Lasse Hallström

“The way to have power is to take it.” These were the words of a man that was rated one of the top ten most corrupt US politicians of all time by Real Clear Politics. A corrupt leader could be considered a Machiavellian. Dictionary.com describes a Machiavellian as someone who follows the principles analyzed and described in The Prince. The Prince, is a book written in in 1513 by Niccolo Machiavelli that was dedicated to the Magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici. It is widely believed to be a handbook…

Disgrace, by J.M Coetzee, is a story about a man named David Lurie, but it's more on the story of a victim that was raped. Lucy Lurie, daughter of David Lurie, is a white, middle-aged, lesbian woman who was violated by three African-American men. This experience traumatizes her and changes her personality and perspectives. The trauma also sets back the relationship she has with her father. She demands neither sympathy nor justice for what has happened to her. What kind of resolve would a woman,…

The Sixth Sense, a film by M. Night Shyamalan, director and screenwriter, deserves no less than 4 stars because of its great use of characters, and the sound and lighting used throughout the movie. The Sixth Sense, a thriller and a ghost story, is portrayed as much more than just that. Perhaps it’s the chilliness and coldness in the air that make you just want to shiver. Or maybe it’s the way that they use almost direct silence to add to the scary feeling. Maybe it’s the lighting that always…

My Brilliant Career is a novel written by Stella Maria Miles Franklin. The text focuses around ideas of marriage, social inequities involving class and gender in Australian society and myths of Australian bush landscape during the 1890s. Using various narrative conventions such as characterization, symbolism and point of view, these ideas have been presented as elements of the Australian identity in the course of the era. My Brilliant Career is a testament of the courage and conviction of…

Brief Biography Full name Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972), was born in Leeuwarden, Holland. The Dutch artist was a draftsman, book illustrator, tapestry designer, and muralist, but his primary work was as a printmaker. During his lifetime the artist has made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. He was born as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer and failed his high school exams, however enrolled in the School for Architecture and…

Disgrace is told from narrator’s point of view which basically follows that of the main character David Lurie. That is why throughout the novel a lot is omitted, such as other characters motives and thoughts, like those of Lucy and Melanie. The author leaves them to reader’s personal understanding. On one hand it may frustrate us readers a we are always looking for clarity. But on the other hand, that is a projection of our real life, where we are so often unable to understand others. Rachel…

the workers to vote for the politicians that were supported by Tammany. Tammany had “bosses” also known as “Grand Sachem” as well as having their supporters, these supporters developed themselves by illegal means. The most well known boss was William M. “Boss” Tweed, he controlled Tammany Hall’s machine, in which allowed him to win election to the New York State Senate. Williams’ official positions were the city board of supervisors, chairman of the state finance committee and school…

The movie Split is a thriller/psychological horror film that has shocked millions of people around the world, earning up to 40.2 million dollars in just the opening weekend (Nolfi, 2017). This movie is full of great detail and important points, some of which I will and will not touch base on. The plot begins with three girls, Claire, Casey, and Marcia being kidnapped and knocked-out by a man named Kevin Crumb. Crumb is later determined as having dissociative identity disorder and has…

In 1984 Richard Scrushy founded HealthSouth, Inc., a chain of orthopedic hospitals and outpatient centers. His company grew quickly over the next 12 years achieving a market value of $12 billion. In the 1990s the government began awarding hospitals like HealthSouth with huge healthcare subsidies. Scrushy saw this as an opportunity and he used this source of revenue to finance acquisitions of various competing companies. Scrushy’s acquisition strategy was aggressive in that he began acquiring…

It is fascinating to find that things that apparently seem to be so different can be developed in such way that they sustain the same point of view. If we think about the career of a very tall, basketball player; people attraction to voyeurism; the career of a country music singer who beats records in discs’ selling, and the use of laugh tracks in comedy sitcom, it looks like there can not be a strong connection between them. Now if we consider that the public is looking for this basketball…