Final Fantasy

attended a screening of Pan’s Labyrinth next to director Guillermo del Toro. According to Del Toro, King squirmed when the Pale Man chased Ofelia. Del Toro compared that the experience was like winning an Oscar (Davis). Guillermo Del Toro’s 2006 fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth follows Ofelia in 1944 Francoist Spain where she discovers the magical underworld of the Faun. The film is an allegorical story, whose ending can be interpreted in different ways. This essay analyzes the ending of Pan’s…

the Valley of the Wind to visually engage the themes of life and death within the constructs of their respective stories. The creators of these worlds of art, whether it be the; writer, director, animator, or another member of the team, shape the final product through their skill and their personal experiences. The artists’ personal experiences that help motivate the creation and that builds the worlds that are universally relatable across cultural and generational boundaries. These animated…

Being able to craft a new organ out of a patient’s own cells that is guaranteed to be a perfect match and could be made to order, sounds like a beautiful, unmanageable fantasy especially to those like me who have watched a loved one go through the never-ending process of getting an organ transplant. Bioprinting could one day turn that seemingly impossible dream into a reality and completely revolutionize the world of organ transplants. I can imagine the years of my father having to deal with the…

In the United States in 2014, consumers spent an astounding $22.41 billion dollars on the video game industry alone. Since the early 1970’s video games have been extremely popular among people regardless of age. Although in the following years, video games have evolved immensely in different ways into the games that we have today. In the past 45 to 50 years, not only has the devices used to play these video games expanded, but diverse selection of games has multiplied, there has been a vast…

Also Susan Beth Pfeffer says “The money’s still in the teapot,” (4). If Ashleigh wasn’t loyal she’d just be playing stupid about it like yeah I have no idea about that money you’re talking about. Susan also said “and realized he’d had those same fantasies.” (4). Now if she wasn’t loyal she probably would’ve been like most people and been like you’ve had these fantasy’s before and it didn’t work so, why on Earth would it work now. That’s Part 1 on why Ashleigh took the money.…

The Beasts Inside the Universe of Harry Potter Ahn Pruitt Keiser University Beasts Inside the Universe of Harry Potter Fifteen years ago, J.K. Rowling introduced the world to the wondrous and magical world of Harry Potter with the release of the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001. The release of each of the movies there after were highly anticipated, all the way up until the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – part 2 which was released in July of 2011. The movies…

"Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning." Peter Pan is a fantastical children's book published in 1904 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie. The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas in 1844, is a historical young adult fiction. These two books could not be more different. Peter Pan focuses on the imagination of young ones, one of which will never grow up. The Count of Monte Cristo follows the betrayal of a man and his revenge. However,…

Pangloss’ teachings to cloud his knowledge and judgement of just how harsh and unfair the world can be.Cross was forced to endure the harsh realities of life in the war, but he used his love for Martha to dull the reality of war, and dwelled in the fantasies he had of a life with Martha. Cross’ love for Martha cost Lavender his life. Cross realized that Martha wasn’t going to return his love, so he pulled himself together and became a proper leader for his…

Reality In everyday life, reality is hardly questioned; if one can see it, hear it, touch it or perceive it through any other sense, then that thing is accepted to be real. However, this simple reality test is by no means reliable and is conducted under the complete trust in our human sensors. This may be why we as a human race find it hard to understand thing like space-time and antimatter because although theorised and somewhat proved, it…

'Daddy', "At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" (Plath). According to Alice Philipson of telegraph.co.uk, Sylvia Plath poem written two weeks before she committed suicide has revealed her 'disturbed' state of mind as she changed the final stanza to reflect her anxiety over being 'fatherless'. Sylvia put her feelings into each poem which created a dark tone, causing them to portray how different situation's in her life affected…