Max Rockatansky

Mad Max” gets an even more mad reboot “Mad Max” was originally a movie released in Australia made by director George Miller in 1979. Shortly after, the sequel, The Road Warrior was released in 1981. Both movies received relatively positive scores and reviews all around. In 1985, the third movie, “Thunderdome”, was released. It got decent scores, but it was obvious that this franchise was losing steam. Fast forward 30 years, to the year 2015. Mad Max: Fury Road is released. How does this movie stand up against it’s critically acclaimed predecessors? “Mad Max: Fury Road” doesn’t waste time with story; it throws you straight into the action with little to no detail, aside from a few vague snapshots of the main character, Max Rockatansky’s,…

they’re real or fictional. I play numerous of video games, listen to almost every genre of music, and read several different types of books, so I change my mind all the time. As of recently, one of my favorite figures has been Max from a game called Life is Strange. The game itself is beautifully designed graphically and plotline wise, and it really makes you think. To sum it up, the plot is that Max is a senior at an art school, where she’s living in the dorms with her fellow students.The game…

reproduce. The film, Max, directed by Menno Meyjes, focuses on characters Max Rothman and Adolf Hitler and portrays the history behind Hitler’s hateful speech aimed directly the Jews. In Max, Rothman (referred to as Max), a Jew and former artist who had lost his right arm during the war, had failed to pull Hitler away from his evil thoughts. When considering whether Hitler was born to be a fascist tyrant or if his surrounding environment and other factors, in reality, led him to such a…

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

The British Sociological Association defines sociology as being ‘how society is organized and how we experience life’. It looks at the different societies, the groups within these, and how they all interact. Society is organised into various different social institutions, which can be built like building block to make our society; families, the education system, the legal system, the healthcare services etc. Social institutions function accordingly with customs, rules and regulations. A family…

One can construe a linkage between social order and social control. For society to exist there must be order and predictability and to ensure this some measures are to be taken. As such social control is simply all the mechanisms a society would put in place to ensure conformity and compliance of its members. This is significant to the economy to guarantee that people live in peace and that crime rates decrease in order for society to move towards a developed status. The Caribbean of all…

communicating with other peers in school. Race contributes a big role in how socialization methods are learned while growing up, This applies on with society, a lower level of communication and a higher form of social anxiety result in youth not following norms (Widom et al., 2013). High rates of crime and victimization and physical harm contribute to the low level of education and functioning of youth. (Widom et al.,2013). Children that face problems within the negative foundation…

What is the purpose of government? Is there an ideal organizational structure that a country could employ to ensure that a government serves its people to the best of its ability? Karl Marx and Max Weber, like others before and after them, both strove to help answer these questions. Although one could argue that we may never find a “perfect” system of government, both men presented new ways of thinking that continue to influence society today. Before one can begin analyzing the details of…

The consequences of our social stratification system is best explained by Max Weber, a social theorist. Weber described this system as life chances, this meaning the opportunities that people have in common by virtue of belonging to a particular class (Andersen et al. 174). There are many different life chances a person has being raised in two different locations such as Stony Brook, and Patchogue Village. The characteristic’s a majority of people in a community possess involving social or…

Winners and losers A capitalist society is based on the idea that you can’t get ahead in life without stepping on someone else’s back. In Ursula Le Guin’s story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”, written in 1973, show a society where everyone is happy and full of life. This town is an almost utopian society when the story begins. Children are running and playing, and the narrator talks about how great the city is. However, the city is not as good as it seems. This is because the source of…