Derek Reese

In Frankenstein, Nature and science have brought a significant impact onto the characters. The progression of science combined with nature leads to a debacle. With this, there are various effects and roles shown through nature and science. Mary Shelley expresses her message about this. In her times, she was part of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romanticist age and this led her to composing a story with nature and science competing against each other. From the struggles between the two sides, to the story of Frankenstein and the roles the characters played, and even the reasoning behind Shelley’s ideas during that time period, all of these played a role onto mankind. Nature may cause one event to happen, while science will also cause a different event to happen. The world has been changing ever since the creation of man and woman. Although both have affected mankind, nature and science lead to different effects. Nature has an emotional touch, while science is more logical. This can be seen in Frankenstein where Victor is always in the wilderness, and because of this, it leads him into deep thoughts with feelings of sadness, guilt, and worry, especially after being victimized by the monster who killed most of his relatives. A quote from Frankenstein shows this “You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.” (Shelley 22). Science, on the other hand,…

The top two female actresses I believe are the best are Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. The top two male actors that I believe to be the best actors are Adam Sandler and Will Smith. Jennifer Aniston: Just Go with It stars one of my favorite actors, Adam Sandler, and one of my favorite actresses, Jennifer Aniston. One of the reasons why she is one of my favorite actresses is the fact that her sense of humor comes out and stands out in every film or show that she does. For example, in…

When we hear about Legally Blonde we always think of the 2001 hit comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as the bubbly blonde lawyer, which was always dressed in pink, and seemed to fulfill the dumb blonde stereotype. Though this is just scratching the surface of Legally Blonde, as we look deeper into the story it is actually a feminist story, one of confidence, friendship, and defending what you believe in. Elle Woods is a sorority girl that seems to have it all, and she wants nothing more than to…

The movies Sweet Home Alabama and Just Like Heaven have further in common than just the leading lady, Reese Witherspoon. These two movies represent the romantic ideals of society in appropriately similar ways. Both movies teach valuable lessons in telling how Hollywood chooses to portray what the concept of love is and how it develops in romantic films. In Sweet Home Alabama the first concept of love is the chemistry between the two characters. Right off the bat, the chemistry between the two…

spotted by the Terminator, which aims its laser sighted pistol at her. Reese fires on the Terminator, hitting it with several blasts and knocking it to the floor. He tells Sarah "Come with me if you wanna live" and Sarah sees the Terminator impossibly rise to its feet. Reese and Sarah escape through the back door of the club, with the killer chasing them -- as he chases them, we learn that the Terminator is a robot of some kind who sees them through a computerized form of red night vision. Reese…

2000s and there is no clear connection with the environment Gitell is describing and the current environment the teenagers are living in. When the audience gets a brief view of the two teenagers in class towards the beginning of the movie we notice the teachers mentioning modern problems that are alarming. Gitell describes the two teenagers and the modern problems as “Tobey Maguire plays David, a modern-day teenager who spends his days at school getting lectured about scary modern problems like…

No human is perfect; the balance of willpower and necessary self-indulgence is such a fine one that even the most perfect of people occasionally make mistakes. True, the most noble of us have more finely tuned the system of giving up the wants and retaining the needs, but isn’t it said that the highest have the furthest to fall? Aristotle once said that bravery was most valuable when it is strength against wants but least valuable when it is strength against enemies. Throughout literature, many…

As Hamlet’s story begins, we see that he consciously slips into madness; After some time, we can see that his hallucinations start getting more and more real, which we can assume as to him becoming actually mad. We could say that in his eyes, the means justified the ends, and he had his ends very clearly objectified, but as the progress of achieving the ends occurs, the ends became blurry and his actions insane, which lead me to believe he was a little.. off and, undoubtedly, depressed even…

The soliloquy of act 2 scene 2 is focused on inner struggles with revenge. Earlier in this scene, Hamlet asks the actors to recite the story of Priam. While viewing this play hamlet realized the flaw in all that he has been doing, or hasn’t been doing, to act revenge on Claudius. Claudius killed Hamlet's father and stole the crown and hamlet is the only one who knows so he hatches a plan. He has made a few attempts of Claudius' life but failed. He is beating himself up at this point. As the play…

things together. When spring rolled around each year during my seventh, eighth, and ninth grade years, I signed up to play on the modified softball team. While playing modified softball I got the chance to play many positions, but I found myself consistently pitching or playing shortstop. During those years I found that I enjoyed playing shortstop and that pitching was not really my thing. Even though I really wasn’t that bad, I did not like feeling as if my teammates were depending on me and…