Whether it was a long day at work or a regular weekend date night, watching a movie with a bowl of popcorn always seems to be a popular choice. Deciding to have a movie night is easy trying to decide which type of movie is the hard part. Movies are categorized by Genre’s a few being horror, thriller, and romance. Anytime I get a chance to sit down and watch a movie I typically choose horror. The Genre horror comes with plenty of sub categories for the viewer to have a better selection of…
Navajo Nation: Night Chant The Navajos are people that live in the Southwest of the United States, some of the most well-known Native Americans. The Navajo land—or the “Dine Bikeyah”— in the Southwest is quite large, larger than one-fifth of all the states in the United States and has its own government, and still, to this day, maintains a few of the same traditions and myths that their ancestors did. As in most tribes, for the Medicine Men—who are similar to healers—there is a ritual that is…
17th century Shakespeare’s plays have influenced modern society in varied ways. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is shown to have influenced society by its recent film modernized adaptation. Despite the fact that Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare has been banned it deserves to be analyzed in high school classrooms of today. In 1996 when a high school in Merrimack, New Hampshire removed Twelfth Night from their classroom, the plot was criticized without taking into account the historical context.…
Night is an autobiography by Elie Wiesel, which chooses the Nazi Holocaust as the background. Eliezer is the narrator of Night and the stand-in for the memoir's author. Chapters 8 and 9 were the most depressing and remorseful for me, and it’s so worth to read. In chapter 9, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me”(p115) This quote shows how the concentration camp defeated Eliezer after the liberation rather…
At the beginning of Night, Eliezer describes himself as someone who believes “profoundly”. His faith begins very strong, but as the struggles and challenges that happen go on, he starts to lose faith and stops believing in something he once believed so strongly in. “Why did I pray? Strange question. Why did I live? Why did I …..breathe?” -Elie page 4 in night. In the beginning of the book Elie's faith was strong he believed and followed all the rules. When Elie is talking to Moishe, he is…
In Night, author Elie Wiesel gives his account of the terrors he experienced living in a German concentration camp during World War II. The book starts off with an explanation of Wiesel’s town Sighet, in Romania. He goes on to discuss some of the townspeople including Moishe the Beadle, who warns the town about how fast the Germans are approaching. The Germans arrive and put all the Jews in ghettos before loading them into cattle cars and bringing them to a camp called Auschwitz. Elie…
Abstract: Tennessee Williams’s plays follow the morality tradition with a variation that there is no poetic justice at the end. His play, The Night of the Iguana reflects his characters’ struggle to establish their identity amongst dualities and conflicts. Williams shows the condition of human beings, their struggle in this world of binaries allegorically through the struggle of the Iguana trapped by the Mexican boys. The sadistic pleasure the Mexican boys displays the coarse, violent and rude…
Gogh’s Starry Night (1889) and Georges Rouault (French Fauvist/ Expressionist, b. 1871 – d. 1958) Head of Christ or Christ Mocked (1905) are examples of paintings which convey more than aesthetic interest or beauty. Through careful observation of key elements - colour, symbols, objects…
Many people know famous Shakespearean works like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, or Othello, but another famous play is Twelfth Night. I originally read this play in my Theatre class, and then I later attended the production put on by students at UNI. The plot of the story consisted of a love triangle between the characters Viola, also known as Cesario; Orsino, a nobleman; and Olivia, a wealthy lady. Viola disguised herself as Cesario in order to earn money since it was against social norms for…
It was a cold, dark and dingy Halloween night. The moon was full, although it was mostly covered by weightless fog and charcoal black clouds. The sky was just as creepy as all the realistic costumes. The night was perfect for Halloween night. The crisp leaves on the trees rattled when the wind blew. When people walk on the fallen leaves, they would crunch like someone was eating potato chips. People were everywhere, walking up and down, around and through the neighborhoods. Some were wearing…