Journey's End

Heroic Characteristics in Candide and The Journey to the West What does it take to be considered a hero? In ancient literature one can become a hero in many different ways. The culture and era in which a literary work is created has a strong effect on the heroic figure. As literature evolved throughout time and cultures, a hero and villain could have similar actions but be portrayed completely different. A literary hero is defined as, “A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose,…

No little part of his effect comes from the music. Although Kubrick originally commissioned an original score from Alex North, he used classical recordings as a temporary track while editing the film, and they worked so well that he kept them. This was a crucial decision. North's score, which is available on a recording, is a good job of film composition, but would have been wrong for “2001" because, like all scores, it attempts to underline the action -- to give us emotional cues. The classical…

to develop between the band members before a recording deal could be secured, and the band decided to break up in 1991. Johnny then started working with his brother Joey on songs for an album they were going to call Brothers. However, Neil Schon, Journey's guitarist, met with them and asked if he could play with them, to which they agreed. Then in 1992 they called themselves Hardline and were somewhat successful but not enough to get into the mainstream. Due to troubles with their manager and…

“He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. The journey’s aftermath was up to fate..” (155). The constant escape for a better life was the motivation to keep the pursuit of finding the American Dream, “Dick had reached a decision that he was certain would eradicate his current difficulties and start him…

use of iron was at large because of its availability in abundance. They started spreading across rapidly and by the end of the 1st millennium B.C. their cultural group had already spread up and down the Danube and Rhine, also covering Gaul, Ireland and Britain, across central Europe into northern Italy and northern Spain. Since most of the Celtic tribes used to do their journey’s across Europe, which…

and the well start off with the two main characters becoming students of Rishi Bhardwaj, in which Drona wanted to learn everything he can and become a great teacher, while Drupad was more lackadaisical and didn’t complete many of his chores. At the end of their time together Drupad and Drona had become great child hood friends and Drupad had promised Drona half of his kingdom once he became king. Later in life Drona came to collect on the…

different meanings for religion over-all. Religion is a set of rules and beliefs that an individual or a group follows. Everyone comes together to worship their god(s) in hopes that they would be enlightened on a moral path leading to an ultimate journey's end. Buddhism, which originated in India, is…

As dictated by this assignment I interviewed three women about their experiences in the workplace, trying to identify patterns of discrimination, the age range of these women were between 58 -89 years old. Of these three women, I would describe only one of them as belonging in the generation prior to mine. “In this essay, I will argue that while women may have felt fortunate to be working outside the home, unknowingly they were examples of the most common form of covert discrimination.”…

In the introduction to his book Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan defines his concepts of space and place, writing that “undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value” (Tuan p.6). By using this language Tuan creates a dichotomy between the unknown and intimate with a clear preference for the latter. Earlier in the chapter, he writes that “place is security, space is freedom” (p.3) and in his chapter on the homeland,…

Being the first of the cycle, the figure of Dr. Frankenstein is the stereotypical mad scientist. He is “driven by a frenzy for knowledge.” Dr. Frankenstein patches together a monster from human odds and ends, hides away in the mountains, receives aid from a dwarf, and steals a brain from the dissecting room of a medical college (Balio 301). Robert Florey wrote a screenplay for Frankenstein. When James Whale was made the director he made modifications.…