Normality

the film. The character lives in a suburban middle class neighborhood with his parents and grandmother. Jim faces concerns on “what it is being a man”, how to “fit in” school, and youth culture. Throughout this essay, the issues of masculinity, normality, and the concerns of youth culture that were presented in film are discussed. One ideology that looms over the movie is masculinity and pride on the main character Jim Stark. One example is in the beginning of the movie in the police precinct…

When writing about social inequalities and persecution, authors can have great impacts on readers. Two books that do so are It Gets Worse by Shane Dawson and The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Both authors, while writing about different inequalities, let the reader experience what it is like to be discriminated against, influencing them not to do the same. Shane Dawson was discriminated against because he is part of the LGBT community, and, in his novel, includes stories about when his sexual…

and how much damage has been done to the affected nerves (G. Savic, M.K. Bergstrom, N. Davey, P. Ellaway, H. Frankel, A. Jamous & A. Nicotra, 2007). Some of these tests include but are not limited to: sensory testing, cognitive, and motor function normality (Savic et al., 2010). QST testing is an example of a group of sensory tests (Savic et al., 2010). These tests involve a patient’s thermal responses, light touch, and pain sensations (Savic et al., 2010). Sensation loss and motor loss will…

Contentious films have a tendency to be contentious as a result of having something interesting, but unpopular, to say. Such is the case with Jason Banker’s Felt. Having had an equal share of laudations and condemnation, Felt clearly strikes a nerve worth talking about in the ongoing dialogue of bringing feminist rhetoric to a traditionally male-dominated popular culture. Unfortunately, the limitations of Banker’s style hinder Felt’s conceptual weight. Part-autobiographical and part dark…

embraced the lavish lifestyle of living in Hollywood, while other stars such as Suzanne Summers and John Ritter of Three’s Company indulged in the simple things. The children that are born into this privileged lifestyle often want to feel a sense of normality. Growing up in Hollywood is like being enclosed in a box, with a small opening to the reality of the real world. Growing up with too much, too soon can skew how many of them view others and themselves. This lavish lifestyle can create a…

flight in the last stanza of poetry. Dickinson’s style of writing beautifully captures the life of an ordinary animal. It shows that everything in nature can be both prey and predatory. That is how the world works; an endless cycle of tragedy, normality, and victory. It’s the circle of life. In her second poem, “A narrow Fellow in the Grass,” Emily Dickinson takes a snake, a feared reptile, and explores the feeling of fear that a young boy experiences upon encountering it. She…

What time is it? Time to reconnoitre the psychedelic darkness and yet the sunny disposition of one of the world’s most popular animated children’s series ‘Adventure Time’ - (Cartoon Network, Pendleton Ward, 2008) and what makes this unorthodox animation lure and appeal to both the young and the mature intellects – uncovering its mass of kaleidoscopic pedagogic episodes that illuminate the uncomfortable themes of reality. Death, cannibalism, depression, an abundance of horror glazed over by the…

The age of underage drinking should be lowered to eighteen years of age in order to combat the social drinking normality of recklessness and alcohol abuse. This may change the perspective of young people from a sinful, pleasureful activity to one that is casual and laid-back. Using the information gathered, by lowering the law to eighteen years the stigma can be less…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…

“I'm hopeful that by the end of this talk you will make a choice, and join me in standing up against hate”, said hospital physician Suzanne Barakat. Suzanne tells the story of how Islamophobia has impacted her life in a heart wrenching way. She is putting herself out there so no one else has to go through the tragedy she went through. She explains how it affects Islamic people when she says, “These days, it feels like Islamophobia is a socially acceptable form of bigotry. We just have to put up…