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The United States of America is notorious for being a land where opportunities abound and dreams come true. It is common to hear stories of great Americans who ascended from the clutches of poverty and amassed great wealth, because they had a dream and pursued it. They did not allow their circumstances, no matter how daunting, to overshadow their ambitions of success. Richard Ira Bong is a perfect example of such an American. He was simply a farm boy with a deep longing to fly airplanes. He…

The Need to Ask Why In “Harrison Bergeron” Vonnegut uses the character Hazel to show that if people cannot question people and concepts then they will blindly follow any figure of authority. When Hazel is watching the ballerinas on the television, and her husband George hears a noise in his ear radio from questioning the dancers’ handicaps: “Hazel saw him wince. Having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask George what the latest sound had been” (Vonnegut 1). Hazel does not have the ability…

Over the past few decades, the media has grown to be the most powerful source among society. As Alan Ginsberg said, the culture is greatly influenced by the media, The world will live in today, filled with social media, controls what we believe is to be normal. This state of what we call “normal” is what the ideal is for our society, and if others are not normal, are punished in one way or another. In the world of 1984, everything was embodied by media. As a society, we are constantly affected…

When The Truman show was released back in 1998, who could have imagined what reality TV would be like in 2017? We’re talking nearly twenty years! Back then, it wasn’t really a big deal – they weren’t many reality TV shows at all! Though today, it seems like every time you switch on the TV there is at least one show that centres on the everyday lives of people. Whether it be The Bachelor/Bachelorette or The Real Housewives – the list just goes on and on, television today is simply flooded with…

Similarly, The Little Mermaid and Cinderella are both classic Disney favorite movies about two teenagers that fall in love despite family interactions, parental restrictions, and magical influences. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel wants to discover life outside of the sea and finds herself in trouble with her overprotective father after she ventures to the surface. Her father has forbidden her to go to shore and tasks her with things to occupy her time. For instance, singing with her sisters in an…

This essay is about comparing the fairy tale of "Rapunzel" with the movie adaptation Tangled. The different clothing, the characters and the different settings are going to be compared. "Rapunzel" is a fairy tale from the XVII century, about a girl who has spent her entire life trapped in a tower since she was kidnapped by an old lady witch. Rapunzel is very famous for having her long blonde hair, and because she "let down her hair" to the prince to scape her tower. In the movie there were…

Brave & Little Adventure remains an ancient console. It can simply cast your mind back at on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. There is every possibility to be captivated by the story of Brave & Little Adventure game if you are familiar with consoles such as Tiny Thief. People develop with stories and can easily choose their most interesting options. The Little Red Riding Hood is among one of the favorite fairy tales loved by people. The tale is basically cascaded on a big wicked wolf and a…

In the book The Chronicles of Narnia, Lucy the youngest of the kids goes into a wardrobe while they were playing hide and seek. She met Mr. Tumness the Faun and she had tea with him. Edmund didn’t believe Lucy and he made fun of her. He then went into the wardrobe to see if Lucy was telling the truth and so he started to look for her, but instead he found the “White Witch”. Lucy went and had tea with Mr. Tumness the Faun again and found out that he was gone the White Witch captured him. Soon all…

In Meditations, Descartes gives us a very solid statement about his theory on what we might call the “Matrix.” This is an epistemological argument that dares to question nature, and the truth behind everything we know as humans. Descartes began to live by this epistemological theory that much of what we know about this world is adequate, but there is no such thing as the certain truth. In the movie titled, The Matrix, we see Descartes cogito ergo sum, or “I think, therefore I am” theory come…

The Velveteen Rabbit/ by Margery Williams Bianco The Velveteen Rabbit was written by Margery Williams Bianco in 1922. The book tells the story of a toy, sawdust-filled rabbit, who is given on charismas day to a little boy. At first he is an object of curiosity, but is quickly ignored when the other more expensive toys discover he is made of more inferior material. He is put in the nursery cabinet, where he is mocked by the other toys. He is lonely and insecure, until the oldest toy in the…