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In “A Healthy Obsession,” Collin Palmer, a high school sophomore, concludes that obsession over celebrities are beneficial to everyday people . He argues that the obsession creates no harm, bond friendship, and form a more confident self. Palmer also attempts to convince the reader that being obsessed with celebrities is a “healthy escape from our boring lives.” Although Collin Palmer is valid in several points, he fails to realize the true danger in being obsessed with celebrities. Based on…

The Patriot is a historical fiction movie released in 2000 detailing the life of an American family during the Revolutionary War. The main character Benjamin Martin, played by Mel Gibson, is forced into fighting when his loved one’s lives are endangered. This film is directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Robert Rodat. It also stars Chris Cooper, Joely Richardson, and Heath Ledger. Though entertaining and thought provoking, the film drags in places and is unnecessarily long and inaccurately…

The Hostile Have you ever dealt with a hostile person in your life? If so, how did you deal with it? We all have encountered someone that is defined as a hostile person, and we each deal with these types of people throughout our lifetime in different types of ways and we know it’s not the easiest thing to deal with but each of us handle it in a peculiar way than others. Even is society we see hostile people in movies and we see how people deal with them, which is an excellent example that’ll…

The film industry has produced awesome movies and some of it are so epic viewers beg for a second and even a third installment. Of all the famous and best trilogies in the history of cinema, 10 of the best were listed below. 10. The Jason Bourne Trilogy ("The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum") Former CIA assassin Jason Bourne played by Matt Damon amazed the viewers with action-packed scenes based on Robert Ludlum’s book series. Peter Greengrass directed…

The social injustice of police brutality and racism are rampant and everyone in America is well-aware of this problem. However, the topic is extremely controversial and the views of Americans happen to be very extreme. But, in actuality, most of these hate-fueled opinions are the result of people not being exposed to the opposing view. The song Good Cop Bad Cop by Starlito and Don trip gives insight to the widespread spectrum of corruption in police and their brutality against African Americans.…

Braveheart directed by Mel Gibson who was also the main character, Sir William Wallace, was a portrayal of the Anglo-Scottish wars and the certain battles William Wallace fought in. It is a very good film and although it has a very good representation of medieval Scottish society and the conflict with the English at the time, it isn’t to be taken as a movie that is completely factual, as Hollywood must bend the truth sometimes to reel in viewers. In this essay, a complete analysis of Braveheart…

The Patriot Have you ever wished you had a time machine that can take you back in time to understand the history we find in our text books? When I saw the movie The Patriot my mind was blown away because I really felt this movie took me back in time to understand what was actually going on when Americans were trying to gain independence from Great Britain. On the contrary, the reason why I enjoyed the movie so much because I like the fact I had the opportunity to know what was behind the scenes…

life, recovering from a death of one of their own. It was normal until aliens invade Earth. M. Night Shyamalan, by using aliens as his plot, shows how God does everything for a reason. All you have to do, is just see the signs. Being played by Mel Gibson, Graham is a remarkable character. His life is very interesting, as well, as his backstory. Prior to the movie, Graham is a reverend. He works with the church and is a firm believer of God. This was until his wife died. After his wife died,…

Nathanial “Nat” Turner was born October 2, 1800 on the Virginia plantation of Benjamin Turner. He is recognized as the only Black American slave to led one of the most gruesome sustained slave rebellion that took place on August 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Nat Turners’ revolt (also known as the Southampton insurrection) was the most effective rebellion in U.S. history. Spreading fear through the white South. During Tuners’ life on the plantation, Benjamin allowed him to be taught in…

entertainment and we forget. Hollywood at one point produced many movies dipicting biblical stories, maybe it can be saved. They have been doing remakes of very popular biblical movies. A well liked movie was Passion of the Christ which was directed by Mel Gibson, I was unable to understand his religious background, but he believes you cannot be saved outside of the church. Keep in mind that religion is abused by people because it is a big business and is being capitalized on by just about…