Michael Sheen

In Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars, the author puts a twist on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Beddor writes the tale from the perspective of Alyss, the princess of Wonderland who had to escape her queendom when her evil aunt Redd attacks the palace. She ends up alone in the middle of England taken in by the Liddles until she returns to Wonderland with Dodge Anders to reclaim the throne. When these changes were made to the story, real significance was provided with meaningful themes throughout the book. For example, the will to live is evident in Alyss, Dodge, and Redd. One character with the will to live is Alyss. Once Alyss had returned to Wonderland, Redd was alerted and ordered her glass eyes to kill everyone in the Alyssian camp. Alyss and the others had barely enough time to escape through a looking glass. While they were in the Crystal Continuum, Alyss saved Dodge and possibly many others by using her imagination for the first time since she had been back in Wonderland. When Redd was informed of this she ordered all of Wonderland's looking glasses to be destroyed so that Alyss could not get out. They escaped through the only looking glass not smashed to pieces because Dodge was able to keep the Continuum open. Later that day, Dodge asked her if she wanted to start a lesson. “Alyss nodded, but she was in no mood for a lesson. The day itself had been a lesson--in survival” (269). The only reason she survived was because she and the others wanted to live. Later…

Carlos Irwin Estevez, also known as Charlie Sheen is a popular American Actor who was born on September 3, 1965 in New York. He was born to Martin Sheen, who was also an actor, and Janet Templeton, who was an artist. He has two brothers whose names are Emilio and Ramon. He also has a sister whose name is Renee. All of them are actors. He first appeared in a movie at his age of 9. The name of the movie was ‘The Execution of Private Slovik’ which was his father’s movie which was in 1974. When he…

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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” So preaches Michael Douglas in his Oscar-winning role as immoral businessman Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street. Stone’s follow-up to his Best Picture winner Platoon¸ Wall Street does not have quite the reputation Platoon does. I have not seen Platoon, but it seems that this makes sense because Wall Street is not a very entertaining or interesting movie because, although greed may be good, Stone forgot that clarity is good too. The plot of…

seen as the inferior sex. The issue with financial status is also then evident in real world scenarios. Anna Holmes’ “The Disposable Women” sheds light towards the mutiny and disrespect that some women face in today’s society. Females are not welcomed in the same work fields as men and must do other work in order to make a living. Even with such jobs, women are degraded, “Andy Cohen, a senior executive at Bravo, referred to Sheen’s current companions, Natalie Kenly and Bree Olsen, as ‘whores’ or…

Apocalypse Now respectively? Catch-22 authored by Joseph Heller and Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola are critically considered two of the finest examples of contemporary anti-war literature and cinema, despite neither being explicitly against the concept of combat as such, but rather, both opposing the bureaucratic absurdity that war inevitably entails. Catch-22 follows the incongruous struggle of Bomber Captain John Yossarian as he attempts to escape the tyrannical irrationality…

After experiencing the violence of war, it is difficult for a soldier to readjust back into society causing alienation and a strain to return home both physically and emotionally. In Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home” the main character Harold Krebs lies, is incapable of love and he struggles to readapt to his family and community. Krebs is a different person than before the war and eventually accepts the idea that he can never really go home. Hemingway illustrates the…

When Satan set’s his eyes upon Adam and Eve, it is doubtful they he knew how easy it would be to corrupt their minds. Eve, in my opinion was probably the easiest to manipulate and that is why Satan was delighted to come upon her first rather than Adam. Eve, is just like any other woman, so it is quite easy to distinguish what one needs to do to get on her good graces. Due to it being Eve, Satan tempted her with his evil offer by using flattery on her. Apparently flattery will get you anywhere.…

But when the door to the hall, into which no sound from the noisy Metropolis could penetrate, closed behind her, the ore voice of the angel of the cathedral struck at her breast like a steel fist, and she stood still, stunned, raising her hands to her head. Why was Saint Michael crying out so angrily and wildly? Why was the roar of Azrael, the angel of Death joining in so alarmingly? She stepped into the street. Darkness, like a thick layer of soot, lay over the town, and only the cathedral…

In order for a novel to be considered Gothic literature it has to have certain elements. Milton’s Paradise Lost exudes gothic characteristics. The first is Pandemonium. When Satan and his followers are banished to Hell, together they create Pandemonium. Gothic literature is really all about intense emotion and the confusion between good and evil. Powerful emotion is clearly evident in Paradise Lost as there is a constant grasping or pushing and pulling with good and evil, God and Satan. The…