Matt Smith

The Simpsons are often looked at as simply a comedy show but in reality the television program is so much more. The Simpsons have been around since 1989 and from the beginning of it’s conception the writers have been commenting on the world around them. The program started a revolution in the television world and has sparked many copy cat shows. The show can be considered one of the greatest show in the history of television. This not simply because it creates laughs on the surface but under the…

Carl Matheson is a professor and currently holding a chair in the philosophy department at the University of Manitoba. He writes in his essay, The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life, about how all comedy has a similar pattern of quotationalism and hyper-irony. He does this to inform the reader of the rise of pop-culture parodies, and how this has affected comedy in history. In Matheson’s essay, he argues that hyper-irony undercuts the moral agenda throughout the plot and the…

How is it that people can look around at other individuals and watch them transform right in front of their eyes? In the movie Finding Forrester people are able to watch many characters transform just due to the human beings around them. Jamal has a strong passion for writing but, is always looking for help to improve. William is a writer who has shut himself away from society. These two happen to have a truly unique meeting, Jamal breaks into William's apartment due to a dare, from this point…

The movie “Good Will Hunting” is about a genius leveled young janitor, Will Hunting who gets discovered to be a math whiz by a professor. One day a professor named Gerald Lambeau writes two complex math problems on the board for his students to solve. This is how professor Gerald Lambeau discovers the janitor Will Hunting has solved the equations. At the same time, it is discovered that Will Hunting has assaulted a police officer therefore, he gets himself in trouble with the law. Luckily,…

This movie begins with a man named Will Atenton who is an editor in New York. He was very successful at the work he did but he wanted to make a change in his life. So he left his job and the city life to live in the quiet suburbs. A small town with him and his wife and their two daughters. He wanted to write a book. He was concerned about his neighbors Anne and her ex-husband Jack. Will was outside on one occasion when Jack was picking up his daughter from Anne and he could see the tension and…

Nancy Farmer throughout the story with the help of others, Matt changes greatly. Tam Lin changes Matt, Maria changes Matt, and El Patron changes Matt. Maria makes matt kinder. It is after El Viejo’s funeral and maria and matt are in the computer room. “‘So you have to promise to be good’ ‘okay,’ said Matt, who would have promised her anything at that point,” (pg. 158). This is partially what made Matt feel more human. This is the first time Matt has really tried to be nice and it has a large…

Body: A Good Day to Die, Olivia Polos Head: The film A Good Day to Die is a documentary following the life of Dennis Banks, a founder of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.). The documentary begins with a synopsis of Banks early life, consisting of family life and boarding school. The film continues to follow Dennis Banks through his service in the military. After that, Dennis moved to Missouri. He was married and had 4 kids. Also, it explains how Banks turned to alcohol. This resulted in a…

In the film ‘Invictus,’ the director Clint Eastwood describes Morgan Freeman’s character, Nelson Mandela as an inspiring, pure and hardworking leader by standing up for his own beliefs and follows his vision of excluding racial inequality from South Africa. Mandela is revealed to us as a determined man who shows great defiance through particular scenes within the film and is shown to us through the use of camera shots and dialogue. We can see that he is defiant and has determination from the…

The nineteenth-century was a time period where the supply and demand for manufactured goods increased a great deal in the United States and more and more people invested in industrial pursuits. People were finding quicker and cheaper ways to build more products in a mass production. Entrepreneurs took advantage of these and learned to organize and fund a business which helped their economic situations skyrocket if they played their cards right. The people of this time who were not making as…

Nowadays media can portray any message to our daily life or any challenges we’re facing. Some can portray the message as motivation, and others can open our eyes to reality or even life. Regardless, media will always portray the message that has a connection to your life. In this class we got the opportunity to analyze” Finding Forrester, School Ties, and 3 Miles” and in all these of these movies, they all share a message about meritocracy. Meritocracy refers to a “social system in which…