John Paul Stevens

Steven Spielberg Have you ever seen ET, Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park or Jaws? If so you’ve watched a Steven Spielberg film. Spielberg has become a household name because of these movies and many more. Steven would is also known for shaping how a lot of directors now film and even think about how they produce movies. (Ebert) Steven Spielberg was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Spielberg's directing career started with him being a TV show director; later he became a movie director. His…

parts war movies would not be as big a hit. It's the viewer's job to sift through the reality and the fantasy. Both Saving Private Ryan and All Quiet on the Western Front are based off real events, but the characters are fictitious. It is clear that Steven Spielberg's and Erich Remarque's work have components of bias and realism. War mentally taxes a soldier's body. Stephen Spielberg clearly portrayed that in Saving Private Ryan, and Remarque did in All Quiet on the Western Front.…

Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is perhaps one of the greatest films in the late twentieth-century cinema. It encapsulates the brutality of the Holocaust as it evokes memories of atrocities of the World War II and a sense of inability to save innocent people. The film is shot in monochrome as Spielberg thinks it is more "realistic" and “closer to [a] documentary” of that time (Shandler 156). According to Jeremy Maron, Schindler 's List should primarily be understood as a melodrama; a…

According to Freakonomics “the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter” (Levitt. Pg. 13). The study of economics involves many different aspects such as societal mores, economic incentives, information asymmetry, and conventional wisdom, just to name a few. As time continues on though the study of economics boils down to humans respond to incentives. How and why do humans respond to incentives the way they do? Are these incentives always for the best?…

Author, Steven Pressfield defines resistance as a force that drives us from doing out best, by consuming us with fear about our gifts and talents. Resistance, stops us from doing things that can be good for us because the unknown afterwards is frightening. He characterizes resistance as fast, powerful, and almost addicting. It is circling around us, and yet we have no idea when it is going to hit us. Resistance is not something that we can see, instead it is something that we can feel. A…

The book Freakonomics is written by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner. It discusses various topics in today’s society that are often over looked. They ask the questions that most people never dare to ask. In chapter one, the authors explain how everyday people find themselves cheating as a way to move up the ladder and benefit financially. This happens more frequently when the incentives they are promised, outweigh their moral compasses. An incentive is defined by…

Steve Harvey is a remarkable man. He has done a lot to be in the NAB hall of fame. Harvey got his official start to radio when he was a standup comedian. Him being so funny opened many doors for him like TV roles such as the host at ShowTime at the Apollo, and the star of a WB sitcom series. Harvey was also featured as one of the four comedians that was featured in Spike Lee Film the Originals Kings of Comedy. He now host a weekday morning radio show called “The Steve Harvey Morning Show” from…

If you’re looking for some mindless entertainment the film Rubber is perfect for you. Rubber was created in 2010 and falls into the horror comedy genre. Rubber was written, directed and edited by Quentin Dupieux. It was produced by Gregory Bernard, Julien Berlan, and Kevos Van Der Meiren. The main characters in the film are a car tire, Lieutenant Chad (Stephen Spinella), Sheila (Roxane Mesquida), and an accountant (Jack Plotnick). The film starts out discussing things with no reasons and how…

“I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go” said by Indiana Jones, perfectly describes how Steven Spielberg wanted the movie to be charismatic, charming, and funny as he admitted that this was, “the first movie where I actually shot the movie without thinking.” From native tribes and snakes to Nazis, it seems Indiana Jones can’t keep himself out of trouble when it comes to searching for lost treasure. That being said, his adventures are a roller coaster with twists and turns that you would least…

Nature is a recurring force throughout literature and in everyday life. It has its cheritable qualities but also has an extremely ruthless and different side to it. Nature takes no prisoners and affects a situation no matter what circumstance. Two works that deal with this aspect of nature are The Old Man and the Sea and Saving Private Ryan. The Old Man and the Sea and Saving Private Ryan, both stories of loyalty, honor and sacrifice, portray the battle between man’s will and nature’s force,…