John Hurt

Why Hurt Others? The great depression shattered the American dream: at its peak, over 15 million people in the United States were unemployed, and half of all banks vanished into bankruptcy. This saddening and desolate time was the setting of John Steinbeck’s classic novel, Of Mice and Men, where the protagonist, George, and his partner, Lennie, set out on a search for work after being chased out of their hometown. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck uses the dialogue of Candy and Curley to convey that when people lose what they care about, they become condescending towards others to heal their pain. By using dialogue, Steinbeck is able to show that when people suffer immense loss, they try to break others down to forget their pain. This is best…

Susan Sontag states that “the essence of camp is love in the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. (pg. 1) This essence is everywhere in “But I’m a Cheerleader”. The entire film runs on a potentially true storyline by making it artificial. This is done by having the film lack seriousness. “Camp is an art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken all together seriously because it is “too much”” (pg. 4). I believe that this phrase perfectly describes “But I’m a Cheerleader”.…

Family relationships across time will identify with feelings of frustration that cause one to say hurtful things that they don’t really mean. Lear’s curse causes nature v disorder to reappear, causing a horrific storm to erupt. I believe this storm reflects the rage and madness brewing in Lear’s mind and the Elizabethan audience would have wholly embraced this notion. However, some modern viewers may have trouble accepting a spiritual connection between nature’s movement and human emotion. By…

until I faced life more for myself, that I noticed how so many things in my life that used to feel so bright were coated in black. Each year that I lived cognizant of the unrelenting illness that was cast onto my mom, I felt as if someone colored on a portion of my mind with a black marker and took my rose-tinted glasses, cracked them, and drove them into my eyes. I will never be sure if that was just me growing up or having a mother that suffered from depression or both. When I was 14 years…

with the ghost that looks like his father even though his friends warn him that the ghost may be evil and ". . .tempt you toward the flood . . . Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff . . ." (Act 1, Scene IV, Lines 69-70). If the prince was thinking right he would not have gone with the ghost that resembled the old ". . . King, father, royal Dane . . ." (Act 1, Scene IV, Line 45) Hamlet's radical actions let him find out about Claudius' devious murder of his brother, King…

busy under their God-like love and care for me kept me behaving most times. The same strategies and techniques worked with my younger brother as well as he is my only sibling. The only real problem with me when I was little being when they took me shopping and I saw the toys I as a little child of course wanted it. My parents bought what I wanted or something close, start a conversation to get my mind off it or tell me they would buy it later. I was a sweet, nice, caring and loving boy most my…

This is probably the best advice someone as ever given me. This piece of advice has impacted me in such a big way that I don’t even understand the concept of what life would be like with a Dad. I wouldn’t change my life, or the people who are in my life. My mom is my best friend and has done one hell of a job raising my brother and I, as a single mom. My mom is the one who scared the monsters away under my bed, heard my first words, watched me take my first steps, held my hand crossing the…

Being judged is never fun, especially when you are in public. It is something that I hate looking back to because I was really hurt. I wish it never happened, but it did. I felt dejected at first, but after a while I snapped out of it. Let me tell you the one memory that involved literacy. The one time a man insulted me in a store because I did not speak my second language very well last year. First, let me tell you about my background. I was born here in Dallas, but my parents are from…

expect what was about to happen. The muddy soccer ball came towards me like a cheetah trying to catch its prey. Somehow I missed the ball and I did not see the horrendous hole that was covered with muddy grass. Before I knew it I was on the ground. I was sunk into a hole with mud all over my faded blue jeans. I was wet and dirty. Of course everyone saw me fall down and started laughing at me. “Hahaha Gricelda fell. What an idiot,” I heard someone say. I just heard everyone laughing at me like…

to fix their relationship it finally mends a little,but has a long way to go. When a life changing event, the murder of Bob, happens to Ponyboy and gives the whole Curtis family a reality check about how they are living together. Even though this was shown from Ponyboy’s point of view but I think that Darry also understood Ponyboy’s reaction to him being too strict. This just proves that healing a relationship might take a lot of time and would have to go through many circumstances to get even a…