Edgar Schein

Luis Bunuel pioneered surrealist cinema. Many of his films revolve around three themes he was fanatic about. These being, religion, class and sexual desire. These topics can be linked to Bunuel’s early years. He was born on February 22nd, 1900 in Calanda, Spain. His birthplace was of highly religious mindset as many places were in Spain. In Bunuel’s semi autobiography My Last Breath he says, “The middle ages lasted until World War I” (8). The “Miracle of Calanda” (13) was a tale in which an…

The comics Lighter Than My Shadow, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, & Me, and “Adventures in Depression” and “Depression Part 2” from Hyperbole and a Half each depict the struggles of mental illness in distinct ways. Interestingly, all of them share a unique element in portraying this mental illness. Each comic uses imagery of the main character interacting with what seems to be another self. This fragmenting self is used to highlight each character’s growth and progress from their…

The title of this book is called Gulliver’s Travels. This is a story known by many souls, and it is known worldwide. Gulliver’s Travels is by Jonathan Swift, and as about to be mentioned, the genres in this book are “Fantasy”, “Satire”, “Science Fiction”, and “Speculative fiction”. In the story, there were 4 main settings mentioned in the story. In the 1st voyage, when Gulliver's ship is wrecked, he ends up on a beach, known as the Land of Liliput. You guessed it, the land of small people.…

With all its differences and diversities, in terms of its readership and the scope of its themes, etc., Nineteenth century novel has some features. Trace six to seven such salient common feature, giving reason for why and how some important socio-cultural and politico-economic elements/ Arguments count to making the 19th century novel as it is? “In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the…

Night Final Essay “For God’s sake, where is God? Where He is? This is where ----- hanging from the gallows.” - Elie Wiesel. Night, by Elie Wiesel, this was set in the 1940’s during World War ll. This was at a concentration camp, Auschwitz. In the whole story, it was about Elie and his father's struggle to survive in concentration camps. The holocaust was the most traumatic experience in history, this included the leader, Hitler, with his followers, the German Nazi’s. Throughout Night, Elie’s…

The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

Summary: I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This summary will conclude of chapters 25-31. These chapters are very intense with Bob Ewell and his actions. Bob Ewell gets very angry and sneaks and breaks into Judge Taylor’s house. He wants to get revenge for what had happened at the court case. Taylor sees Bob but does not know who it is, so Bob gets scared, takes some food of his then leaves. Then Bob causes more trouble and follows Jem and Scout home. They think it is Cecil,…

Gabriel Roche Professor Paul Calkins English 1-B 4/21/2016 An Analysis of Dostoevsky, by Charles Bukowski The poem Dostoevsky, by Charles Bukowski, is an inspirational poem that tells the story of how Fyodor Dostoevsky, a famous Russian author of the 19th century, was given sudden reprieve from death by firing squad, and because of this turn of events, was allowed to write and create, and thus was able to inspire the author as well as countless other writers. For me this immediately reminded me…

In 1943, James M. Cain wrote one of his most selling novella “Double Indemnity”. A year later, Billy Wilder, a movie director, with the help of Raymond Chandler, a screenwriter, took the book and adapted to the big screen while keeping the original title. Eventually, the movie became very popular and nowadays, “Double Indemnity”, widely regarded as a classic, is often cited as paradigmatic film noir and as having set the standard for the films that followed in that genre. The movie adaptation is…

When was the last time you either physically or emotionally harmed one of your best friends? Hopefully your answer to that is “NO”, because if you said “yes” or even had to think twice then you have a trait of a bad friend. In the novela “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck the two main characters George and Lennie are the “best of friends”. At Least that’s how it’s supposed to be presented. Within the novella George and Lennie have had their ups and down. However I feel as though they have had…