Howard Marshall married her despite their 63-year age difference. The marriage created a lot of gossip, with tabloids dubbing her as a “gold digger.” While Anna Nicole maintained that she was truly in love with her new husband, the gossip also did not stop her from using his extravagant wealth to treat herself in opulence. She started first with a breast enlargement and…
Title: The Lone Wolf and Cub Series Year: 1972-1974 Director: Kenji Misumi, Takeichi Saito, Kuroda Yoshiyuki, Robert Houston Cast: Wakayama Tomisaburo, Synopsis: Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo) was formally retained the great title as the Shogun’s executioner. After discovering that his family is brutally slain (except his infant son Daigoro) by the retainers of an abolished clan whose leader Itto executed it’s revealed that this is a double cross lead by the dubious and scheming Yagyu Clan hoping to…
When the narrator first meets the stranger, the narrator fails or refuses to remember the stranger’s name, dubbing her “Mother Something”. After conversing on the neighbor’s wall for 15 minutes, Mother Something lies to the narrator, implying “the owner of the house lets her come to this spot anytime she wants to fish and comes every week” (Morrison 76). Mother…
not on his side is an enemy and should be treated so. The German society has taught him that the French and the British are monsters he must slay and not individual humans like him. Upon realizing this Paul compares himself to the French soldier, dubbing both of them as “poor devils” seeing the French for what they are; poor men forced to join the war like him and his friends. Paul’s society was shaped to brew hate and animosity and has become focused on promoting those ideas for the war.…
Knowledge is power, and conformity strips away that power. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the characters, Mildred, Beatty, and Clarisse to manifest how society uses conformity to control and dominate individuals thoughts and actions. Clarisse is used, to show the perspective of an extremely social and abnormal teenage girl, in a conformed society where people try to suppress her thoughts and free will. With Beatty, it shows the ideals of conformity in Fahrenheit 451’s, society and…
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa: Rome’s Pillar of Strength Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa is known mainly as Augustus’ right hand man, who helped him reach the top against every obstacle he faced and his most trusted friend. He was a man whose intelligence and wisdom were beyond his years, ranging from military prowess to technical ingenuity that had not been seen before. Many of Augustus’ greatest triumphs can be directly traced to his friend’s exceptional efforts and talent, and the unwavering faith that…
You’re holding a fat, juicy hamburger. Before you take a bite, think about the cow that was prematurely taken from life. The Bourbon-Lime Chicken you are about to devour; how exactly did she die? Those BBQ Baby-Backed Ribs, did you realize it actually came from a baby cow? We eat every day. It is so much a part of us we don’t think about where it comes from. We need food but is it ethically right to house animals in small quarters? Is it morally right to grow animals so fast that their joints…
Our brains use the questions who, what, where, when, why, and how to make sense of the world. How do a writer, director, and editor utilize these questions in creating a film? The writer decides the characters and how they will react in different situations and their personalities. They also decide the setting of the movie and why a particular scene should be shot there. He also coordinates with the director and producer to accomplish the “what” in a given shot. A film director is responsible…
Jordan Mendelson Professor Velez Mass Media and Culture 14 May, 2015 Critical Memo 3 (Part 1, Question B) When examining the link between the “third person effect” and the “media-teen loop,” it is important to look at the symbiotic alliance between the media and today’s teens because, in reality, each party looks to the other in the development of their specific identities. With all of the time, money, and energy spent trying to understand and capitalize on such a broad concept, one would…
The selected reading, “Space Traders” is a troubling story about race relations, greed, status and reckless political power. The story begins on the first day of the year 2000 in the United States of America. For the first time ever, visitors from a star in outer space were to visit earth; in fact, they had announced their visit via radio broadcasts weeks in advance. Millions of people were prepared to witness this historic event. The visitors from the far star arrived in a grand fashion,…