Ellen Ripley

The famous movie that taught kids to “just keep swimming” may have a deeper meaning hidden within. In the movie, we follow Marlin who is sent on an archetypal quest to regain his son, Nemo, after he is taken away by a boat. We meet many lovable characters ranging from a loveable Blue Tang, Dory to a Great White Shark, Bruce. Marlin must travel the archetype of an ocean, to find his lost son. He encounters many dangers like jellyfish an angler fish and a whale that swallows him whole. Throughout…

What do you do when you love something so much you have to have it? When you envy someone so much you want to become it? These are the circumstances faced by Tom Ripley in writer-director Anthony Minghella's efficacious adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith’s thriller ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, writes Freddy Wilkinson Tom Ripley’s character is masterfully created. I would even go as far to say that it is not possible not to root for him in some sense. Not to like him at least not, on some level,…

Finding Nemo is a children’s movie, which tells of a clown fish named Marlin, who is a widower, and only has one son left after a predator attack. Nemo, the son of Marlin, went to school on the first day and ventured out into the open sea, despite the constant concerns from his dad not to. Nemo was then abducted by a diver and taken to a dentist office onshore in Sydney to live in a fish tank with the “tank gang.” Marlin then set out on an adventure to find and save his son, Nemo. On the way,…

Finding Nemo is a movie that begins with a family of fish. The mother and almost all of her eggs are attacked. The mother is killed along with all of the eggs, except one. The final egg left is named Nemo, and is raised solely by his father, Marlin. In the attack, Nemo was injured and now has one fin that is smaller than the other. He does not let his fin define him and calls it his “lucky” fin. After seeing his family killed, Marlin is very over protective of Nemo and is very nervous to let him…

of “finding” - as one of the summer’s (and year’s) most highly anticipated movies brings back everyone’s favorite sea dwellers... In Disney’s animated sequel/spin-off, Finding Dory, written and directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), Ellen DeGeneres reprises her role as the voice of Dory, a Pacific regal blue tang that suffers from short term memory loss.…

patient 's lives while contending to become the head surgeon. Aside from the competition, they go through a lot of heartbreak; either relationships problems or family crises throughout each of their lives. The series began with Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) starting her career as a medical intern with other interns, who became her friends and roommates later on. Being on air every Wednesday for eleven years, the show has drawn a beautiful fantasy world, among hospital life; many people,…

“Ellen Foster” is a novel written by Kaye Gibbons, who is an award winning author. The novel is praised as an unfortunate upbringing of a little girl name Ellen, who takes the readers through her childhood at her point-of-view. Ellen Foster is considered a emotional heart-warming book thus Ellen is an orphan and abandoned by her family. The novel demonstrates courage through Ellen’s will to survive, hope, and her coming of age. The will to survive is psychological force to fight for survival…

things are involved in the Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. When Sam Westing dies, his will is very different than you might normally hear, to get the inheritance, 16 heirs compete to figure out who killed Sam Westing, the heirs all get paired and get one set of clues each. They all have to figure it out by a deadline or else none of them will get the inheritance. When reading the Westing Game it kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin used: characterization,…

Audience Engagement in Macbeth Tragedies such as Macbeth have engaged and fascinated audiences for centuries. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Macbeth depicts the ill-fated journey of Macbeth, a brave and loyal soldier, who murders several innocent people to become King, and is soon after killed himself. The play engages the audience, which is defined as “occupying and maintaining the interest or attention of the audience. Through the use of characterisation, narrative structure and figurative…

The book I read was The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. It was published by Penguin Group in 2006. There are 318 pages of the story, and it is set from 1943 to 1945 during WWII. Although The Green Glass Sea is a fictional book, the setting and historical events are not. All of the main characters and their friends/family are fictional. This is a book about two girls who move to an army base with their parents during the war. They don't know each other at first, but they know of each other. It…