English-language films

happens immediately after Mitch confronts Blanche about lying. The flowers are symbolic because as Mitch refuses to marry Blanche, she becomes unable to remain with the living. Blanche rejects the flowers by saying, “No, no! Not now! Not now!” (Language). The flowers also represent a turning point in Blanche’s life, because Blanche realizes she has nothing left in her…

Mickey face due to Asperger’s become obvious, The effects Mickey’s disability cause mostly arise when he is on the baseball field. When he is under stress, he paces. The first time he walks from the locker room into the stadium for practice, the film captures the overwhelming sensation Mickey felt. The large intimidating stadium surrounding him, the sounds of the other players yelling as they practice, and the commotion of balls being thrown and chased obviously impacts Mickey. He is called to…

Kamkwamba"). After his autobiography became well known, a documentary was made showcasing William and his invention. William and the Windmill had a premiere date in early 2013. Directed and produced by Ben Nabors, and shot across several continents, the film documents William Kamkwamba’s journey beginning with the TEDGlobal conference in Arusha, Tanzania, through his college attendance in the United States in 2011 ("William and the…

flight from China and arrived in LAX, I went through the bustling crowd. People spoke strange languages with unfamiliar body languages. I knew I really on a foreign land. As an international student from southern China, I began to challenge myself to live in America alone because there is no relative and friend I know in here. Before I arrived, the only way I got to know the United States was from the films and the media. I used to like other people to imagine one day could be able to come to…

The dialogue in the scene is a modern English translation of the same scene in Much Ado About Nothing (III, I): Hero deems Beatrice too proud (“The Limits of Technology and the Art of Self-Representation in a Modern World”, 2:52) and “too busy being in love with herself” (3:00), and Ursula agrees…

In the diary of Anne Frank, a young teenage girl fights against her religion. Anne Frank demonstrates perseverance as she maintains her normal lifestyle while she and her family fights for survival in the Second World War. Otto Frank, Anne's father, arranges that they disappear and live in an unknown part of a building called the Secret Annex. Life in the Secret Annex is tough but somehow Anne still manages to think of others and feel bad that she is more fortunate. Moreover, despite the way…

Christian Martinez Professor Ingrid Jayne English 205 July 25, 2016 Living a Simulated Life in White Noise Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise is an outsider’s look inside small town America through the eyes and ears of its first person narrator Jack Gladney. Jack is a middle-class, middle-aged white male academic, who basks in the achievement of having created a department of Hitler Studies. He lives with his current wife, Babette, and an assortment of children from their previous marriages.…

sane and had to. (Heller 46) Through this illogical, unwinnable scenario, Heller conveys what he perceives to be a cruel society in which people do not have choices and freedom. Several writers have put much emphasis on Heller’s style: “Circular language and redefining words, Heller shows, allows people to avoid the reality of situations, or to twist reality to suit their purposes” (“Catch-22”). Later in the story, the meaning of Catch-22 changes: “Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything…

Student’s Name: Prof. Name: HUM333: Photo and the Other Date: Diane Arbus and the others in her photos The world of art is full of several labels. In an effort to reduce obscure individuals to a particular category some specific labels have been generally applied in the art world, whether for religious, territorial, ethnic, sexual or national. For an all-purpose rationale, these labels are not applied in order to single out, but are an effort to give an identity to the minorities who have long…

in America. This documentary shows Kunama refugee’s lives before traveling to American and after they’ve been approved to live in America. It is evident that throughout the film, their culture and physical environment have a major impact of their behavior in both before and after their relocation to the United States. This film gives us a variety of people to listen and learn about the refugee process, in which it shows us that this situation is a reality in that people are suffering in another…