Mad Men

Journal #1 Date: October 8th, 2015 Student Name: Rui Shi Student Number: 250782627 TV Serial Chosen: Mad Men Season 2 Episode 1: For those who think young The first episode of Mad Men starts as people in advertising firm Sterling Cooper face new challenges in work and their lives. With no prior knowledge to the show, I like its anesthetic style of story-telling. Throughout…

Question 1 “House Husbands” and “Man Men” are two TV dramas set in vastly different times and have almost no ideas or issues, they are essentially two pieces of media that contradict each other. Where “Mad Men” represents its male characters (exclusive of Salvatore “Sal” Romero, who acts in accordance with the expectations of heterosexual men) as the breadwinners of a household, making all the money and most of the decisions in the family and women are the caretakers and caregivers. This is the…

the outside world. Giving readers the aspect of how the existence of women were controlled by males due to their incapability. As a matter fact, in Mad Men, the Six Month Leave episode displays how replaceable…

the public. The movie Mad Max: Fury Road follows the established roles Wood discussed…

Dakota Rushing Poe’s Mad Men Edgar Allen Poe lived a particularly gloomy life. Events such as the death of his parents at a very early age to being cheated on by his first fiancée threw Poe into a world of despair and darkness. Many could say this is what led Poe to write in his infamous Gothic tone. According to the Edgar Allen Poe Museum, Poe was born in Baltimore to a family of actors who traveled the country (Poe’s Life, 1). Poe was inspired to put pen to paper in a oppressive manner…

The Mad Hatter is actually a representation of Alice’s own madness. Even though it is a difficult concept to grasp, bare with me. While Alice is at the engagement party dancing with Hamish, she keeps spouting off random thoughts that Hamish finds extremely strange. She says, “‘I had a sudden vision, all the ladies in trousers and the men in dresses!’” and Hamish responds: “‘it would be best to keep your visions to yourself…

Alice is trying to conform to Victorian societal norms and expectations. Although she is only seven, she blames herself when she doesn’t have an explanation for a problem when in reality she shouldn’t expect herself (nor should anyone else) expect her to know about of what is going on in Wonderland. Alice has developed neurosis and she is consistently punishes herself for behaving in an undesirable manner and continue to accept the societal norms as her own expectations of herself. Alice has to…

Lewis Carroll was an English logician, mathematician, an ordained minister, a photographer and a writer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He was born on January 27, 1832, with the birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Many people don’t know that the Alice stories were based on a real girl, Alice Liddell. Carroll first met Liddell on a boat trip. She asked him to tell her a story and he did. It was such a good story he wrote it down for her and from there the Adventures in…

In one of Lewis Carroll’s books “Alice in Wonderland” a character in his book says,“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. This quote means each time you make a choice you are going down a path and it’s your choice on which path you want to take. You decide how much you want to grow from now. This quote relates to the novel “outsiders” because the people in outsiders made their own choices, they decided…

to build the suspense, Peter says, "Hook or me this time." Both of them are very determined to get rid of the other. In The Count of Monte Cristo, there is not a clear climax. Much of the book is spent with the Count as he plans his revenge on the men who got him thrown in jail. Many of these plans are just ridding them of their money with no real action. The Count of Monte Cristo says, "In the eyes of the world, a large fortune covers all defects." This quote envelops the theme of money and how…