James Whale

Brandon Garcia Professor Preston English 1302.43480 02 February 2016 The Unknown World: A Parallel World Mirrors have always fascinated man. Without mirrors or any reflective surface man would never see how they look like. Mirrors have been thought to contain a separate world behind the reflection. Hand with Reflecting Sphere is a lithograph made by Mauritis Cornelis Escher in the year 1935. Hands with Reflecting Sphere basically shows a hand holding a sphere with a reflective surface against…

Amid the lapse of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, he blurs the lines between androids and humans by enunciating humanities lack of its defining characteristics- love and compassion. Throughout the progression of the novel Philip K. Dick asserts that as technology ameliorates, humanity degresses to become as apathetic as the androids themselves. Having no trouble retiring (or killing) an android at the beginning of the novel, Rick Deckard's orientation transformed to…

Problem In the Taoist religion, a central problem is from the three “worms” or “corpses” that reside within the body of every person. These worms are malevolent spirits who “long for the body to die and therefore perform mischief to try to hasten the adept's demise" (Eskildsen 1998: 49). To achieve this goal, the Worms perform all manner of evil to try to shorten the lifespan of the host. They invite sickness into the body, and cause many ailments to the body of their host. The worms also report…

Michel Bay’s film, The Island, is unique in the sense that movies aren’t similar in any genre. The characters Lincoln six echo and Jordan two delta are considered average citizens living in a very controlled environment. They are told what to eat, what to drink, when to wake up, and what to do for a living. The hardest thing to believe is that they are not allowed to ask questions. The Island, directed by Michael Bay tells a story about two characters that dare to question the world around…

I have chosen Scorpius as my favorite constellation as it is the constellation I was born under. Scorpius, Also known as "The Scorpion" Is one of the brightest constellations in our night sky. People born under this constellation from October 24th and November 22nd are known as Scorpio's. Scorpius neighbors include Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. One star that makes up Scorpius is the bright red star Antares which is one of the brightest stars in our night sky is also called the…

A villain is the bad guy in a story. They may be called an Antagonist. In Percy Jackson the villains or bad guys are disguised in the mist as normal people or things. Unless you are able to see through the mist you would not know they were there. It is important for a story to have a villain because without a villain there can’t be a hero. In stories such as Batman, Superman, and Percy Jackson without villains to defeat their lives would be boring. They wouldn’t go on big expeditions to…

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is a Young Adult novel inspired by a Siobhan Dowd and illustrated by Jim Kay. In this book, a boy named Conor calls a monster to help him comprehend and deal with his feelings regarding his mother’s cancer and impending death. The monster, a creation of Conor’s imagination, helps him realize the differences between appearance and reality through the literary elements of the frame narrative, setting, and illustrations. The monster tells Conor stories; this…

In the novel The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey, the protagonist, Will Henry is orphaned and taken in by an eccentric scientist named Dr. Warthrop. Their relationship changes throughout the course of the novel. In the beginning, Dr. Warthrop and Will Henry seem to have a one-sided relationship for the Doctor treats Will Henry as nothing more than a mere assistant. "Get up! Get up, Will Henry, and be quick about it!" he said urgently."We have a caller!" "A caller?" I murmured I reply."What…

Lastly, human creations such as antibiotics and Frankenstein’s monster can have long term and sometimes permanent unintended consequences. When the monster escapes from his creator’s workspace in Frankenstein, he ends up creating horrific and permanent damage on the world by committing numerous murders. At the end of the novel, the monster himself even reflects on the evils that he has inflicted upon the world. He remorsefully states that he has “‘murdered the lovely and the helpless[,] . . .…

In the classic animated film, Monsters University, directed by Dan Scanlon, the characters teach us many vital life lessons. First off, the main character Mike Wazowski, a not-so-scary monster, has always dreamed of being a professional scarer but after getting expelled from Monsters University he thinks this dream and life is “ Over, it’s all over.” (Scanlon, x:xx). Once Mike starts over and gets a job he realized that he can still be a scarer it just might take a little longer than others.…