Fantastic Four

David Fincher's Academy-Award nominated film “The Social Network” stars Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield as Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, the original founders of Facebook. The film explores the founding of Facebook from multiple perspectives- those who were lifted into the technological stratosphere, and others who became collateral damage on Zuckerberg’s path to technological superstardom. Fincher uses a variety of narrative techniques in examining the evolution of Mark from a lonely…

“Being a refugee is much more than political studies, it is the most pervasive kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being” Deadly silence swept through the night, dispensing uneasy tension and fear across the bombarded city of Daraa. Terror walked around our streets, loaded with heavy ammunition aiming their hatred towards innocent civilians. We did not dare to muster a single sound in our wooden creaky house, concealing ourselves from the danger within. In this town, a single…

The movie This is England talks about England in the 1980s, and about dealing with outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falklands War. It talks a lot about the skinhead culture that was popular during this time and how it was to be a skinhead. This essay is going to talk about these things and also about what the similarities that can be found between 1980s England and Sweden today. It's also going to be talking about the main…

Fahrenheit 451 And Saudi Arabia Comparison Essay “Of all dictatorships a dictatorship sincerely exercised for the good of it’s people may be the most oppressive.” This quote talks about how the more tyrannical a dictatorship gets, the more strict rules and harsh consequences will be implemented to the people of their country. In Saudi Arabia, the people are living in a dystopian society as rules have harsh consequences, censorship of the internet, and the fear of ISIL. In Fahrenheit 451, people…

CONCLUSION No state follows a straight forward path of development from traditionalism to modernity, cleavages and conflicts are part of every society, any society cannot find release from them, and like happiness and grief are the assets of every human life. An autonomous/self-governing aristocracy does not readily abandon its vantages to a centralizing monarchy, nor does landed nobility greet the growth of a middle class whose new wealth derives from trade, investment, banking, commerce or…

When reading 1984 by George Orwell, the first thing that becomes apparent is the near-omnipresent use of symbolism. By using symbolism throughout the novel, George Orwell paints a bleak future that could very well become a reality. From a totalitarian corrupt government to brainwashed citizens and surveillance that blankets the world, the dystopian future depicted in 1984 could easily become our future if we are not careful, and George Orwell wants to make sure that it doesn’t. By placing…

The Theme Within Heist Society The novel I choose to read during the third quarter was “Heist Society” by Ally Carter. It is a very intriguing fictional book that focuses on a “family” of the most elite group of con artist in the twenty-first century. While the main focus of this novel may be on this family of con artist, the plot revolves around the youngest female member, Kat. Kat is a teenage girl who recently tried to escape from her family's mischievous ways by attending Colgan…

The mythological and historical narrative of the ‘separation of powers’ between state governments and the Federal government engrains itself within the United States cultural identity. In Chapter 4, "Foundation I," Arendt continues the cultural propagation of this trope, claiming the ‘separation of powers’ constitutes a check on the otherwise abhorrent growth of centralized political power and authority, ensuring that no portion of the government became any more powerful than another. However,…

and the contraband but it always has a flaw. (Adams) Dystopian novels prove that a completely perfect society is not perfect. They want the goal of social perfection even though perfection does not exist and cannot be created. (Sisk) Dystopias have four types of controls, first the most common, the corporate control in which is made up of large corporations who use propaganda such as products, advertising or the media to control the citizens. Second, the bureaucratic control, society is…

The government can be very controlling over its citizens. For example, in the novel 1984, Orwell the author invites the reader into a life where Big Brother is the main source of being overpowering over the people. Citizens are constantly being tracked by the government one way or another and in this case it’s through smartphones and cameras. The government shouldn’t be allowed the ability to be in the presence of someone’s privacy at all times. The surveillance technology used by Big Brother in…