Janet Maslin

We live in a world where the threat of an apocalypse bites at our heels every day. Nuclear war or technological takeover lurk in the shadows of everyday life, but predicting how an apocalypse will actually happen is near impossible. There are infinite stories about apocalypses; everything from comic books to movies portray the vast possibilities of the end of the world as we know it. Cormac McCarthy has created what I believe is one of the most real portrayals of post-apocalyptic life in his…

Institutionalized Corruption Typically prisons are designed to reform and punish individuals for crimes that they have committed. However, research suggests that prisons have had little impact on these wrongdoers, and many have returned to the place that they thought they would never go back to. In addition, there are prisoners who leave the system as dehumanized individuals, not knowing what to do with themselves after learning to be so reliant on the guards and warden. In the film The…