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Agnieszka Holland, one of the most recognized Polish filmmakers, was born on November 28, 1948 in Warsaw. At the age of seventeen she started sending plays to the Czech Film Academy, FAMU, where she studied filmmaking under Milos Forman and Ivan Passer. Her beginning in the film industry started when she returned to Warsaw and began to work as an assistant director on the movies Letters from our Readers by Stanisław Latałło's and Krzysztof Zanussi's Illumination. Holland also collaborated with…

Standardized tests are assessments mandated by the government that all students are required to take. These examinations are compulsory to graduate and attain your diploma. The scores students get on these tests are used to assess the level they are at in the particular areas in school, and mainly define a student as either a failure or a success. Standardized tests are extensively harmful to a student’s academic development. They contribute to the evident increase of students’ anxiety levels…

Veganism is the practice of not eating meat or any animal products, such as milk or eggs. The controversy over whether going vegan is healthier or damaging to one's health has sparked a lot of arguments. Going vegan is a good idea for anyone ranging in the ages of 13 and older. Reasons for supporting veganism have become undeniable since it has been scientifically proven to improve one's lifestyle in several different ways. Switching to a vegan diet can make one feel more awake and energized now…

Acclaimed historian Margaret Macmillan once stated “We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.” Many literary pieces have carefully chosen which parts of history they want to emphasize and diminish to fit a specific agenda, altering the modern day understanding of the truth. The literary theory of New Historicism is based off this concept, and its goal is to understand the…

This critical review will take a close look at Joel Gwynne’s article ’Might as Well be Dead’: Domesticity, Irony and Feminist Politics in Contemporary Animation Comedy. The article was published in Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television’s 10th volume, second issue in 2015. The issue in question handles the topics of gender and television comedy and while Gwynne’s article is accompanied by other works on gender, his manages to be the only one focusing on animated…

In 2010, an oil rig by the name of Deepwater Horizon, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana experienced a malfunction and exploded. BP hired Transocean, who owned and operated the rig, to cement the bottom of the well and put a cap on it. The crew, led by Jim “Mr. Jimmy” Harrell, suffered 11 deaths. The well pumped 5 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, creating an environmental catastrophe unlike anything North America had seen in decades. The 2016 film, Deepwater Horizon, tells…

“I’m going to treat myself to a pedicure done by a white lady. That’s when you know you’ve made it,” an excited Jessica Huang exclaimed to her husband in the “License to Sell” episode of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat. With this statement, Jessica Huang deemed the white race the gold standard of human beings and simultaneously demeaned other ethnic groups by equating them with the lowest common denominator. Despite the humorous effect of Jessica Huang’s comment, the statement is a prime example of the…

Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a mathematician and inventor, began designing the first ideas for television at the age of fourteen. Farnsworth began dreaming of his idea of using a lens to direct light into a glass tube where it could be deflected and transmitted into a picture. It was a very complicated process. He started with sketches that he shared with his science teacher and once his idea took shape, he moved onto building and experimenting from there. The invention of television opened the…

A theatrical element that Kushner employed to increase the affiliation between the audience and his characters was the use of split scenes. By using a split scene, the audience was able to watch two scenes occur at the same time. These scenes would often portray two different couples having the same argument. This not only allowed the audience to understand the characters more, but to relate to the characters themselves. With two separate couples, an audience member is bound to relate to one of…

Nathaniel Grow wrote an article in Fangraphs (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-impending-battle-over-the-future-of-televised-baseball/) discussing a court case that could change the future of televised baseball and thus have a significant impact on MASN and the Orioles. As he explains in his article, the plaintiffs in this case — Garber v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball —, claim that MLB shouldn’t be allowed to assign its teams exclusive local broadcast territories and that every team…