Dustin Thomason

Authenticity is supposed to have a moral and motivation to do the right thing. I often see authenticity as sometimes black and white but then again sometimes I see it as shades of grey throughout the situation. When I look at person and they have done wrong but yet something good came out of it I see it as shades of grey. Yes, they have done something wrong, but it came with a good outcome. Authenticity has diverse meanings and definitions but I think authenticity means having integrity, having factual evidence, and having loyalty. First, you must have integrity when trying to be authentic. In the book Authenticity the article “When False Representations Ring True” by Katie Davis, Scott Seider, and Howard Gardner it explains how this lady got a job with MIT and come to find out she lied about her resume and how many degrees she had. They fired her and she was no longer aloud to work for MIT. What is hypocritical about this lady is that she worked in the admissions office where she looked at applicant’s resumes and cover letters and decided who would get to talk to the dean or just not get in at all. She had no integrity herself because she also fabricated her resume. So, when she looked at student’s resumes and thought they fabricated their resumes she would decide that they would not get in or have a chance to talk to the dean of admissions (205-223). I think for her not having integrity to be truthful on her own resume she shouldn’t have kept the- job. I understand she…

The Graduate The sequence that I have chosen for analysis is the scene after the party and Dustin is moping in his room, until he puts his hand in the fish tank to pull out his keys. The scene begins with Mrs. Robinson bursting in on Benjamin. The sound of the door is quite loud in the small space, making it much more intrusive than it might normally have been and possibly drawing a metaphor about her entry not just into his room but into his private life. Her voice is totally calm…

When the Netflix adaptation of Jay Asher’s 2007 novel ’13 Reasons Why’ was first released on March of 2017, it instantly became a “binge watch” hit (Schrobsdorff). The show centered around Clay Jensen, a college student who received 13 tapes narrated by his friend Hannah Baker. In those tapes she explains the different reasons as to why she had taken her own life, the driving force behind the entire show. The reasons featured a lot of issues relevant to today’s society such as rape, bullying,…

Introduction Recently I have read an online article called, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by Jean M. Twenge. As the title portrays, the article is about technology’s impact on the younger generation. Twenge states, “I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology” (Twenge). She goes on in the article to state her opinion about smartphones and to support it in a variety of ways. Quoting and…

Mike Nichols 1967 film ‘The Graduate’ is a comedy that illustrates a three-act film structure and includes the major structural elements. The film depicts a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), whose feeling of a lack of purpose results in his life becoming dominated by his relationship with Mrs. Robinson and eventually, her daughter Elaine. Act I establishes the key characters; Benjamin, his parents and their friends, including, Mrs. Robinson. It feels as though Benjamin is on a different…

as can be seen through the generational, and how Dustin Hoffman’s character acts towards each. This movie came out towards the end of the 1960’s when the social/cultural structure was beginning to change. Children didn’t want to do what their parents told them just because the said so, they wanted to do something that they saw meaning in. This can be seen as Dustin Hoffman constantly tells all the adults that he’s not too sure what his plans are for his future. His willingness to relax and…

Upon selling the idea of Facebook to Eduardo, Mark starts planning the structure of the Company. In the incorporation papers, 65% of the company is owned by Mark and he is the Founder, 30% is owned by Eduardo and he is the CFO (chief financial officer) and 5% is owned by Dustin (Marks roommate) he oversees the company Public Relations. They would then all form the top-level management of Facebook. 0:46:51 Eduardo has a very tactful and calculative leadership style. He is a thinker and planner…

there unfounded. One of the major strategies used in this film to help promote the war was the overall theme of making the war believable. This theme was used throughout to help string the general public along into believing the war and its events were happening. One example of the extreme reliance on the theme in this film was when they created songs to honor the war and Sargent Schumann. These songs united the general public into specifically believing that the war was happening, and that…

In this shot from David Fincher’s The Social Network, the renowned brain Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) is talking to his soon to be ex-girlfriend Erica Albright (Rooney Mara). He continuously tries to overpower her with his ample knowledge, which ultimately leads to their relationships demise. She asks Zuckerberg which final party “is the easiest to get in to?” He inhales deeply and asks her “Why would you ask me that?” He is very agile and pointed with his words and responses, which to her…

The film Rain Man was released to critical acclaim in 1988. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, it captured the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1988, and Best Actor honors for Hoffman. The movie is about two brothers who discover each other's existence after their father's death and their struggles to understand each other's very different worlds. As the story begins, the younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, is traveling with his girlfriend Susanna to a vacation in Palm Springs. Their trip…