Franks

Living in the most confined space possible is harder than I think most people realize, especially with eight people under one roof and compressed space. Anne Frank is a girl who knows this better than anyone from growing up in a sixteen square feet “Secret Annexe’’ with eight people. I don’t know anyone that went through what Anne Frank went through but i imagine it must be hard, but if you know yourself that you cannot change it, it’s something you’re just gonna have to deal with it. Anne knew…

you now know, singing…” (Coldplay, 2002), because it exemplifies how my time with my family and friends is quickly ticking away. What is your perfect love song? My idea of the perfect love song is “The Way You Look Tonight” by Frank Sinatra. Being a huge Frank Sinatra fan all of my life I was tempted to use so many of his songs as my “perfect” love song. However, this song never fails to amaze me. My favorite lyric is “Someday, when I 'm awfully low. When the world is cold. I will…

Every day, a person hopes for certain things to make their life better. In the film The Shawshank Redemption, directed by Frank Darabont, revolves the setting in Shawshank prison and explores the daily life of prisoners. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbin) and Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) are two main prisoners that have a strong friendship. They works together, hopefully, to redeem their freedom. These two important characters, including Brooks Diamond (James Whitmore) contribute a huge…

In Frank McCourt’s novel Angela’s Ashes, McCourt places a great significance on the mythological hero Cuchulain. Cuchulain, born with the name Setanta, grew up in the Northern Ireland like Frankie’s father. At a young age, Frankie’s father tells Frankie the story of Cuchulain. Cuchulain killed the dog of the house of Culain and to repent he guarded the house since the dog no longer could. Later, he guarded not just the house, but the entire region and became the greatest hero. Since that night…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

I am happy. It is incredibly corny but that is all I really want. I want to be so happy my cheeks are burning because I can not stop smiling, I want that happiness were you have to bite your lips from smiling to much. I am a firm believer everyone deserves a couple euphoric highs of happiness at least a couple times in their life and I have not had many yet, but I think my wedding deserves one of these highs for both my husband and I. I have never been that Disney story book girl, therefore I do…

Pictured above: Two guns used in the 1929 Massacre/Courtesy The Mob Museum CULTUREIFY On February 14, 1929, a day that was anything but sweet hearts amidst a bed of roses, the St. Valentines Day Massacre unfolded as five rivals of gangster Al Capone and two wannabes were gunned down in a garage on the North Side of Chicago, IL. The day’s events are, arguably, the most publicized and talked about mob event in history. The sole purpose of the killings was the elimination of George “Bugs” Moran,…

One of the best literary works of art, to come out of the atrocities of the Third Reich, is by far in my opinion, "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. The Diary is, without doubt, a singular accomplishment. Its lucidity, honesty, and peircing insight are heartrendering enough to make ones self, look inwards. I was thirteen when I first read her Diary, and it opened my eyes, a direct link, to how it was for a young girl, just like myself, to go through something entirely different, an…

This essay is to address what modernism is and the way in which the work of Frank Lloyd Wright relates to the modernist movement by analysing Wright’s work in detail with reference to modernism and other movements. The movement of modernism follows the ideology that the traditional style of creating art, architecture and literature was becoming old fashioned so a new and experimental approach was taken to allow the different forms of art to be compatible with the changes in the world being more…

A famous figure in history once quoted “If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably won’t lead anywhere.” This famous figure’s name was Frank A. Clark. Obviously, a path without hurdles would be everyone’s deepest desire. A path such as this would be seen as a golden sidewalk leading right to the roads of success. A path such as this would be everyone’s wish in the three that they are allowed to have. Granted, this path leads to the high echelons of money and fame, but at the same time…