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We watch movies and read books with many characters in them. We watch how these characters act and sometimes we try to act like them. Sometimes we see characters that are extremely similar to us and it is absolutely awesome. I found that I am extremely similar to Almanzo from the book “Farmer Boy.” I keep reading and seeing his characteristics and I could not believe how similar our characterics were and I realized that his life and mine are extremely similar. I am extremely similar to to…

The novel, "The Hunger games" composed by Susanna Collins entertains the reader by displaying powerful and confronting themes throughout the futuristic and barbaric setting, the narrative text of, the main character, Katniss Everdeen 's inner thoughts and feelings. Collins presents significant themes throughout about the challenges tributes face and the struggle to survive, the courage the tributes gain outside and inside the arena as well as the control The Capitol has over Panem and the…

Quack, Quack, Quack Duck Game, a game where you play games with ducks, confront you and up to three friends on a set of Hunger Games-like matches that provide you with multiple weapons and utensils to help you defeat your opponents. This means that you can now entertain the blood thirsty duck people who so much adore watching you wreck your friends guts on the sports channel. Juan Solo will have his revenge against the great white knight!Juan Solo will have his revenge against the great white…

Every weekend people flock to the movies for a chance to see Hollywood's latest creations and nearly every month the list is filled with large blockbusters, series, and reboots of old classics. With such a large variety to choose from movies are forced into a fierce competition with one another for audience viewership, those that are not backed with big names must play their hands carefully and distinguish themselves from the rest of the options. One of the easiest and most prevalent method is…

Watching movies is a great pastime. Whether it be an action adventure or a romantic comedy, it’s easy for people to sit down and enjoy one of their favorite films. However, there is a deeper perspective in the movies we watch daily. They can provide important life lessons or even advice on a situation. Movies can also have you question reality and drive you into creating serious motives. John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is a perfect example of that. To me, “The Thing” is one of my favorite movies,…

‘spectator’s field of peripheral vision’ with its broad horizontal range, but it also intensified the epic parallels between the contemporary experience of the United States and the fate of ancient dynasties (qtd in Halliwell 150). The CinemaScope technology was not only used by epic films like The Robe (1953),Knights of the Round Table (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956) and the most colossal of CinemaScope epic which won 11 Academy Awards Ben Hur (1959), but also for musicals, westerns,…

citizens are chosen to fight to the death to leave only one citizen to survive. This paper will focus on similarities between these two stories: blindly following tradition, using tradition to control people and prevent change, and using ritual as entertainment First, blindly following tradition is the common feature that both The Hunger Games and “ The Lottery” have. The characters in these two stories never doubt about traditions and change them. In “The Lottery”, every year one of the…

If someone were to look back a couple decades they would not only be amazed at how far along technology has come, but also shocked at how much it has taken over. This is a common theme when it comes to Neil Postman’s “Television as Teacher” and Steven Johnson’s “Why Games Are Good for you.” In both Postman’s and Johnson’ articles, the advancement of technology is threatening the existence of present day learning and education as books are on the decline. While Postman attempts to compete…

I do not play any video games what so ever now, unless they are silly puzzle games on my phone. My Fiancé, on the other hand will play video games all of the time. I guess I reached a point in my life where I am much too tired and focused on other things. Now thinking back to when I was much younger, I do remember playing video games constantly, and I even remember that I’d lock myself in my room for hours playing Crash Bandicoot: Warped. That video game took up a lot of my time on rainy days,…

are using mind changing stereotypes. Watching movies that use stereotypes for entertainment purposes pose a threat to the audiences mind. The audiences is given different images about to put in their mind about certain races, cultures, and people. Although there are many people to blame for these unfortunate images, people can only blame their selves for believing the entertainment business. The job of the entertainment business is to entertain their audience, not to tell the truth, and although…