Grant Park

In the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling and the well-known “American Gothic” by Grant Wood, Kipling and Wood work to illustrate the constant struggle to find the middle ground in life existing in marriage, dreams becoming a reality, financial success, and the middle class American Dream. The act of marriage does not always foster a happy relationship at first, but a new sense of happiness can be forged out of the couple’s willingness to achieve happiness. In both art forms, viewers see that…

Athlete Compensation: Why Collegiate Athletes Should Be Paid. College athletes all around the world are working their tail off morning and night. They get up before school and go to practice, then the school then back to practice. That is their life at that certain point in time. Some athletes that receive scholarships are getting their education paid for. Some have a meal plan through the team and also even get free housing. There are some athletes call walk-ons. They don’t receive…

Grant Wood is one of America’s most famous artists because of his iconic 1930 painting American Gothic. Some people today still may not know Grant Wood’s name or even the name of the painting, they always recognize American Gothic when they see it. This painting is known as a classic show of American character. Represented by a farmer and his daughter in front of their gothic styled home. Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1991 in Anamosa, Iowa. When his father died in 1901 Grant and his…

College Is Too Expensive College is important to many Americans who are either graduating or have recently graduated high school, but one problem stopping them from attending is how expensive college is. Many students cannot afford to attend college, and some decide not to attend because they cannot afford it. According to research about college costs, a public two-year college like Murray State College is estimated to cost $3,440 yearly for tuition and fees minimal compared to universities…

mid-twentieth century directing very famous films such as Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). The film To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, is a suspense-thriller about an ex-jewel thief accused of committing crimes parallel to his work in the past. In the film, the main characters John Robie (Cary Grant) and Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly) were illustrated to be very different from each other. Despite John’s innocence, he was depicted to suspicious…

Alfred Hitchcock has always been considered a misogynous by critics, for his ethereal blonde hair and blue eyes women characters, portrayed as distant and sexually cold creatures, who very often end up to be evil and manipulator. In The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory (1977) Tania Modleski interprets Notorious according to the female point of view, as the film theorist Laura Mulvey had already done in her essay, Visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975). Mulvey argued…

As a young girl, I spent the vast majority of my time sequestered in my room with my dolls. They helped me to escape my reality. They listened to me without judgement and gave voice to the conversations that I desperately wanted to have but could not. I remember vividly wanting a Barbie that had brown hair and green eyes. I wanted a doll that represented me, one that looked like me or at least seemed like the person I wanted to grow up to be. I don’t remember my age when I saw my first…

The question of whether or not Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti received a fair trial is still in dispute today. Many people during the time of the case believed that the men were “executed on murder based on doubtful ballistic evidence” because of the hostility towards immigrants due to the Red Scare and World War 1 (“Perfect Suspects, Unfair Trials”). The evidence provided during the trial showed that the men were found guilty due to the fact that they were in anarchist groups and were…

The Essence of Chaos Michael Crichton’s, Jurassic Park, is the story of a paleontologist dealing with the realities of big business. John Hammond, CEO of InGen, uses his wealth to clone dinosaurs from fossilized DNA. This naturally leads to repercussions and affects every character in the book. Because of its original and thought provoking conceptualization, the book gained worldwide recognition and was made into a blockbuster hit film by Steven Spielberg. While the movie covers the same…

Introduction Jurassic Park is a 1990 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton. It revolves around a businessman’s attempt to create an amusement park whose primary attractions are dinosaurs recreated using genetic engineering. Unlike the 1993 Steven Spielberg movie adaptation, which is about the wonderful feeling of seeing a real live dinosaur, and about the technical accomplishment that went behind it, the book deals with the ethical and logistical issues that accompany such a task. The…