Enemy

Osha Gray Davidson's The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South, took a unique look at the role of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) during the Civil Rights Movement, because it chose to look at only one man who rose to be the local leader rather than the KKK as a group. Davidson tells the stories of C.P Ellis, a poor, white male struggling to survive in Durham, North Carolina and the local Exalted Cyclops (community leader) of the KKK, and a Ann Atwater, a poor, black female domestic…

In Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Petra distinguishes herself by abandoning the traditional facets of women. It is her perseverance and self-sufficient attitude that make her the true embodiment of the modern woman. Impressionism on the other hand, reveals realistic depictions of modern life. Modernity in Impressionism however, has a different meaning in comparison to Ibsen’s modernity; this style of art simply reflecting modern life does not in any way display anything unconventional. The…

“Would you be surprised if I told you that the Navy has credited you with... over 160 kills?” When Chris Kyle a Navy Seal Sniper during the Iraq war returned home he decided to see a therapist because he was having problems adjusting back to civilian life. During one of those sessions the therapist decided to ask him the question about the kills he is credited for. This credited kill amount is based off the amount of kills the Pentagon has credited him with. The movie “American Sniper” is based…

In Silence of the Lambs, viewers witnessed a trustworthy government apprehend a heinous criminal via the use of psychological profiling. In this instance, the government leveraged power to uphold and protect the civil liberty of the citizens. In Enemy of the State, a corrupt government official leveraged the power of the U.S. government to limit individual liberty for his own gain. Although Robert Dean is a fictional character, the example of Brandon Mayfield shows citizens that these incidents…

The Enemy, one of the most darkest young adult literature I have ever read. No matter what chapter I’m in, there’s always seems to be a zombie somewhere within the pages. If I were to use one word to describe this novel, it would be “gruesome.” Seriously, a mysterious virus that has no known cure to counter it turned all adults into child-eating zombies. Children and teens that aren’t over the age of 16 are immune to this virus for some reason. This takes place in England and the children have…

an end of ourselves, heaven will always come through for us. One day we were battling on a hill. Enemy forces were closing in all around me. I opened up with my M249. Next, I saw a tremendous blinding light. I could no longer see the advancing insurgents. My buddies thought I was KIA, as the enemy lit me up. All I knew and this is still hard for me to figure out. Somehow I was engaging an unseen enemy. I was firing at nothing. There was no one in front of me, and I was firing a burst. When my…

The small group of eight eager and young Soldiers stepped out of their vans, not knowing exactly what to expect. They had taken one of the biggest steps in their careers, putting them as the first line of defense in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The sky was mostly clear on this warm, sunny September morning in the Midwest United States, with a few light fluffy clouds listing lazily by. Each of them had a different vision of the future as they nervously waited for their new…

After two escapes from highly guarded prisons, various bank robberies, and several high-speed shooting sprees, John Dillinger met his end in our very own Lincoln Park, bringing great satisfaction to the FBI. The movie Public Enemies focuses on the creation of the modern Federal Bureau of Intelligence and the search for the infamous Chicago gangster as he travels from Indiana to Chicago throughout 1933, trying to dodge his inevitable fate. Most of the United States was deep into the Great…

(1650)The Governmental Abuse of Power: The Unethical Misuse of Satellite Surveillance Technology in Enemy of the State (1998) This film study will define the unethical misuse of satellite surveillance technology by the government in Enemy of the State (1998), which is a form of governmental abuse of the privacy and legal rights of the citizen. The use of satellite technology in this film defines the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) to observe and monitor the general public as a form…

Enemy at the Gates, a film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is the story of a Russian sniper named Vassili Zaitsev who fights in the Battle of Stalingrad. The film is set in the fall of 1942 in the destroyed city of Stalingrad, when Vassili Zaitsev rises from a grunt in the Russian Army to become the most known sniper in Russian history by demonstrating superior marksman abilities. Vassili did not become so popular alone; with the help of Commisar Danilov, a Chief Political Officer, they inform…