reputation, his country's reputation, and his reputation. Everyone looked up to him, he gave the people hope, he was loved by everyone, so sad all the power he had, went to his head. When he wasn’t so famous and powerful, he was simply, humble. When the people…

This Documentary looks at four brilliant mathematicians; Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing for their groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, but also for the mental anguish and personal tragedy in their lives. How big is infinity? What is thermodynamics? These seemingly simple questions are what drove four brilliant mathematicians to insanity and ultimately suicide. “Dangerous Knowledge” delves into the deeper side of mathematics by trying to understand nature through mathematics,…

Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

In the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, Todd Anderson, a student at Welton Academy, has an older brother who graduated as the Valedictorian. He then went to Yale, and became a lawyer. Todd attends Welton because his parents want the same from him. They want Todd to follow his brother’s footsteps so he can become a “leader”. In a speech made by William Deresiewicz, called Solitude and Leadership, he explains how solitude and leadership seem like polar opposites, but if someone has both, they can…

Cole and peter had stayed on the island. Peter had forgave Cole and they been going to soak in the pond and carry the ancestor rock. Cole help peter to build his own cabin. Every day they talk and walk the island to find new things about the island. One day Cole and peter got up to go soak in the pond and carry the ancestor. When they got to the pond, they seen the spirit bear soaking in the pond, Cole start walking to the pond, Peter ask Cole what or you doing. I’m going to soak in the pond…

In the unit “States of Consciousness”, we discussed the concept of conscious will, and whether our everyday actions are determined by the choosing of our own free will, or if our conscious experience in making choices is merely a delusion of grandeur. It’s difficult to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary actions, especially if we are unaware of the extent to which we have free will. The idea is that we are already in motion of preparing for action before we even realize or actively…