Our Sunshine

Great Expectations is solely about Pip and his expectations over time and for the reader to be able to understand how and why his expectations change, Dickens purposely has Pip describe his life as a child, adolescent and mild aged man. The purpose of Dickens using a bildungsroman is to have Pip grow from a young boy who has many fears and expectations into a man who can then reflect on his mistakes and his life as a whole. One of the first scenes of the novel begins with Pip running into…

The ways that the Nahua theater produced plays, it is easy to see how they could have inadvertently helped preserve pagan beliefs of the Nahua. The use of allegorical figures in the plays, such as the Final Judgement, could have been very confusing to viewers and actors. Using people dressed up as Penance, The Holy Church, Sweeping, Time, and Death to convey ideas that are not material or human could have added to pagan ideas that previously existed. Another preexisting idea of the native people…

Women are the centerpiece of Mejica culture as evidenced by the temezcal, the women’s holy place at Tepeyac, Cosmic Mother religion, Coatlicue, and Tonantzin Guadalupe. All of the aforementioned topics revolve around women in that they either are women, resemble their anatomy, or are meant for women. A temezcal is a Nahuat word that translates to bath house. They were very prominent throughout southern and central Mexico in many towns, no matter the size of the town. For the Mejica, cleanliness…

The story of the Lady of Guadalupe starts off in a time where religious preachers tried to get the Native population to convert to the Christian faith. A very poor Indian man, named Juan Diego was one of the very few converts. He was taking care of his sick and dying uncle, when suddenly, in Tepeyac Hill country, he saw a very beautiful woman, encircled in a very bright ball of of light. The lady introduced herself as “...the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains…

Flags of Our Fathers depicts the lives of six servicemen beginning in their hometowns and ending with their deaths, three of which died in battle. The story follows the second flag raisers of Mount Suribachi, some of which were not even in the photo, but were made famous by a photograph taken of their backs as they stood the American Flag upright. In this book, James Bradley, the son of a flag raiser, defines a hero, identifies the exploitation of Ira Hayes, and documents difficulties they faced…

In “Great Expectations” Charles Dickens carefully mixes elements of the comic, the tragic, and the grotesque to create a dynamic story. Dickens blends these aspects together within scenes in order to accomplish this. He fuses them together to produce a story that is humorous, melancholy, and sentimental, all at the same time. Within the story, Dickens uses the comic to create humor, the tragic to create melancholy, and the grotesque to create sentimentality. He creates his humor through the use…

The fate of a person dictates what will happen in the rest of their life. Fate plays a very important role in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Michel Gondry. In this film, Lacuna Inc., various film techniques, and the relationship between Joel and Clementine all represent the theme of fate. A person’s fate cannot be controlled or altered by what is done to them. The relationships that a person is destined to be in is no exception. Lacuna Inc. has a large impact on many of the…

I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a few years ago, before I even knew who Kaufman was, and I really liked it. There were many themes that I related to and I felt connected to the characters. Another reason I liked it was the nonlinear structure of the story.…

The music video of LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” is rich with cultural artefacts and statements. Despite their partying and free-of-care spirit, the landscape, depiction of gender, ethnicity and briefly religion could only be seen to be deliberate and well planned out. The music video is an intertextual reference to the genre of post-apocalyptic movies and dramas. The video plays with the concept of people being effected by a massive plague, which takes away your human nature upon infection.…

Throughout The Popcorn Sonata by Jenny Bader, there was a well-encompassed idea that “a moment of bliss” is lost in adults. I say this due to the fact that Laila is almost impersonalized when she is referred to as a blur. This was a smart way to present Laila by the author. I say this because it represents this disconnect between Laila and her mother. To the reader, Laila seems as if she is more of a burden to Karen than anything else. There seemed to be an annoyance in Karen when she was…